But Rep. Jerry McPeak of Warner says voter fraud is not a problem in Oklahoma. McPeak says the bill will disenfranchise elderly, poor and disabled residents who do not have photo IDs.
KTEN
"It is my understanding there are NO G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable ... The Speaker will want to know where the planes are," [Pelosi aide Kay] King wrote.
In another, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King wrote: "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset Speaker."
Fox News
A Milwaukee woman accused of filing fraudulent voter-registration forms has been charged with one count of election fraud.
A criminal complaint released to the media Tuesday says 19-year-old Latoya T. Lewis turned in multiple forms with the same voter name on them.
Chicago Tribune
"This system of auto-pilot pay raises really is offensive to the American people," Vitter, of Metairie, said on the Senate floor Monday. "It would simply say if we want a raise, we have to talk about it and then have an actual vote."
The Advertiser
"Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman’s decision with regret."
—Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair
Does the U.S. Constitution guarantee the right of an average citizen to own a gun? | |
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Yes | 75% |
No | 14% |
Not sure | 11% |
It isn't just Republicans who hold the view that Obama is a big government supporter, although almost all of them do (85 percent). Some 76 percent of Democrats think Obama believes in bigger government, as do 70 percent of independents.
Fox News.com
Confidence in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has fallen four points in the week since President Obama signed it into law, and more voters are prepared to punish their representatives for supporting it.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of U.S. voters now say the plan will help the economy, while 32% believe it will hurt, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Rasmussen Reports
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41% | 37% | |
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42% | 35% | |
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44% | 39% | |
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43% | 41% | |
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45% | 39% | |
46% | 38% | |
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46% | 36% | |
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47% | 34% | |
45% | 36% | |
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47% | 35% | |
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48% | 34% | |
47% | 34% | |
47% | 39% | |
46% | 41% | |
43% | 37% | |
44% | 40% | |
44% | 40% | |
43% | 38% | |
46% | 36% | |
46% | 35% | |
48% | 36% | |
50% | 32% | |
47% | 37% | |
46% | 37% | |
46% | 34% | |
45% | 38% | |
47% | 36% | |
45% | 35% |
This could well be a Republican pickup, though its national implications are limited, for three reasons. (1) It's a Republican-leaning district. Gillibrand won in 2006 only because of late-breaking scandal news about the Republican incumbent. (2) Out parties often win special House elections in the first year of an administration. (3) Tedisco is a well-known politician in metro Albany, which includes most of the district, while Murphy has some tax problems.
US News
But a provision of the proposed law extending similar rights to owners of preserved farms has angered major open-space groups. The issue is sensitive in a state that has spent billions of dollars on popular open-space programs designed to slow sprawling development in rural and wooded areas.
The League of Municipalities also has voiced concern that the rush to renewable energy may go too far in limiting local officials' ability to regulate the new land use.
The controversy has divided the environmental community and ensnared Gov. Jon Corzine's agriculture-secretary designee before he is even sworn in. But with President Obama, Corzine and others beating the drum on clean energy, the measure appears certain to pass.
NJ.com
Twenty-nine percent of Republicans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Friday say they are most likely to support Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the next GOP presidential nomination.
Right behind the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, and well within the poll's margin of error, is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Twenty-six percent of those questioned say they are most likely backing Huckabee, the surprise winner of the 2008 Iowa GOP caucuses.
Twenty-one percent of Republicans polled say they most likely would support former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another GOP hopeful from the last campaign who may run again.
Nine percent say they would probably back Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who is considered a rising star in the GOP.
Source: CNN
