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• Health bill survives attacks — vote by week's end? (AP)
• Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets (AP)
• Bernanke asks Congress to empower regulators (AP)
• FACT CHECK: Loose facts in health horror story (AP)
• Boehner blasts Obama's Olympic move (Politico)
• Ban handguns? Supreme Court taking a new look (AP)
• New missile defense plan bets on Navy interceptors (AP)
• Administration takes aim at distracted driving (AP)
• EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases (AP)
• Congress approves tripling aid to Pakistan (AP)
• Obama to take weeks to study Afghanistan strategy (Reuters)
• Court to decide on expansion of Miranda rights (AP)
• Democrat says GOP wants sick to just 'die quickly' (AP)
• UN fires top US official at UN in Afghanistan (AP)
• Obama official regrets advice to gay student (AP)
• Congress adds on to stopgap funding bill (AP)
• House members seek ways to stop Internet bullying (AP)
• Regulators: G-20 goals noble but hard to meet (AP)
• White House disputes lawmaker's Afghan war comment (AP)

Health bill survives attacks — vote by week's end? (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT AP - A White House-backed overhaul of the nation's health care system weathered repeated challenges from Republican critics over taxes, abortion and more on Wednesday, and the bill's architect claimed enough votes to push it through the Senate Finance Committee as early as week's end.

Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:08 PM PDT AP - In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 new C-17 cargo jets and devote the money to military readiness accounts.

Bernanke asks Congress to empower regulators (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says federal regulators should be responsible for ensuring that the financial institutions they oversee don't become so big and unwieldy that their failure could bring down the economy.

FACT CHECK: Loose facts in health horror story (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:09 PM PDT AP - Shona Holmes is the Harry and Louise of this year's health care debate, only unlike the fictional folks who memorably trashed the Clinton-era health plan in advocacy ads 15 years ago, Holmes is real.

Boehner blasts Obama's Olympic move (Politico) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:02 AM PDT Politico - House Minority Leader John Boehner torched President Barack Obama Wednesday for his European trip to pitch the Chicago Olympics bid, criticizing the president for "going to go off to Copenhagen when we've got serious issues here at home that need to be debated."

Ban handguns? Supreme Court taking a new look (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court says it will take up a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns, opening the way for a ruling that could set off a vigorous new campaign to roll back state and local gun controls across the nation.

New missile defense plan bets on Navy interceptors (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT AP - Ever since President Ronald Reagan proposed building a ballistic missile shield in 1983 to prevent a doomsday scenario, the idea has been dogged by an unanswered question: Will it work?

Administration takes aim at distracted driving (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:42 PM PDT AP - Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a nation reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the wheel, the Obama administration declared on Wednesday. Officials said Congress and the public must team up to reduce the danger.

EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:59 PM PDT AP - The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to control the emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries for the first time.

Congress approves tripling aid to Pakistan (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:15 PM PDT AP - Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Barack Obama for his signature.

Obama to take weeks to study Afghanistan strategy (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:12 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will take several weeks to review U.S. strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House said on Wednesday after a meeting between top U.S. officials about the region.

Court to decide on expansion of Miranda rights (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court is once again trying to clarify what the long-established Miranda rights require the police to do, with the justices on Wednesday agreeing to decide whether officers can interrogate a suspect who said he understood his rights but didn't invoke them.

Democrat says GOP wants sick to just 'die quickly' (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT AP - House Republicans say it's payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama. They want a Democratic lawmaker to apologize or face a reprimand for saying the GOP wants Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.

UN fires top US official at UN in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:46 PM PDT AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan Wednesday after a widely publicized dispute with his boss over how to deal with widespread fraud charges in the country's presidential election.

Obama official regrets advice to gay student (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration Wednesday defended an Education Department official over advice he gave a gay student about sex 21 years ago.

Congress adds on to stopgap funding bill (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:19 PM PDT AP - Congress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a one-month stopgap spending bill to keep the government from shutting down with the start of the new fiscal year on Thursday. The legislation:

House members seek ways to stop Internet bullying (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - House members struggled Wednesday for a way to stop Internet bullying of children without violating free speech.

Regulators: G-20 goals noble but hard to meet (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT AP - U.S. financial regulators told Congress on Wednesday that national differences are vexing efforts to make good on pledges by world leaders to establish new international mechanisms to prevent another financial meltdown.

White House disputes lawmaker's Afghan war comment (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:46 PM PDT AP - A senior Republican congressman said Wednesday that President Barack Obama was endangering U.S. troops in Afghanistan by spending time weighing his next move in Afghanistan. The White House called the lawmaker's comment a "bunch of game playing."

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