Daily Democratic Wire 7-14-2009

George Wenschhof

Today, President Barack Obama will travel to Warren, Michigan - he will give a speech on education at Macomb Community College. He will talk about his 12 Billion effort to help Community Colleges train and educate our youth. You can read more here.

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Sotomayor does well on first day of confirmation hearings - the first day was mostly opening statements from Sonia Sotomayor and from Senators on the Judiciary Committee. Today, questioning begins at 9:30 AM ET. Expect equal rights and gun control to be issues of discussion from some Republicans today. TheHill.com has a schedule for the meetings this week and the highlights from yesterday here.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make policy speech tomorrow - she will be addressing the Council on foreign relations. Clinton will be discussing the efforts so far by the Obama administration in the area of foreign policy as well as the overall future foreign policy vision. Politico.com has more here.

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C.I.A. had plans to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders abroad - C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta ended the program upon learning of the existence of it recently. The plans were originally drawn up in 2001 according to a report by the NY Times. The NY Times has more here.

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House Democrats expected to release their version of health care reform today - the long awaited release will come as the Sotomayor confirmation hearing have the spotlight. However, expect the details of this bill to make the front page tomorrow of the mainstream media. You can read more here.

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