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Democrats Are Six Votes Short for Health-Care Bill Passage, Officials Say Democrats need about six more votes from House members to pass a U.S. health-care overhaul, Obama administration officials said today.

Hatch Says Democrats `Nuts' to Think Sunday Vote Will Resolve Health Care U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, said Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are “nuts” to think that Sunday’s vote on health-care legislation will resolve the issue.

Democrats Gain Support as They Move Toward Showdown Vote Over Health Care U.S. House Democrats, who cleared a big hurdle in their effort to overhaul the health-care system by producing compromise legislation, are picking up fresh support for a showdown vote this weekend.

Obama Delays Asia Trip to Help Push Health-Overhaul Bill Through Congress U.S. President Barack Obama postponed a trip to Indonesia for three months to focus on his health-care plan, ceding ground to China in seeking trade and investment opportunities in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Clinton to Meet Putin in Moscow After Urging Delay to Iran's Nuclear Plant U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a push by the Middle East peace Quartet for a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority within two years.

Powell Says New Sanctions on Iran Won't Stop Nuclear Enrichment Program Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said new sanctions on Iran to persuade it to stop enriching uranium won’t work because the Islamic republic is “determined to have a nuclear program.”

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MARGARET CARLSON
If I were a member of Congress (I know: God forbid. No letters, please), I would be opposed to any health-care dollars going to subsidize the purchase of Viagra. It’s just not fair that Viagra immediately won insurance coverage while birth-control pills remained largely uncovered.

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AMITY SHLAES
Lack of balance is the charge being levied against the Texas State Board of Education after it inserted changes to new standards in social studies programs in public schools. The Associated Press said in an article that a “far-right faction” of the board had succeeded “in injecting conservative ideals” into the curriculum.

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ALBERT R. HUNT
A veteran senator, in a private conversation last week, was despondent: “This place is dysfunctional, and it’s not going to get any better,” he said. It could have been a Democrat or a Republican from the North, South, Midwest or West.


Late last week, the best topic for this column seemed to be warfare inside the White House: dueling op-eds, blogs and articles debated whether Rahm Emanuel was the cause of Barack Obama’s winter of discontent, or was it that the president and his other top adviser, David Axelrod, had ignored the chief of staff’s sage counsel.


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