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Dem Jokes That Pelosi Could Die Before Next Year Rep. Bobby Bright (D-AL), one of the most vulnerable Dems in the House, has come up with a new way of distancing himself from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Joking that Pelosi could die in the coming months and be unable to serve as Speaker next year. Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 10:36am
PayPal Co-Founder Joins Google PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who also founded the social technology provider Slide, has been named as Google's vice president of engineering, Mashable reports. In Early August, Google acquired Slide for $182 million. The social technology application company started by allowing users to auto insert slideshows into their MySpace profiles. Levchin will work under Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations and Google fellow. At PayPal, Levchin was the chief technology officer and responsible for its antifraud technology. Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 9:05am
Starting Lineup: Dems In Deep Trouble Good Thursday morning and welcome to the Starting Lineup. What Hotline On Call is watching this morning: Obama's struggles in PA, lots of worrisome number for Midwestern House Democrats, Trumka rips Palin, and Democrats keep up the drumbeat against David Rivera. Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 7:57am
Why Democrats Will Keep The House House Republicans are measuring the drapes in preparation for big gains in the lower chamber, convinced that Minority Leader John Boehner is going to become the next Speaker of the House. On a macro level, that wouldn't be a bad guess -- Democrats are saddled with bad polls and unpopular leaders, and the national mood wants a change from the status quo. Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 6:00am
Upping The Ante For Online Gambling A law prohibiting Internet gambling is facing a serious challenge less than four years after it was enacted, with key House Democrats looking to build on support for a repeal when the Congress returns in September.Rep. Jim McDermott , D-Wash., is pushing for a Ways and Means markup the week of S Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:00am
Broad Scope Of Copyright Pact Worries Critics Under a veil of secrecy, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative hosted the 10th round of negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Washington last week.While the agreement is aimed at increasing international cooperation in curbing the piracy and counterfeiting of i Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:00am
Tax Reform Panel Will Come Up Empty Updated at 2:21 p.m. A presidential commission on tax reform is expected to deliver a report Friday that fails to make any clear recommendations and ducks virtually all of the controversies that have deterred tax reform for 24 years.Meanwhile, a higher-profile presidential commission tackling Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:00am
House Republicans Volley Back At Biden Adding more fuel to the fire in the spat between the GOP and Vice President Joe Biden , conservative lawmakers slammed Democrats' "runaway federal spending" in a conference call with reporters this morning."Evidently, nothing excites a liberal Democrat more than the pornography of excessive spen Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:00am
Salmonella Strains Found In Feed At Two Iowa Farms Salmonella strains matching those identified in the nationwide outbreak have been found at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa, the Food and Drug Administration announced today.The news came on the same day the House Energy and Commerce Committee called a hearing for Sept. 14 to examin Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:00am
AGs Urge Craigslist To Drop Adult Ads Attorneys general from 17 states wrote Craigslist.org's top executives this week urging them to remove the "adult services" section from the site's online classified offerings, saying it helps promote sex trafficking. Craigslist has come under fire for the adult ads on its site. Some critics say Craigslist is benefitting financially from ads that offer prostitution and sex trafficking including of minors and has not done enough to screen out such ads. Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 9:38pm

Dem Jokes That Pelosi Could Die Before Next Year

Rep. Bobby Bright (D-AL), one of the most vulnerable Dems in the House, has come up with a new way of distancing himself from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Joking that Pelosi could die in the coming months and be unable to serve as Speaker next year.

Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 10:36am

PayPal Co-Founder Joins Google

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who also founded the social technology provider Slide, has been named as Google's vice president of engineering, Mashable reports. In Early August, Google acquired Slide for $182 million. The social technology application company started by allowing users to auto insert slideshows into their MySpace profiles. Levchin will work under Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations and Google fellow. At PayPal, Levchin was the chief technology officer and responsible for its antifraud technology.

Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 9:05am

Starting Lineup: Dems In Deep Trouble

Good Thursday morning and welcome to the Starting Lineup. What Hotline On Call is watching this morning: Obama's struggles in PA, lots of worrisome number for Midwestern House Democrats, Trumka rips Palin, and Democrats keep up the drumbeat against David Rivera.

Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 7:57am

Why Democrats Will Keep The House

House Republicans are measuring the drapes in preparation for big gains in the lower chamber, convinced that Minority Leader John Boehner is going to become the next Speaker of the House. On a macro level, that wouldn't be a bad guess -- Democrats are saddled with bad polls and unpopular leaders, and the national mood wants a change from the status quo.

Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 6:00am

Upping The Ante For Online Gambling

A law prohibiting Internet gambling is facing a serious challenge less than four years after it was enacted, with key House Democrats looking to build on support for a repeal when the Congress returns in September.Rep. Jim McDermott , D-Wash., is pushing for a Ways and Means markup the week of S