Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Obama tries to rally support for health revamp (AP)
• FACT CHECK: Obama's health care claims adrift? (AP)
• Analysis: Obama missteps confuse health overhaul (AP)
• Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation (AP)
• 10 questions for Obama (Politico)
• Pelosi: House Dems have the votes on health care (AP)
• Obama was meeting with health execs in February (AP)
• House passes 'pay-as-you-go' budget bill (AP)
• Clinton doesn't slam door on a White House bid (AP)
• Obama mounts defense of embattled health care plan (AFP)
• First grandmother says it's a wonderful life (AP)
• Obama: Some left out of his health plan (AP)
• Obama defends August deadline (AP)
• Obama open to finance plans for health care (AP)
• GOP Sen. Graham says he will vote for Sotomayor (AP)
• Text of Obama's opening remarks (AP)
• Obama: Hiring will be among last things to improve (AP)
• Obama pitches to insured Americans (Politico)
• Dems vow fight with banks on consumer agency (Reuters)

Obama tries to rally support for health revamp (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought to rally support for sweeping health care legislation Wednesday night as Congress struggled to find agreement on a historic overhaul. He vowed to reject any measure "primarily funded through taxing middle class families."

FACT CHECK: Obama's health care claims adrift? (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's assertion Wednesday that government will stay out of health care decisions in an overhauled system is hard to square with the proposals coming out of Congress and with his own rhetoric.

Analysis: Obama missteps confuse health overhaul (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:42 PM PDT AP - Determined to avoid the fatal missteps of the Clinton White House, President Barack Obama is wobbling along his own precarious path to try to overhaul the nation's health care.

Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:22 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups to prevent a resurgence of the violence and turmoil that took the country to the verge of civil war.

10 questions for Obama (Politico) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 10:24 AM PDT Politico - For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama is using a prime-time news conference Wednesday night to play catch-up.

Pelosi: House Dems have the votes on health care (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:49 PM PDT AP - Democrats command the votes needed to pass a sweeping health care bill through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, an unexpected statement that quickly drew a biting response from conservative members of the party's rank-and-file demanding changes in President Barack Obama's trademark legislation.

Obama was meeting with health execs in February (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:32 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House a few weeks after he took office, a visitor list released Wednesday night by the White House shows.

House passes 'pay-as-you-go' budget bill (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 03:24 PM PDT AP - With the deficit smashing records, the Democratic-controlled House passed legislation Wednesday designed to make it more difficult to pass tax cuts or new spending programs that would pile even more billions of dollars onto it.

Clinton doesn't slam door on a White House bid (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:30 PM PDT AP - Hillary for president, again? She says it's unlikely, but in a Thai television interview Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't completely close that door.

Obama mounts defense of embattled health care plan (AFP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:38 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama has fiercely defended his embattled campaign to overhaul US health care, calling it vital to pulling the economy back from a "full-blown crisis."

First grandmother says it's a wonderful life (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:37 PM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama's mother summed up her life at the White House in one word: wonderful.

Obama: Some left out of his health plan (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:34 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says that even if he gets the health care overhaul he's pushing for, some Americans will be left without insurance.

Obama defends August deadline (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:30 PM PDT AP - As he fends off charges from critics that he's rushing through health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is defending his decision to push for a plan from Congress by an August deadline.

Obama open to finance plans for health care (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:25 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says he is open to the proposals emerging in Congress to pay for health care overhaul.

GOP Sen. Graham says he will vote for Sotomayor (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:17 PM PDT AP - Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party's conservative leaders to back President Barack Obama's choice to be the first Hispanic justice.

Text of Obama's opening remarks (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:13 PM PDT AP - Text of President Barack Obama's opening remarks at a news conference at the White House on Wednesday, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House:

Obama: Hiring will be among last things to improve (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:13 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says economic steps by his administration have saved jobs and created new ones. But he says new hiring is among the last things to improve during an economic recovery.

Obama pitches to insured Americans (Politico) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:02 PM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama used his prime-time news conference Wednesday night to make a direct pitch to Americans who have health insurance that a massive health care overhaul under debate in Congress will not only benefit them, but is also an urgent priority for the country.

Dems vow fight with banks on consumer agency (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - Congressional Democrats pledged on Wednesday to engage the banking industry in a summer-long debate over the Obama administration's call for the creation of a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

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