CQPolitics.com - The nation’s high-level concerns about national security issues have prompted the major parties to step up their recruitment of military veterans to run for Congress. This trend was highlighted on Monday when four Georgia Democrats with military backgrounds — three of whom who have served in the Iraq war — announced their candidacies for longshot bids against Republican House incumbents.

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AP - The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday threatened to serve subpoenas on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and two others associated with the Bush administration’s interrogation policies if they don’t agree to testify.

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AP - Rep. Jim McDermott has paid more than $1 million to House Minority Leader John Boehner, ending a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.

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AP - In a defiant appearance before the Washington media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church and he rejected those who have labeled him unpatriotic.

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AP - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going after his critics on an incendiary tour that is doing his one-time congregant, Barack Obama, little good.

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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Barack Obama on Monday for opposing proposals to suspend federal gas taxes this summer, a plan she and Republican John McCain have endorsed. Obama didn’t take the bait. He ignored Clinton and focused on McCain.

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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama.

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AP - Democrat Robert Daskas’ campaign says he’s dropping out of the race to represent Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.

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AP - The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.

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CQPolitics.com - The Republican Party of Virginia is accusing the Democratic National Committee of illegally coordinating with its presidential candidates to produce an ad attacking presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona.

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