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April 23, 2008
April 23, 2008RNC Spokesman Alex Conant released the following statement today: "Barack Obama cannot have his waffle and eat it, too. Today, Obama promised a 'different kind of politics' on a radio show, and then at a campaign rally less than 30 minutes later, continued to dishonestly misquote John McCain. Barack Obama is right: these sorts of distorted negative attacks will only erode his support." Full release
Yesterday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Bush concerning high energy prices and energy legislation for 2008. The full text of the letter is available at http://speaker.house.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=0620. U.S. natural gas prices were $2.38 per million BTUs (MMBtu) in 1999 and stand at $10.78 per MMBtu today - an increase of 450 percent. Full release
Responding to criticism leveled between Maine's First Congressional District candidates on campaign financing, the nonpartisan campaign reform group Public Campaign Action Fund weighed in to urge voters to evaluate candidates on what they have pledged to do to fix the broken campaign finance system. Full release
Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to House Republican Leader John Boehner on the worsening economic conditions and the need to work together "on an economic recovery package that will be enacted swiftly." Full release
Spouses of presidential candidates are employed in campaigns more strategically and intensively than ever before. New research by political scientists concludes that the ability of presidential and vice-presidential candidates' spouses to act as campaign surrogates may contribute to the successes and failures on the campaign trail. Full release
John McCain wrote just yesterday to supporters that it's important to understand what struggling families are going through because "[b]y understanding the challenges -- and they are enormous -- that these Americans face today, I will be a far better president." [McCain campaign email, 4/22/08] But it's clear from McCain's own words that he has no idea what struggling families face. Yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, a town that has been devastated by the changing economy, McCain compared the low point of his primary campaign to people who literally can't pay their mortgages or put food on the table. Full release
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, applauded Democratic accomplishments for small businesses so far during the 110th Congress. As detailed in a report released by the Democratic Policy Committee, for the first time since President Bush took office, Democrats secured the first real funding increase for small business programs in seven years, passed legislation to help small businesses become more energy efficient, increased business assistance to our veterans and reservists, and promoted bills to boost the innovation and competitiveness of small firms. Full release
His Majesty King Abdullah II stressed the importance of US support of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations during the coming months and its role to overcome impediments to progress in talks between both sides aimed at reaching a peace agreement that addresses various final status issues and leads to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Full release
In a case challenging repeated, lengthy and abusive border stops of American citizens upon their return to the United States after traveling abroad, a federal magistrate judge in Chicago has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disclose to the named plaintiffs whether or not their names appear on the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). Full release
As polls closed across Pennsylvania this evening, the Election Protection Coalition reported receiving over 1,000 calls to the Voter Protection Hotline throughout the day. The Coalition entered more reports into its election reporting database than in any previous state primary, including primaries earlier this year in California, New York and other populous states. Full release