Washington in 60 Seconds: Glenn Beck on Fire, a New Senator in D.C., Robert Byrd on the Mend

Good morning, Capitolists! As the health care debate rages in Washington, the nation's capital has a few famous faces in the sick bay. We'll update you on that, and everything else making news in town today in the next 60 seconds.

On the schedule:

* President Obama will host the G20 in beautiful Pittsburgh today; Joe Biden travels to Georgia to survey flood damage; Paul Kirk gets sworn-in to the Senate at 3:15.

* The Senate Finance Committee goes back to work debating its portion of health care reform. Today on the docket: a vote on adding the public option back to the bill and plenty of fireworks.

* Thousands of Muslims gather to pray on Capitol Hill at 1 p.m. EST.

In the news:

* Glenn Beck can put another head on his wall. Yosi Sergant, the former communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts, resigned from his job yesterday. The AP reports that Beck called out Sergant for suggesting to artists on an NEA conference call various ways they could help support the Obama administration's political goals, including health care reform.

* Bay State Republicans have filed an emergency injunction to block Massachusetts' new senator, Paul Kirk, from being sworn-in today. Kirk is in Washington for the ceremony, but the AP reports a judge will hear Republicans' case that Gov. Deval Patrick did not have the authority to appoint Kirk without the standard 90-day waiting period.

* Yes they did in 2008, but 2009 has been a different story for Democrats' political fortunes. The Washington Post's Paul Kane writes that a combination of complacency among party loyalists and discontent among big business donors has hurt the Dems' money haul and endangered their plans for 2010.

And finally, a Special Capitolist Report from the Washington sick bay:

* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to an area hospital yesterday after feeling faint at work. A spokesman said Ginsburg, who had surgery for pancreatic cancer in February, stayed overnight in "an abundance of caution," and should go home today.

* Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in history, was released from a different D.C. hospital after a fall sent him to the ER. Byrd's office reports he is taking a few days off but will return to the Senate for the health care debate later this fall.

* And if you've been paging Dr. Gupta and he hasn't answered, it's because he has the swine flu. Seriously.