Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Health Care bill faces key Senate test vote (AP)
• Who wins, who loses in Senate health bill (AP)
• Neb.'s Nelson sees backlash on health reform plan (AP)
• Obama plan could limit records hidden from public (AP)
• Cooped-up senators turn cranky (Politico)
• INSIDE WASHINGTON: An anti-whistleblower culture (AP)
• Mullen applauds air strikes against al-Qaida (AP)
• US sends 12 Gitmo detainees to their home nations (AP)
• McCain understands why Palin blacked out visor (AP)
• Analysis: Hard reality as US pushes Pakistan (AP)
• Mullen worries about Iran running out clock on US (AP)
• Health plans on collision course (Politico)
• Obama seeks drug imports outside of health bill (Reuters)
• Top Iran dissident cleric Montazeri dies at 87 (Reuters)
• US decries Cambodia's deportation of Uighurs (AP)
• Axelrod: Compromise, but still health care reform (AP)
• White House confident Senate, House can compromise (AP)
• White House backs healthcare deal, sees victory (Reuters)
• White House presses for health care reform deal (AFP)
• Senators OK defense budget bill, much left to 2010 (AP)

Health Care bill faces key Senate test vote (AP) Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:42 PM PST 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Reuters - 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 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 Reuters - 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 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 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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