IRAN SANCTIONS DEAL: Congressional negotiators have come to an agreement on new Iran sanctions legislation.
PERRY’S PRAYER AMENDMENT: Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants a constitutional amendment to advance school prayer.
SANDERS’ PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT: Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks with Wolf Blitzer about the constitutional amendment he introduced to undo the Citizens United decision and end the concept of corporate personhood. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) is behind a companion amendment in the House.
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LIEBERMAN AFFIRMS PALESTINIAN-NESS: Responding to Newt Gingrich’s assertion that Palestinians are an “invented” people, Sen. Joe Lieberman said that “Palestinian peoplehood is a reality today, and we have to both respect and deal with that reality as we try to resolve a conflict between two peoples.”
WHEN GINGRICH MET ARAFAT: A photo has turned up of when Newt Gingrich clasping hands with a post-Oslo Yasser Arafat, a meeting during which the current presidential contender reportedly offered the Palestinian leader some governance advice.
DRAWING LINES IN RHODE ISLAND: Rep. David Cicilline, a Jewish member of Congress and the first gay mayor of Providence, is taking some flak from a Democratic colleague over the way in which the state’s congressional districts have been redrawn.
WAS REAGAN PRO-ISRAEL?: Haaretz’s Chemi Shalev suggests that compared with Ronald Reagan’s “often roughshod treatment of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir” President Obama has been “a Zionist-loving pussycat.”
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