SCHIP REDUX: The House passed a revised children's health insurance bill Thursday, but failed to get the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override while also angering California Republicans, many of whom were at home dealing with raging fires in their districts - Raju Chebium in the Home News Tribune and Lisa Friedman in the Los Angeles Daily News.
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Delaware Sen. Joe Biden trips over his own tongue again and is forced to clarifiy remarks he made about minorities and low-performing school systems, Nicole Guadiano reports in the Delmarva Daily Times.
LOCAL RACES: Don't expect t0 see too many congressional challenges in Tennessee, Bill Theobold reports in the Tennessean; and the Wisconsin GOP is raising money for a challenge against Democrat Rep. Steve Kage, Ellyn Ferguson reports in the Appleton Post-Crescent.
BILL INTRODUCTIONS, HEARINGS AND MARKUPS: Noelle Straub reports in the Billings Gazette on legislation by Sen. John Barrasso to block energy development on 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range; and Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was not invited to testify at a Yucca Mountain Senate hearing, Steve Tetreault reports in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
FARM BILL: Raju Chebium reports in the Vineland Daily Journal on a New Jersey Senator's proposal to create a crop-loss insurance program while eliminating ag subsidies.
GENOCIDE POLITICS: The House won't call up until at least next year a resolution delcaring the massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey a genocide, Lisa Friedman reports in the Los Angeles Daily News.
POKER POLITICS: Lisa Mascaro in the Las Vegas Sun reports on the growing political presence of online poker players.
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