There are several things that might happen today----
THE HILL: Dissatisfied by the White House’s offer to grant congressmen private interviews with administration officials, conducted with neither oaths nor transcripts, Democrats yesterday vowed to move forward on subpoenas of Karl Rove and other senior aides linked to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.....
....The House Judiciary subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. attorneys is slated to vote today on whether to subpoena Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and two of their deputies, while the Senate Judiciary panel has scheduled its vote for tomorrow. Subpoena authorizations allow the Judiciary chairmen, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), to hold off on issuing the summonses until their standoff with the White House reaches a point of no return....
“There is absolutely no reason or precedent I’ve ever heard of that the persons we’ve asked for could not be interviewed [freely],” Conyers said, adding that calling Democrats disappointed by the offer “may be an understatement.”
Beacon News: Republicans and Democrats alike sternly warned the FBI Tuesday that it risks losing its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists because of rampant abuses of the authority.
The threats were the latest blow to the embattled Justice Department and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is already on the defensive and fighting to keep his job over the firings of federal prosecutors.
The warnings came as the department's chief watchdog, inspector general Glenn A. Fine, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority to issue national security letters, which resulted in illegally collecting data from Americans and foreigners......
San Francisco Chronicle:Al Gore wowed moviegoers and Hollywood elites with his Oscar-winning documentary on global warming. Today, he faces a far tougher audience in Congress.
The 2000 Democratic Party presidential nominee will testify about the urgency of addressing climate change in two appearances on Capitol Hill before panels that include skeptics of the sort that Gore probably hasn't encountered on the red carpet.
For instance, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, senior Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, once called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people." The other witness scheduled to appear at the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Business School, who asserts that global warming is real but argues, "The trouble is that the climate models show we can do very little" about it.
Gore's appearance is part of an ambitious Democratic effort to elevate energy as a top-tier domestic policy cause, alongside health care. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco created a special Select Committee on Climate Change when Democrats took over in January. Several bills related to climate change have been introduced in the Senate in the past two months.....
This might be a good day to watch C-SPAN and MSNBC News.