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10:50 PM ET, March 27, 2007

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Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline — WASHINGTON (AP) - Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March. — Republican attempts to scuttle the non-binding timeline failed on a vote of 50-48, largely along party lines.

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William Branigin / Washington Post:

Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline — The Senate today narrowly endorsed a Democratic-led effort to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq a year from now, voting down a Republican amendment that would have stripped the provision from a $122 emergency spending bill.

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New York Times:

Senate Keeps Pullout Date in Iraq War Bill — The Senate defeated an attempt to erase an American troop withdrawal date from an Iraq spending bill this afternoon after an emotional debate about the powers of the presidency and Congress and the well-being of front-line soldiers.

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Klaus Marre / The Hill:

Democrats win Senate vote on Iraq withdrawal date — Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq. — Democrats defeated by a vote of 50-48 the Republican effort to strip language …

Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Iraq Supplemental Update: Huge Senate Vote This Afternoon

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Kos / Daily Kos:
Withdrawal language survives Senate challenge

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Nicholas Johnston / Bloomberg:
Senate Backs Iraq Withdrawal Plan in Spending Measure (Update2)

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Charles Karel Bouley / The Huffington Post:

There's All Types of Cancers Growing — CNN has decided this week to be the Cancer News Network. Just as it was wrapping up its wall-to-wall coverage of Elizabeth Edwards and the return of her cancer, the ethics of staying in the campaign and then every pundit in the free world weighing …

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:

Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned — White House press secretary Tony Snow, who has become the face of the Bush presidency over the last year, has cancer again. — Snow's deputy, Dana M. Perino, broke into tears at an off-camera briefing this morning as she announced that the cancer has spread to his liver.

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Associated Press:

Tests Show Snow's Cancer Has Returned — WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned, the White House said Tuesday. — Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer.

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CBS News:
Tony Snow's Cancer Spreads To Liver

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

John McCain's MySpace Page "Enhanced" — Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).

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Newsvine:

Hacking John McCain — politics, humor, myspace, gay-marriage, mccain, john-mccain, hacks — If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.

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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:

Flying Imams Shield Law Introduced in Congress [Update: PASSED!!!] — UPDATE: "Flying Imams Shield Law Passes"!!!!!!!!!! — The motion passed 304 to 121 — Another UPDATE: — Bryan Preston reads my mind about the 102 who voted against, "closer than it ought to be." So, who voted against the bill?

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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:

House GOP: Protect 'John Does' on flights — House Republicans today surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity — the first step by lawmakers to protect "John Doe" airline travelers already targeted …

Michelle Malkin: The Protect John Doe Act

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Red on red explodes: Al Qaeda assassinates Sunni insurgent leader? — I've been meaning to link this LA Times story all day but got sidetracked, which was lucky. New facts are coming out. The gist of it is that Zal Khalilzad, the outgoing U.S. ambassador, insists there's a fracture between AQ …

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Sydney Morning Herald:
US captures car-bombing ring in Iraq

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Jules Crittenden:
By The Way, It's Official ... ... we can win in Iraq …

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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post: Proposed Iraqi Law Would Restore Jobs For Baath Members

Fox News:

WEBB DENIES HE GAVE AIDE GUN THAT LED TO ARREST — Sen. Jim Webb, whose aide was arrested Monday for carrying a handgun into a Senate office building, gave the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address in January. — WASHINGTON — Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said Tuesday …

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Jeremy Jacobs / The Hill:
Webb says he did not give aide his gun

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Jeff Coen / Chicago Tribune:

Questions on firings shorten Gonzales news conference — Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales today cut short a press conference about Internet safety, leaving the room at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago when reporters questioned him about the firings of U.S. attorneys.

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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Gonzales visits Chicago

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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Michael Ware: "I dont know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about..." — During an interview on "The Situation Room" this afternoon, John McCain told Wolf that he needs to "get up to speed" and stop reporting three-month-old news from Iraq. According to McCain …

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Kelly McCormack / The Hill:

Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton — Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.

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Ron Hutcheson / Real Cities:

Who is Monica Goodling? — WASHINGTON - Monica Goodling, the Department of Justice official who said Monday that she'll invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than talk to lawmakers, is a frequent figure in department e-mails released so far as part of the congressional investigation into the firings and hirings of U.S. attorneys.