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FACT CHECK: Lawmaker quits amid changing stories (AP)

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer. He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - New York congressman Eric Massa resigned his House seat this week under a sexual harassment cloud, claiming fellow Democrats forced his ouster to keep him from voting against their health care bill.


 
Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer (AP)

FILE - This Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008 picture shows Eric Massa, Democratic candidate for New York's 29th Congressional District in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, said that he will not seek a second term after a recurrence of cancer late last year, dismissing blog reports that he had harassed a staffer. He was elected in 2008. (AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, offered contradictory explanations for his behavior Tuesday, acknowledging he groped a male staffer in a non-sexual way but later denying any groping.


 
Minority births on track to outnumber white births (AP)
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.
 
Obama using 'bounty hunters' to root out fraud (AP)

US President Barack Obama speaks on healthcare and health insurance reform at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Obama has launched a populist assault on price-gouging American insurance firms, escalating his last-ditch bid to pass a historic health reform bill.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.


 
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'very troubling' (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2009, file photo, Chief Justice John Roberts sits for a new group photograph with other Supreme Court judges at the Supreme Court in Washington. For a short time Thursday, March 4, 2010, Washington buzzed over a rumor reported exclusively by an online gossip Web site with no particular Supreme Court expertise that Chief Justice John Roberts was considering stepping down. He is not resigning, as even the Radar Online site quickly concluded in backing away from its own story. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."


 
Business groups launch ad against health care bill (AP)
AP - Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House.
 
Obama pushes senators for climate bill (AP)

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks to reporters following the weekly caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.


 
New 'gang' gathering on energy? (Politico)
Politico - A bipartisan group of 14 Senators and top cabinet officials are forging ahead with a climate bill.
 
AP-GfK Poll: Public wants elusive accord on health (AP)

Graphic shows poll results on public opinion about health careAP - Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere in sight.


 
Congress seeks data on Lejeune water contamination (McClatchy Newspapers)

In a Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2009 photo, retired Marine Master Sgt.Jerry Ensminger with some of his documentation related to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, at his home in Elizabethtown, NC. Ensminger lost his 9-year-old daughter Janey, seen in photo at left, to leukemia and believes the government knowingly exposed military families to carcinogenic contaminates. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators late Tuesday requested detailed documents from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and a private contractor that was involved in the testing and cleanup of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over the past two decades.


 
Massa Says He Tickled Staffer 'Until He Couldn't Breathe' (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from the House Monday night as he battled allegations that he sexually harassed his aides, acknowledged on a Fox News program Tuesday that he touched a male staffer.
 
Carnahan to miss Obama visit (Politico)
Politico - Robin Carnahan will not greet President Obama at the pitch for his health care overhaul in Missouri.
 
UN pays tribute to 101 staff killed in Haiti (AP)
AP - An emotional Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday to "the 101 heroes" working for the United Nations who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history.
 
Missing body of Cyprus' ex-leader found, 3 arrests (AP)

FILE- In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo women stand in front of the grave of former President Tassos Papadopoulos before his one-year memorial service just a day after his body was stolen by grave robbers at Deftera suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus police say a body found at a Nicosia cemetery could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said a tip-off led police to the corpse late Monday March 8, 2010. But he wouldn't elaborate in what state the corpse was or what evidence investigators have to lead them to believe it could be that of the former Greek Cypriot leader. Papadopoulos' corpse was stolen from a graveyard in suburban Nicosia on Dec. 11, 2009 - the eve of the first anniversary of his death from lung cancer. The motive remains a mystery. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)AP - Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus' former president was found reburied in another grave and three men were arrested Tuesday in what officials called a case of bodysnatching for ransom.


 
Anti-gay protestors under Supreme Court scrutiny (AFP)

Isaiah Phelps-Roper, a member of Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, protests outside the Holy Ghost Church during the funeral service of a Marine killed in Iraq. The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the vitriolic, religious anti-gay protesters who picket the funerals of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether vitriolic anti-gay protestors who picket the funerals of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws.


 
US: Israel, Palestinians agree to indirect talks (AP)

Powerful pro-Israel US lobby group AIPAC, in a rare letter to every member of the US Congress, called Tuesday for AP - The Obama administration said Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to indirect peace talks brokered by U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell.


 
Toyota Criticism Mounts on Eve of Recall Hearings (Bloomberg)

The Toyota logo are reflected on a Prius on display at the Chicago Auto Show on February 10. US lawmakers preparing to grill Toyota executives on their handling of a series of mass safety recalls accused the Japanese automaker Monday of Bloomberg - Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) - Toyota Motor Corp.’s handling of recalls came under mounting criticism on the eve of the automaker’s U.S. congressional testimony, including charges that the company misled the public on the adequacy of its recalls.


 


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