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• Toyota chief blasted by lawmakers despite apology (AP)
• Obama, Dems look beyond health summit (AP)
• Senate approves tax breaks for new hires (AP)
• Bottom line at health summit: lots of smoke (AP)
• Hill lags in hiring Hispanics (Politico)
• Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific (AP)
• Senate votes to extend USA Patriot Act for 1 year (AP)
• Pentagon tries to get tanker off the ground (AP)
• US slams Israel over designating heritage sites (AP)
• Groups seek labeling changes for injected chickens (AP)
• Obama needs to get his poll numbers up -- in Israel (Reuters)
• Clinton says domestic politics hurting US abroad (AP)
• Correction: Florida Congressman story (AP)
• Geithner: No change to Fannie, Freddie until 2011 (AP)
• Clinton cites progress in Iran sanctions effort (AP)
• House would repeal insurers' antitrust exemption (AP)
• Toyota to cover costs related to safety problems (AP)
• Conservative infighting heats up as focus shifts to important policy debates (The Newsroom)
• Court says inmate's lawyer request no longer valid (AP)
• Obama rejects criticism of his agenda as "socialism" (Reuters)

Toyota chief blasted by lawmakers despite apology (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 06:25 PM PST AP - Under blistering criticism, Toyota President Akio Toyoda personally and repeatedly apologized to Congress and millions of anxious American car-owners Wednesday for deadly defects in popular models produced by his Japanese company. But angry lawmakers forcefully declared it was hardly enough.

Obama, Dems look beyond health summit (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 06:24 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, holding out little hope for Thursday's televised bipartisan summit on health care, are prepared to try for a far-reaching bill in the coming weeks without a single Republican vote.

Senate approves tax breaks for new hires (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST AP - Senate Democrats delivered the first of several promised election-year jobs bills Wednesday, passing a measure blending highway funding eagerly sought by the states with tax breaks for companies that hire unemployed workers.

Bottom line at health summit: lots of smoke (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 05:00 PM PST AP - Cue the cameras. President Barack Obama and his Republican arch foes will argue their case on health care overhaul at a bipartisan summit expected to stretch out for a solid six hours on live, daytime television Thursday for millions of Americans.

Hill lags in hiring Hispanics (Politico) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:02 AM PST Politico - Hispanics make up nearly one-sixth of the U.S. population, but a new study shows that they’re almost nonexistent in high-level staff positions on Capitol Hill.

Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 04:02 PM PST AP - NASA needs to go somewhere specific, not just talk about it, skeptical U.S. senators told the space agency chief Wednesday.

Senate votes to extend USA Patriot Act for 1 year (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 06:25 PM PST AP - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation's counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month. In agreeing to pass the bill, Senate Democrats retreated from adding new privacy protections to the USA Patriot Act.

Pentagon tries to get tanker off the ground (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 03:33 PM PST AP - Seven years and two jail convictions later, the Pentagon on Wednesday unveiled its latest attempt to get a $35 billion contract for refueling planes off the ground.

US slams Israel over designating heritage sites (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 05:06 PM PST AP - The Obama administration criticized Israel Wednesday for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as national heritage sites.

Groups seek labeling changes for injected chickens (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST AP - Many poultry consumers are getting an unhealthy dose of sodium with their bird these days, the result of injections of saltwater during processing that many shoppers don't realize have become common practice, according to consumer advocates and California chicken growers.

Obama needs to get his poll numbers up -- in Israel (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 05:23 PM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama needs to get his poll numbers up -- in Israel -- if he hopes to make peace between Israelis and Palestinians, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday.

Clinton says domestic politics hurting US abroad (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 04:38 PM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton complained Wednesday that domestic political battles are hurting the president's foreign policy goals and damaging America's image abroad.

Correction: Florida Congressman story (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:17 PM PST AP - In a story Feb. 11 about U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's decision not to seek re-election, The Associated Press erroneously described his family's link to Florida International University's law school building. It is named for Diaz-Balart's grandfather, not his father.

Geithner: No change to Fannie, Freddie until 2011 (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 01:27 PM PST AP - The Obama administration will wait until 2011 to propose an overhaul of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday, arguing that he wanted to put some distance between a new system and what he called "the worst housing crisis in generations."

Clinton cites progress in Iran sanctions effort (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 01:02 PM PST AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran's continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.

House would repeal insurers' antitrust exemption (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:58 PM PST AP - The House has voted to repeal the health insurance industry's exemption from federal antitrust laws, giving Democrats an easy win on health care a day ahead of President Barack Obama's bipartisan health summit.

Toyota to cover costs related to safety problems (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:41 PM PST AP - Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will offer free at-home pickup of vehicles covered by the national safety recall, pay for customers' out-of-pocket transportation costs and provide drivers free rental cars during repairs.

Conservative infighting heats up as focus shifts to important policy debates (The Newsroom) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:40 PM PST The Newsroom - When Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election to fill liberal icon Ted Kennedy's vacant Senate seat, he was hailed as a conservative hero and a symbol of the start of a revolution in American politics. But Brown's recent vote in favor of a Democrat-sponsored spending bill inspired thousands of conservatives to direct a firehose of anger at the newly-minted Senator via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The sudden turn against Brown is just one of a few current internal squabbles on the right that could distract the conservative movement's focus away from what's been its main focus over the past year: opposing the efforts by President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to expand the role of government.

Court says inmate's lawyer request no longer valid (AP) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:30 PM PST AP - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a suspect's request for a lawyer is good for only 14 days after the person is released from police custody, reinstating the confession of a child molester who had asked for a lawyer nearly three years before he confessed.

Obama rejects criticism of his agenda as "socialism" (Reuters) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 11:59 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama launched a vigorous defense of his economic agenda on Wednesday, rejecting critics who call his policies "socialism" and insisting he aims to boost U.S. competitiveness abroad.

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