Politico is reporting that former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, forced to resign two weeks ago after a video surfaced that inaccurately portrayed her making racially biased comments during an NAACP event, says she will sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative pundit who leaked the video…
Unless Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) can strike a plea bargain with the House Ethics Committee in the next hour, members on the committee will convene to decide which charges to bring against Rangel in a trial that would likely begin in September.
This morning, Rangel, the fomer Ways and Means Chair, told a group of reporters that he hasn’t had a bad day since he survived a Chinese military attack in Korea 60 years ago, but said “today I have to reassess that.”
Rangel is 80-years-old. He has served in Congress for four decades.
The Senate will hold a cloture vote any minute on a bill aimed at providing relief to small businesses. However, odds of passage don’t look good. Senate Majority Leader Harry (D-Nev.) announced last night that talks between parties had broken down over the GOP’s insistence to have their amendments voted on. A group of Senate Democrats will address the media following this morning’s vote. My colleague Rob Sanna will have more on the story later…
Cloture Vote, Harry Reid, Senate, Small Business President Obama took a swipe at teacher’s unions during a speech to members of the National Urban League this morning. Obama said installing new performance measures for teachers would produce more accountability, and make the nation’s education system a better one. Critics of Obama’s “Race to the Top” plan claim that pushing states to focus on education will take away from programs that need more attention in this economy. My colleague Benny Martinez will have more on the speech in just a bit…
-Rob Sanna
Obama, education, teachers in Quick News Pathologists and forensic investigators are experiencing an influx of unidentified remains in the deserts around Tuscon, AZ and the U.S-Mexico border, according to a new report. Officials say the recent increase is due to the combination of high heat levels and more aggressive border patroling, forcing immigrants to cross the border in more desolate areas…
-Rob Sanna
Arizona, illegal immigrants in Quick News 
