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Senate OKs spy plan that ends suits against phone companies
By Nicholas Johnston and James Rowley | Bloomberg News
The Senate gave final congressional approval to legislation that overhauls U.S. electronic spying and ends lawsuits against telephone companies that aided government wiretapping of suspected terrorists.
Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois interrupted his presidential campaign to return to Washington and vote for the measure, which was passed 69-28. His Republican opponent Senator John McCain of Arizona, campaigned today in Pennsylvania and didn't vote.
Report Finds Gaps in Federal E-Mail Records
by: Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post
Federal officials inconsistently preserve government e-mail, creating gaps in the public record and making it difficult for the public to understand the activities of the government, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office yesterday.
The report came before a scheduled House vote today on a bill that would create standards for the electronic storage of e-mail by federal agencies.
As the use of e-mail has increased dramatically, federal agencies are struggling to determine which e-mails can be deleted, which must be preserved as public records and how those records should be stored.
Obama, Clinton fly to NY with veep vetter
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama and his former rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, flew to New York on Wednesday along with his vice presidential searcher Caroline Kennedy.
Clinton, mentioned as a possible running mate, and Obama were to appear together at two fundraisers there Wednesday night.
The flight came on a day in which Obama touched off new speculation about his choice of a running mate by making an unannounced morning stop at the downtown building where another member of his vice presidential search team, Eric Holder, works.
Jesse Ventura may again climb into the political ring
Jesse Ventura, the former pro wrestler and sometime-actor who improbably won the governorship of Minnesota a decade ago, may again roil his state's political waters. Then again, he may not.
Ventura has been hinting for months that he might make an already closely watched Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken a three-way affair; back in May, he told Larry King on CNN, "I'm weighing it right now."
McCain goes after female vote with town hall event
By SCOTT BAUER | Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is going after the female vote by hosting a women-only town hall meeting Friday in Wisconsin.
The first-of-its-kind event for the McCain campaign is the latest and most overt attempt to woo women turned off by Democrat Barack Obama's rivalry with Sen. Hilliary Rodham Clinton during the primaries.
Obama targets women voters
In a sign Barack Obama is trying to win over female voters who may be frustrated after his brusing primary race with Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee announced an economic security plan to help working women today.
Obama's campaign claims his plan will give a tax cut to 71 million working women, guarantee seven days of paid sick leave for 22 million additional women, and make childcare more affordable for 7.5 million working mothers.
"I don't accept an America where a woman earns less than a man for the same work, or an America that makes women choose between their kids and their careers," Obama said. "When I'm President, we'll take these critical issues head-on and help women and families thrive in a changing economy."
Developing nations: reject G-8 climate plan
By TOM RAUM
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — China, India and other energy-guzzling developing nations on Wednesday rejected key elements of a global warming strategy embraced by President Bush and leaders of wealthy nations. And the U.N's top climate official dismissed the G-8 goals as insignificant.
The sharp criticism emerged at the close of a summit here of the Group of Eight industrial powers that was dominated by the issue of how to address the warming Earth. The G-8 leaders invited their counterparts from fast-growing, pollution-emitting nations to sideline talks on the topic, but the session merely showcased a widening rift over the best approach.
The minister who leads Democrats to faith
The Christian Science Monitor
By Jane Lampman
new york - For evidence that the Democratic Party has warmed to the idea that religion has a role in politics, look no further than Leah Daughtry.
The CEO of this summer's Democratic National Convention and chief of staff to party head Howard Dean is also the pastor of a Pentecostal church. Since 2005, she has led the party's outreach to religious groups as it seeks to reverse its image of being less than faith-friendly.
For Ms. Daughtry, faith and politics have been a natural mix since childhood, and she welcomes the chance to correct the idea that Democrats are hostile to religion. "For thousands of people of faith who have always been part of the party, that label became more than we could bear," she says in a phone interview. "Most of us are in the Democratic Party because we see the values of our faith mirrored in it."
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