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Agencie France Presse: After a hard-fought victory on health care reform, President Barack Obama’s allies in Congress are setting their sights on climate change — but some on both sides are already crying foul. Environmentalists hope Obama will seize on new political momentum to push forward climate legislation, though some observers question whether he would [...]

CNS: The Internal Revenue Service will function as the government’s chief enforcer for health care reform, should President Obama sign the bill into law as expected, monitoring both businesses and individuals to certify whether they have the insurance coverage the government requires. The tax collection agency will be responsible for monitoring and enforcing compliance with [...]

CBS News: Most Americans don’t have an opinion about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a new CBS News poll finds, even after more than a year of debate over the health care reform bill that put them squarely in the public eye. Yet those who do have an opinion of [...]

CNN: Washington (CNN) – For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama’s job performance and 46 percent approve of it. Obama’s approval rating has dropped steadily each [...]

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Kansas.com: Authorities in Wichita and some other cities across the country are investigating vandalism against Democratic offices, apparently in response to health care reform. And on Monday, a former Alabama militia leader took credit for instigating the actions. Mike Vanderboegh, of Pinson, Ala., former head of the Alabama Constitutional Militia, put out a call on [...]

Monroe County Democratic Chairman Joe Morelle is denouncing an attack on his party’s Rochester HQ that he believes was in reaction to the passage of the health care reform bill by the House Sunday. I think the people who do this kind of thing are cowards,” Morelle told me. “I don’t consider this civil disobedience. [...]

CNN: (CNN) — Democratic offices in at least three states have reported instances of vandalism that party members say possibly were tied to Sunday’s historic vote on health care reform. Early Monday morning, a glass panel at the Tucson office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, was shattered, spokesman C.J. Karamargin said. It wasn’t clear [...]

ABC15: TUCSON, AZ — The staff at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ office worked late into Sunday evening as they awaited the results of a historic health care vote. The Arizona democrat was one of five that voted yes to health care reform. Hours after her staff left, someone broke the windows of her Tucson office. “It [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — Passage of the health care legislation challenges the heart of the Republicans’ strategy this year: To present a unified opposition to big Democratic ideas, in this case expressed in a stream of bristling anger and occasional mischaracterizations of what the bill would do. From a legislative perspective, the Republican strategy [...]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Authorities are trying to find out who threw bricks through windows and doors at two Democratic Party offices in western New York before Sunday’s health care vote. Monroe County Democratic Committee officials say a brick shattered glass doors at the party’s headquarters in Rochester on Saturday or Sunday. No one was in [...]

Kake10: Party officials say a brick with “anti-Obama rhetoric” was thrown through a window.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Tea party activists aren’t just angry that Democrats passed a major health care overhaul, they are out for revenge. They do not see passage of the landmark reforms that usher in near-universal medical coverage as the end of the debate. Tea partiers instead vow to support attorneys general who plan a [...]

PARIS (AP) – Nationwide strikes in France hobbled public services from transport to schools Tuesday, with unions hoping their action would put the brakes on reforms planned by President Nicolas Sarkozy two days after his party’s stinging defeat in regional elections. But the new labor minister, Eric Woerth, vowed to move ahead with reforming the [...]