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 - High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill.

AP - In seeking enough votes to overhaul the nation's health care system, President Barack Obama is telling nervous Democratic lawmakers that their political fates are linked to the bill's passage, discouraging the notion that they can save themselves by opposing it, House members say.

AP - A 5-year-old British boy who was kidnapped and held in Pakistan for two weeks arrived safely back in Britain on Thursday.

Reuters - Indonesia understands the reason for President Barack Obama's last-minute cancellation of his visit to Jakarta and Bali, officials in the Southeast Asian nation said on Friday. But ordinary Indonesians expressed disappointment that Obama would not be returning to the place where he lived as a child.

Politico - The competition to build a new aerial tanker may be all but over, but bad feelings linger.

Politico - The final votes are likely to heavily cost undecided House members.

AFP - Christiane Amanpour, who become the face of CNN television for millions during 20 years covering wars and interviewing world leaders, is leaving for the ABC network, CNN and ABC said Thursday.

AP - Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, the leader of a dozen anti-abortion Democrats, says his group remains committed to opposing the health care overhaul the House is likely to vote on this weekend.

Politico - Lawmakers are being barraged with opinion data -- and arguments about what the numbers mean.

AP - New British guidelines on handling terrorism suspects held overseas have been delayed over a dispute about how to deal with potentially life-saving information from detainees who may be at risk of torture by allies.

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are 'on the brink' of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.

Politico - In an Ideas piece, the authors express concern over the health care bill's handling of Medicare.

AP - Austria's renowned Spanish Riding School has canceled performances because some of its elegant white Lipizzaner stallions have caught a cold.

AP - Claiming that it has bowed far enough to U.S. interests, Pakistan will use next week's high-level talks with the Obama administration to seek more recognition for its part in the fight against terrorism and get Washington to acknowledge its concerns about rival India.

AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care overhaul that Congress may complete this weekend should be backed by lawmakers who want to retain current restrictions on federal financing of abortion.

Politico - Larson insists that Dems will win a majority with or without the votes of the anti-abortion group.

Politico - After pulling out last week for the lucrative contract, EADS says it's rethinking entering the competition.

Reuters - Hispanics, frustrated that President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill a pledge to revamp the immigration system, are warning him to deliver this year or face the consequences in congressional elections in November.

AP - Authorities say a herd of bison in southeastern Poland is at risk from tuberculosis after one recently died of the disease.

AP - A Polish court says a biography of former President Lech Walesa is slanderous and has fined the publisher and ordered it to apologize.

AP - AN UNWELCOME SURPRISE: Homeowners who enroll in the Obama administration's loan modification program can see their credit score dip by as much as 100 points. That makes it harder to get a loan and can hamper your ability to get a job.

AP - Democratic lawmakers are meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Saturday — the eve of a crucial vote on his health care overhaul.

Politico - '[W]e are going to do something historic this weekend,' he says of the upcoming House vote.

Politico - In an Ideas piece, Bachmann and King call on Americans to urge lawmakers to oppose the health bill.

Reuters - Armed rebel groups in Somalia are using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they achieve better results through the Web than they do on the ground, a United Nations report said.

CQPolitics.com - As the House nears a high-stakes vote on health care legislation Sunday, Democratic leaders are still searching for votes.

Politico - On the eve of the health-reform vote, the Susan B. Anthony List will run television ads in the districts of undecided House Democrats demanding that the members not “pay for the deaths of unborn children.”

Politico - Republicans threaten to sue over the 'deem and pass' procedure Dems may use to pass the bill.

AFP - The United States needs a clear policy on questioning suspected extremists, a Republican US senator said Friday, saying that top officials had sown confusion about Osama bin Laden's fate if captured.

AP - Consumer protection officials say a Virginia-based conservative advocacy group led by the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been raising money without first registering with state regulators.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — People with ties to Glenn Beck's 9-12 Project, Tea Party Boise and other conservative causes plan a protest outside Rep. Walt Minnick's office this weekend, with the claim that the Idaho Democrat co-sponsored one of the health care bills that Congress is considering.

Politico - The only man to ever have beaten Barack Obama could help hand him a defeat in the House.

AP - As of Friday, March 19, 2010, at least 939 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives continued scouring for votes Friday among reluctant anti-abortion and conservative Democrats in search of enough 'Yeas' to triumph in Sunday's historic vote on a $940 billion health care overhaul — and they appeared tantalizingly close to their goal.

CQPolitics.com - The group that recently won a recent landmark soft money Supreme Court case is spending money to try to defeat President Obama's health care plan.

Time.com - The worst recession in generations torpedoed 8.4 million U.S. jobs. Getting them back and creating employment means understanding what makes the economy tick

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Republican prosecutors from South Carolina and Florida said Friday they were preparing to file a lawsuit if the health care bill before Congress becomes law, challenging its requirement that all Americans buy insurance.

Politico - House leaders are negotiating with some reps. to free up anti-abortion lawmakers' votes.

Politico - Former Mass. Gov. Romney leads his GOP rivals for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.

AP - The Agriculture Department has failed to enforce penalties against some who falsely marketed foods as organic, according to an internal department investigation.

The Christian Science Monitor - As congressional leaders and the White House push to attract the remaining votes needed to pass a healthcare reform measure this weekend, opponents are poised to take their fight to the courts, and potentially all the way to the US Supreme Court.

CQPolitics.com - Rep. Jim Gerlach surprised just about everyone in January when he dropped back into a bid for a fifth term in Pennsylvania's 6th District. Granted, his campaign for governor wasn't going well. But he also must love campaigning with his House career at serious risk.