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As BP tests out a new well-cap to contain its Gulf oil spill, the Obama Administration plans to issue a new order to halt deep-water drilling projects. Joe White and Paul Vigna discuss. Also, Melinda Beck describes how appetite works in the brain, especially when it comes to food considered pleasurable.

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This post by WSJ’s Laura Meckler also appears on the Washington Wire blog

The complex legislative maneuvering to pass health-care overhaul legislation has produced many questions and among them this: When can the White House declare victory?

Democrats may be close to pushing through their health bill, even as protesters gather at the White House and the GOP continues to apply pressure. Courtesy Fox News.

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Five CEOs from the health-insurance big dogs (UnitedHealth, WellPoint, etc.) are at the White House this morning to discuss — or more accurately, take flack — over the health overhaul’s issue de jour: rising insurance premiums.

President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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President Obama outlines his three-part proposal for health-care reform in an address at the White House. Courtesy Fox News.

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To hear some Democrats tell it over the weekend, the health-care overhaul has already passed Congress, leaving just some procedural matters to wrap up before the changes begin.

“Health-care reform has already passed both the House and the Senate with not only a majority in the Senate but a supermajority. And we’re not talking about changing any rules here,” White House adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle says in the Washington Post this morning.

Some obese children as young as 3 years old have elevated levels of a marker that is linked to heart disease in later life, a new study says.

President Obama has juggled the health-overhaul plans approved by the House and the Senate and added some twists of his own to come up with a White House proposal he hopes can win enough support for passage in both chambers.

The Obama plan is crafted mainly from the Senate-passed bill, but not entirely. Here are some of the big points in the proposal, as posted on the White House Web site:

Not surprisingly, food companies and doctors’ groups rushed to back Michelle Obama’s new campaign targeting improved eating habits and more exercise for kids.

But the most bubbly statement we spotted came from the American Beverage Association — a trade group that’s been trying to quell ideas of putting a tax on sugary drinks.