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Van Hollen: No Labor Carve-Out Dem leaders have no plans to create a new carve-out that would exempt labor organizations from a sweeping campaign finance disclosure bill, DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen told Hotline OnCall in an interview Tuesday evening. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 8:20pm
YouTube Offers Users Chance To Vent On Oil Disaster YouTube will be offering those Americans with a burning question for the White House about the Gulf oil spill disaster a chance to get answers from a top Obama administration official. After President Obama's address to the nation Tuesday evening about the oil spill, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will be fielding questions submitted by YouTube users who were also able to vote for the top questions. "Now's your chance to hear the White House's response to your questions about what many are calling the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 6:52pm
Van Hollen Soothes Allies Over NRA Deal House Dem leaders hoping to speed passage of a new measure aimed at increasing campaign finance disclosure spent Tuesday soothing allies as they look to bring legislation to the floor this week. DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen, the legislation's prime sponsor in the House, spoke with labor leaders Tuesday, aiming to soothe concerns over disclosure requirements that have unions worried. Neither the AFL-CIO nor the SEIU have endorsed Van Hollen's DISCLOSE Act. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:33pm
Trade Commission, Congress Examining Chinese Policies The International Trade Commission Tuesday began two days of hearings on the economic impact on the United States of intellectual property rights infringement in China and the country's "indigenous innovation" policies. The ITC hearings are aimed at gathering information for two reports requested by the Senate Finance Committee's leaders. Among the issues the lawmakers have asked the ITC to examine include concerns over indigenous innovation policies that the lawmakers and U.S. business groups say favor Chinese products over foreign products. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:20pm
Angle Dodges Media In DC Debut Ex-NV Assemb. Sharron Angle (R) was on Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid's turf when she met with Senate GOPers Tuesday, but neither NV SEN candidate was talking. Before and after meeting with GOP senators at their weekly luncheon, Angle not only declined to answer reporters' queries, but did not respond at all to media following her. The only exception was a "yes" when asked if she was pleased with her reception. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:00pm
RUS Official: Rural Areas Need Fast Broadband Too Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein said Tuesday that urban and rural areas should have the same speed of broadband service, CongressDaily reported. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 3:56pm
Barrett, RGA Tussle Over Ads The RGA is up with a new TV ad that associates '02 candidate/Milwaukee Mayor/ex-Rep Tom Barrett's (D) record with that of Gov. Jim Doyle (D) and assails Barrett's record on jobs and taxes. "He's raised taxes every year he's been in office," says the narrator of the 30-second spot. "Like Jim Doyle, only worse." Barrett spokesperson Phil Walzak dismissed the ad, and pointed out that the RGA has used footage from a previous ad by the Barrett camp in a web video that attacks Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D). Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 3:19pm
Outside Group Advertises For McCollum FL AG Bill McCollum (R), trailing in polls against self-funding businessman Rick Scott (R), has some help on the way. A mysterious 527 group, "Florida First Initiative," launched its first TV ad yesterday accusing Scott's former hospital company, Columbia/HCA, of illegally refusing to treat impoverished emergency room patients. The hard-hitting ad even claims that one of his hospitals "turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door." Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 2:09pm
IT Firms Cheer Likely Win AT WTO U.S. tech industry officials Tuesday cheered reports that the WTO appears to have sided with the United States, Japan and Taiwan in a dispute with the European Union over tariffs on some information technology products. The United States, Japan and Taiwan had argued that the duties imposed by the EU on flat-panel displays, multifunction printers and TV set-top boxes violated the WTO's Information Technology Agreement. A U.S. official confirmed previously published reports that the WTO interim report essentially sided with the United States, Japan and Taiwan on the issue. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 1:21pm
Boren Leads Primary In Own Poll Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) is popular in his district, but he was apparently concerned enough about his political standing to commission a poll of his chances in a primary contest. The new survey, conducted for Boren's campaign by Myers Research & Strategic Services (D) and obtained by Hotline OnCall, tested 500 likely Dem primary voters between June 7-9 for a margin of error of +/- 4.4%. Boren and State Sen. Jim Wilson (D) were tested. Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 12:34pm

Van Hollen: No Labor Carve-Out

Dem leaders have no plans to create a new carve-out that would exempt labor organizations from a sweeping campaign finance disclosure bill, DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen told Hotline OnCall in an interview Tuesday evening.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 8:20pm

YouTube Offers Users Chance To Vent On Oil Disaster

YouTube will be offering those Americans with a burning question for the White House about the Gulf oil spill disaster a chance to get answers from a top Obama administration official. After President Obama's address to the nation Tuesday evening about the oil spill, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will be fielding questions submitted by YouTube users who were also able to vote for the top questions. "Now's your chance to hear the White House's response to your questions about what many are calling the worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 6:52pm

Van Hollen Soothes Allies Over NRA Deal

House Dem leaders hoping to speed passage of a new measure aimed at increasing campaign finance disclosure spent Tuesday soothing allies as they look to bring legislation to the floor this week.

DCCC chair Chris Van Hollen, the legislation's prime sponsor in the House, spoke with labor leaders Tuesday, aiming to soothe concerns over disclosure requirements that have unions worried. Neither the AFL-CIO nor the SEIU have endorsed Van Hollen's DISCLOSE Act.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:33pm

Trade Commission, Congress Examining Chinese Policies

The International Trade Commission Tuesday began two days of hearings on the economic impact on the United States of intellectual property rights infringement in China and the country's "indigenous innovation" policies. The ITC hearings are aimed at gathering information for two reports requested by the Senate Finance Committee's leaders. Among the issues the lawmakers have asked the ITC to examine include concerns over indigenous innovation policies that the lawmakers and U.S. business groups say favor Chinese products over foreign products.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:20pm

Angle Dodges Media In DC Debut

Ex-NV Assemb. Sharron Angle (R) was on Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid's turf when she met with Senate GOPers Tuesday, but neither NV SEN candidate was talking.

Before and after meeting with GOP senators at their weekly luncheon, Angle not only declined to answer reporters' queries, but did not respond at all to media following her. The only exception was a "yes" when asked if she was pleased with her reception.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 4:00pm

RUS Official: Rural Areas Need Fast Broadband Too

Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein said Tuesday that urban and rural areas should have the same speed of broadband service, CongressDaily reported.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 3:56pm

Barrett, RGA Tussle Over Ads

The RGA is up with a new TV ad that associates '02 candidate/Milwaukee Mayor/ex-Rep Tom Barrett's (D) record with that of Gov. Jim Doyle (D) and assails Barrett's record on jobs and taxes. "He's raised taxes every year he's been in office," says the narrator of the 30-second spot. "Like Jim Doyle, only worse."

Barrett spokesperson Phil Walzak dismissed the ad, and pointed out that the RGA has used footage from a previous ad by the Barrett camp in a web video that attacks Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D).

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 3:19pm

Outside Group Advertises For McCollum

FL AG Bill McCollum (R), trailing in polls against self-funding businessman Rick Scott (R), has some help on the way. A mysterious 527 group, "Florida First Initiative," launched its first TV ad yesterday accusing Scott's former hospital company, Columbia/HCA, of illegally refusing to treat impoverished emergency room patients.

The hard-hitting ad even claims that one of his hospitals "turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 2:09pm

IT Firms Cheer Likely Win AT WTO

U.S. tech industry officials Tuesday cheered reports that the WTO appears to have sided with the United States, Japan and Taiwan in a dispute with the European Union over tariffs on some information technology products. The United States, Japan and Taiwan had argued that the duties imposed by the EU on flat-panel displays, multifunction printers and TV set-top boxes violated the WTO's Information Technology Agreement. A U.S. official confirmed previously published reports that the WTO interim report essentially sided with the United States, Japan and Taiwan on the issue.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 1:21pm

Boren Leads Primary In Own Poll

Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) is popular in his district, but he was apparently concerned enough about his political standing to commission a poll of his chances in a primary contest.

The new survey, conducted for Boren's campaign by Myers Research & Strategic Services (D) and obtained by Hotline OnCall, tested 500 likely Dem primary voters between June 7-9 for a margin of error of +/- 4.4%. Boren and State Sen. Jim Wilson (D) were tested.

Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 12:34pm

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