House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents  —  The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today seeking hundreds of pages of new or uncensored records related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, officials said.

Bush inviting Dems to meet about Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday invited Democrats to discuss their standoff over a war-spending bill, but he made clear he would not change his position opposing troop withdrawals.  The White House bluntly said the meeting would not be a negotiation.

Nearly half of state's GOP voters polled favor Thompson  —  He's not a candidate yet, but 45 percent of those surveyed make him their top choice  —  WASHINGTON — Fred Thompson is by far the most popular potential presidential candidate among Tennessee Republican voters …

Kerry Forces Gingrich To Admit Inhofe Is Off-Base On Global Warming Science  —  Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) engaged in head-to-head debate this morning on global warming.  During the event, Kerry challenged Gingrich on his commitment to global warming science …

Defaults Rise in Next Level of Mortgages  —  Some of the problems afflicting mortgages sold to borrowers with weak, or subprime, credit increasingly appear to be cropping up in loans made to homeowners who were thought to be less risky.  —  The latest sign of possible further deterioration …

Smerconish on Imus: "I don't interpret it as a racist statement per se..."  —  It's interesting that only the beltway pols that go on Imus's show regularly are the ones trying to save his job...Of the ones that I can remember, not one of them, not Chris Dodd, (he's issuing a statement soon) …

Busted!... Multi-National Force Iraq Scores on Mainstream Media  —  It's refreshing to see the world's finest military win a battle on the media front!  —  Of all of the 1,800 plus articles published yesterday on the Al Sadr Anti-US-occupation protest in Najaf, Iraq, not one mentioned …

Gilchrest Seeking White House Deal on Iraq  —  A diverse collection of House Republicans has formed an ad hoc group to negotiate with the White House on a compromise Iraq spending bill, Politico's Ryan Grim reports.  The group plans to hold talks with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley …

Iran plans book, CD on Britons' detention  —  TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran plans to release a book and CD detailing the arrest and detention of 15 British sailors and marines whom Tehran blames for illegally crossing into Iranian waters, an Iranian military spokesman said.

President Bush Makes Remarks on the Iraq War Supplemental  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Good morning; please be seated.  Thank you for your warm hospitality.  It's a pleasure to be here at Legion Post 177, Fairfax, Virginia.  I appreciate you inviting me.

Producer: PBS dropped 'Islam vs. Islamists' on political grounds  —  The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.

CEO Pay Up 298%, Average Worker's?  4.3% (1995-2005)  —  There's been a lot of ballyhoo lately about ballooning executive pay, so here's a look at how CEO incomes rose over the years in relation to Joe Blow's paycheck.  —  It looks like while CEO pay rose 298.2% by 2005 …

When CEO Buys a Mansion, It's Time to Sell Shares  —  Judith Burns reports on a new signal to sell stocks.  —  With House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank pushing a bill to give shareholders more say on executive compensation, a couple of academic researchers suggest another …

Candor?  Call the Special Prosecutor!  —  Monica Goodling is not my kind of gal.  A graduate of two schools not known for partying (Messiah College and Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School), she would not be my ideal seatmate on a long airplane flight.

The Word From Up on High  —  Apologies for my absence yesterday, I was up in Boston, pretending I know something about politics.  Also there: Mark Halperin, late of the Note, who gave a brown bag talk at Harvard's Institute of Politics about the "problems" present in modern political journalism …