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2:45 PM ET, January 7, 2014

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Burgess Everett / Politico:
In surprise, unemployment benefits advance  —  In a surprise, several Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning joined with Democrats to break the filibuster of a bill to extend unemployment benefits for three months.  —  By 60-37, Senate Democrats secured the votes needed to advance the bill …
Discussion: CNN, Slate, Taylor Marsh and The Raw Story
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Morning Plum: Republicans reframing fight over unemployment benefits  —  With the three month extension of unemployment benefits set for a Senate vote this morning, multiple Republicans are going all in on the suggestion that they would support extending benefits if only it were paid for.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama calls for unemployment extension as measure clears key Senate hurdle  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama Tuesday amplified his calls for extending emergency unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, saying that passing the measure should be Congress' “first order of business in 2014.”
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Jobless Benefits Extension Clears One Hurdle, but More Remain  —  WASHINGTON — A Democratic push to extend unemployment benefits that have expired squeaked past a Republican filibuster Tuesday, setting off intense negotiations to find a way to pay for the program and win over a skeptical House leadership.
Speaker.gov:
Boehner Statement on Jobs
CNN:
Democrats get Republican help to get unemployment bill over first hurdle
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows  —  Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia.  They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.  The case was unsolved, until now.
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Michael Isikoff / NBCNews:
After 43 years, activists admit theft at FBI office that exposed domestic spying
Discussion: Yahoo! News
CNN:
Angry Dennis Rodman defends North Korea basketball game  —  (CNN) — Basketball star Dennis Rodman defended his controversial visit to North Korea with a team of former NBA players in a combative exchange Tuesday, saying it was a “great idea for the world.”  —  In an exclusive interview …
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Spitzer caught sucking Lis Smith's toes in topless hot tub romp  —  Sleazy Eliot Spitzer turned a resort hot tub into a steamy love cauldron over the weekend — kissing and sucking the toes of his topless mistress, Lis Smith, in front of families with children, mortified witnesses told The Post.
Larry J. Sabato / Politico:
Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year  —  A definitive guide to the 2014 elections from our new columnist. … Another midterm election beckons, and over the next 10 months we'll see headlines about a thousand supposedly critical developments—the “game changers” and the “tipping points.”
Yahoo! News:
Obama backs repeal of law that green-lighted Iraq War  —  The law that green-lighted the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq is still on the books - but maybe not for much longer if President Barack Obama has his way, the White House said Tuesday, two years after he declared that war officially over.
Discussion: emptywheel
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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
How Janet Yellen's Agenda Could Transform Washington  —  The next Fed chair is an old-school progressive economist.  Just wait until she starts sharing her passions.  —  Every Federal Reserve Board chairman comes into office with a secret agenda, a hidden passion.
Discussion: New York Times
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate confirms Yellen at Fed
Discussion: Hot Air
Richard Pollock / Washington Examiner:
Surprise!  Walmart health plan is cheaper, offers more coverage than Obamacare  —  WATCHDOG OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE ACCOUNTABILITY WALMART  —  New Obamacare health insurance enrollees may feel a pang of envy when they eye the coverage plans offered by Walmart to its employees.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Joshua Stewart / GPB:
Senate Conversations: Paul Broun ‘Fighting For Liberty’  —  The primary race for Georgia's open U.S. Senate seat heats up in the first weeks of 2014 with the election looming May 20.  —  For Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens), the race is all about liberty.  —  “What I'm fighting for is liberty.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Christie heralds DREAM Act as message to Washington  —  Union City, New Jersey (CNN) - Flanked by Hispanic leaders, students, and immigration reform advocates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie celebrated the signing of his state's so-called DREAM Act on Tuesday, hailing the new law …
Discussion: Riehl World News
Bloomberg:
Ghosts of Burke and Paine Still Haunt U.S. Politics  —  Sometimes the deepest differences in politics aren't about the conclusions people draw but the way they reach them.  —  The British statesman Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American revolutionary Thomas Paine both favored free trade, for example, but for different reasons.
David Freddoso / Conservative Intelligence Briefing:
Ten freshman governors who have shrunk their states' bureaucracies  —  In 2010, Americans went to the polls and elected a whole crop of new governors — 26 in all, if you count the election of governors who had previously served non-consecutive terms in Iowa and Oregon.
Alan Duke / CNN:
What the heck is a polar vortex?  —  (CNN) — Americans in two dozen states from the Midwest to the Southeast and Northeast are shivering this week courtesy of a distorted polar vortex.  The rush of cold air it's sending southward is the biggest visitor from the North Pole since Santa Claus.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Gingrich: ‘Life Was Fine’ During Warmer ‘Age Of The Dinosaurs’  —  Newt Gingrich, a self-proclaimed “amateur paleontologist,” said Monday that the Earth's rising temperature is not a major issue.  —  “The age of the dinosaurs was dramatically warmer than this is right now and it didn't cook the planet …
Amanda Hess / Pacific Standard:
Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet  —  “Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.”  That's what women are told.  But these relentless messages are an assault on women's careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online.
Discussion: The Switch and The Verge
ThinkProgress:
New York City Murders Are Twice As Likely To Be Solved When The Victim Is White Instead Of Black  —  As the number of homicides dropped in New York City in the 1990s, so, too, did the percentage of murders considered solved.  But in boroughs outside Manhattan with a large number …
Discussion: Liberaland
Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Ezra Klein floats weakest global warming analogy ever? … The Washington Post's Ezra Klein does have a point.  This week's cold snap doesn't by itself disprove global warming.  We just wonder where Klein has been every time someone blames global warming for any day it's hotter than usual out.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Dems launch ads attacking GOP on O-Care
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The Roanoke Times:
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Stuart Jeffries / Guardian:
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz's dad backs tea partier Katrina Pierson for Sessions' seat
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Gabe LaMonica / CNN:
Leading Republican jumps into hot House race
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KTAR:
Suit filed to allow same-sex marriage in Arizona
Karl Bergholz / ABC News:
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