CQPolitics.com - With the end of the first quarter just two weeks away and a difficult health care vote looming, the campaigns of some vulnerable House Democrats caught in the middle of the contentious fight aren't optimistic about what they'll show in their first fundraising reports of 2010.

Time.com - Rand Paul has taken the lead in the GOP primary race to succeed Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, but he's done it by attacking Republicans as often as Democrats

AP - A Pennsylvania lawmaker whose parents recently died of cancer is among the targets of an ad campaign by a conservative group that questions congressional Democrats' interest in preventing the disease.

AP - Legislation approved by the Senate on Wednesday would significantly reduce the disparity in sentences handed out to those convicted of crack and powder cocaine charges.

The New York state Senate's newest member has taken office, ending a lengthy saga in the chamber after his expelled predecessor was convicted of assault.

A Japanese-American lawmaker took offense Wednesday after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham likened the Democrats' drive on health care to a Japanese suicide attack in World War II.

The US Senate Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to reduce 20-year-old sentencing disparities for offenders caught with crack cocaine versus the drug in its powder form.

The Christian Science Monitor - The United States faces an expanding array of Al Qaeda-related threats that extend far beyond the lawless regions of southwest Asia and into the US itself via radical Islamist websites, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Democrats picked up support Wednesday for their health care overhaul from some important quarters — a congressman who'd opposed the bill, an influential anti-abortion lawmaker and a coalition of Catholic nuns — but they still appeared to be short of the number needed to pass the legislation in the House of Representatives.

Congress has a problem with health care, and it isn't simply that the debate over the subject has been long, divisive and,