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Washington in 60 Seconds: Mark Sanford Found . . . Kissing a Woman
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, Capitolists! After a building-wide manhunt yesterday, The State newspaper found Gov. Mark Sanford kissing a woman in Columbia, S.C., who was not his wife. The woman was his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, whom the governor pecked on the cheek after seeing her at a victory party in South Carolina. It's an oddly happy ending to the year-long soap opera, but the drama is just getting started in Washington today. Here's what's happening, in the next 60 seconds. - Judgment Day. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, heads to the Situation Room today to discuss ...
Louisiana Oil Spill, Day 34: Anger Mounts as Cleanup Lags
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- Thirty-four days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Louisiana officials have lost patience with BP, the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers. "I don't have a crystal ball," said Craig Taffaro, St. Bernard Parish president. "But if I were a betting man, I would be betting that [BP's] plan is to let us die, then come back and do $75 million of cleanup, then close the book." That sum -- $75 million -- is the federally mandated cap for oil-spill clean-up expenditure. BP has promised to address the long-term needs of everyone affected by the spill, especially commercial ...
Offshore Drilling Projects Move Forward Despite Moratorium
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGovernment regulators have granted seven permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers since President Obama announced a moratorium on offshore drilling projects, the New York Times reports. On May 14, in response to the massive oil spill at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama announced a halt to new deepwater drilling projects and the end of the full waiver of environmental review BP received for its Deepwater Horizon rig. Since the well exploded on April 20, the Department of the Interior has granted 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and 17 ...
Interior Department Shakes Up Oil Agency in Wake of Spill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe troubled federal agency responsible for overseeing the safety and management of American offshore oil drilling will be split into two separate agencies, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday afternoon. The change is a part of a series of significant reforms Salazar will make to the agency in response to ongoing criticism of its performance and to the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which happened under the agency's watch. The agency, the Minerals Management Service, has about 1,800 employees and operates out of three regional offices under the ...
Administration Says It Acted Quickly on Gulf Coast Oil Spill
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs President Obama travelled to the Gulf coast to get a firsthand briefing on the massive oil spill threatening the coastline, administration officials took to the talk shows Sunday to insist that the government had acted quickly to try to contain the oil leak and minimize the chances of an environmental disaster. "The administration responded with all hands on deck from day one," said Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano on Fox News Sunday. " What happened is the situation itself evolved. The situation evolved from an explosion and a search-and-rescue mission to several days later ...
Obama Aide: No New Drilling Until Oil Rig Blast Explained
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith reports that floating oil from a huge spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana shores, a top aide to President Obama said Friday no "additional drilling" for offshore oil will be approved until investigators determine what caused the recent explosion on a deep water rig. In late March, Obama lifted a decades-old moratorium on oil drilling off the mid- and south-Atlantic coasts, areas in the Gulf not currently leased, and in waters off Alaska. But no new leases have been granted as yet, and White House adviser David Axelrod said "none will until we find out what has happened ...
Wind Farm off Cape Cod Gets Go-Ahead From Obama Administration
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA contoversial wind farm in Nantucket Sound offshore from Cape Cod has been granted government approval to generate renewable energy from the breezes blowing along the coastline. In Boston, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the 130-turbine Cape Wind project marked the "beginning of a new direction in our nation's energy future," the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Cape Wind expects to be generating power by 2012 and eventually provide 75 percent of the power to Cape Cod, Mass. But opponents of the project vowed to fight on. Members of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe on nearby Martha's ...
Washington's Dilapidated National Mall Gets a Needed Boost at Fundraiser
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyYoung D.C. professionals mixed and mingled Thursday night at a fundraiser for restoration of the National Mall, the beloved heart of the nation's capitol. The cocktail benefit was for the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service dedicated to restoring the Mall, which has become rundown due to lack of funding and 30 years of neglect. "This is America's front yard," exclaimed John "Chip" Akridge, the chairman of the Trust for the National Mall and of Akridge commercial real estate. "Our goal is to make the Mall the best damn park in the world." Speaking to ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Won't Run for Governor in Colorado
By Cliff Foster - Politics DailyInterior Secretary Ken Salazar will not run for Colorado governor and threw his support behind Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, The Denver Post is reporting. Salazar's announcement followed a decision by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter not to seek a second term in order to devote more time to his family. Salazar, a former state attorney general and U.S. senator, told the Post Thursday he made the decision late Wednesday night, and informed President Barack Obama that he would remain in the cabinet. "Colorado needs a strong, experienced leader with optimism and new ideas for carrying our state ...
Ritter's Departure May Improve Dems' Chances to Hold Governor's Seat
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne of the story lines in Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd's decision not to seek re-election was that it increased the Democrats' chances of holding his seat, and that may also be true in Colorado where first-term Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter said he would not run again according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Jan. 6. ...
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