CQ Midday Update
Midday Update for Friday, September 18, 2009 – 2:14 P.M. In This Issue
--------------------------------- Today in WashingtonThe House is not in session. The Senate is not in session. The President along with Dennis M. McCarthy, assistant secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, meets with recipients of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, which is the highest recognition given by the U.S. government to employers for their support of their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. In Washington, The Andrew Young Lecture Series sponsors a discussion with Foreign Affairs Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio of Senagal on "A United Africa Becomes a Global Player." 4 p.m., Academy for Educational Development, 8th floor, 1825 Connecticut Ave N.W. --------------------------------- Top StoriesDemocrats Run Away From ACORNDemocrats in Congress are abandoning an embattled community organizing group after Republicans stepped up attacks on the liberal-leaning ACORN and the federal funding it receives. [Read More]Partisan Debate Over Climate Change Intensifies in SenateThe partisan debate over the cost of climate change legislation has flared anew as the Senate prepares to release its bill, with both sides wielding competing studies that project wildly varying price tags for the plan. [Read More]House Preparing Extension of FAA AuthorizationThe House is readying a three-month extension of Federal Aviation Administration programs, which could be on the floor as soon as next week. [Read More]Massachusetts House OKs Senate Succession ChangeAfter a long day of often spirited debate, the state House on Thursday voted 95-58 to pass legislation that would give Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim senator to fill the seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy. [Read More] --------------------------------- Political ClippingsThe St. Petersburg Times reports that Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., is backing Marco Rubio in the contest to pick a GOP Senate nominee next year. Brown-Waite is the third member of Congress to back Rubio, the former state House speaker, over Gov. Charlie Crist. "Originally, I had not planned to endorse in this race, but as the challenges facing our nation and Florida grow more severe, times demand someone willing to make hard choices," Brown-Waite said, adding, "Washington needs leaders with solid conservative beliefs and the courage to do the right thing." The New York Post reports on a Sept. 8-10 Marist College poll of 805 registered New York voters that showed former Gov. George Pataki leading Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., 48 percent to 44 percent in a hypothetical matchup. A similar poll in July showed Gillibrand leading Pataki 46 percent to 42 percent. Pataki, a Republican, has not said if he would seek to fill the final two years of the term Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to serve in 2006. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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