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Pelosi confident House will pass health care bill (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure.

Obama, Medvedev encouraged on arms talks accord (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday had what the White House described as an "encouraging" phone conversation with Russian President Dmitrty Medvedev as the two countries sought to work out the remaining issues on a treaty to significantly reduce nuclear arsenals.

Despite brashness, Bunning still a hero in Ky. (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.

W.H. plan to remake education law (Politico)

March 14, 2010

Politico - The plan undoes much of No Child Left Behind.

A POLITICO survey: The tea party's least favorite Republicans (Politico)

March 14, 2010

Politico - A survey of grass-roots tea party leaders cites John McCain as the largest GOP disappointment.

Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

Catholic hospitals support health care bill (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.

Fiorina assails Washington, Boxer as out of touch (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday attempted to win over California Republicans by attacking two of their strongest dislikes — incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer and a federal government she says is broken.

AP Source: Colo. woman held in terror probe (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - A U.S. official says a Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims.

States scramble after high court election ruling (AP)

March 14, 2010

AP - The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma: brace for a flood of new money in politics, or find new ways to rein it in.