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What should our priorities be for the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight? What hearings would you like to see? What contract or program needs additional oversight? What laws, regulations, and policies need to be changed? I'll need all the suggestions and support I can get -- I'll draw heavily on your input as we move forward toward a system that better serves the government and the taxpayer. -Senator Claire McCaskill

"A Student Debt Strike Force Takes Off Debt-and the shame that surrounds it-is the tie that binds the 99 percent. Can young people reimagine it as something productive, rather than a tool for profiteering? "

Narrated by Ed Asner.

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008.

"Vice President Joe Biden is predicting that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will win Senate confirmation with "strong bipartisan support.""