Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Democrats set showdown vote on Wall Street bill (AP)
• Dem leader makes immigration bill bigger priority (AP)
• Obama slams Wall Street ways while asking support (AP)
• Army disinvites Graham to Pentagon Prayer Day (AP)
• US lawmakers urge Russia not to halt adoptions (AP)
• Obama picks a new messenger for health care law (AP)
• Both parties vie to be biggest bank bailout foes (AP)
• IMF chief terms Greek debt crisis serious (AP)
• Ariz. lawmakers: Candidates must prove citizenship (AP)
• Obama pledges federal help on Gulf disaster (AP)
• Obama scolds Wall St for resisting reform (Reuters)
• 5 Chinese Muslims at Gitmo seek a better deal (AP)
• Wall Street gives much to lawmakers in reform debate (Reuters)
• Government charges ex-protector of whistle-blowers (AP)
• Troubled bank a potential stain in Ill. race (AP)
• Nearly 4M people could pay without health coverage (AP)
• Sigourney Weaver urges action to protect oceans (AP)
• Senate panel adopts Democratic budget plan (AP)

Democrats set showdown vote on Wall Street bill (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - Declaring themselves short of patience, Democrats set an initial showdown vote for next Monday on legislation to clamp new regulations on the financial industry while Republicans insisted on more bargaining. President Barack Obama admonished Wall Street leaders "to join us instead of fighting us" to prevent a future national financial collapse.

Dem leader makes immigration bill bigger priority (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:00 PM PDT AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, trailing in polls in heavily Hispanic Nevada, wants to pursue legislation to provide legal status for many unlawful immigrants before the Senate tackles a climate change and energy bill and as Democrats defend their congressional majorities ahead of the November congressional elections.

Obama slams Wall Street ways while asking support (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:15 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama rebuked Wall Street for risky practices Thursday even as he sought its leaders' help for "updated, commonsense" banking regulations to head off any new financial crisis.

Army disinvites Graham to Pentagon Prayer Day (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:52 PM PDT AP - Evangelist Franklin Graham's invitation to speak at a Pentagon prayer service has been rescinded because his comments about Islam were inappropriate, the Army said Thursday.

US lawmakers urge Russia not to halt adoptions (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev not to suspend adoptions between Russia and the United States.

Obama picks a new messenger for health care law (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama, facing a public dubious about his health care law and Democrats worried about its fallout on fall elections, tapped a veteran political operative Thursday to guide efforts to explain the law's benefits.

Both parties vie to be biggest bank bailout foes (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:10 PM PDT AP - If there's any election-year support in the Senate for future bailouts of the big banks on Wall Street, it isn't immediately apparent.

IMF chief terms Greek debt crisis serious (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:42 PM PDT AP - The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the debt crisis in Greece is serious and there would be no "silver bullet" to resolve the issue in an easy manner.

Ariz. lawmakers: Candidates must prove citizenship (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT AP - Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot.

Obama pledges federal help on Gulf disaster (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is ordering federal agencies to devote every resource necessary to help with the situation in the Gulf of Mexico where an oil platform exploded and sank.

Obama scolds Wall St for resisting reform (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama scolded Wall Street on Thursday for its "furious efforts" to fight tighter regulation, saying the United States was doomed to another financial crisis if reforms were not implemented

5 Chinese Muslims at Gitmo seek a better deal (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Thursday sought to block further court review in the case of five Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay who want to be sent to the United States or another country where they would like to live.

Wall Street gives much to lawmakers in reform debate (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress may want to look tough on financial reform in front of voters but that has not stopped them from filling their re-election war chests with plenty of Wall Street cash.

Government charges ex-protector of whistle-blowers (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:35 PM PDT AP - Federal investigators charged the nation's former top protector of whistle-blowers Thursday with criminal contempt of Congress.

Troubled bank a potential stain in Ill. race (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:33 PM PDT AP - The bank owned by Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias' family could fail in just days, forcing him to overcome a notable business stumble as he tries to keep President Barack Obama's old Senate seat in Democratic hands.

Nearly 4M people could pay without health coverage (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:04 PM PDT AP - Nearly 4 million Americans — the vast majority of them middle class — will have to pay a penalty if they don't get insurance when President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional estimates released Thursday.

Sigourney Weaver urges action to protect oceans (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:15 PM PDT AP - Proponents of climate change legislation usually invoke the need to reduce global warming, but actress Sigourney Weaver is coming to the defense of something that's often out of sight — oceans.

Senate panel adopts Democratic budget plan (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - A Democratic-dominated Senate panel Thursday approved an election-year budget plan that cuts just a few billion dollars from President Obama's budget for next year and puts off hard decisions on rapidly growing benefit programs.

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