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Need for results drives Obama's domestic juggle
(AP)
 AP - President Barack Obama's intense juggling of domestic issues reflects all the realities he faces: a vast agenda, a smaller window for results this year and a need to keep promises to constituencies that will have a huge say in the fall congressional elections.
Reid's wife hospitalized after traffic accident
(AP)
 AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said.
Senators question $1 million pay for charity's CEO
(AP)
 AP - A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity.
Census to redefine poverty
(Politico)
Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors praise a new measure as much needed update for the 21st century.
Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears
(Politico)
Politico - Surging libertarian streak in the new conservative movement worries the Christian right.
Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules
(AP)
 AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.
Democrats pare differences over health overhaul
(AP)
 AP - Top Democrats say they are resolving disputes over President Barack Obama's health overhaul plan, but they face decisions on subsidizing coverage and are still hunting votes to push the vast package through Congress.
Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman
(AP)
AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
'Little Billy's Letters' at a glance
(AP)
AP - Excerpts from the responses by prominent figures to letters from "Little Billy," the grade-school alter ego of prankster Bill Geerhart, appearing in the book "Little Billy's Letters":
Ginsburg endorses end to local judicial elections
(AP)
AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is endorsing an end to the election of judges at the state and local levels.
Critics of Justice Dept. lawyers under fire
(AP)
 AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.
Sweden labels mass killing of Armenians genocide
(AP)
AP - Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest.
43 Somalis die in capital after 2 days of warfare
(AP)
 AP - Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday.
Leave yuan to us, China tells Obama
(Reuters)
Reuters - The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched toward a potential bust-up over Beijing's currency regime.
Financial regulation bill to be introduced without GOP backing
(McClatchy Newspapers)
 McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Long-awaited Senate legislation that would direct the broadest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression will be introduced on Monday without any Republican support, despite weeks of bipartisan negotiations.
Given Obamacare, How Will Democrats Fare?
(CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - President Barack Obama has taken to nonstop demonizing of the insurance industry -- a sign of desperation over the prospects of passing health care reform.
Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings
(Bloomberg)
 Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.âs handling of
recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the
automakerâs U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that
the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.
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