1) Health-care bill clears crucial vote in Senate, 60 to 40
Senate Democrats won a milestone victory early Monday in the health-care debate, approving a procedural motion to move the reform legislation to final passage later this week, and without a single vote to spare.
2) The political world's winners and losers in health-care reform
With all 60 Senate Democrats (finally) lined up behind the health-care bill, the legislation looks likely to be approved by the world's greatest deliberative body by Christmas Eve.
3) Contracting cost cuts on target, OMB says
Federal agencies are almost halfway toward reaching a two-year goal set by President Obama this year, with plans to save roughly $19 billion in government contracting costs during the fiscal year that began in October, according to an ffice of Management and Budget report set for release Monday..
4) States get more time to comply with Real ID
The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday.
5) Health bill approaches key vote in Senate
After a week of high-profile concessions, Senate Democrats were on the brink early Monday of securing a milestone victory in the health-care debate, as White House officials sought to refocus attention on the bill's far-reaching insurance reforms and other potentially major changes.
6) Deal on health bill is reached
Senate Democrats said Saturday that they had closed ranks in support of legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, ending months of internal division and clearing a path for quick Senate passage of President Obama's top domestic policy priority.
7) To sway Nelson, a hard-won compromise on abortion issue
The Democrats wouldn't even sit in the same room. At one end of the majority leader's office, Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), the antiabortion senator whose support was crucial to health-care legislation, huddled with White House staff in a conference room. At the other end, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and...
8) Republicans make new accusations in Walpin firing
Congressional Republicans raised new concerns this week about the Obama administration's firing of Gerald Walpin, who served as inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
9) Democrats may win health-care debate, but wounds are deep
Amid the spectacle that has become the health-care debate, Democrats have taken comfort in the belief that they will be rewarded politically if in the end they pass something -- almost anything. That proposition is being sorely tested in these final days of maneuvering.
10) U.S. health task force gets new scrutiny
The once-obscure federal panel that triggered a firestorm with its new mammography guidelines would get far greater authority under the health-care reform proposals pending in Congress, sparking more debate about its power and independence.
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