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Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., accompanied by, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., left, and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speak during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
By DAVID ESPO

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

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ABC's "This Week" — Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Debbie Wasserman...

Reid health bill helps chiropractors, drugmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chiropractors get a lift in the Senate health care bill, thanks to a senator from the state practitioners consider the birthplace of their...

Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are...

House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from...

Democrats promise jobs bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their...

Senate approves budget for veterans programs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday adopted the latest in a continuing series of major budget increases to provide medical care for veterans.

The move came as the Senate passed,...

Bill would cause increase in Medicare premiums

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seniors would pay $49 billion in higher premiums over the next decade as a result of legislation headed for a House vote that raises fees for doctors treating Medicare...

AP News in Brief

AP sources: Senate health care bill likely to include new insurance program for long-term care

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate health care legislation expected this week is likely to...

GOP: Zero support for Senate financial reform bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans said Tuesday there is no support within the GOP for the financial overhaul plan outlined last week by Democrats, putting on shaky ground a top priority...

Czechs celebrate fall of communism 20 years ago

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands marched through the Czech capital Tuesday in commemoration of a student protest 20 years ago that grew into the human tidal wave sweeping away the...

DC board won't allow gay marriage ban on ballot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure to let voters decide whether to ban same-sex marriages in D.C. cannot go on the ballot because it would violate a city human rights law, the Board of Elections...

AP POLL: How to pay for health overhaul? Tax rich

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans don't want to shoulder the cost of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul themselves. They think the rich should pay for it.

That's the finding...

FIFA warns Iraq to stop meddling in soccer

ZURICH (AP) — Iraq faces suspension from world soccer if it does not restore the disbanded national federation by Thursday.

World governing body FIFA said Tuesday it was...

Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices — and all of the roughly $4.3 million...

Mass. immigrant tuition bill to get new push

CHELSEA, Mass. (AP) — It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.

The Guatemalan-born student certainly had the academic credentials, going from...

Berlusconi's trial resumes in Italy

MILAN (AP) — The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Abortion rights' scramble

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passed a health bill with strict abortion...

Pelosi: Health bill would limit abortion access

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she agrees with critics who say an amendment included in the health care bill passed by the House would...

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

GENEVA (AP) — Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.

The country's...

GOP chairman ends abortion insurance for employees

WASHINGTON (AP) — A chagrined GOP Chairman Michael Steele has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective...

Mich. schools chief says laws needed to get grants

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan will have to change state law to have any shot at a slice of more than $4 billion set aside by the Obama administration for states that shake up their public...

Italian trial-length bill could help Berlusconi

ROME (AP) — Italy's parliament was considering a controversial bill Thursday that would limit the length of trials, with critics saying it was drafted to help Premier Silvio Berlusconi...


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