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1:30 PM ET, March 11, 2010

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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
House Democrats' ‘no’ votes are piling up on healthcare reform  —  More than two dozen Democrats are expected to vote against the healthcare reform bill that will hit the House floor in the coming weeks.  —  At least 25 House Democrats will reject the healthcare reform legislation …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Immigration provision has Hispanic Caucus threatening ‘no’ health vote  —  A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill's immigration provisions.  —  The scheduled meeting comes …
CNN:
Democrats try to cross health care finish line
Discussion: The Politico
The Politico:
CBC: Obama not listening
Michael Barone / Wall Street Journal:
Can Nancy Pelosi Get the Votes?
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats looking at ‘Slaughter Solution’ …
The Hill:
House GOP votes to ban all earmarks  —  House Republicans approved a conference-wide moratorium on earmarks on Thursday, one day after a House committee enacted a ban on for-profit earmarks.  —  The Republicans' moratorium is more extensive than the House Appropriations Committee's ban …
Discussion: CNN and Atlas Shrugs
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Roll Call:
GOP Ups Ante on Earmarks
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Dems Put Republicans on Defensive with For-Profit Earmarks Ban
New York Times:
More Messages Link Senator to Job Effort  —  WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Sex Scandals Aren't Interesting When They Involve Republicans
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi's office was told of concerns about Eric Massa  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was notified in October by then-Rep. Eric Massa's top aide of concerns about the New York Democrat's behavior, two congressional sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday night.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Eric Massa  —  I really think that political journalists who've spent …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Atlantic Online
Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Hillary Rodham Clinton widens her circle at the State Department  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton ran a presidential campaign notoriously insular and unhappy, managing a group of egos and backstabbers whose dysfunction may have cost her the White House.  Understandably, people wondered what kind …
Chris Joyner / USA Today:
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date request  —  JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.  —  “Due to the distractions to the educational process caused …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop  —  Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years …
Arun Kristian Das / MyFox New York:
Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’  —  MYFOXNY.COM - Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.  —  “No owner or operator of a restaurant …
Ed Henry / CNN:
Ex-Obama adviser: Dems may get ‘slaughtered’  —  Washington (CNN) — Steve Hildebrand was one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, but he has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill.  —  “I think that there is a real shot we …
Discussion: The Hill
Mark Cannizzaro / New York Post:
Woods hires ex-Bush aide to prep for return in two weeks  —  MIAMI — Tiger Woods has summoned someone even more significant than swing coach Hank Haney to help facilitate his wildly anticipated comeback.  —  Two sources in the golf community have told The Post that Ari Fleischer …
Ezra Klein:
The health-care bill is getting more popular  —  That graph is from Pollster.com.  It gets even tighter if you eliminate the conservative-leaning Rasmussen poll, whose founder wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday explaining that the president can't make health-care reform popular …
Laura Rozen / Laura Rozen's Blog:
What Biden told Netanyahu behind closed doors: “This is starting to get dangerous for us”  —  Publicly, Vice President Joe Biden tried to keep up a positive tone in his good will visit to Israel this week.  But privately, the Israeli press reports, he had sharper words for Israeli decisions Biden …
Mike Levine / Liveshots:
Holder Failed To Alert Senate To Old Brief  —  During his confirmation more than a year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder failed to notify lawmakers he had contributed to a legal brief dealing with the use of federal courts in fighting terrorism, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday.
Dr. Milton R. Wolf / Washington Times:
Obama family health care fracas  —  A doctor savages his cousin Barack's reform plan  —  “Primum nil nocere.”  First, do no harm.  This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care.  Sadly, those politicians who would rewrite our health care laws do not live in the same universe …
Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of the Senate-Passed Health Bill  —  CBO has just released an estimate of the budgetary effects of the health bill, H.R. 3590, that passed the Senate on December 24.  Today's estimate differs from the estimate for a slightly earlier version of the legislation …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
House liberal leader says Obama's stumping not changing many healthcare votes  —  President Barack Obama's stumping for healthcare isn't changing many — if any — votes in the House, a top liberal lawmaker said Wednesday night.  —  Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition  —  There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up.  Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical.
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
What I Learned at the Tea Parties  —  Both the media and many high profile politicos still seem to be flailing around trying to find some way to label, quantify and pigeonhole the myriad tea party groups which are springing up all around the country.  Even Karl Rove, during a stop to promote his new book …
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
Mimi Hall / USA Today:
Obama's liberal base ‘disengaged’  —  WASHINGTON — Is President Obama losing his base?  —  Liberal and progressive organizations that helped propel him to the White House are turning on him now, little more than a year after he took office.  Their collective discontent …
CNN:
Franken to keynote Netroots Nation convention  —  Al Franken will headline Netroots Nation in July.  —  (CNN) - Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, will headline the upcoming Netroots Nation convention, organizers announced Thursday.  —  Netroots Nation is the most prominent gathering of liberal bloggers each year.
Paul Krugman:
Fifty-One Herbert Hoovers  —  More than a year ago I coined a phrase that seems to have made its way into the econolexicon; writing about how cutbacks at the state and local level would tend to undermine fiscal stimulus at the federal level, I said that we had fifty Herbert Hoovers.  —  But I was wrong.
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum …
Anita Burke / Mail Tribune:
Police act swiftly after gun purchases  —  ODOT worker who'd been put on leave is mentally evaluated after buying handguns, AK-47  —  Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement across Southern Oregon to step in.
Discussion: Hit & Run
 
 
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up in Colorado, Florida
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Obama's Student Loan Overhaul Endangered
Alan Choate / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Goodman says city should fire all workers
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Strickland will join Obama during Ohio visit
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Hot Air
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Banking Chairman Dodd to go it alone on financial overhaul
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
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Austin Bramwell / The American Conservative:
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The Hill:
Unions taking on Dems who don't toe labor line
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