• "Medical research institutions scored a major coup when Congress included an additional $10.4 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the stimulus bill, but their advocates are not stopping there," The Hill reports. "Biomedical research groups sense an opportunity to build on that victory and are pressing lawmakers and the Obama administration for more money."

• "Industries from health care to agribusiness to mining that stand to lose under" Obama's "policy agenda are ramping up lobbying campaigns to derail or modify his plans," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The day after Mr. Obama formally laid out his policy goals in his first address to Congress, the former chief executive of HCA Inc. unveiled a $20 million campaign to pressure Democrats to enact health-care legislation based on free-market principles."