Morning Update: Religion Looms at Debate
Mike Huckabee apologized to Mitt Romney after yesterday’s Republican debate, saying he was sorry for raising questions about Romney’s Mormon faith. The Los Angeles Times reports that the events again pushed religion to the fore of the discussion over the Republican nomination battle.
Republican Rudy Giuliani’s campaign released a plan to expand U.S. involvement in the global economy yesterday, which included increasing the number of H1B visas for skilled foreign workers, reauthorizing the president’s fast-track trade promotion authority, and completing the Doha round of trade talks.
All four Democratic senators running for president yesterday urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform bill recently passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee the “base bill” to be voted upon on the Senate floor. The new FISA bill “enhances judicial oversight of broad new surveillance authorities, contains protections for innocent Americans, and does not provide immunity to telecom companies that allegedly cooperated with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program,” said the Senators’ press release.
