2009年12月20日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Health Care bill faces key Senate test vote (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:42 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters at a news conference where he was  joined by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., left, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Senate Democrats confidently advanced health care legislation Sunday toward a make-or-break test vote in a push for Christmas-week passage. Republicans vowed to resist what they appeared unable to stop.


Who wins, who loses in Senate health bill (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 03:42 PM PST

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks with reporters following the announcement that he will support the health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The little town of Libby, Mont., isn't mentioned by name in the Senate's mammoth health care bill, but its 2,900 citizens are big winners in the legislation, thanks to the influence of Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.


Neb.'s Nelson sees backlash on health reform plan (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:52 PM PST

AP - It was the concern of Nebraska's Republican governor over expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care overhaul bill that led to a compromise to cover his state's estimated $45 million share over a decade, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson said Sunday.

Obama plan could limit records hidden from public (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:46 PM PST

Bill Leonard, former director of Information Security Oversight Office, poses in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.  In an executive order that President Barack Obama is likely to sign before the end of the year, Obama will create a National Declassification Center to clear up the backlog of Cold War documents.  The planned center should have authority to decide the status of millions of classified records on its own, said Leonard. 'We shouldn't need multiple opinions from multiple agencies.' (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old government records hidden from the public.


Cooped-up senators turn cranky (Politico)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 03:50 PM PST

Politico - Senators are suffering from cabin fever — and it has nothing to do with the snowstorm that socked Washington over the weekend.

INSIDE WASHINGTON: An anti-whistleblower culture (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:49 AM PST

This photo provided by Franz Gayl  shows Gayl in 2006 as a civilian science adviser in Iraq in 2006. Gayl, a Marine Corps whistleblower says military officials are trying to force him from his job for exposing failures to deliver life-saving equipment to troops in Iraq. He alleges a series of punitive actions that underscore the challenges President Barack Obama faces in fulfilling a campaign pledge to treat federal whistleblowers as patriots instead of pariahs. (AP Photo/Franz Gayl)AP - A Marine Corps whistleblower says military officials are trying to force him from his job for exposing failures to deliver lifesaving equipment to troops in Iraq.


Mullen applauds air strikes against al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stops to talk to local officials during a walk through the Abu Ghraib market, in Abu Ghraib outside of Baghdad, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Mullen is on a tour of the region and stopped to touch base with local military commanders. (AP Photo/Joe Barrentine - The News Tribune)AP - Adm. Mike Mullen is applauding a military strike in Yemen against suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist group.


US sends 12 Gitmo detainees to their home nations (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 12:23 PM PST

AP - The U.S. has transferred a dozen Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region as the Obama administration continues to move captives out of the facility in Cuba in preparation for its closure.

McCain understands why Palin blacked out visor (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:42 PM PST

Sen. John McCain, R-AZ., left, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY., right, speak during their news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Sen. John McCain says he understands why Sarah Palin blacked out his name on a McCain campaign visor so she could avoid recognition while on vacation in Hawaii.


Analysis: Hard reality as US pushes Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:48 PM PST

A Pakistani police officer views the scene at a co-educational school allegedly damaged by militants on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. Militants target schools, particularly girls schools, because they deeply opposed to Western-style education. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there's nothing the U.S. can do about it: That's the sobering reality as the U.S. tries to persuade a hesitant Pakistan to finish off the fight against terrorists.


Mullen worries about Iran running out clock on US (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:06 PM PST

U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen speaks to the news media in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. America's top military officer says there's no evidence that the takeover of an oil well in southern Iraq by Iranian forces is an attempt to influence Iraq's upcoming elections. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)AP - The top U.S. military officer said Sunday he does not assume Iran's brief seizure of an Iraqi oil well is part of an orchestrated plan in Tehran to threaten its neighbors.


Health plans on collision course (Politico)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:01 PM PST

Politico - Despite a last-minute weekend deal that put the Senate on the brink of passing health care reform this week, liberal and moderate Democrats remain on a collision course over the bill, as both sides dug in Sunday for the next phase of negotiations.

Obama seeks drug imports outside of health bill (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:41 AM PST

Reuters - The White House pledged on Sunday to move forward on allowing imports of safe prescription drugs from nations like Canada where they are less expensive, but not in the healthcare reform legislation now before Congress.

Top Iran dissident cleric Montazeri dies at 87 (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:24 AM PST

Iran's most senior dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri is pictured at his home in Qom in this May 19, 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/FilesReuters - Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died at the age of 87, providing a fresh catalyst for renewed demonstrations against the country's hardline leadership.


US decries Cambodia's deportation of Uighurs (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 08:09 AM PST

AP - The U.S. is condemning Cambodia's decision to forcibly deport 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China.

Axelrod: Compromise, but still health care reform (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 06:43 AM PST

AP - The White House is defending President Barack Obama's stand in support of health care legislation amid concern from liberals that Obama is giving up too much to get a deal done.

White House confident Senate, House can compromise (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:58 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks on climate change and healthcare reform in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - A top presidential adviser says the White House is confident Congress will pass a health care overhaul despite big differences in the House and Senate versions.


White House backs healthcare deal, sees victory (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 02:58 PM PST

Demonstrators protest against the healthcare bill outside the Capitol in Washington December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The White House on Sunday sought to preserve the fragile alliance of Democratic liberals and moderates backing broad healthcare reform legislation, with tough decisions looming on abortion and a new government-run insurance program.


White House presses for health care reform deal (AFP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 12:40 PM PST

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks during a news conference on December 10 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The White House on Sunday urged lawmakers to pass contentious health care reform, saying that the watered-down version of a bill before the Senate still accomplishes the president's goals of changing the troubled system.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - The White House on Sunday urged lawmakers to pass contentious health care reform, saying that the watered-down version of a bill before the Senate still accomplishes the president's goals of changing the troubled system.


Senators OK defense budget bill, much left to 2010 (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:29 AM PST

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., arrives for an early vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. The Senate cleared its year-end plate of some must-do work Saturday as it passed a critical budget bill that blends money for the Pentagon with additional help for the jobless. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - The Senate cleared its year-end plate of some must-do work Saturday as it passed a critical budget bill that blends money for the Pentagon with additional help for the jobless.


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