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• Labor leaders press Obama on health tax (AP)
• Reid says he won't dwell on race-based controversy (AP)
• Will overhaul put the brakes on health care costs? (AP)
• Worries over Hasan's competence didn't slow career (AP)
• Reid apologizes again (Politico)
• STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment unchanged by projects (AP)
• AP source: Obama weighing new levy on banks (AP)
• Clinton: Iran sanctions should target elite (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Increase in suicide rate of vets (AP)
• Reid not 'going to dwell' on Obama comments (AP)
• Obama meets union leaders over healthcare concerns (Reuters)
• Obama rebukes senator's critics in race controversy (Reuters)
• White House mulls bank fee in budget (Reuters)
• Is 'Game Change' a Game-Changer? (CQPolitics.com)
• ND GOP Gov Hoeven begins run for US Senate (AP)
• Political spycraft seen in Nixon papers (AP)
• Obama: Reid's comment was not `mean-spirited' (AP)
• Game over: The Clintons stand alone (Politico)
• US welcomes Josipovic's Croatia presidency win (AFP)
• Company agrees to take down Obama billboard in NYC (Reuters)

Labor leaders press Obama on health tax (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:11 PM PST AP - Labor leaders irate over a proposed tax on high-value health insurance plans met with President Barack Obama on Monday to express their frustration over his support for the levy. Some labor officials have warned Democrats of political fallout for backing the tax.

Reid says he won't dwell on race-based controversy (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sought to slam the book shut Monday on a controversy stemming from remarks about President Barack Obama's race and dialect, and a string of forgiving statements from prominent blacks made clear his leadership post is not in immediate jeopardy.

Will overhaul put the brakes on health care costs? (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:47 PM PST AP - Short of rationing, lawmakers have pulled nearly every available cost-control lever in the sweeping health care overhaul President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are pushing to finish.

Worries over Hasan's competence didn't slow career (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:29 PM PST AP - In late December 2004, one of the officers overseeing Army Maj. Nidal Hasan's medical training praised him in an official evaluation as a qualified and caring doctor who would be an asset in any post.

Reid apologizes again (Politico) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday admitted that he “could have used a better choice of words” in discussing Barack Obama’s skin color, and he used his first public comments since the controversy emerged over the weekend to promote his record on civil rights.

STIMULUS WATCH: Unemployment unchanged by projects (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:11 PM PST AP - A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama's first stimulus has had no effect on local unemployment rates, raising questions about his argument for billions more to address an "urgent need to accelerate job growth."

AP source: Obama weighing new levy on banks (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is weighing a levy on financial institutions to help recover shortfalls in a $700 billion bank bailout fund and to help balance a budget that is looking increasingly grim amid an ongoing economic crisis.

Clinton: Iran sanctions should target elite (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:47 PM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration has concluded that the best way to pressure Iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions is to impose sanctions aimed at the country's ruling elite.

APNewsBreak: Increase in suicide rate of vets (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:07 PM PST AP - The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who've left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday.

Reid not 'going to dwell' on Obama comments (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:07 PM PST AP - Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid says that since he's apologized for his comments, he now wants to move past criticism about his characterization in 2008 of then-candidate Barack Obama as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect."

Obama meets union leaders over healthcare concerns (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:51 PM PST Reuters - The leader of the biggest U.S. labor federation warned President Barack Obama on Monday that failure to act quickly on unemployment would be "suicidal" and would put the Democrats' control of Congress at risk.

Obama rebukes senator's critics in race controversy (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday rebuked critics of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has faced calls from Republicans to step down over racial comments he made about Obama.

White House mulls bank fee in budget (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama is considering including a fee on financial services companies in his upcoming budget to help recover some of the taxpayer money used to bail out banks during the financial crisis, a senior administration official said on Monday.

Is 'Game Change' a Game-Changer? (CQPolitics.com) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST CQPolitics.com - Much has been made lately of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) comments about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. But "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime," is packed with similar revelations from the campaign trail and beyond.

ND GOP Gov Hoeven begins run for US Senate (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:51 PM PST AP - North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven began his run for the U.S. Senate on Monday with a call for lower taxes, less debt and federal tax incentives to prod business growth and energy production.

Political spycraft seen in Nixon papers (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:08 PM PST AP - In newly released papers from his presidency, Richard Nixon directs a purge of Kennedy-era modern art — "these little uglies" — orders hostile journalists to be frozen out and fusses over White House guest lists to make sure political opponents don't make it in.

Obama: Reid's comment was not `mean-spirited' (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:07 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says Harry Reid was trying to praise him when the Senate majority leader made a controversial reference to Obama's race and dialect, and that the Nevada lawmaker simply used "inartful language."

Game over: The Clintons stand alone (Politico) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:05 PM PST Politico - A new book is out with a highly critical but unsourced portrait of Hillary Clinton. This familiar occurrence — it’s happened too many times to count over the years — has usually been greeted with an equally familiar response: A fast and furious counterattack from the Clinton inner circle.

US welcomes Josipovic's Croatia presidency win (AFP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:57 PM PST AFP - The United States on Monday welcomed Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic's victory in the Croatian presidential election, underscoring the importance of negotiations for Croatia to gain EU membership.

Company agrees to take down Obama billboard in NYC (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:40 PM PST Reuters - Weatherproof Garment Co said on Monday it will take down a Times Square billboard of U.S. President Barack Obama wearing one of its coats, agreeing to a White House request even though the company said it had legal grounds for using his image in its advertisement.

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