The Daily Digest: 7-31-07
Posted at 10:14 AM on July 31, 2007
by Tom Scheck
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The Digest is back from a long weekend vacation so I'll touch on some of the highlights today. I hope to have a broader, deeper digest again tomorrow.
Gov. Pawlenty tours drought damage in Central Minnesota.
He also talks SCHIP on the Newshour.
Congress
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison visits Iraq.
Lawmakers continue working on the Farm Bill.
The Ag Commissioner will be at FarmFest.
DFL Rep. Tim Walz and GOP Rep. John Kline differ on the Farm Bill.
Walz will visit Iraq in August.
DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar visits Greenland.
DFL Rep. Betty McCollum introduces legislation to prevent child marriages.
GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann doesn't like No Child Left Behind and supports legislation that would let states opt out of it.
DFL Rep. Jim Oberstar supports better safety standards at railway crossings.
2008
Stu Rothenberg says the GOP shouldn't underestimate Al Franken.
First District GOP candidates attend candidate school.
2008 RNC
St. Paul is one step closer to getting funding for the convention.
Comments (1)
From the Newshour discussion:
GWEN IFILL: Let me ask you about the funding alternatives. One is a tobacco tax. There are numbers going back and forth I think between 49 cents a pack, 61 cents a pack. Do you think that that's the right place to get the money?
GOV. TIM PAWLENTY: Well, on behalf of the National Governors Association, speaking for all of the governors, which is a bipartisan group, you might imagine that we have a full range of opinion about that. And so we decided it's not our place to tell them what to do with the tobacco tax, but we are advocating for sustaining and expanding the program. But on behalf of the NGA, the National Governors Association, we have stayed out of the tobacco tax debate.
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I wish I'd seen the video on that one. Also amusing is the way that Mike Leavitt sounds like Tim Pawlenty from two years ago with all the "welfare health care" rhetoric.
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