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A Fight for the Presidential Library • Still no word on whether New York or Chicago will land President Obama’s presidential library. According to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the president’s heart is really in the Windy City where he got his start in politics as a community organizer and state senator. But in January, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet reported that Durbin said “there are way too many loose ends” to make a decision. Both the University
of Chicago and the University of Illinois/ Chicago have submitted bids, but the land they proposed to use belongs to the city. Durbin warns Chicago “underestimates the intensity and professionalism of the offer from New York.” The New York bid
comes from Obama’s undergraduate alma mater at Columbia University, which owns the land it is offering not far from Harlem. The University of Hawaii also has put in a bid.
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Jim Webb Recovers From Shrapnel Wound • It appears Democratic presidential prospect and former Sen. Jim Webb, 69, long suffered aftereffects from his military service in Vietnam. Webb was a company commander in the Marine Corps in 1969 when he was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade. Webb would later go
on to serve as secretary of the Navy for nine months toward the end of President Ronald Reagan’s second term. In January, he had a knee-replacement procedure on the shrapnel- damaged joint. Webb is soon expected to return to the political arena. He has formed an exploratory committee to test the waters for a possible challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. “He’s out of the hospital
and recovering quite well,” Webb spokesman Craig Crawford said. He added: “The upside is he can catch up with the new season of Downton Abbey.”
Atheists and Agnostics Lack Representation • According to Pew Research, Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons are over-represented, in the sense that their share of the seats in Congress is higher than their percentage of the U.S. population overall. But nearly 1-in-5 Americans has no religious identification. It appears those without
any religious affiliation are experiencing taxation with almost no representation. Only one member of
Congress is self-described as religiously unaffiliated: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. The survey also notes
that seven members of Congress are ordained clergy.
Obama Sets Record for Executive Memos • Obama frequently touts that he’s issued a record low number of executive orders. But what he doesn’t mention is the fact that he’s signed the most presidential memoranda in history — some 198 of them. Other presidents have averaged about 50 presidential memoranda during their terms. Memoranda send direct
orders to federal agencies that have sweeping effects on immigration, law enforcement, and environmental regulations. According to USA Today, when both are combined, Obama is set to issue more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman.
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