The Note’s Must-Reads for Monday, November 23, 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 and CARRIE HALPERIN

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HEALTH CARE:

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos: “Ben Nelson: No Health Care if No Change in Public Option and Abortion Funding” LINK

ABC News’ Kristina Wong: “GOP: Mammography Recommendations a Sign of Things to Come” LINK

ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf and Jennifer Parker: “Democrats Unite to Hold Off Senate GOP Health Care Filibuster” LINK

The Washington Times’ Jim McElhatton: “Lobbyists spending big to shape health care debate” LINK

The Washington Times’ Sean Lengell: “Senate Democrats win key vote on health bill” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Mark Z. Barabak: “For a healthcare holdout, it’s lonely in the middle” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Hitt and Janet Adamy: “Health Haggling Heats Up” LINK

Bloomberg’s Laura Litvan: “Democrats Show Signs of Disunity as Senate Health Debate Looms” LINK

The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray: “Public option at center of debate” LINK

The Washington Post’s William Wan: “Praying for healing, lobbying for a provision” LINK

The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane: “Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate” LINK

USA Today’s Richard Wolf: “New baseline of opinion on health care” LINK

USA Today’s John Fritze: “Negotiations begin anew over health bill” LINK

USA Today’s Fredreka Schouten: “Health care fight swells lobbying” LINK

The Boston Globe’s Lisa Wangsness: “Senators voice optimism on public option” LINK

Time Magazine’s Melba Newsome: “Fat Fees and Smoker Surcharges: Tough-Love Health Incentives” LINK

Politico’s Manu Raju & Chris Frates: Lincoln’s long walk to 60th Senate vote” LINK

Politico’s Victoria McGrane: “Dems and Rs are day and night on tax issue” LINK

Politico’s Jonathan Allen: “Hispanics blame Rahm for immigrants ban” LINK

ECONOMY/UNEMPLOYMENT/DEFICIT:

ABC News’ Gary Langer: “Poll: Layoffs Take Heavy Emotional Toll” LINK

ABC News’ Mark Trumbull: “Does U.S. Need a Second Stimulus to Create Jobs?” LINK

The New York Times’ Edmund Andrews: “Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Elizabeth Williamson: “Weighing Jobs and Deficit” LINK

USA Today’s Dennis Cauchon: “Ventures a drain on states, localities” LINK

USA Today’s Sharon Silke Carty: “GM forecasts pickup in truck sales as housing rebounds” LINK

USA Today’s Marisol Bello: “DMVs hit by budget cuts” LINK

The Indianapolis Star: “Tight budgets mean some prisoners go light on meals” LINK

AFGHANISTAN:

The New York Times’ Elisabeth Bummiler: “In 3 Tacks for Afghan War, a Game of Trade-Offs” LINK

The Los Angeles Times’ Laura King: “In Afghanistan, a drive to lure Taliban with jobs, security” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Anand Gopal: “Afghans Face Rise in Attacks” LINK

Bloomberg’s Viola Gienger: “Upper-Bracket Tax May Be Needed for Afghan War Cost, Levin Says” LINK

USA Today’s Jim Michaels: “In Afghanistan, fighting a legacy of corruption” LINK

FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

The Washington Post’s Thomas Erdbrink: “Iran stages war games, sits on West’s nuclear offer” LINK

A Wall Street Journal News Roundup: “Iraq Fails to Resolve Vote Issue” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Judith Burns: “Obama Calls for More U.S. Exports to Asia” LINK

Time Magazine’s Tony Karon: “Three Key Lessons from Obama’s China Tour” LINK

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION:

The New York Times’ Kenneth Chang: “White House Pushes Science and Math Education” LINK

DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS:

The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Wallsten and Naftali Bendavid: “Strains in Party Threaten Democrats’ Plans” LINK

The New York Times’ Carl Hulse: “Democrats Focus on G.O.P. Senators From Maine” LINK

CONGRESS:

The Associated Press’ Tom Raum: “Congress focuses its anger on Fed” LINK

The Hill’s Kevin Bogardus: “Rep. Hinojosa drops support of bank overdraft legislation” LINK

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT:

The Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein: “Effects of warming have worsened since Kyoto” LINK

Time Magazine’s Andrew Marshall and Ulu Masen: “Protecting Jungles: One Way to Combat Global Warming” LINK

The Hill’s Walter Alarkon: “White House tells Markey it won’t interfere with independent EPA testing” LINK

The Hill’s Ben Geman: “Australian oil spill seeps into Senate debate about drilling” LINK

SARAH PALIN:

The Des Moines Register’s Thomas Beaumont: “Poll: Most Iowa Republicans like Palin for 2012″ LINK

OTHER MUST-READS:

The Boston Herald’s Jessica Van Sack: “Patrick Kennedy, R.I. bishop trade jabs over communion ban” LINK

The Wall Street Journal’s Stu Woo: “Newsom Committed to Politics” LINK

The Associated Press: “Civilian, military trials prosecute terrorism suspects differently” LINK

Time Magazine’s Abigail Hauslohner: “The Political Fallout of Egypt’s Soccer War” LINK

Politico’s Dianna Heitz: “Brown: Giuliani ‘wants to keep 9/11 alive’” LINK

ABC NEWS VIDEOS:

“Blackburn: Health Care by the numbers” LINK

“Roundtable: Geithner isn’t going anywhere” LINK

“Exclusive Health Care Debate” LINK

“Breast Cancer Controversy” LINK

“Ben Nelson: No Health Care if No Change in Public Option and Abortion Funding” LINK