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• Calls for Rangel to quit could escalate if no deal (AP)
• A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? (AP)
• Obama pushes business bill as an all-American goal (AP)
• Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures (AP)
• Obama to defend education plan (Politico)
• For veterans bill, Republicans put budget ax aside (AP)
• Small business lending bill at impasse in Senate (AP)
• Key Republican calls Kagan a 'dangerous' nominee (AP)
• FBI director defends bureau over test cheating (AP)
• US official says nuclear treaty disputes lingered (AP)
• Chamber group donates $500,000 to McCollum ally (AP)
• Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences (AP)
• Democrats tie Republicans to Tea Party agenda (Reuters)
• NH GOP Senate front-runner hits a few bumps (AP)
• Inside the FLOTUS office (Politico)
• Dems election strategy: Equate GOP and tea party (AP)
• GOP Sen. Snowe to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP)
• Mueller says no racial targeting with guidelines (AP)
• 2 RI lt. gov. candidates seek to abolish office (AP)

Calls for Rangel to quit could escalate if no deal (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct.

A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT AP - Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation's secrets.

Obama pushes business bill as an all-American goal (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. "This is as American as apple pie," the president said.

Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT AP - Congress is getting ready to pass tough new aviation safety measures that were developed in response to a deadly commuter plane crash in western New York in early 2009, a key lawmaker said Wednesday.

Obama to defend education plan (Politico) Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:32 AM PDT Politico - President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education.

For veterans bill, Republicans put budget ax aside (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:44 PM PDT AP - House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them, instead joining Democrats in treating a bill to pay for veterans programs in 2011 as politically sacrosanct in an election year.

Small business lending bill at impasse in Senate (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT AP - Senators struggled to reach agreement Wednesday on a bill that would create a $30 billion government fund to help community banks increase lending to small businesses.

Key Republican calls Kagan a 'dangerous' nominee (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:27 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed out at her as "dangerous."

FBI director defends bureau over test cheating (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, an embarrassing revelation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans.

US official says nuclear treaty disputes lingered (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:19 PM PDT AP - U.S. complaints about Russian compliance with the 1991 START nuclear arms control treaty had not been resolved when the pact expired last year, but the disputes never amounted to allegations of cheating, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Chamber group donates $500,000 to McCollum ally (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:46 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Chamber of Commerce affiliate has contributed $500,000 to a political group associated with Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum.

Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:18 PM PDT AP - Congress on Wednesday changed a quarter-century-old law that has subjected tens of thousands of blacks to long prison terms for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the powder form of the drug.

Democrats tie Republicans to Tea Party agenda (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:17 PM PDT Reuters - With memories of last year's bitter town hall meetings still fresh, Democrats vowed on Wednesday to go on the offense during the August congressional recess and aggressively link Republicans with the conservative Tea Party movement.

NH GOP Senate front-runner hits a few bumps (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:02 PM PDT AP - Kelly Ayotte, the tough former prosecutor and wife of an Iraq war vet, seemed to be on a glide path to the Republican nomination in New Hampshire and perhaps the Senate.

Inside the FLOTUS office (Politico) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:15 AM PDT Politico - The Oval Office is nearly as familiar an image as the president himself.

Dems election strategy: Equate GOP and tea party (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT AP - The Democrats' national chairman on Wednesday trotted out his party's fall election strategy to limit potential GOP gains, claiming Republican goals are inseparable from the tea party's, from killing off Medicare to abolishing the departments of Education and Energy.

GOP Sen. Snowe to support Kagan for Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:55 AM PDT AP - Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.

Mueller says no racial targeting with guidelines (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that the bureau's domestic surveillance guidelines are being used properly and that agents are not employing them to target people for investigation based on race.

2 RI lt. gov. candidates seek to abolish office (AP) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT AP - Robert Healey Jr. is running for Rhode Island lieutenant governor — not to excel in the position, but to eliminate it altogether.

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