Roundup: GOP seeks clean slate on health
* Republican leaders in Congress say they will only sit down for talks on health care if the Democrats agree drop their bills (HR 3590 and HR 3962 ) and start over, USA Todayreports.
* CNN weighs the likelihood of a bipartisan effort on jobs, noting that it's the issue most likely to get consensus.
* Toyota has friends in Congress who are part of the team investigating the carmaker's recall of 2.3 million vehicles, the Philadelphia Inquirerwrites.
* The Washington Postremembers Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), who died Monday, as a Vietnam War veteran who backed military spending and was "a master of pork-barrel politics."
-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org
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