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The New York Times reported today that:

A senior official at the federal Education Department sold more than $100,000 in shares in a student loan company even as he was helping oversee lenders in the federal student loan program.

The official, Matteo Fontana, now general manager in a unit of the Office of Federal Student Aid, was identified yesterday from government documents as a stakeholder in the parent company of Student Loan Xpress who sold shares in 2003.

Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, reacted to the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today saying, "If anyone still harbored doubts that carbon dioxide was a pollutant that affects human welfare after the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday, the second IPCC report of the year released today should put any doubt to rest.

Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their fourth assessment report on the the present stage of climate change around the world entitled, "Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability." It provides a rigorous analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems, what the impacts will be in the future and how far adaptation and mitigation can reduce these impacts.

Of the report, Speaker Pelosi said:

Today, the Washington Post published an editorial attacking Speaker Pelosi's bipartisan delegation trip to the Middle East. In a telling sign, the poisonous editorial contradicts the Post's own reporting on the Speaker's visit to Syria.

The Facts

Speaker Pelosi accurately relayed a message given to her by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to Syrian President Assad.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) released the following statement in response to GOP criticism of efforts to standardize the grammar and use of terms in the Fiscal Year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act:

Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha:

Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman writes to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan requesting emails stored on Republican National Committee servers related to the use of federal resources for political purposes. Full letter:

April 4, 2007

Mike Duncan

Chairman

Republican National Committee

310 First Street, SE

Washington, DC 20003

Dear Mr. Duncan:

Today, Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey made the following remarks at a public forum at the University of Wisconsin in response to the President's attack on Congressional Democrats yesterday: