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.

AP - Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment has come.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Sunday hailed the House of Representatives vote for his sweeping healthcare plan as a victory for the American people that answered the call of history.

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to assure Israel on Monday that the Obama administration's commitment to its security and future is 'rock solid' despite a severe diplomatic dispute that emerged this month.

Politico - Conservatives just can’t seem to make up their mind about Saul Alinsky.

Politico - A new battle is about to begin on how to define what's in the bill and what it means for the public.

AP - The 220-211 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Reconciliation Act of 2010, including key changes to the Senate health care bill.

AP - Rep. Patrick Kennedy says his late father, Sen. Edward Kennedy, would have been very proud to see the culimination of his dream of virtual universal health care for the country.

AP - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she believes people who remain skeptical about the massive health care reform that has passed Congress will feel better as they learn more about it.

Politico - Conservatives just can’t seem to make up their mind about Saul Alinsky.

Politico - The Florida temporary appointee says he's thinking about taking on Nelson in 2012.

AP - The Russian Navy says one of its surveillance ships has resumed sailing through the Sea of Japan after reports that it was drifting and taking on water.

AP - The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a Massachusetts law that creates a protest-free zone around the entrances and driveways of abortion clinics.

Politico - Within moments of House passage of the historic health care bill, Republican House and Senate challengers across the nation were quick to react and vehement in their responses—with many promising to work vigorously for repeal.

AP - The Supreme Court says it will consider New Orleans prosecutors' appeal of a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who accused them of withholding evidence to help convict him of murder.

AP - Cyprus police on Sunday arrested a Romanian man suspected of vandalizing the tombs of three Cyprus archbishops who led the island's Greek Orthodox church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a police spokesman said.

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama secured a landmark victory with the U.S. House of Representatives giving final approval to a sweeping healthcare overhaul, expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans.

Politico - Some top Republican voices call to overturn Obama's signature domestic achievement.

AP - A bill rewriting regulations governing the financial industry is expected to to be approved by a Senate committee on a party line vote now that Republicans have decided to withdraw their amendments.

Reuters - Less than 24 hours after the House of Representatives gave final approval to a sweeping overhaul of healthcare, attorneys general from several states on Monday said they will sue to block the plan on constitutional grounds.

Reuters - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected another request by the state of Michigan for an order to close two Chicago-area waterway locks to keep Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.

AP - U.S. scientist Rita Colwell has won the $150,000 Stockholm Water Prize for her research on the prevention of cholera and other waterborne diseases.

AP - The Supreme Court will not reconsider former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's request to stop his extradition to France on money laundering charges.

Politico - He says he was talking about bill, not Stupak.

Politico - They're quick to say they didn't call Stupak a 'baby killer,' but they do say it was a lawmaker.

AP - Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer (NAW'-guh-bow-er) says he was the lawmaker who shouted out 'baby killer' when Rep. Bart Stupak, whose vote was crucial to passage of the health care bill, was speaking on the House floor Sunday evening.

AFP - The US Supreme Court on Monday delivered a new blow to inmates at Guantanamo Bay from China's Uighur minority, who sought prior notice of their release due to fears of Beijing.

AP - States are already lining up to sue the federal government over the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

CQPolitics.com - Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin heard arguments Monday afternoon from Senate aides from both parties about whether a reconciliation health bill should be ruled out of order because of its potential effects on Social Security.

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Israel of undermining U.S. credibility as a Mideast peacemaker Monday on the eve of critical talks between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Politico - They find themselves grappling with reports of ugly behavior from some protesters during the weekend.

AP - A bill that would modernize the nation's antiquated air traffic control system, a major source of delays and safety concerns, edged closer to Senate passage Monday.

Reuters - Dan Senor, a Republican former Bush administration foreign policy adviser, is preparing to challenge Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand in the Senate race in New York, a source close to him said on Monday.

AP - An attack on London during the 2012 Olympic Games poses a major security threat to Britain, the government said Monday in its latest assessment of risks from terrorism.

AFP - Hillary Clinton said Monday President Barack Obama's triumph over health care proved he could stick with a tough job -- suggesting he would bring similar resolve to ensuring Israel's security.

CQPolitics.com - The Republican Governors Association has figured out a way to turn online shopping into an instant fundraising opportunity. The major non-federal group has apparently signed a deal that with Amazon.com so consumers can send some of their funds from Web purchases to the organization.

AP - The Senate has passed a bill that would speed the modernization of the nation's antiquated air traffic control system by replacing radar with GPS technology.

AP - The landmark health care bill about to be signed into law is as large as it is due in no small part to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stewardship. When Democrats in Congress and the White House were despondent and inclined to retreat on health care just two months ago, Pelosi stood firm against despair and downsizing.

AP - The president of the Vienna Boys' Choir apologized Monday on behalf of the famed institution as the number of abuse allegations rose to 11, up from eight last week.

Reuters - As the clock ticked down to the historic healthcare vote on Sunday and congressional leaders scrambled to get holdout Democratic lawmakers on board, the White House was all-a-Twitter.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Young of Alaska plans to barrel through the Republican Party's ban on earmarks by submitting requests regardless of his party's one-year moratorium on the practice.

AP - Replacing World War II-era radar with 21st century GPS technology and implementing several new airline safety rules would be required under a $34.5 billion bill approved Monday by the Senate.

AP - A judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee described in the 9/11 commission report as a significant al-Qaida operative who provided advice to three of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

AP - President Barack Obama is praising the Democrats' massive Wall Street regulation bill as it heads to the full Senate.

Politico - Powerful interest groups worked around the clock last week to push reform over the finish line.

Politico - Climate bill supporters are swooping in with a fresh push on a major climate change bill.

AP - When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law in 1965, seniors got their health insurance cards less than a year later.

AP - Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska says he will vote against the health care legislation scheduled to reach the Senate floor this week.

The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by a group of Guantánamo Bay detainees seeking the ability to challenge US efforts to resettle them in third countries where they may face human rights abuses.

AP - Four priests and two nuns in the Regensburg diocese are under investigation for sexual abuse allegations, the diocese said Monday, as a wider picture began to emerge of incidents decades ago in the pope's native Bavaria.

AFP - US President Barack Obama's pay czar will conduct a new review of financial rewards paid to executives at all banks that received government bailout funds, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — 'Kill Obamacare' was a rallying cry that drew thousands of small-government Americans to the fledgling 'tea party' movement last year. As the president's plan now becomes law, tea party activists say they don't intend to lose any momentum.

Politico - The Senate parliamentarian rejects GOP push to kill a Cadillac plan tax proposal.

Politico - Dems, GOP both claim victory in wake of health care reform's passage.

AFP - Fresh from a landmark health care victory, President Barack Obama on Monday trained his sights on sweeping reforms of Wall Street's 'too-big-to-fail' banks.

Politico - An angry organizer publishes what he thought was the freshman member’s home address.

AP - Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine says the congressional victory on health care will be good for the country and for Democrats in the November elections.

AP - Former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's new health care bill is unconstitutional, deserves to be repealed and will help cost the Democrat a second term.