The abortion language that was added to the Senate’s health-care bill to win the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has achieved a rare feat: It is drawing contempt from both sides.
Senators prepared to cast the second of three procedural votes early Tuesday to end the health-care debate, but Republicans showed little indication that they were ready to relent in a standoff that could push passage of the legislation to the latter part of Christmas Eve.
The leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights unit has decried a recent spate of hate-crime cases across the United States and pledged to make prosecuting violent “equal-opportunity bigots” a top priority in the coming year.
Seven months after President Obama vowed to “personally select” an adviser to orchestrate the government’s strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House will name a former Bush administration official to the job Tuesday.
— A Dec. 21 Page One article about the weekend snowstorm, in reporting that a family member delivered the baby when a woman went into labor at a house in Takoma Park, said responding emergency vehicles became stuck in a snowbank, implying that they did not make it to the scene. A Montgomery County…
The recession’s jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks.
It’s the bill that stole Christmas. Behind each cranky senator dealing his or her way toward a historic Christmas Eve vote on health-care reform is a cadre of staff members laboring day and night to make sense of the ever-changing 2,457-page bill, tutor their bosses, spin the press and break down…