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With Republican opposition unanimous so far, the Senate debate starting Monday on a comprehensive health care bill will focus on bridging differences among the majority Democrats.

Share + Nov 29, 2009 11:23 am US/Central WASHINGTON 1 of 1 Senator Carl Levin said a war tax on higher-earning Americans is not out of the question to support a surge of troops in Afghanistan, but believed such a tax is now too late.

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Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50% increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.

The federal government faces " a trifecta of headaches : a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed." Still, the NYT's Paul Krugman warns that a phantom debt menace could ...

Add David Obey to the increasingly vocal foes of General Stanley McChrystal's proposed escalation of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a group that includes Arlen Specter and the 57 Congresspeople who signed Massachusetts Congressmen James McGovern's letter to the President.

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Updated 12:52 p.m. ET Rep. David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is the latest lawmaker to call for a new tax aimed at the rich to pay for a troop increase in Afghanistan.

Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan has been placed in pretrial confinement, but will remain in a San Antonio military hospital.

Promised December congressional hearings into President Barack Obama's proposed repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on service by gays will be postponed until next year so the Senate Armed Services Committee can concentrate on investigating the Fort Hood shootings, according to the committee chairman.

At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.

There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered all branches of the military Thursday to seek better ways of "identifying service members who could potentially pose credible threats to others." He also announced that the Army will study whether it could have prevented the massacre at Fort Hood.

The Department of Labor is providing $4 million for a study of displaced autoworkers in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields.

MIAMI a ' More than 14,700 U.S. taxpayers came forward to disclose billions in offshore bank accounts in 70 countries under a voluntary Internal Revenue Service program allowing most to avoid criminal prosecution as long as they pay what they owe, IRS officials said Tuesday.

Sen. Susan Collins is criticizing the Obama administration's briefings on the Ft.

Reporting from Washington - The Democratic-controlled Senate today thwarted an effort to block spending for upgrading facilities in the United States for housing prisoners transferred from Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, a move that Illinois officials feared could have complicated efforts to place detainees at a prison in their state.

The Senate Armed Services Committee postponed its Monday briefing on the deadly Fort Hood massacre at the request of the White House -- despite calls from some lawmakers to press forward with a congressional investigation into the shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 29.