Political Digest Online http://www.politicaldigestonline.com The Spirit of the Republic Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:07:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Letter to Obama containing suspicious substance intercepted by Secret Service http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/xgno/~3/GFWTvHSRVUY/ http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/letter-to-obama-containing-suspicious-substance-intercepted-by-secret-service/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:07:00 +0000 Aaron C. Davis, Sari Horwitz http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/letter-to-obama-containing-suspicious-substance-intercepted-by-secret-service/2013/04/17/dd4b2152-a76e-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html?wprss=rss_politics A letter addressed to President Obama was found to contain a substance that initially tested positive for the toxin ricin, the FBI said Wednesday.

The letter, intercepted Tuesday by authorities at a remote White House mail screening facility, contained “a granular substance that preliminarily tested positive for ricin,” the FBI said in a statement. It said there was “no indication” of any connection to the bombings Monday that killed three spectators at the Boston Marathon.

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The news comes as controversy continues to swirl around Sanford and his personal life -- a process that began with his well-publicized 2009 affair but was inflamed, the Washington Post has learned, when one of the Sanfords' sons met Mark Sanford's former mistress for the first time the night he won the GOP nomination.

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]]> http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/gop-abandons-mark-sanford-ex-wife-says-sons-upset-over-encounter-with-former-mistress/feed/ 0 http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/gop-abandons-mark-sanford-ex-wife-says-sons-upset-over-encounter-with-former-mistress/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalDigestOnline/~3/W3qQq2zhrhg/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/xgno/~3/tAia2E2coc0/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalDigestOnline/~3/ngA1fu3CZJI/ History’s most cringe-inducing presser? It wasn’t Cohen’s. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/xgno/~3/wo1qB2TwU1U/ http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/history%e2%80%99s-most-cringe-inducing-presser-it-wasn%e2%80%99t-cohen%e2%80%99s/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:10:21 +0000 Emily Heil http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/historys-most-cringe-inducing-presser-it-wasnt-cohens/2013/04/17/dd98eba4-a77c-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_blog.html?wprss=rss_politics In our roundup Tuesday of some of the most embarrassing news conferences held by members of Congress, a list inspired by Rep. Steve Cohen’s recent oddball event in which he explained to the media why he had deleted a tweet to pop icon Cyndi Lauper, it seems we missed the granddaddy of them all.

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]]> http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/dan-pfeiffer-when-it-matters-most/feed/ 0 http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/dan-pfeiffer-when-it-matters-most/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalDigestOnline/~3/S8UBLEPUDp8/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/xgno/~3/24-WSo5GKXo/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalDigestOnline/~3/E9bBWqlBTsA/ The gun amendments need 60 votes to pass. But why? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/feedburner/xgno/~3/io7Y0t2idMQ/ http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2013/04/the-gun-amendments-need-60-votes-to-pass-but-why/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:04:17 +0000 Sean Sullivan http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-gun-amendments-need-60-votes-to-pass-but-why/2013/04/17/3539e2f8-a789-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_blog.html?wprss=rss_politics The Senate will begin voting Wednesday afternoon on nine proposed amendments to President Obama's gun control bill -- all of which will need at least 60 votes to be added to the overall legislation. That high bar seems certain to doom a high profile and bipartisan effort to expand background checks with even the architects of the amendment acknowledging Wednesday morning that the votes simply weren't there.

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