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Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled to amp up a crowd at a Tuesday event featuring President Biden — imploring the attendees to “wake up!” The sparsely attended affair at a Hallandale Beach community center was the first of three events Biden was to hold in the Sunshine State seven days before the midterm elections. “You want to improve people’s lives? I bet some people in here want to improve people’s lives. Are you with me?” Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) asked the audience before the president took the stage. After a brief cheer from the crowd, the congresswoman and former head...

....Obama will speak at the United Nations and discuss a range of global issues before the General Assembly. He will also turn his attention to other important international issues, like the crisis in Syria.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has released a new tell-all book entitled Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Story in which the former California governor reveals “true life” stories, including his love child and cheating ways. NY Daily News reports that Schwarzenegger’s then wife, Maria Shriver, approached him the day he left office to confront him about the affair, which she only had a hunch about at the time.

ON THE WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF January 12, 1991 (from the Congressional Record) MR. BYRD: Mr. President, this is my thirty-ninth year in Congress. This is my thirty-third year in the U.S. Senate. I have cast a total of 12,822 votes during these thirty-nine years in Congress. This vote today troubles me. I have cast difficult votes before: For example, in the case of the Panama Canal treaties and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There are three or four votes that I regret having cast, one of them being my vote in opposition to the 1964 Civil...