CQ Today Midday Update
Midday Update for FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 2008 – 2:23 P.M. In This Issue
--------------------------------- Today in WashingtonThe House is not in session. The Senate is not in session. The President receives a National Security Agency briefing at Fort Meade; signs the NATO Accession Protocols for Albania and Croatia; meets with the Secretary General of NATO Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. In Washington, AIDS researcher Robert Gallo speaks at a symposium on HIV diagnosis and therapy. 3 p.m., National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W. --------------------------------- Top StoriesJury Deliberations Temporarily Suspended in Stevens CaseA federal judge has suspended until Monday jury deliberations in the trial of Sen. Ted Stevens because of a family emergency that required one of the jurors to leave early Friday. [Read More]Political Trivia for Oct. 24Which county containing a state capital went strongest for President Bush in 2004? [Read More] --------------------------------- "Capitol Hill Workshop: 2008 Election""Capitol Hill Workshop: 2008 Election is of particular interest to anyone needing more background on how Capitol Hill really works and early insight into the 111th Congress and the new administration. WHERE: Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh Street N.W., Washington, D.C. WHEN: November 12-14, 8:30 a.m .to 4:00 p.m. all three days Registration Fee: $1295 Full program description and secure online registration, or call our registrar at 202-678-1600. This training conference is sponsored by TheCapitol.Net, exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly Executive Conferences. --------------------------------- Political ClippingsA poll by SurveyUSA shows Democratic challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg with “the nominal lead in an effectively tied race with Republican incumbent Michele Bachmann.” The poll showed Tinklenberg with 47 percent of the vote and Bachmann 44 percent, a spread within the survey’s margin of error. Bachmann’s campaign suffered after she made remarks Oct. 17 on MSNBC that questioned the patriotism of Democrats and called for an investigation into whether members of Congress might be “anti-American.”According to the Charlotte Observer, Republican Rep. Robin Hayes “is dealing with what could be a damaging distraction in the election’s final days – his remark about liberals hating working Americans.” Hayes made the remark Oct. 18 at a rally for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. On Thursday, Hayes said, “I made a mistake I should not have made,” and added, “I wasn’t thinking.” By the end of the day Thursday, “Hayes had to deny a report that his own party had forsaken him,” the newspaper reported. “But there’s at least one sign that national Republicans aren’t as invested as they planned to be — they’ve backed off buying television time to run an independent ad in the 8th Congressional District race.” The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that in a debate Thursday, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell said his Democratic opponent Bruce Lunsford “won’t have the ability” to represent Kentucky in the Senate, while Lunsford countered that McConnell has done a poor job of it over the last 24 years. “McConnell mentioned projects and programs for which he secured federal funding, while Lunsford enumerated the costs of unpopular policies backed by McConnell and called for change,” the newspaper said. McConnell was shown to have a lead of 4 percentage points in a Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky poll released Oct. 22. --------------------------------- Today on Governing.com State and local government news from CQ’s sister publication THE NATION: AIG Collapse Threatens Transit Agencies’ Finances DETROIT: Ex-Mayor Spent $286,000 with City Credit Card CALIFORNIA: Fingerprinting Mandated for Registered Nurses ALASKA: Palin Appointed More than 100 Donors to State Posts --------------------------------- Other CQ ProductsSign up for free trialsCQ Floor Video CQ.com CQ Weekly CQ Today CQ Today Action Alerts CQ BillTrack CQ Budget Tracker CQ Committee Amendments CQ HealthBeat CQ Homeland Security CQ House Action Reports CQ LawTrack CQ Politics CQ Press CQ Top Docs See all CQ products |