Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Senate sends $1.1 trillion spending bill to Obama (AP)
• Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance (AP)
• Obama advisers: Jobs key focus, deficit comes next (AP)
• Republicans play up Democratic health care rifts (AP)
• Scoring Obama's nat'l security team (Politico)
• Aides say Obama is pressing to ease credit again (AP)
• Obama economic adviser pitches job stimulus (AP)
• Senator says opposition grows to Medicare buy-in (AP)
• Senators await new health care cost estimates (AP)
• Obama adviser says job creation is top priority (AP)
• Afghan war decision toughest of presidency: Obama (AFP)
• Obama: Afghanistan troop rise was hardest decision (Reuters)
• Arrests, rattled nerves in Copenhagen (Politico)
• Obama: Success of strategy evident in a year (AP)
• Obama: Expect no more White House gate-crashers (AP)
• Houston elects openly gay mayor (Reuters)
• AP News in Brief (AP)
• Billionaire wins first round of Chilean election: partial count (AFP)
• Gay mayor-elect: Victory shows Houston's diversity (AP)
• US Congress sends Obama major spending bill (AFP)

Senate sends $1.1 trillion spending bill to Obama (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:12 PM PST AP - The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans' programs.

Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST AP - A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the Senate's health care debate, ran into resistance Sunday from lawmakers who can make or break Democrats' efforts to reshape the nation's health insurance system.

Obama advisers: Jobs key focus, deficit comes next (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama's chief economic advisers said Sunday that putting Americans back to work is the first order of business in working the country out of the deepest economic downturn in six decades. Only then can they start tackling the soaring federal debt.

Republicans play up Democratic health care rifts (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 09:03 AM PST AP - The Senate's Republican leader says it's a stretch to think the Senate can finish its massive health care legislation before Christmas.

Scoring Obama's nat'l security team (Politico) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:19 AM PST Politico - Fresh from his election victory, Barack Obama introduced a new national security team last December that included two key players – National Security Adviser Jim Jones and holdover Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – he had hardly met. A third, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had been his bitter rival in the Democratic presidential primaries.

Aides say Obama is pressing to ease credit again (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 07:15 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama's economic advisers are talking tough about the banks ahead of his meeting with heads of financial institutions.

Obama economic adviser pitches job stimulus (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 06:46 AM PST AP - A White House economic adviser says it would be "suicide" for the government to focus exclusively on the deficit when the economy is sorely in need of jobs.

Senator says opposition grows to Medicare buy-in (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 08:36 AM PST AP - Two senators whose support for the health care overhaul has been in question are speaking out against a proposal to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare.

Senators await new health care cost estimates (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 07:04 AM PST AP - Senators are awaiting new cost estimates on the latest overhaul proposal from Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Obama adviser says job creation is top priority (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 06:29 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser says creating jobs takes priority over reducing the country's red ink in the next year.

Afghan war decision toughest of presidency: Obama (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:58 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama said Sunday that his decision to pour 30,000 more US troops into the war in Afghanistan was the most difficult of his presidency so far.

Obama: Afghanistan troop rise was hardest decision (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:57 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Sunday his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan was the toughest of his presidency and said it would be clear within a year whether the strategy was working.

Arrests, rattled nerves in Copenhagen (Politico) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:21 PM PST Politico - COPENHAGEN — Black police vans, with sirens screaming and occupants clutching semiautomatic rifles, barreled past the iconic Marble Church here Sunday, rattling the nerves of climate change conferees trying to enjoy a final break before this week’s intense finale.

Obama: Success of strategy evident in a year (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working, and pledges to change direction if the U.S. military is not on course "in terms of securing population centers" from Taliban militants.

Obama: Expect no more White House gate-crashers (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says the White House gate-crashers got in through a "screw-up," he's unhappy with everyone involved and it won't happen again.

Houston elects openly gay mayor (Reuters) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 03:22 PM PST Reuters - Houston Saturday became the first major U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, Annise Parker, after a hotly contested run-off election that gave gay and lesbian supporters a symbolic victory following defeats over legalizing same-sex marriages in California and Maine.

AP News in Brief (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 03:13 PM PST AP - Houston's first openly gay mayor says she hopes election shows city's diversity, changes image

Billionaire wins first round of Chilean election: partial count (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:30 PM PST AFP - A conservative billionaire, Sebastian Pinera, won the first round of an election in Chile Sunday in the race to succeed outgoing leftist President Michelle Bachelet, a partial official count showed.

Gay mayor-elect: Victory shows Houston's diversity (AP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:13 PM PST AP - The first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Houston says she hopes her victory in Saturday's election will change how the world views the city.

US Congress sends Obama major spending bill (AFP) Posted: 13 Dec 2009 01:03 PM PST AFP - The US Congress on Sunday sent President Barack Obama a giant spending bill that includes annual foreign aid packages, mild sanctions aimed at Iran, and money for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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