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Last December I was on a panel with Democrat State Rep. Greg Porter and Republican Sen.

FRIDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers.

IRAN UPDATE; MORE ENSIGN PROBLEMS; THUNE MOVING UP; VA GOV RACE TIED; SPECTER HOLDS WIDE LEAD.

Before the next "Franken case decided any minute now!!" rumors start, let's put to bed this Thursday in politics.

SUN FILE PHOTO Jon Porter Sun Blogs Politics: The Early Line Washington - Republican Jon Porter is having a great legislative year.

University Medical Center Transplant Administrator Karen Watnem, surrounded by patient files, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has fully recertified the hospital's kidney transplant program.

Construction continues this month on the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, seen here from the Arizona side of Black Canyon.

If you have read or listened to the partisan spin coming out of Washington, D.C., lately, it's all about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and what she knew about the "enhanced interrogation techniques." Pelosi, the first woman to hold a major leadership position on Capitol Hill, has been under fire from just about everyone with a megaphone or a blog.

State has put millions behind routing traffic around Boulder City despite few benefits for those costs Sam Morris If many in Boulder City have their way, traffic will be diverted from U.S. 93, above, around town.

My colleague Alex Isenstadt wrote last week about the Republicans' recruiting troubles in Nevada, where the party has still not found a viable challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies even as it raised some questions about the speaker's credibility.

Let us turn our attention today from the train wreck unfolding in Carson City to another engine that has run off the tracks: The Republican Party's effort to end the career of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Published: Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6:12 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6:12 p.m. WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leaves the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, after meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss healthcare.

"To the contrary ... we were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used," she told reporters, referring to a formal CIA briefing she received in the fall of 2002.

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Congressional Republicans on Friday accused Democrats of full complicity in the approval of the Bush administrationa s brutal interrogations, citing a new accounting that shows frequent briefings for some top Democrats on waterboarding and other harsh methods starting in 2002.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend a May 26 fundraiser in Las Vegas for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Photo by The Associated Press The Political Eye blog: Gibbons praises Buckley for stance on taxes, tea party participants Dawn Gibbons has a message for the Legislature: Override my husband.

"I think it's a turning point in the country's history. The challenges are tremendous, but there's optimism out there that government can do good things and that individuals can serve their country again." REP.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a fixture in the Nevada Legislature for 20 years before being elected to Congress last November, was a guest of honor in her former chamber Tuesday for induction into the Nevada Senate Hall of Fame.