- Kent Conrad floats short-term debt ceiling extensions.
- Aid to Pakistan will likely last, but Diane Feinstein is questioning it.
- The country may be close to giving U.S. officials access to bin Laden’s wives.
- Nate Silver hypothesizes bin Laden’s end could make a small but lasting difference in Obama approval.
- NY-26’s special election is proving an interesting test case. This is what Democratic campaign ads look like post-Ryan’s “Path”:
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- Jeff Goldberg talks to Hillary Clinton.
- Peter Diamond will get a (committee) vote.
- Sheila Bair confirms she’s not interested in another term at the FDIC. Will Republicans demand an end to resolution authority before they confirm another head?
- This is the kind of thing the CFPB could take up.
- Exiting political life, Schwarzenegger and Shriver split.
- Reentering it, Gingrich puts Callista in the spotlight.
- Erick Erickson can’t trust Jon Huntsman.
- The waters rise in Memphis.
- And the Situation Room photoshoppers get carried away.