Good morning.
It's a busy day on Capitol Hill, which usually isn't the case in August.
The House will convene this morning to begin debate on HR 1586, the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, which will provide much-needed funding to states to save jobs -- including the jobs of approximately 160,000 teachers. The GOPers are, of course, vehemently opposed. After all, they created the economic crisis, why should they help anyone impacted by it? The final vote should occur sometime this afternoon. It should pass.
The President is going to make remarks this morning from the Rose Garden about why the House should pass that bill.
The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens may have been on a plane that crashed in Dillingham, Alaska:
Friends of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said he was traveling Monday to the GCI-owned Agulowak Lodge near Lake Aleknagik, and they were concerned for him.So, busy day ahead...
A woman who answered the phone at the Anchorage home of retired Air Force Gen. Joe Ralston, a good friend of Stevens, said Ralston was with Stevens' wife, Catherine, comforting her and trying to find out what was going on
