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

AP - It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies.

Politico - In an Ideas piece, Davis says Democrats will build a much taller wall than in 1994.

Politico - A persistent drip of info about his sex scandal has colleagues asking if he can serve effectively.

AP - Combining Obama administration and Republican priorities, the leading Senate author of a sweeping rewrite of the nation's financial regulations is looking for consensus with a proposal that neither side of the political spectrum is ready to embrace.

Politico - They blame fuel-efficiency mandates and short-term leases for high costs.

Reuters - Israel's ambassador to Poland Sunday deplored the desecration of a Holocaust memorial in southern Poland and criticized world leaders who deny Israel's right to exist.

AP - A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday.

Politico - The former Conservative Party candidate is now the GOP's main prospect to take on Owens in N.Y.

AP - It was hard to tell who was more impressed when film star Meryl Streep presented a leadership award to Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who endured years of captivity in jungle camps.

AFP - Suspected drug gang 'hit teams' killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to a US consulate in coordinated shootings that marked an ominous turn in Mexico's drug war.

Politico - Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk's first Senate ad highlights his fiscal conservatism and naval service, but what is striking is that he also uses another label for himself at the outset of the ad -- 'Republican.'

Politico - Monday evening's vote to end the debate on a $15-billion jobs bill is facing new GOP objections.

Reuters - President Barack Obama faced growing congressional pressure on Monday to get tough with China over its currency practices, one day after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao brushed off accusations that Beijing was undervaluing its currency for an unfair trade advantage.

CQPolitics.com - For many Americans it may be impossible to turn on the television in the coming days and not be bombarded with health care drama. And we are not talking about 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'House M.D.'

Politico - Theodore Olbermann played something of an unlikely role in the super-heated health care debate.

Politico - President puts a human face on health care overhaul in speech to feisty Ohio crowd.

AP - Usually out of the national spotlight, state legislative races are taking on new prominence this year. The reason? It's a year ending in a zero, when U.S. census results are the cue for state lawmakers to draw new boundaries for congressional districts across the country.

AP - Georgia's opposition politicians on Monday denounced the government over a hoax television broadcast that said Russia had invaded and the president had been killed.

AFP - US President Barack Obama Monday pleaded with lawmakers to pass his health reform bill, relating the heart-rending plight of a cancer victim at the 11th hour of a bitter debate.

CQPolitics.com - As a rule, big business hates higher taxes. So it would come as no surprise to find the oil and gas industry upset about climate change legislation that would increase levies at the gas pump.

Politico - Measure is tougher on financial industry than expected, but includes key concessions to Republicans.

Politico - House Minority Whip slams Obama administration for its condemnation of Israel.

AP - A coalition representing governors of 29 states is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy, such as a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2012.

AP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.

AP - Britain's independent advertising watchdog agency has criticized a government ad campaign that highlights the dangers of climate change.

AP - The Obama administration's pay czar is reducing 2010 compensation for top executives at GMAC Inc. because the auto finance giant continues to lose money and has no strategy for repaying its $16.3 billion taxpayer bailout, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker responsible for counting heads and ensuring passage of major legislation.

AP - A new Democratic Senate bill to tame the financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy, force the industry to pay for its failures and create a consumer watchdog within the Federal Reserve.

Politico - Peter Orszag says three sections of the bill are of 'serious concern to the intelligence community.'

Politico - In an Ideas piece, Schoen defends his argument that health care reform will be toxic for Democrats.

AP - President Barack Obama's second trip to Asia since taking office is unlikely to result in tangible accomplishments, but the two-country sojourn could be an important step in restoring U.S. influence in the region.

AP - The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems:

AP - United Nations explosives experts have blown up several Israeli white phosphorous shells as they try to rid Gaza of munitions left behind in last year's war.

AP - Italian police arrested the 'postmen' of the Mafia's top boss on Monday, 19 close aides who delivered the notes he writes to impart orders from his hideout, officials said.

Politico - Sen. Arlen Specter racked up another union endorsement Monday as the Pennsylvania chapter of the Service Employees International Union said they will back the five-term senator in his Democratic primary battle with Rep. Joe Sestak.

AP - The Obama administration's fierce denunciation of Israel last week has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro-Israel interest groups who say the criticism of America's top Mideast ally was misplaced.

AFP - US Senator John Kerry on Monday introduced a bill to protect whales, sending a message as nations debate a compromise that critics say would end a moratorium on commerical whaling.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Eighteen months after Wall Street's brush with apocalypse, the Senate on Monday began to rewrite the nation's financial regulatory rules with the introduction of a sweeping bill designed to fix the causes of the deep economic crisis.

Politico - Pelosi plays hardball with rank and file in run-up to historic health care vote.

Politico - Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner attended the president’s final pitch for a health care overhaul but her opponent Lee Fisher did not.

AP - Justice John Paul Stevens, at 89 the Supreme Court's oldest member, says he will decide in the next month or so whether this term will be his last.

Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek to deepen U.S. ties in the Asia-Pacific region in the face of rising Chinese influence there when he visits Indonesia and Australia next week.

Politico - Liberal leaders are expecting a wave of anger if Congress fails to pass health care.

CQPolitics.com - The Senate race in Colorado will enter a new and competitive phase today, when first-round precinct caucuses across the state unofficially kick off the campaign and serve as an early barometer of the candidates' organizational strength and their support among base voters.

AP - Almost 170 million people have moved from the outdoors to at least the outhouse to defecate in what the United Nations is calling a major advance in global sanitation over the last two decades.

AP - Somewhat bluntly, Barack Obama's former teacher sums up the neighborhood thinking when the future American president turned up with his family in Indonesia's capital more than 40 years ago.

CQPolitics.com - Do Republicans have any chance of winning back the Senate in November?