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9:25 PM ET, December 11, 2014

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Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus  —  It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don't have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus.  This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision.
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The Hill:
Funding bill struggles for votes as government shutdown nears  —  A $1.1 trillion bill to keep the government open appeared to be teetering Thursday after House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) announced her opposition and the package narrowly survived a procedural vote.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and PoliticusUSA
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown  —  House Republican leaders are staking on thin ice with the government funding bill, facing stiff opposition from the left and the right that threatens passage just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama  —  Liberal House Democrats are fighting tooth and nail against President Obama over the fate of an enormous year-end government spending bill.  —  With just hours to go before a scheduled government shutdown, the Democrats launched a lobbying blitz …
Discussion: Hot Air, Fox News and Ed Driscoll
Roll Call:
Lacking Sufficient Support, House GOP Leaders Delay ‘Cromnibus’ Vote
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
A Key Obama Treasury Nominee Now Needs Even More GOP Votes to Save His Job
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Open Carry Activist Charged With Shooting Ex-Husband And Stepdaughter Dead  —  A woman charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and stepdaughter has strong connections to groups advocating for expanding open carry gun laws in Texas.  —  Local news outlets on Wednesday reported …
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Julie Fancher / Dallas Morning News:   Woman charged with capital murder after 2 found dead in Arlington home
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart”  —  An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked.  UPDATE: Both Rudin and Pascal have apologized for the emails.  —  Danny Moloshok / Reuters
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race
Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem  —  Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
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Politico:
Backers: Romney more open to 2016 run  —  He has sounded unimpressed with the emerging GOP field, associates say.  —  For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again.  And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested.  —  Until recently.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Beverly Johnson / Vanity Fair:
Bill Cosby Drugged Me.  This Is My Story.  —  Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture.  He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched.
New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Defends Use of Interrogation Tactics, Avoiding Issue of Torture  —  Brennan on Tactics and Finding Bin Laden Brennan on Tactics and Finding Bin Laden  —  John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, said that information obtained from detainees that were subjected …
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Politico:
John Brennan defends CIA, won't say torture wasn't useful
Discussion: ABC News and The Dish
Reuters:
Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
Anthony Breznican / Inside Movies:
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ character names revealed (in coolest way possible) — exclusive  —  We finally got to meet some new characters in the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but now we're getting to put some names with the faces.  —  J.J. Abrams, the film's co-writer …
Texas Monthly:
And the Bum Steer of the Year Is . . .  Was 2014 the year of the Un-Bum Steer?  So many of our usual suspects behaved themselves (more or less) that we wondered if something was amiss.  Texas A&M didn't do anything too Aggie-like, the Dallas Cowboys were actually in the playoff hunt for a change …
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus  —  I'm hearing from two sources, including one Republican lawmaker, that Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.) provided one of the final, decisive votes needed to clear a crucial procedural hurdle because House leadership promised to pull …
Kasie Hunt / NBC News:
Rick Perry: Presidential Campaign's ‘Not an IQ Test’  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry says life experience is more important than book smarts in a president, telling NBC News he's not the same guy who ran in 2012.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone  —  George Packer argues in The New Yorker that journalism's big crisis is just a business crisis.  In the very first paragraph, noting the collapse of Rolling Stone's story about a violent gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity …
Robert W. Wood / Forbes:
Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting, Lerner Emails Reveal  —  Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn't over, and it may be worse than anyone thought.  A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface.
Discussion: Hot Air, Power Line and “The Lid”
Athena Jones / CNN:
Minority congressional staffers plan walkout in wake of Brown, Garner decisions  —  Washington (CNN) — Congressional staffers plan to walk off their jobs Thursday afternoon to show their support for the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in the wake of the decision by two grand juries …
Discussion: Truth Revolt and Mediaite
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Black Congressional Staffers Plan Ferguson, Garner Walkout
 
 
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George Will / National Review:
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Why the Club for Growth Is Changing Leadership
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Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time
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