House Democrats Unveil Long-Awaited Health Care Plan Today

House Democrats unveiled their long-awaited health care plan today, and while details remained sketchy about the plan’s cost, vowed that it would be approved by the House before Congress’ August recess.

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July 14, 2009 in Health Care | Permalink | User Comments (10)

Little Outrage on Hill on Goldman Sachs Profits

Asked today about the profits at Goldman Sachs, which received (and subsequently paid back) $10 billion in bailout money from Uncle Sam just last year, neither Republicans nor Democrats seemed particularly mad about the firm’s record profits earned even as the unemployment rate and the federal deficit swell.

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July 14, 2009 in Congress | Permalink | User Comments (10)

Republicans Compare Health Care To Stimulus, Say August Timeline Is Too Hasty

Republicans say an August deadline for health care reform is too hasty.

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July 14, 2009 in Congress | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Terror Color Codes to Go Dark? System Under Review

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a 60-day review of the system used to inform the public of the terror threat environment to see if it needs to be altered. The review will be bipartisan and will include elected leaders, law enforcement officials and security experts from think tanks.

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Rep. John Dingell: Health Care Bill Will Impose New Tax on Wealthy; Dems Can’t Afford ‘Judgmental Errors’

With House leaders introducing their version of a sweeping health care reform bill this afternoon, we got a bit of a preview on today’s “Top Line” on ABCNews.com from Rep. John Dingell -- one of the bill’s architects, and a voice on behalf of universal health coverage for more than half a century.

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July 14, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (121)

First Advisory Brigades to Iraq

The new Army brigades have arrived in Iraq to prepare for taking over the training mission in Iraq after August, 2010 when the US troops in Iraq convert from a combat mission to a new training and advisory mission.

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July 14, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Palin Attacks Obama Energy Plan

Sarah Palin may be resigning from her post as governor, but she plans to remain part of the national political debate, as evident by her attack on President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan in a Wahington Post op-ed page.

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July 14, 2009 in Gov. Sarah Palin | Permalink | User Comments (111)

The Note: Benefits of Boring -- Sotomayor on track -- Michigan’s economy, not so much

Everything’s on track in Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, but the same can’t be said for President Obama’s chosen backdrop for his return to the domestic road: Michigan, with its 14 percent unemployment, ABC News senior political reporter Rick Klein writes Tuesday in The Note. And it took 10 days, but Sarah Palin is back in the national political debate -- and saying she’s not going to leave it.

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July 14, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (18)

The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ CARRIE HALPERIN, JAYCE HENDERSON CLAUDIA MORALES, KRISTEN RED-HORSE,...

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‘Roe’ of Roe v. Wade Arrested at Sotomayor Hearings

ABC News’ Rick Klein and Jan Crawford Greenburg report: Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the famous Roe v. Wade abortion case who is now an anti-abortion activist, was one of four protesters arrested for disrupting today’s opening day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, according to the US Capitol Police.

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July 13, 2009 in Sonia Sotomayor | Permalink | User Comments (25)