Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Public Support Overwhelming for EPA, Poll Says (ContributorNetwork)
• House votes BLM budget cut over wild horse dispute (AP)
• South Carolina House backs move to boost state power (Reuters)
• Obama: Talks on entitlements 'have already begun' (AP)
• Obama, GOP freshmen win in jet engine budget fight (AP)
• House puts spending-cut knife to Pentagon (Reuters)
• How to Privatize Public Broadcasting and Make Big Bird Get a Job (ContributorNetwork)
• WH official: Obama calls Logan after Egypt attack (AP)
• Calif court to answer question on gay marriage ban (AP)
• AP sources: Obama, Kaine talk about VA Senate race (AP)
• House GOP would limit consumer protection agency (AP)
• Obama pushes effort to protect public lands (AP)
• Palestinians want vote Friday on settlements (AP)
• 2 Va. businessmen indicted in campaign money case (AP)
• After Egypt, top U.S. spies promise to do better (Reuters)
• Obama budget reduces border agents overtime pay (AP)
• Watchdog warns US govt oil revenues still at risk (AFP)
• Obama, Democratic leaders strategize on spending (AP)
• House votes to kill F-35 second engine (AFP)
• An Interview with Shane Smith, the man behind ‘The Vice Guide to North Korea,’ on the occasion of Kim Jong-il’s auspicious 69th birthday (Daily Caller)

Public Support Overwhelming for EPA, Poll Says (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:55 PM PST ContributorNetwork - With the EPA losing funding and support from all sides, it might be easy to assume that the EPA doesn't have much public support either. But a poll conducted by the American Lung Association says this is the exact opposite. In a nationwide, bipartisan survey of 1,021 likely voters regarding the public's view on the EPA and their enforcement of clean air standards and regulations, the American Lung Association found that the EPA has overwhelming support, even more so than originally thought.

House votes BLM budget cut over wild horse dispute (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:50 PM PST AP - The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million in protest of the agency's wild horse roundups that some critics say are too costly and others say are inhumane.

South Carolina House backs move to boost state power (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:36 PM PST Reuters - South Carolina's House of Representatives on Wednesday called for a federal Constitutional Convention to consider an amendment allowing a super-majority of states to repeal acts of Congress.

Obama: Talks on entitlements 'have already begun' (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 05:13 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that difficult debates on how to address the costs of Social Security and Medicare are "starting now," even though his 2012 budget blueprint lacked any major changes to the large benefit programs.

Obama, GOP freshmen win in jet engine budget fight (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:56 PM PST AP - Determined to reduce deficits, impatient House Republican freshmen made common cause with President Barack Obama on Wednesday, scoring their biggest victory to date in a vote to cancel $450 million for an alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation warplane.

House puts spending-cut knife to Pentagon (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:47 PM PST Reuters - Republicans pressed ahead on Wednesday with legislation to immediately slice more than $61 billion from domestic spending but found their budget-cutting unity shaken in a House of Representatives vote to kill a big weapons project.

How to Privatize Public Broadcasting and Make Big Bird Get a Job (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:31 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Congressional Democrats are launching a drive to save National Public Radio and the Public Broadcast System from Republican budget cutters by trotting out PBS cartoon characters such as Arthur the Aardvark to lend a hand.

WH official: Obama calls Logan after Egypt attack (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:15 PM PST AP - A White House official says President Barack Obama has spoken with CBS reporter Lara Logan in the wake of the network's announcement that she was brutally attacked in Egypt.

Calif court to answer question on gay marriage ban (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - California's highest court decided Wednesday to wade back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban, agreeing to rule on a question of state law considered crucial to the survival of Proposition 8.

AP sources: Obama, Kaine talk about VA Senate race (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:09 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama spoke by phone Wednesday with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine about the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jim Webb in Virginia, officials said.

House GOP would limit consumer protection agency (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST AP - The House Republican budget-cutting bill would shrink spending for the Obama administration's newly created agency designed to protect consumers who have mortgages, credit cards or use other financial services.

Obama pushes effort to protect public lands (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says a new administration effort to protect public lands will put people back to work in tourism and recreation and help Americans stay healthier by encouraging outdoor activities.

Palestinians want vote Friday on settlements (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:53 PM PST AP - The Palestinians are calling for a U.N. Security Council vote Friday on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

2 Va. businessmen indicted in campaign money case (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:45 PM PST AP - Two Virginia businessmen were charged Wednesday in an alleged conspiracy to illegally reimburse campaign donors for $186,600 in contributions to a 2008 presidential candidate and to the candidate's 2006 Senate campaign.

After Egypt, top U.S. spies promise to do better (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:41 PM PST Reuters - Top U.S. intelligence officials, facing criticism in Congress, on Wednesday defended their agencies' reporting on the recent upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt but pledged to do better in the future.

Obama budget reduces border agents overtime pay (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:14 PM PST AP - Border Patrol agents would lose money under a change in the overtime pay proposed in the $3.7 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress Monday, the agent's union said Wednesday.

Watchdog warns US govt oil revenues still at risk (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 03:13 PM PST AFP - The US government may still not be collecting its fair share of revenues from oil and gas production on federal lands, a Congressional watchdog warned Wednesday, with billions of dollars at stake.

Obama, Democratic leaders strategize on spending (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:55 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama has met with Senate Democratic leaders to strategize about taking on Republicans over spending cuts and overhauling Social Security and other entitlements.

House votes to kill F-35 second engine (AFP) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:49 PM PST AFP - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to kill funding for a costly alternate engine for the F-35 fighter aircraft that the Pentagon did not want.

An Interview with Shane Smith, the man behind ‘The Vice Guide to North Korea,’ on the occasion of Kim Jong-il’s auspicious 69th birthday (Daily Caller) Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:23 PM PST Daily Caller - Sixty-nine. It’s not the Valentine’s Day present you gave your sweet-something on Monday. It’s how old Kim Jong-il is today.

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