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IA SEN: Conlin Plots Grassley Challenge Poll Times: 7 a.m.-9 p.m. statewide. In IA, candidates must receive the most votes, and at least 35% of the vote to win. There is no runoff. Should a candidate fail to obtain the necessary percentage, it will fall to the party, and convention delegates. Dems: '82 GOV nominee/ex-U.S. Atty Roxanne Conlin (D), Atty/ex-state Sen. Tom Fiegen (D), ex-state Rep./ex-IA DoT transp. planner Bob Krause (D). GOPers: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) is unopposed. Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 9:49am
FCC Told Its Plan Risks Homeland Security From this morning's Earlybird: • "Three senior Homeland Security officials in the Bush administration say a federal plan for reallocating the nation's limited airwaves could endanger public safety by limiting the ability of first responders to communicate during crises like 9/11," The Hill reports. • "Apple debuted a thinner iPhone with a sharper screen, high-definition moviemaking and video-chatting capability -- but one that, in the United States, remains locked to AT&T Wireless," the Washington Post reports. Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 8:30am
Top Aides Lure Lobbyists To DCCC Fundraiser From this morning's Earlybird: • "This week, K Streeters are expected to cut checks in droves for the chance to mingle with about 50 senior House staffers who are headlining a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "Individual attendees are expected to shell out $1,000, while political action committees need to come up with $2,500 to score a seat ... Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 8:30am
Tuesday's Starting Lineup Good Tuesday morning. Voters are casting ballots in 11 states today in the largest primary day of the year. Make sure to come back to Hotline OnCall tonight to keep up with our live blog, which goes live with the latest results as the first polls close. Here's today's Starting Lineup, previewing the people who will make a difference in politics today: Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 7:05am
Democratic Pressure Points Most of the attention today will, understandably, be focused on the primary elections that are being held in a dozen states. With several marquee races, notably the Democratic Senate primary runoff in Arkansas and the gubernatorial and senatorial primaries in California, there are obviously many ra Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 12:00am
State AGs Want Info From Google Google finds itself under fire from a new direction over last month's revelation that it collected information from unsecured Wi-Fi networks: the states. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is the latest official to voice concerns with the Wi-Fi incident. He called on Google Monday in a letter to tell his office how much and what kind of information it collected, when and where it did so, why it collected the data, where the data is stored and other information. Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 8:07pm
Merger Critics: Comcast Has Shoddy Record on Media Diversity During today's House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Los Angeles on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger, minority critics accused Comcast, the nation's largest cable television operator, of doing little to promote media diversity. "We find it unacceptable that none of the 250-plus channels that are offered on the Comcast platform are 100 percent African American-owned and widely distributed on their nationwide platform," complained Stanley Washington, president and CEO of the National Coalition of African American Owned Media, in prepared remarks. Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 5:59pm
Telecom Draft Already Draws Heat No one said Democratic-led efforts to revamp the nation's communications laws would be easy. Just two weeks after four prominent Democrats announced ambitious plans to spearhead the first major update in fourteen years, the initial bill in a series that could see action -- privacy legislation being drafted in the House -- is mired in controversy. Following the announcement, House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., told CongressDaily his draft could be ripe for early consideration. Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:33pm
Daniels Takes His DC Star Turn IN Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is the talk of the town these days as the policy wonk-turned-successful governor generates buzz over prospects of a WH'12 bid. Not one to miss a golden opportunity, Daniels has 2 stops in DC over the next week aimed at filling his PAC's coffers and creating a little buzz to promote his agenda. Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:01pm
Labor's Spending Drive For Halter Cross-posted from TheAtlantic.com Organized labor has poured millions of dollars into the AR DEM primary to back LG Bill Halter (D) over Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D), the major issue here being Lincoln's opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, as a swing vote in the Senate. Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 1:53pm

IA SEN: Conlin Plots Grassley Challenge

Poll Times: 7 a.m.-9 p.m. statewide.

In IA, candidates must receive the most votes, and at least 35% of the vote to win. There is no runoff. Should a candidate fail to obtain the necessary percentage, it will fall to the party, and convention delegates.

Dems: '82 GOV nominee/ex-U.S. Atty Roxanne Conlin (D), Atty/ex-state Sen. Tom Fiegen (D), ex-state Rep./ex-IA DoT transp. planner Bob Krause (D).

GOPers: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) is unopposed.

Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 9:49am

FCC Told Its Plan Risks Homeland Security

From this morning's Earlybird: • "Three senior Homeland Security officials in the Bush administration say a federal plan for reallocating the nation's limited airwaves could endanger public safety by limiting the ability of first responders to communicate during crises like 9/11," The Hill reports. • "Apple debuted a thinner iPhone with a sharper screen, high-definition moviemaking and video-chatting capability -- but one that, in the United States, remains locked to AT&T Wireless," the Washington Post reports.

Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 8:30am

Top Aides Lure Lobbyists To DCCC Fundraiser

From this morning's Earlybird: • "This week, K Streeters are expected to cut checks in droves for the chance to mingle with about 50 senior House staffers who are headlining a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "Individual attendees are expected to shell out $1,000, while political action committees need to come up with $2,500 to score a seat ...

Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 8:30am

Tuesday's Starting Lineup

Good Tuesday morning. Voters are casting ballots in 11 states today in the largest primary day of the year. Make sure to come back to Hotline OnCall tonight to keep up with our live blog, which goes live with the latest results as the first polls close.

Here's today's Starting Lineup, previewing the people who will make a difference in politics today:

Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 7:05am

Democratic Pressure Points

Most of the attention today will, understandably, be focused on the primary elections that are being held in a dozen states. With several marquee races, notably the Democratic Senate primary runoff in Arkansas and the gubernatorial and senatorial primaries in California, there are obviously many ra

Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 12:00am

State AGs Want Info From Google

Google finds itself under fire from a new direction over last month's revelation that it collected information from unsecured Wi-Fi networks: the states. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is the latest official to voice concerns with the Wi-Fi incident. He called on Google Monday in a letter to tell his office how much and what kind of information it collected, when and where it did so, why it collected the data, where the data is stored and other information.

Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 8:07pm

Merger Critics: Comcast Has Shoddy Record on Media Diversity

During today's House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Los Angeles on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger, minority critics accused Comcast, the nation's largest cable television operator, of doing little to promote media diversity. "We find it unacceptable that none of the 250-plus channels that are offered on the Comcast platform are 100 percent African American-owned and widely distributed on their nationwide platform," complained Stanley Washington, president and CEO of the National Coalition of African American Owned Media, in prepared remarks.

Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 5:59pm

Telecom Draft Already Draws Heat

No one said Democratic-led efforts to revamp the nation's communications laws would be easy. Just two weeks after four prominent Democrats announced ambitious plans to spearhead the first major update in fourteen years, the initial bill in a series that could see action -- privacy legislation being drafted in the House -- is mired in controversy. Following the announcement, House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., told CongressDaily his draft could be ripe for early consideration.

Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:33pm

Daniels Takes His DC Star Turn

IN Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is the talk of the town these days as the policy wonk-turned-successful governor generates buzz over prospects of a WH'12 bid.

Not one to miss a golden opportunity, Daniels has 2 stops in DC over the next week aimed at filling his PAC's coffers and creating a little buzz to promote his agenda.

Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:01pm

Labor's Spending Drive For Halter

Cross-posted from TheAtlantic.com

Organized labor has poured millions of dollars into the AR DEM primary to back LG Bill Halter (D) over Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D), the major issue here being Lincoln's opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, as a swing vote in the Senate.

Posted: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 1:53pm

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