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• Administration seeks employer sanctions review (AP)
• Tar balls and promises: Obama visits Gulf Coast (AP)
• WH had Clinton try to ease Sestak out of Pa. race (AP)
• House vote advances end to ban on gays in military (AP)
• A gusher of talk on Hill (Politico)
• Blogger's relationship claims titillate, frustrate (AP)
• Gates to troops: Don't let debate on gays distract (AP)
• Stevens denies Blagojevich request for delay (AP)
• Look out establishment: It's not just tea partiers (AP)
• House approves pared-back tax and spending bill (AP)
• White House admits pushing Sestak to drop Senate bid (Reuters)
• Obama, Democrats spar over intelligence oversight (Reuters)
• Obama vows veto of any bill to fund 2d F-35 engine (Reuters)
• Paul opposes citizenship for babies of illegals (AP)
• WH announces Obama trip to Pittsburgh (AP)
• Election-year politics derail bid to save teachers' jobs (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Land management chief takes over drilling agency (AP)
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• Clinton: Don't let anger sink Lincoln re-election (AP)
• Appointment offer to Sestak was proper, White House says (McClatchy Newspapers)

Administration seeks employer sanctions review (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:37 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to prevent Arizona from enforcing a law that punishes businesses that employ illegal immigrants, arguing that federal immigration law trumps state efforts.

Tar balls and promises: Obama visits Gulf Coast (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:47 PM PDT AP - Kneeling to pick up tar balls on an oil-fouled beach and listening to "heartbreaking stories" of loss, President Barack Obama personally confronted the spreading damage wrought by the crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico -- and the bitter anger that's rising onshore.

WH had Clinton try to ease Sestak out of Pa. race (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Forced to disclose backstage political bargaining, President Barack Obama's embarrassed White House said Friday it had enlisted Bill Clinton to try to ease Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania's Senate primary with a job offer.

House vote advances end to ban on gays in military (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT AP - The House on Friday passed a defense bill that paves the way for gays to serve openly in the military for the first time, but advocates on both sides geared up for a fight in the Senate.

A gusher of talk on Hill (Politico) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:31 AM PDT Politico - There’s “top kill,” and then there’s overkill.

Blogger's relationship claims titillate, frustrate (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:58 PM PDT AP - For the past week, a political burlesque has provided a mix of frustration and titillation for observers of the South Carolina governor's race.

Gates to troops: Don't let debate on gays distract (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 10:35 AM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling troops not to be distracted by the political debate over gays serving openly in the military.

Stevens denies Blagojevich request for delay (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 03:21 PM PDT AP - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to delay ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial on corruption charges, set to begin next week.

Look out establishment: It's not just tea partiers (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 08:59 AM PDT AP - Heads up, tea partiers. You're not the only angry outsiders making waves.

House approves pared-back tax and spending bill (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:38 PM PDT AP - House Democrats on Friday salvaged a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to people out of work more than six months and revive tax breaks popular with families and businesses.

White House admits pushing Sestak to drop Senate bid (Reuters) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:28 PM PDT Reuters - The White House acknowledged on Friday that it tried to get Representative Joe Sestak to drop his Senate bid in exchange for an unpaid job with the administration, but said an internal review concluded it broke no laws.

Obama, Democrats spar over intelligence oversight (Reuters) Posted: 28 May 2010 04:15 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama's White House has been fighting a plan spearheaded by fellow Democrats in the Congress to allow the investigative arm of Congress to probe the intelligence community's activities, officials and congressional aides said on Friday.

Obama vows veto of any bill to fund 2d F-35 engine (Reuters) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:56 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would veto any legislation to fund, over Pentagon protests, a controversial second engine program for the multinational F-35 fighter aircraft.

Paul opposes citizenship for babies of illegals (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:40 PM PDT AP - U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is stirring it up again, this time by saying he opposes citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are illegal immigrants.

WH announces Obama trip to Pittsburgh (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:38 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will travel to Pittsburgh next week for an event at Carnegie Mellon University.

Election-year politics derail bid to save teachers' jobs (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 May 2010 02:26 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Congress bailed out Wall Street and the auto industry, but it appears to have drawn the line — at least for now — at rescuing teachers.

Land management chief takes over drilling agency (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT AP - The chief of the Interior Department's land management bureau has stepped in to run the much-criticized agency that oversees offshore oil drilling after its director resigned under pressure.

(AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - House passes defense bill with repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy for gays in military.

Clinton: Don't let anger sink Lincoln re-election (AP) Posted: 28 May 2010 01:05 PM PDT AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Friday urged voters in his home state to send Sen. Blanche Lincoln back to Washington for another term, warning them to not let their anger guide their choice in next month's Democratic runoff.

Appointment offer to Sestak was proper, White House says (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 May 2010 12:40 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it used the promise of a presidential appointment to try to get a Pennsylvania congressman to abandon a planned primary challenge to White House favorite Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and that it used former President Bill Clinton as the middleman.

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