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1:00 PM ET, November 16, 2006

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CNN:
CNN Political Ticker AM  —  For the latest, breaking political news, check for updates throughout the day on the CNN Political Ticker.  All politics, all the time.  —  Compiled by Stephen Bach  —  Making news today...  - House Dems meet to elect leaders by secret ballot this morning …
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Washington Post:
Pelosi Splits Democrats With Push For Murtha  —  Speaker-to-Be Accused Of Strong-Arm Tactics  —  A showdown over the House majority leader's post today has Democrats bitterly divided only a week after their party took control of Congress and has prompted numerous complaints …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Pelosi faces no-win outcome over Murtha  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats moved toward picking a top lieutenant to speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and hoped to put to rest a politically costly family feud that intensified just days after they reclaimed the House from GOP control.
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Pelosi's First Mistake  —  As the new House majority caucus prepared to pick its leadership today, Democrats were trying to make the best of the inevitability of Nancy Pelosi as the party's first speaker in a dozen years.  They have put out the word that she was not serious in endorsing Rep. John Murtha for majority leader.
jules crittenden:
Murtha vs. Hoyer: Sit Back and Enjoy ...  Today offers the kind of spectacle that is a small consolation prize for a party out of power: the victors pummeling each other over the spoils.  The election having been lost, today's majority leadership race is a win-win.
Associated Press:
Hoyer tapped for party's No. 2 House spot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Thursday chose Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to be House majority leader over Rep. John Murtha, brushing aside the choice of House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi.  —  Hoyer was elected on a vote of 149-86 not long …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House Democrats name Pelosi speaker  —  WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi was unanimously named speaker-elect by House Democrats Thursday, the first woman to be ensured the post that constitutionally is second in line of succession to the presidency.  —  Even as Pelosi was enjoying her finest hour politically …
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David Sirota / The Nation:
Wanted: A Real Leader
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
US plans last big push in Iraq  —  Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit  —  President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning …
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Laura Rozen / Los Angeles Times:
Unleash the Shiites?  —  The U.S. may be forced to choose sides in Iraq's civil strife.  —  AS SECTARIAN violence rises in Iraq and the White House comes under increasing pressure to revamp its strategy there, a debate is emerging inside the Bush administration: Should the U.S. abandon …
PR Newswire:
Airport Arrest Turns Up Nuclear Info  —  A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.  —  Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Sectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn  —  BAGHDAD — While American commanders have suggested that civil war is possible in Iraq, many leaders, experts and ordinary people in Baghdad and around the Middle East say it is already underway, and that the real worry ahead …
Jill Tucker / San Francisco Chronicle:
School board votes to dump JROTC program  —  After 90 years in San Francisco high schools, the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps must go, the San Francisco school board decided Tuesday night.  —  The board voted 4-2 to eliminate the popular program, phasing it out over two years.
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney hires ex-Bush ad man  —  Producer noted for tough tactics  —  Governor Mitt Romney, who continues to sign up big-name political consultants for a probable presidential run, has hired bare-knuckles GOP ad man Alex Castellanos, a veteran of presidential campaigns known for his tough ads against Democratic candidates.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Flush of Victory Past, Democrats Revert to Finger-Pointing  —  One would think that after their biggest electoral triumph in about a decade, Democrats would finally break their usual postelection syndrome — a November loss followed by recriminations, finger-pointing and infighting.  —  Well, think again.
Redstate:
Barton Out of the Race  —  Sources tell RedState that Congressman Joe Barton has withdrawn from the House Leadership race after John Boehner had it made clear to Barton that should Boehner win he would strip Barton of his ranking position on the Energy & Commerce Committee.  —  Clearly Boehner is feeling threatened.
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry  —  The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again.  But they may experience "very low food security."  —  Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food …
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