AP - Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.

Politico - Paterson could be facing criminal charges for witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

Politico - As signs point to reconciliation, other issues emerge.

CQPolitics.com - With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over from a failed two-term Republican president, you'd have thought that Democrats were set up for a pretty decent two years.

AP - There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

AP - Hundreds of Polish school kids are getting a leg up with free rubber boots as they face months next to a muddy construction site.

Politico - Commentators react just as they did after the discovery of the writings of the IRS suicide pilot.

AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continue to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban's momentum.

AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is getting a closer view of the Afghanistan war Tuesday, with a visit to troops fighting the Taliban in the country's rugged south.

AP - Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

Politico - Both Democrats and Republicans are speaking against the ban.

AP - President Barack Obama is planning to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of central bank in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported.

AFP - The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.

AFP - The United States is looking to break a taboo and train an elite Indonesian force linked to past abuses, as President Barack Obama courts the world's largest Muslim-majority nation with a visit.

AP - Some common problems when filling out U.S. census forms, which arrive by mail beginning Monday:

AP - The government's use of legal exemptions to keep records secret rose during President Barack Obama's first year in office, despite promises of increased openness, an Associated Press review found.

Time.com - The Obama Administration had high hopes for wiping the slate clean with Russia and starting anew. But Washington still has a ways to go to gain Moscow's trust

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Moscow to meet with senior Russian officials and to join top international diplomats in assessing the stalled Mideast peace process.

CQPolitics.com - Senate Democrats are planning an aggressive message campaign between now and November focusing on jobs, national security, the immediate impact of health care reform and their party's efforts to 'take on Wall Street.'

AP - Is Vlado Trifunovic a traitor, war criminal or hero? It all depends on whom you ask in the war-scarred Balkans.

AP - Former President Bill Clinton poked fun at Republicans, Democrats, his own health and his audience of reporters Saturday night, telling the Gridiron Club's annual dinner he was there because 'I really didn't have anything much better to do tonight.'

CQPolitics.com - House Democrats passed their landmark health care overhaul on a party-line 219-212 vote late Sunday night, an achievement that leaders said was akin to the enactment of Social Security and Medicare and one that is expected to be a key issue in determining whether many of the party's vulnerable members win re-election in November.

Politico - Paul Ryan story

Politico - Of those polled, 74 percent also identified themselves as Republicans.

AP - Working well past midnight, a weary Senate was mowing down a parade of Republican proposals aimed at undercutting President Barack Obama's signature health care law as Democrats push toward final passage of the companion piece to his overhaul plan.

CQPolitics.com - The victory came ugly and it was narrow. But it was also sweet. It was historic and, politically, it was big.

Politico - He becomes the second TSA nominee to withdraw his nomination.

AP - Poland's center-right governing party has chosen Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski as its candidate for president, a largely ceremonial job but one with significant symbolic weight in this proud and patriotic country.

AP - New York City officials are planning to search through material excavated from around the World Trade Center site for any remains of Sept. 11 victims.

CQPolitics.com - It's unusual for Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.) to face opposition from a fellow Democrat. And the rare primary Mollohan is facing this year in the northern 1st district is atypical in that state Sen. Mike Oliverio is challenging him from the right and not the left.

CQPolitics.com - Arizona Democrats are sensing a growing opportunity to capitalize on Republican divisions in the state's 2010 Senate race, but they may also have to contend with a contested primary of their own.