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5:20 PM ET, March 18, 2010

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The Politico:
GOP plots Senate health roadblock  —  Democrats might like to think that health care reform is all but a done deal if it clears the House, but the Senate is where Republicans have been plotting for months to sentence it to a painful procedural death.  —  Republican aides have been mining …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
CBO numbers  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) just released the first set of Congressional Budget Office numbers to reporters this morning.  —  The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.
Ezra Klein:
CBO: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95%  —  Washington has spent the past week or so waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to release its preliminary estimate of the Senate bill with the reconciliation fixes.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: CBO releases the actual report; Update: Almost all $940 billion incurred in just six years; Update: Preliminary  —  It's much as advertised.  Thanks to its spending provisions mainly starting in 2014, the reconciliation bill combined with the Senate version has a total cost of $940 billion …
Ezra Klein:
Democrats get the bill, and the score, they needed  —  The question people generally ask about the final health-care reform vote is, “Won't it be politically difficult for many House Democrats to vote yes?”  But with the release of the CBO report (pdf), I'd flip that question a bit …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's pitch: Fate of presidency on the line  —  President Barack Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Rating Lowest Yet, Congress' Declines  —  Slightly more disapprove than approve of Obama  —  PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval is the worst of his presidency to date, with 46% of Americans approving and 48% disapproving of the job he is doing as president …
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Swamp
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: Health Care Reform's Finished Draft
Discussion: Firedoglake
Igor / Wonk Room:
Comparing The CBO Scores For Different Health Care Bills
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama disapproval exceeds approval
Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Health care overhaul to get fresh look from Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Hill
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Preliminary CBO Numbers Are In (BUMPED & UPDATED, 11:30 a.m.)
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Erin McPike / Hotline On Call:
Rules Panel Dem To Vote Against Bill  —  A key House Dem has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee, on which he sits.  —  Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), a sophomore Dem who had a tougher …
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Lynch mobbed  —  Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is a firm “no” on health care reform — in large measure because he opposes the idea of any kind of excise tax on Cadillac plans, even one that's delayed for years and years.  —  That's put Lynch a former ironworkers union official in Boston …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
New Health Care Whip Count: 192 Yes, 208 No (205-210 with Leaners)  —  We're getting to an end game here, and so the counts will come fast and furious at this point.  I think that it's good to look at the count right when the CBO numbers have been released as a good baseline for the future.
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: START THE CLOCK  —  The CBO score is in... Do the numbers influence House Dems who voted against last year's House bill and also against the Stupak amendment?... NBC/WSJ poll finds that a third of the country knows “a lot” about the filibuster procedure... Jobs bill sent to Obama's desk …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Page
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Health Care Pollyanna Update
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Daily Dish
Michelle Malkin:
The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch  —  Photoshop credit: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media  —  You'll recall that House Republicans unveiled a resolution two days ago …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dems defeat GOP effort to force separate vote on Senate health bill
Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Conrad Predicts Senate Changes to Reconciliation Bill
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
Punish These Fools. — By: Jim Geraghty
Discussion: Townhall.com and AmSpecBlog
The Hill:
Stupak: Health fight has been ‘living hell’  —  Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama's healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).  —  The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” …
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Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay:
Video, Photos, Report: Lt. Dan Choi and Cpt.  Jim Pietrangelo Arrested After Chaining Themselves to White House Fence in ‘DADT’ Protest  —  Developing...refresh for updates below...  (images via twitter)  —  UPDATE: Late breaking statement from HRC below.
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Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog Gay:
Breaking: Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo handcuffed to fence …
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The Politico:
NRSC subpoenaed in Ensign probe
Discussion: CNN, MyDD and TPMMuckraker
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
Texts Without Context  —  In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself.”  He says he's “bored by out-and-out fabrication …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Mashed Up  —  Michico Kakutani has a somewhat curious piece …
Discussion: Eschaton
Nitya Venkataraman / ABCNEWS:
Christiane Amanpour Is ‘This Week’ Anchor  —  Christiane Amanpour Starts as ‘This Week’ Anchor in August  —  Christiane Amanpour has been named the new anchor of “This Week,” ABC News President David Westin announced today.  —  “I am delighted to announce that Christiane Amanpour …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:   ABC hires Amanpour for ‘This Week’
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Has Rahm's assumption about progressives been vindicated?  —  President Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga  —  Politico's Ben Smith yesterday suggested that one important aspect of Rahm Emanuel's health care strategy …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Yes, Rahm is Totally Vindicated
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Steve Levy Plans Switch to G.O.P., Stirring Governor's Race  —  ALBANY — A governor's race that seemed all but settled is about to be upended again, by a popular Democrat from Long Island who is set to announce that he is switching parties.  The move is certain to excite Republican leaders pessimistic …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Canceling the trip  —  The cancellation of President Obama's trip to Asia marks the full reversal of the strategy his presidency began with: Flooding the zone with policy, keeping the President out of the weeds.  —  The decision to cancel his trip may look like a sign of urgency but it's also …
The Note:
GOP Doc Asks Pelosi: ‘Are you so arrogant ... ignorant ... incompetent?’  —  ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Democrats might have themselves a health reform bill, but Republicans have doctors - way more doctors in Congress, anyway, than Democrats.  And they're steamed.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
 
 
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