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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Once Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court, all those hours of predictable questions and cautious replies at her Senate confirmation hearings will be filed and forgotten as she judges the way she sees fit. Nobody can hold her to what she's said.

WASHINGTON - Administration officials defended President Barack Obama's broad health care proposals on Sunday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Democrats' overhaul until Congress writes a final version.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Second-quarter U.S. gross domestic product figures are likely to be better than the first quarter, showing some signs of improvements in the economy, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India stood firm Sunday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over carbon emission cuts, but she insisted their differences could be bridged before a high-stakes climate change summit in December.

WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Republican says he admires Judge Sonia Sotomayor's personal story but is not going to vote for her confirmation to the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Republican says the U.S. has the best health care in the world and the system doesn't need to be scrapped.

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's budget director is playing down reports that lawmakers are bogged down over the health care overhaul.

WASHINGTON — Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama Administration's national coordinator for health information technology, can recall the day he became a true believer in the potential of electronic health records.

WASHINGTON - The president's health secretary says the Obama administration's health care overhaul is "a work in progress.

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said opponents of overhauling the U.S. health-care system are trying to run out the clock and that the White House still wants Congress to produce legislation by August.

For the first time since Harry and Louise helped sink health care reform in 1994, the insurance industry is back on the airwaves Monday with a seven-figure, national cable television ad campaign. 

The rest of the country has a new reason to hate the inside-the-Beltway crowd: Our economy is better than yours.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told the nation Saturday his health care overhaul is financially sound, but a new analysis by congressional budget experts of emerging House legislation said it would increase deficits by $239 billion over a decade.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is using a touch-all-bases approach to try push through his health care overhaul, a struggle that might demand deep concessions.

NEW DELHI - India stood firm Sunday against Western demands to accept binding limits on carbon emissions even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed optimism about an eventual climate change deal to India's benefit.

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate committee reviewing Sonia Sotomayor's nomination said Sunday her testimony did not settle his concerns about elevating her to the Supreme Court. "I was troubled by a number of the things the nominee has said, a number of the rulings she has made," said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.

NEW YORK - Could it be that President Barack Obama's Midas touch is starting to dull a bit, even among members of his own party?

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has called Indonesia's leader to express support for the Indonesian government and people after suicide attacks at two hotels killed seven people.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama praised broadcasting icon Walter Cronkite as a newsman who "never let us down." Cronkite got kind words from leading Democrats and Republicans after his death.

In his most recent remarks, President Obama has stopped mentioning what had been his mantra — that the House and Senate finish their health-care bills by the August recess — and switched to a less specific call to fast action.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is considering creating a special unit of professional interrogators to handle key terror suspects, focusing on intelligence-gathering rather than building criminal cases for prosecution, a government official said Saturday.