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Senate passes critical Pentagon budget bill

Legislation combines money for the military with more help for jobless. Full story

Sunday on ‘MTP’

White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod and former DNC chairman Howard Dean.

Denied 2 full victories, Obama takes validation

NYT analysis: From Copenhagen to Capitol Hill, the president determined the outer limits of what he could accomplish on climate change and health care and decided that was enough, for now. Full story

Obama: U.S. ‘on cusp’ of health reform

Sen. Ben Nelson to give measure decisive vote. Full story

Abortion language is latest health hurdle

Newsweek: Surprisingly good policy | Timeline

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NYT analysis: Obama accepts ‘pyrrhic victories’

From Copenhagen to Capitol Hill, the president determined the outer limits of what he could accomplish on climate change and health care and decided that was enough, for now.