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* The Clinton campaign will still trail Obama’s fundraising totals by quite a bit, but this<\/a> is an extraordinarily impressive one-day haul: “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign said Wednesday afternoon it was \u201con track\u201d to raise $10 million in online donations in the 24 hours since the Pennsylvania primary was called in her favor.”<\/p>\n * Big vote tonight<\/a> in the Senate on the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” which passed the House nearly a year ago. Expect floor action in about a half an hour.<\/p>\n * Speaking of the Ledbetter bill, Clinton and Obama will return from the campaign trail to vote for the measure. John McCain, who has barely shown up for work in over a year, will not<\/a> be there.<\/p>\n * Karl Rove’s lawyer concedes that Rove received requests to have Patrick Fitzgerald fired<\/a>, but he didn’t follow up on them. Hmm.<\/p>\n * There’s a surprising amount of interest<\/a> in whether Clinton won Pennsylvania by 10 points, 9.4 points, or 9.2 points.<\/p>\n * McClatchy<\/a>: “The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who’ve attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800. ‘The suicide rate is a red-alarm bell to all of us,’ said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Murray also said that the VA’s mental health programs are being overwhelmed by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, even as the department tries to downplay the situation.”<\/p>\n * Why am I not surprised<\/a>: “You didn’t think that John Yoo would come easily, did you? Earlier this month, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) invited Yoo to testify to the committee about his time as the administration’s point man for authorizing the use of torture in interrogations. Now Yoo, through his lawyer, is saying that he’s not coming.” * The NYT’s Thomas Friedman was attacked today — with a pie<\/a>.<\/p>\n * The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but “almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners<\/a>.” Incredible.<\/p>\n * A little something<\/a> CNN executives should have read before hiring Tony Snow.<\/p>\n * It’s going to take a long time to clean up Bush’s scandalous mess at the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>: “The Union of Concerned Scientists said that more than half of the nearly 1,600 EPA staff scientists who responded online to a detailed questionnaire reported they had experienced incidents of political interference in their work.”<\/p>\n * The latest cover of The New Republic really is a cheap shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n* Something to keep an eye on<\/a>: “House Republicans Wednesday began circulating a discharge petition to force a vote on the Senate version of a bill seeking changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”<\/p>\n