Twenty-pound, 2,074-page bill steals show

Stephen Dinan

Just before Sen. John Ensign took the Senate floor Friday evening to blast Democrats' health care bill, a Senate staffer lugged a 2-foot-tall tower of ...

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• Senate Democrats win key vote on health bill

  5 AM Sean Lengell

  

  Senate leaders rallied jittery moderate Democrats to vote Saturday for moving the health care overhaul to a full floor debate, setting up weeks of skirmishes over touchy subjects. Continue reading »

• ANALYSIS: Obama takes a bow, but applause is weak

  5 AM Matthew Mosk

  

  President Obama's deep bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito last week may be the most enduring image from his first trip to Asia, but not because it provided easy fodder for jabs from the right-wing talk ... Continue reading »

• Military academies lack minority nominees

  5 AM Brian Witte ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians. Continue reading »

• Republican governors: 'Opt out' unworkable

  5 AM Ralph Z. Hallow

  

  Even with the "opt-out" option, Republican governors who gathered here last week weren't buying in to President Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Continue reading »

• ANALYSIS: Obama's global posture bows to delayed gratification

  3 PM Matthew Mosk

  

  President Obama's deep bow to the Japanese Emperor Akihito last week may be the most enduring image from his first trip to Asia, but not because it provided easy fodder for jabs from the right-wing ... Continue reading »