AP - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
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AP - Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd criticized two of his party’s frontrunners on Friday, arguing that Hillary Rodham Clinton is too divisive to govern effectively and that Barack Obama lacks experience.
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AP - They raise millions of dollars, conduct provocative ad campaigns, work with a vast network of like-minded allies and have the power to frame the presidential election going forward as much as the candidates themselves.
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Reuters - The assistant Senate majority leader
says Congress should phase out the splintered U.S. food safety
system and come up with a better way to ensure the food
Americans eat is safe.
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Reuters - Several Senate Republicans proposed
drawing down U.S. forces in Iraq over 15 months, but Democrats
rejected the plan because it stretched to after the November
2008 election, both sides said on Friday.
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AP - A Senate committee on Friday said it will demand e-mails and other documents from within Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration under threat of subpoena in its probe of a political scandal.
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CQPolitics.com - CQPolitics.com on Friday published a story about Republican Hal Daub, a former U.S. House member and Omaha mayor who withdrew from the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Nebraska. Had he stayed in, his bid that would have been his third attempt for that office, following losses in 1988 and 1990. Which of the following senators in the current 110th Congress lost two previous attempts to serve in the Senate?
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Reuters - Ending months of speculation, former
House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Saturday
he would not run for the 2008 Republican presidential
nomination, citing campaign finance law restrictions.
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AP - President Bush on Saturday signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown, but not without complaint. Bush lambasted the Democrats who control Congress for sending him the stopgap measure while they continue to work on more than a dozen spending bills funding the day-to-day operations of 15 Cabinet departments.
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AP - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.
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