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• Dems, White House predict success on health care (AP)
• Pain before gain in health care overhaul (AP)
• Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix (AP)
• AP ENTERPRISE: Vets wait for GI Bill payments (AP)
• Lobbyists on pace for record year (Politico)
• White House confident of health overhaul enactment (AP)
• No peeking: Obama getting Christmas 'sports stuff' (AP)
• Community bankers get Obama's soft touch (AP)
• Ala. Dem defects to GOP over health care, policy (AP)
• No longer coy, Giuliani won't run for NY office (AP)
• Report: Campaign finance laws full of loopholes (AP)
• White House prods Iran over nuclear deadline (AP)
• Keep IRS auditors away: Earn less than $200,000 (AP)
• Karzai orders investigation into cousin's slaying (AP)
• Woman held in Hawaii after Michelle Obama threat (AP)
• Rating Change Signifies Challenge to Tenn.'s Davis (CQPolitics.com)
• Obama: No vacation until Senate passes health bill (AP)
• House Democrat switches to Republican Party (Reuters)
• Race Rating Change: Alabama 5 (CQPolitics.com)
• Health bill clears second Senate hurdle (Reuters)

Dems, White House predict success on health care (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST AP - From the White House to Capitol Hill, Democrats on Tuesday confidently predicted Senate passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul after the bill cleared its second 60-vote test and the time was set for a final tally.

Pain before gain in health care overhaul (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:23 PM PST AP - Americans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are close to pushing through Congress.

Court bans sale of Word; Microsoft promises fix (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:42 PM PST AP - A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.

AP ENTERPRISE: Vets wait for GI Bill payments (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:14 PM PST AP - Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school last fall under the new GI Bill, leaving the veterans panicked that they'll be unable to return to class in January.

Lobbyists on pace for record year (Politico) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:38 AM PST Politico - Main Street has had a tough year, losing jobs and seeing little evidence of the economic revival that experts say has already begun.

White House confident of health overhaul enactment (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:37 PM PST AP - A White House spokesman says health care overhaul legislation has progressed to the point that its enactment is no longer in question.

No peeking: Obama getting Christmas 'sports stuff' (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:32 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is getting "sports stuff" for Christmas.

Community bankers get Obama's soft touch (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:20 PM PST AP - This time, no fat cats. President Barack Obama took his plea for more small business lending to community bankers Tuesday, but his prodding was far gentler than it was with high finance CEOs last week.

Ala. Dem defects to GOP over health care, policy (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:37 PM PST AP - A U.S. House Democrat who opposes the health care overhaul announced Tuesday he is defecting to the GOP, another blow to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.

No longer coy, Giuliani won't run for NY office (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST AP - After months of playing it coy and flirting with a bid for statewide office, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that he won't return to the campaign trail next year, leaving a wide-open field for New York Republicans interested in the gubernatorial and Senate races.

Report: Campaign finance laws full of loopholes (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:39 PM PST AP - Politicians across the country keep finding ways to skirt campaign-finance laws, using ballot-measure committees and other avenues to raise millions in unregulated contributions, according to a report issued Tuesday by a California-based think tank.

White House prods Iran over nuclear deadline (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:45 PM PST AP - The White House is warning Iran's leader to take seriously a year-end deadline over its nuclear program, responding sternly to defiant language by the Iranian president.

Keep IRS auditors away: Earn less than $200,000 (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:34 PM PST AP - Want to keep IRS auditors away? Keep your earnings under $200,000 and they won't bother you 99 percent of the time.

Karzai orders investigation into cousin's slaying (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:03 PM PST AP - American and Afghan relatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai cast doubt Tuesday on Afghanistan's move to investigate the slaying of a young Karzai family member, saying the Afghan government does not want to bring the suspected killer to justice in part because of his U.S. military connectons.

Woman held in Hawaii after Michelle Obama threat (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:14 PM PST AP - A woman accused of telling the Secret Service she would "blow away" Michelle Obama was in federal custody Tuesday as the Obama family planned to travel to Hawaii.

Rating Change Signifies Challenge to Tenn.'s Davis (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:00 PM PST CQPolitics.com - Tennessee Rep. Lincoln Davis, a Democrat with a center-right image, has won his three House re-election contests by comfortable margins despite his 4th District's overall conservative leanings. But 2010 is looming as a tougher year for Democrats than 2006 or 2008 both nationally and in Tennessee, where two senior House Democrats, John Tanner and Bart Gordon, already have announced their retirements.

Obama: No vacation until Senate passes health bill (AP) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:51 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama won't leave Washington for his Hawaii vacation until the Senate finishes work on the health care overhaul, even if that means staying in town for Christmas Eve.

House Democrat switches to Republican Party (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:50 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Representative Parker Griffith switched parties on Tuesday and became a Republican, a move that underscored challenges his former Democratic colleagues face in next year's election.

Race Rating Change: Alabama 5 (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:13 PM PST CQPolitics.com - Parker Griffith survived a brutal open-seat campaign in 2008 and appeared to have at least a slight edge to keep Alabama's 5th District in the Democratic column in the 2010 election. On Tuesday, the conservative Democrat announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party.

Health bill clears second Senate hurdle (Reuters) Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:03 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Senate Democrats cleared the second of three 60-vote hurdles on President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul on Tuesday, moving its version of the landmark legislation one step closer to passage before Christmas.

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