House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party's fiscal conservatives. Leaving nothing to chance, the White House announced that Obama has put off his planned trip to Asia for a second time, delaying it until June. Obama was to have left Sunday — when the House is planning to vote.

Democrats were closer to getting the 216 votes needed to pass a healthcare overhaul bill when an antiabortion lawmaker who had been expected to vote no announced Wednesday that he will vote yes. Rep. Dale Kildee, (D-Mich.) was among a group backing fellow Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak, who questioned the antiabortion language in the Senate version of the healthcare bill.

As a vote on health care nears, House Democratic leaders are trying to woo party holdouts still wrestling with their decision. An ongoing CNN analysis shows that opposition in the House to the Senate health care plan has reached 204 members -- 12 votes shy of defeating it.

Can the House of Representatives pass a health care bill without actually voting on it? That question -- bizarre to most casual political observers -- took center stage Tuesday as top House Democrats struggled to find enough support to push President Obama's top legislative priority over the finish line.

President Barack Obama said Monday that he is confident that House Democrats will have enough support to pass sweeping health care reform legislation in a vote expected to take place this week. "I believe we are going to get the votes, we're going to make this happen," Obama told ABC News in an interview.

Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question. Leaders of the fledgling movement say they plan to hold 350 to 400 events at coffeehouses across the country. While the Coffee Party has become an instant hit online, gauging the success of Saturday's coast-to-coast events could be an indicator of the group's strength.

President Obama on Friday postponed a high-profile trip to Asia, keeping pressure on congressional Democrats to start voting next week on the long-delayed healthcare overhaul legislation and send it to him for his signature before the end of March. The president's change of travel plans, which will move his departure overseas from March 18 to March 21, will enable him to remain active in pushing uneasy Democrats toward final approval of his signature domestic policy initiative.

President Obama has announced which groups will get the $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama continues to champion the role of faith in public life, frequently summoning the spirits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and even St. Thomas Aquinas to frame his policies in moral terms. Like previous presidents, he regularly seeks the counsel of longtime Washington insiders, including Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, Reform Rabbi David Saperstein and retired Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, to shape decisions about the Iraq war, health care reform and the economy.