Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas announced Saturday she would vote to allow the health care bill to proceed. Her assent gives the Democrats a 60-vote supermajority.

Tommy Hilfiger has sold his mansion in Greenwich, CT, for $20 million, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The Senate ethics panel admonished Sen. Roland Burris on Friday, but decided against pursuing ethics charges for the way he obtained an appointment to the Senate.

The Oprah Winfrey Show will end in September 2011, Variety reports.

In an interview airing Thursday on Nightline, Martha Stewart says her criminal prosecution and imprisonment probably cost her company more than $1 billion.

Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for New York governor, The New York Times reports.

The Senate has confirmed President Obama’s nomination of David Hamilton to a federal appeals court, Associated Press reports.

Another way to see Muckety: Pedro Cruz’s video on the rise and fall of European empires. (View full screen.)

President Obama met with his half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, Monday during his visit to China, reports the Associated Press.

Tom Daschle is leaving Alston & Bird to join DLA Piper, the National Law Journal reports.

Lazard Ltd. has named Kenneth Jacobs as chairman and CEO, Bloomberg reports. He succeeds Bruce Wasserstein, who died in October.

A body found in the Chicago River has been identified as Michael W. Scott, president of the school board, reports the Chicago Tribune.

CNN was so eager to get rid of Lou Dobbs that it paid him an $8 million severance package, reports the New York Post.

An interesting tally, as reported by Henry Blodget: Bloomberg employs more journalists (2,200) than the New York Times Co. (1,250) and Dow Jones (1,900).

An auction of items once owned by Bernard Madoff has raised more than $900,000, Bloomberg reports.

Billionaire Bill Gates said Wednesday that he believes that Wall Street pay is “often too high, but it’s a very tough problem to solve,” reports Reuters.

Former U.S. ambassador Peter Galbraith is in line to make millions of dollars on a Kurdish oil deal, reports The New York Times.

Lou Dobbs announced Wednesday that he is leaving CNN.

John J. O’Connor III, husband of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, died Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

Blackwater execs authorized $1 million in bribes to quell criticism of company guards having killed Iraqi citizens, reports The New York Times.