Time.com - Rand Paul has taken the lead in the GOP primary race to succeed Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, but he's done it by attacking Republicans as often as Democrats

AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

AFP - A Japanese-American lawmaker took offense Wednesday after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham likened the Democrats' drive on health care to a Japanese suicide attack in World War II.

AP - Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday called the divide among Republicans and Democrats in Washington "unprecedented," and said President Barack Obama should hold private meetings with GOP leaders to make sure the gap doesn't grow.

Time.com - Rand Paul has taken a lead in the Kentucky GOP primary race to succeed Senator Jim Bunning, but he's done it by attacking Republicans as often as Democrats

AP - President Barack Obama is thanking lawmakers — and Republicans especially — for their help sending him a jobs bill.

AP - Obama thanks GOP for supporting jobs bill, says it's step toward working across party lines.

CQPolitics.com - If Blue Dog Democrats represent the type of districts Republicans must win to get closer to the majority in 2010, then New Democrats personify the seats the GOP needs to win to actually regain the majority.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly defeated a bid to freeze spending earmarks for a year.

AP - The Senate on Tuesday easily killed a move by conservative Republicans to temporarily ban senators from earmarking spending bills with back-home projects like roads, water projects and grants to local governments.

AP - With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass — or stop — President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend.

AP - It is a brazen abuse of Congress' rules. Or a legitimate tactic used many times by both parties.

CQPolitics.com - A leading Republican senator on Tuesday asked Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to explain why so many veterans' benefit claims are wrongly denied, resulting in a high rate of reversal on appeal.

AP - A bipartisan bill that would provide tax cuts for businesses that hire unemployed workers cleared a GOP filibuster in the Senate Monday, opening the way for final congressional approval.

Time.com - Virginia's Fifth Congressional District seems ripe for a Republican victory -- unless the conservative passion of the Tea Party movement trumps political pragmatism

Rasmussen Reports - Both Republican and Tea Party candidates have gained a little ground in a potential three-way congressional contest, but Democrats remain on top.

CQPolitics.com - The reverberations on K Street are still being felt nearly a year after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched political parties, with Specter loyalists maintaining their support while some big business interests and longtime Republican donors are distancing themselves.

Time.com - Virginia's Fifth Congressional District seems ripe for a Republican victory -- unless the conservative passion of the Tea Party movement trumps political pragmatism

CQPolitics.com - House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Sunday downplayed recent criticism of the GOP's 2010 political strategy and asserted that Republicans "have a chance" of winning the House in November's midterm elections.

AP - The top House Republican says the GOP can defeat the Democratic health care bill that may reach the House floor this coming week.