Your customized headlines for Mon, Apr 16, 2012

The Carlyle Group is worth between $7 billion and $7.6 billion and will price its shares between $23 and $25 on the Nasdaq stock market when it goes public in the next few weeks, according to people familiar with the firm's plans.

The senior government executive at the center of the General Services Administration spending scandal told investigators that he believed it was all right not to get competitive bids because he was paying for quality.

Free of the GOP presidential primaries that frequently forced their agenda onto the sidelines in favor of social issues, congressional Republicans return to Washington on Monday refocusing on bread-and-butter matters, particularly high gasoline prices.

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Sunday pushed back against the argument made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and allies that women were the biggest losers of jobs during the Obama administration.

Consumer advocates, physician groups and several Democratic lawmakers are fighting a quiet battle over a key benefit in the health-care law: tax credits to help millions of people purchase insurance.

At issue is a section of the law that outlines when low- and moderate-income employees can opt out of their employer's coverage and instead get federal subsidies to buy insurance through new state-based marketplaces, called exchanges.

The funds for Planned Parenthood North Texas started drying up in 2011. That was when the state cut $73 million from its family planning budget, and five clinics around the Dallas/Forth-Worth area closed.

Mitt Romney, it turns out, was against calling stay-at-home mothers "working moms" before he was for it.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes broke the news this morning. Back in January, Romney appeared at a town hall even in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he explained his position on welfare.

The recent scandal at the General Services Administration leaves one pondering the question: Why is it that certain government workers go off the rails, whether it's spending more than $800,000 on a conference featuring a clown and a mind reader or doing coke and having sex with oil lobbyists?