The Note’s Must-Reads for Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com

Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN, CLAUDIA MORALES and DOMINICK TAO

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HEALTH CARE:

ABC News’ Huma Khan, Z. Byron Wolf and Jonathan Karl: “Senate Finance Committee Approves Sen. Baucus’ Health Care Bill” LINK

ABC News’ Rick Klein: “’Top Line’ – Centrist Group Still Concerned About Health Care Bill” LINK

ABC News’ Teddy Davis: “Obama Campaign Arm Takes on Insurance Lobby” LINK

ABC News’ Teddy Davis: “Health Insurance Air War Begins” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Hitt and Janet Adamy: “Health Plan Passes Test” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Naftali Bendavid: “People to Watch in the Debate’s Next Phase” LINK

Bloomberg’s Alex Nussbaum and Pat Wechsler: “Insurers Vow to Fight Baucus Bill Drugmakers, Hospitals Back” LINK

Time’s Jay Newton-Small: “Forecasting the Chances of Snowe” LINK

Time’s Jay Newton Small: “After a Key Vote, Health Care Now Turns to Harry Reid” LINK

NY Daily News’ Michael McAuliff: “President Obama’s health care reform clears finance committee hurdle, will reach the Senate floor” LINK

Newsweek’s Katie Connolly: “Snowe to Vote Yes; Bipartisanship Limps On” LINK

The New York Times’ Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn: “Republican’s Vote Lifts a Health Bill, but Hurdles Remain” LINK

The Washington Post’s Ceci Connolly: “Health Insurers Emerge as Obama’s Top Foe in Reform Effort” LINK

The Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray: “Finance Committee Passes Bill With One GOP Vote” LINK

USA Today’s Fredreka Schouten: “GOP’s Snowe shaped health bill before backing it” LINK

The Boston Globe’s Susan Milligan and Lisa Wangsness: “Panel approves health bill months in the making” LINK

The Associated Press’ Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar: “Health care legislation back behind closed doors” LINK

Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown: “Snowe’s vote arms Baucus for party war” LINK

Politico’s John Bresnahan and Manu Raju: “Dem leaders brush off the left” LINK

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION:

The Boston Globe’s Political Notebook: “Obama favoring blue states for travel” LINK

The Associated Press’ Ian MacDougall and Karl Ritter: “Nobel panel defends decision” LINK

Politico’s Ben Smith: “Liz Cheney’s group ‘Keep America Safe’ takes on ‘radical’ White House” LINK

The Hill’s Susan Crabtree: “Feingold sees similarities in Bush and Obama on Intel” LINK

AFGHANISTAN:

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz: “80,000 is the High Number of Troops Options in McChrystal’s Request” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Alistair Macdonald and Yochi J. Dreazen: “U.K. to Add Troops in Afghanistan” LINK

Newsweek: “Can the War in Afghanistan Still Be Won?” LINK

The New York Times’ Peter Baker: “Biden No Longer a Lone Voice on Afghanistan” LINK

The Washington Post’s Joshua Partlow and Greg Jaffe: “Sway Over Afghan Insurgents Proves Elusive” LINK

Politico’s David Rogers: “Inouye embraces McChrystal strategy” LINK

FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

ABC News’ Cynthia McFadden: “Hillary Clinton’s ‘Patient Diplomacy’: Let’s Wait and See on Iran” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Haley Sweetland Edwards: “In Yemen conflict, number of displaced grows” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Jeffrey Fleishman and Ramin Mostaghim: “Iran investigating prominent opposition cleric” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Megan K. Stack: “Russia balks on tougher Iran sanctions” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Charles Levinson: “Palestinian Support Wanes for American-Trained Forces” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Spiegel and Zahid Hussain: “U.S. Tries to Soothe Pakistan Worries on Aid” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory L. White: “No Signal by Russia on Timing With Iran” LINK

Bloomberg’s Indira A.R. Lakshmanan: “U.S. Seeks to Calm Pakistani Fears Before Obama Signs Aid Bill” LINK

The New York Times’ Mark Landler and Clifford Levy: “Russia Resists U.S. Position on Sanctions for Iran” LINK

The Associated Press’ Matthew Lee: “Clinton winds up Europe, Russia tour” LINK

The Associated Press’ Amy Teibel: “Fatah says faith in Obama is gone” LINK

ECONOMY / FINANCIAL REGULATION / TAXES:

The Wall Street Journal’s Brody Mullins: “Financial-Services Regulation Fuels Tiff” LINK

Bloomberg’s Ryan J. Donmoyer: “Democrats Plan New Push to Tax Venture-Capital, Buyout Managers” LINK

Politico’s Victoria McGrane: “Price tag for another ‘stimulus’: $20B” LINK

The Hill’s Kim Hart: “Tech companies strategize for next round in tax fight” LINK

The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan: “Political scientists fight for federal funds” LINK

USA Today’s Sandra Block: “Time’s almost out on new car, home-buyer tax breaks” LINK

USA Today’s Kevin McCoy: “America’s tax evaders emerge from the shadows” LINK

DEMOCRATS / REPUBLICANS:

Politico’s Andy Barr: “New RNC website stumbles out of gate” LINK

The Hill’s Reid Wilson: “RNC’s new website aims to extend reach” LINK

OTHER MUST-READS:

ABC News’ John R. Parkinson: “Eva Longoria Parker Joins Latino Commission With Sights Set on New National Museum” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Rothfeld: “Schwarzenegger promises ‘swift action’ on wife’s in-car cellphone use” LINK

The New York Times’ Job Pareles: “At the White House, a Celebration of Latin Music” LINK

The Washington Post’s Ann Scott Tyson: “A Historic Success In Military Recruiting” LINK

The Hill’s Michael O’Brien: “Boxer hints at mark-up for climate change bill in early November” LINK

Politico’s Josh Kraushaar: “Wexler resigning from congress” LINK

ABC NEWS VIDEOS:

“Sen. Snowe Speaks of Critical Vote” LINK

“Senate Approves Baucus’ Health Care Bill” LINK

“Karzai Supports McChrystal’s Troop Plan” LINK

“Obama Hails Senate Finance Committee Bill Approval” LINK

“Centrist Group: Baucus Bill Still Has Problems” LINK