Senate takes up debt limit bill, passage likely (AP)

AP - With just hours left before the national debt bumps against its ceiling, emergency bipartisan legislation to allow the government to borrow more faces one final test in the Senate. Expected passage there sends the bill to President Barack Obama, averting a potentially disastrous, first-ever government default and making a down payment toward taming out-of-control budget deficits.Senate takes up debt limit bill, passage likely (AP)

Scott Brown to be sworn into Senate on Thursday - TheHill.co

Senator-Elect Scott Brown, the successor to the late-Sen. Ted Kennedy, will be sworn in to office Thursday afternoon, giving Republicans 41 seats in the upper chamber. Brown's entry into the Senate formally marks the end of the Democrats filibuster-proof Senate majority. Senator-Elect Scott Brown, the successor to the late-Sen---...More...Follow On Twitter----Odd Daily News

House Approves Sweeping Health Care Bill, Now All Eyes on Senate

Democrats in the House of Representatives narrowly passed sweeping health care reform legislation Saturday night, with only one Republican joining in the vote and the minority party nearly unanimous in its opposition.

"Oh what a night!" Speaker Nancy Pelosi proudly proclaimed at a press conference immediately following passage of the health care bill.

The vote passed 220-215 with 39 Democrats voting against the bill, and one Republican supporting the sweeping plan, Rep. Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican who holds an overwhelmingly Democratic seat in New Orleans....More
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Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings (AP)

AP - The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood.--...More