• Will Air Quality Rules Put Power Reliability At Risk?
• BY: Daniel Lippman   |   February 8, 2012
• Do new air quality rules announced by the EPA raise the risk that some electrical utilities could have reliability issues in keeping the lights on? That was a chief question debated by attendees at a utilities forum in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

• Senate Struggles to Pay for Highway Programs
• BY: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   February 8, 2012
• The U.S. Senate was scheduled to take up a bill to extend federal highway and transit programs later this week even though Democrats were still struggling Tuesday to find a way to pay for the programs.

• House Panel Approves Keystone Pipeline Bill
• Source: The Hill   |   Nation   |   February 8, 2012
• The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would reverse President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The bill is the latest GOP-led effort to advance the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline that they call a way to create jobs and boost energy security.

• Santorum Sweeps Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado Primaries
• Source: Politico   |   Nation   |   February 8, 2012
• Rick Santorum dealt an embarrassing setback to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign Tuesday night. Santorum defeated Romney by 30 percentage points in Missouri; in Minnesota, Santorum took 45 percent to Ron Paul’s 27 percent and Romney’s 17 percent.

• South Carolina Sues Feds for Blocking Voter ID Law
• BY: The Associated Press   |   South Carolina   |   February 7, 2012
• The U.S. Justice Department was wrong to block South Carolina from requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote, the state's top prosecutor argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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• Obama Announces Funding for Science and Math Teachers
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Nation   |   February 7, 2012
• Prior to President Barack Obama's hosting of the White House Science Fair, the White House announced a series of new funding opportunities and priorities focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers.
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• DHS Appoints Public Advocate for Immigration Enforcement
• BY: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   February 7, 2012
• The Homeland Security Department has appointed a public advocate to handle complaints and questions about its immigration enforcement policies.
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• Congressional Earmarks Sometimes Used to Fund Projects Near Lawmakers' Properties
• Source: Washington Post   |   Nation   |   February 7, 2012
• Thirty-three members of Congress have steered more than $300M in earmarks and other provisions to dozens of public projects that are next to or near the lawmakers’ own property, according to a Washington Post investigation. Under ethics rules Congress has written for itself, this is both legal and undisclosed.
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• Congressional Members Push for State and Local Control of Education
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Nation   |   February 6, 2012
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB) represented an unfortunate overstep of the federal government’s role in education, members of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce told National School Boards Association (NSBA) attendees Monday.

• Defense Cuts Test Lawmakers' Resolve on Deficits
• BY: The Associated Press   |   February 6, 2012
• President Barack Obama's call to shrink the military, shut bases and cancel weapons to meet the demand for budget cuts tests the resolve of lawmakers who came to Washington determined to slash the deficit.
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• Romney Leaves Nevada Win with Potential to Unite GOP
• Source: Reno Gazette-Journal   |   Nevada   |   February 6, 2012
• Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney rolled to victory in Nevada’s Republican presidential caucus Saturday, giving him back-to-back victories within four days and increasing his momentum heading into key states including Colorado, Arizona and Michigan.
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• AP Analysis: Border Patrol OT Up As Arrests Drop
• BY: The Associated Press   |   February 4, 2012
• Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.

• Obama Seeks $5B to Help Hire Veterans
• Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek   |   Nation   |   February 3, 2012
• President Barack Obama will renew a request for $5 billion in his 2013 budget to encourage local law enforcement agencies and fire departments to hire military veterans who have served since the Sept. 11 attacks.

• Obama Boosts Offshore Wind-Farm Plans
• Source: USA Today   |   Mid-Atlantic   |   February 3, 2012
• Federal environmental reviews for "wind energy areas" off Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia are now complete and find "no significant environmental impacts" from their development. That finding clears the way for companies to seek leases. Wind power has expanded quickly in the United States but all of that growth has occurred onshore.

• Senate HELP Committee Explores Making College More Affordable
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Nation   |   February 2, 2012
• Following up on ideas introduced by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held an initial hearing Thursday to further explore how to make college more affordable.
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