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Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90
(AP)
 AP - Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it promoted an expansion of public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90.
03/21/2010 - 06:28 AM
Dems predict historic House vote on health care
(AP)
 AP - House Democrats are predicting that a rare Sunday session will produce one of the most significant legislative triumphs in decades: passage of a historic bill to overhaul the nation's health care system to provide coverage to millions of people who currently lack it.
03/21/2010 - 06:26 AM
Clinton pokes fun at Dems, GOP and himself
(AP)
 AP - Former President Bill Clinton poked fun at Republicans, Democrats, his own health and his audience of reporters Saturday night, telling the Gridiron Club's annual dinner he was there because "I really didn't have anything much better to do tonight."
03/21/2010 - 12:29 AM
Pelosi steeled W.H. for health push
(Politico)
Politico - If the House approves the bill it will be followed by a Senate re-write of the legislation.
03/20/2010 - 07:55 PM
Raucous tea partiers protest bill
(Politico)
Politico - Tea Party protesters hold the hill in a last ditch effort to kill the Democrat's health care bill.
03/20/2010 - 07:34 PM
LaHood's Japan trip to focus on Toyota safety
(AP)
 AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he'll go to Japan this summer for talks with Toyota executives about the sudden acceleration problem plaguing some Toyotas.
03/20/2010 - 10:18 PM
Obama on the brink of a health care reinvention
(AP)
 AP - Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment now seems near.
03/21/2010 - 06:13 AM
House heads for close healthcare vote
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The House of Representatives headed for a close vote on a landmark healthcare overhaul on Sunday, with Democratic leaders predicting victory on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
03/21/2010 - 07:01 AM
SUNSHINE WEEK: Q&A with the open records ombudsman
(AP)
 AP - As part of Sunshine Week, when news organizations highlight the importance of government openness, the nation's new Freedom of Information Act ombudsman, Miriam Nisbet, took part in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.
03/20/2010 - 04:12 PM
Even before House vote on healthcare bill, legal challenges loom
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - As congressional leaders and the White House push to attract the remaining votes needed to pass a healthcare reform measure this weekend, opponents are poised to take their fight to the courts, and potentially all the way to the US Supreme Court.
03/19/2010 - 06:44 PM
Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists
(AP)
 AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.
03/18/2010 - 12:07 AM
U.N.'s Ban in West Bank pushes for peace talks
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday to restart negotiations as one Palestinian was killed during clashes in the West Bank.
03/20/2010 - 02:29 PM
Tadic absent as Balkan leaders meet on EU integration
(AFP)
 AFP - An EU-Balkans summit aimed at speeding up the region's European integration met on Saturday, overshadowed by Serb President Boris Tadic's last minute decision not to attend.
03/20/2010 - 01:40 PM
US House to vote on Obama's historic health plan
(AFP)
 AFP - The US House of Representatives was to vote Sunday on Barack Obama's historic plan to overhaul the US health care system that the president says will provide health insurance coverage to the overwhelming majority of Americans.
03/21/2010 - 12:57 AM
Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia's John Lewis
(McClatchy Newspapers)
 McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
03/20/2010 - 06:21 PM
GOP Taps Berg to Challenge Pomeroy
(CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Longtime state Rep. Rick Berg (R) will be North Dakota Republican's standard bearer in the race against Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.).
03/20/2010 - 04:50 PM
Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings
(Bloomberg)
 Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of
recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the
automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that
the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.
02/22/2010 - 09:28 PM
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