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Burris denied entry to Senate — (CNN) — Roland Burris was denied entry to the Senate chambers on Tuesday as he tried to claim the seat once held by President-elect Barack Obama. — Burris said the secretary of the Senate rejected his credentials, and therefore he would not be allowed access to the floor.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Roland Burris v Senate: Showdown live — Roland Burris of Illinois, rejected in his attempt to take a new seat in the Senate this morning, averted any public showdown by quietly accepting the refusal of his credentials inside the Secretary of the Senate's office on the third floor of the Capitol.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Rejects Burris in Spectacle at Capitol — Senate officials this morning rejected Roland Burris's effort to be seated as the successor to President-elect Barack Obama, telling the former Illinois attorney general that he lacked the requisite approval of state officials to be sworn …
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Senate Democrats put off plans to seat Franken — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yielded to Republican threats and agreed on Monday not to immediately seat fellow Democrat Al Franken, whose razor-close victory in Minnesota faces legal challenges.
Haaretz:
40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN school — Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. — The attack brought the Palestinian death toll to nearly 600 in Israel's 11 …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Hamas desperate for lull — As the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip entered its 10th day, Hamas has begun sending conflicting messages regarding its intentions. — These contradictory messages, Palestinian political analysts said, reflected the state of confusion in Hamas …
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Explosion in UN school kills at least 30 — At least thirty people were killed in an explosion in a UN-run school in the village of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports. There were reportedly also scores of wounded on the scene. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
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Washington Post:
Obama Picks Panetta as CIA Director — President-elect Barack Obama stunned the national intelligence community by selecting Clinton White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta, a longtime Washington insider with little intelligence experience, to serve as the next head of the CIA.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
REALLY A MYSTERY — From an observer up on the Hill ... And from a career intel professional ... I used to do a lot of intelligence reporting. But I haven't really done any to speak of in a few years. So I'm coming at this cold. But I feel instinctively suspicious of the congressional reaction to this appointment.
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:Panetta Gets Mixed Reaction From CIA Officials
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Wesley Loy / Anchorage Daily News:
Levi Johnston quits oil field job — PUBLIC SCRUTINY: Rules say he needs diploma for apprenticeship. — wloy@adn.com — Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to work …
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Senate bid by Jeb Bush iffy, friends say — Republican excitement over the prospect of Jeb Bush running for U.S. Senate has given way to increasing speculation that the former governor will stay out of the race. — Bush declined to comment for this article but was expected to make an announcement perhaps as early as this week.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Pelosi's power move leaves House Republicans fuming — House Democrats are poised to approve new rules that will significantly increase their authority while taking the bullets out of the few legislative weapons Republicans have in the lower chamber. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Doing It With Twitter — Incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan tries to hold onto his job and explain the future of conservatism: … Not only is this, as Steve Benen says, weirdly inadequate to the size of the conservative predicament, it just doesn't make any sense. I love Twitter.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:Aspiring RNC Chairmen Wonder: What Would Reagan Do?
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Washington Post:
Obama Pitches Stimulus Plan — GOP Asked to Help Design Bill; $300 Billion in Tax Cuts Sought — President-elect Barack Obama arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday and immediately set to work reassuring skeptical Republicans about his massive economic stimulus package …
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Guillermo X. Garcia / MySanAntonio.com:
Latinos push Obama on vacant post — READ — After the withdrawal of Bill Richardson's name as an Obama administration Cabinet nominee, Hispanic leaders say they expect the president-elect to name another Latino to head the Commerce Department. — An Obama transition team source …
Eliot Spitzer / Slate:
The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and buildings. — The incoming Obama administration and Congress are planning a huge fiscal stimulus package. They hope that such a stimulus will catalyze an economic turnaround and be a cornerstone of a “New New Deal.”
Washington Post:
Richardson, Obama Teams Trade Blame — Weeks before President-elect Barack Obama chose New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to head the Commerce Department, a small group of volunteers with ethics, tax and investigative expertise — most of them lawyers — scoured his background looking for embarrassing facts or political problems.
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Man in the Middle — Buzzzzzz. THE CELL PHONE rings again and Chuck Schumer flips it open. “I figured it out,” he says without preamble. “George Washington. If George Washington got indicted, you wouldn't pounce on the guy—you'd say he served honorably and now it's time for Alaskans to move on.”
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
A Conflict Hamas Caused — Nearly a year ago, I was in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where, on almost any day, you could see the current war coming. “The next Middle East war may start over Sderot,” I wrote back then. I came by my prescience the hard way — in a bomb shelter.
The Bagger / Carpetbagger:
It's Up to You New York, New York — With the headlines, and the Bagger's bank account, painting a dreary picture of 2009, it was nice to be someplace, specifically Strata restaurant in Chelsea, where abundance was still in, um, abundance. At the 74th annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards …
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
THE FIRST TEN SENATE BILLS. — A Democratic aide on the hill passes along the first ten bills that Majority Leader Harry Reid will put in the hopper this evening to kick off the new session of Congress, as sent by leadership to various Senate Legislative Directors.
Forbes:
Five Reasons Why India Can't ‘Do A Gaza’ On Pakistan — Israel has far fewer restrictions. — Over the last week, many Americans (and not a few Indians) have asked me why India does not “do a Gaza” on Pakistan, referring, of course, to an emulation of Israel's punitive use of force …
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