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NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama’s economic and Israel policies. Republican Turner Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin in a special election Tuesday to succeed Rep. Anthony Weiner, a seven-term Democrat [...]

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The Hill: Wednesday’s Big Story: Top Obama administration officials are headed toward a high-profile clash Wednesday with House Republicans over the Energy Department’s decision to approve a $535 million loan guarantee for a now-bankrupt California solar panel company. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee will hear Wednesday morning from officials at the White House Office [...]

Sacramento Bee: WASHINGTON — Children 12 years old and younger soon will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Tuesday. The policy also includes other ways to screen young children without resorting to a pat-down that involves touching private areas on the [...]

Fox News: The White House said Monday that the President Obama’s proposed national infrastructure bank could back $100 billion to $200 billion in new state and local road, bridge, mass transit and other projects over the next decade–it hopes in more “public-private” partnerships with funding from private investors. That could increase the effective size of [...]

Los Angeles Times: An Arizona lawmaker best known as the author of a controversial law that cracks down on illegal immigrants will face a recall election Nov. 8. In a ruling Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the recall election of Russell Pearce, the president of the state Senate and arguably the [...]

The Hill: House Republicans are planning to widen the scope of an investigation into a California solar company that declared bankruptcy last month after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight panel, said Tuesday that he will examine a [...]

Zero Hedge: For those eager to put some math to the rhetoric coming from the White House over the president’s jobs creation plan, and that should be everyone, here is a quick and dirty estimate based on the numbers being thrown around of a 2% GDP increase in year 1 and 1.9 million jobs created [...]

ABC News: Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department’s deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a criminal investigation. The company’s solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president’s green [...]

The Hill: President Obama wants Congress to pass his jobs bill as is and quickly, but he would not veto individual bills if Congress broke the American Jobs Act into pieces. Senior administration officials said that if House Republicans were to separate the employee payroll tax cuts, for example, Obama would sign that bill and [...]

The Hill: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators for the first time Tuesday that she had no knowledge of a botched federal gun-tracking program while it was ongoing. In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Napolitano said she was first made aware of the Fast and Furious operation after U.S. [...]

Los Angeles Times: The U.S. Energy Department hopes that a new solar energy project will result in about 900 construction and permanent operations jobs. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today that his department had finalized a $1.2-billion loan guarantee to Mojave Solar for the development of the Mojave Solar Project. When complete, the 250-megawatt solar [...]