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Energy
Drill, with care, in ANWR and everywhere
USA TODAY
Editorial
Americans are closer to energy self-sufficiency now, and less dependent on hostile oil-exporting nations, than in decades, thanks largely to drilling decisions made years ago. The decisions made today will shape energy production in 2025 and beyond. Barring a technological breakthrough, leaning toward more drilling, not less, remains the way to go.
Permitting, prices holding back new pipelines
FUEL FIX
Jennifer Dlouhy
The United States needs more pipelines and rail lines to move crude, natural gas liquids and other fuels to consumers nationwide, but regulatory delays and the decline in oil prices are making it tougher to build that essential infrastructure, energy industry representatives warned Congress on Tuesday.
EPA: Cheap oil raises Keystone’s climate impact
POLITICO
Elana Schor
The EPA gave President Barack Obama a road map for rejecting the Keystone XL on Tuesday, warning that the pipeline could drive up production from Canada’s oil sands and worsen climate change. … [Obama’s] recent comments on Keystone have showed he was skeptical of the benefits that its backers say the pipeline would offer the U.S., and the EPA’s statements could provide him with a policy rationale to deny it the needed permits.
As Oil Prices Climb, Some Harbor Doubts
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Nicole Friedman
Crude prices rose to the highest level this year amid signs a global supply glut could ease, but some investors and analysts said the worst of the oil rout may not be over.
Technology
Obama’s Favorite Internet Provider Hates His Net-Neutrality Plan
NATIONAL JOURNAL
Brendan Sasso
A city-owned Internet provider touted by President Obama for its blazing-fast speeds is now lobbying against his plan for net-neutrality regulations.
Sources: Wheeler to extend net neutrality to wireless
POLITICOPRO (Subscribe)
Brooks Boliek
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose a net neutrality plan this week that regulates broadband like a utility across both wired and wireless services, according to sources familiar with the chairman’s thinking.
Net neutrality rules could lead to legal quagmire
USA TODAY
Mike Snider
The Federal Communications Commission can expect pushback in Congress and the courts after it makes official its move to regulate the Internet like a public utility to prevent fast lanes on the Internet.
White House readies cyber executive action
THE HILL
Cory Bennett
The White House is expected to release an executive action next week expanding administration efforts to facilitate cybersecurity information sharing between the private sector and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). … The White House, which is calling the plan an “executive action,” not an executive order, will likely detail a strategy to clarify how private companies can share cyber threat data with the DHS’s cyber info hub, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC).
Obama’s Former Cyber Advisor: Private Sector Can’t Wait for Government
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Rachael King and Clint Boulton
“I think it’s imperative that we in the private sector take the lead, instead of waiting for the government and waiting for Congress to do things,” he said Tuesday at the WSJ CIO Network conference. If the private sector can’t lead, he added, government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are “chomping at the bit” to do more regulation for the Internet.
Europe’s Expanding ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
NEW YORK TIMES
Editorial
European officials are pushing an idea that will encourage autocrats everywhere to demand greater censorship on the Internet. They want companies like Google and Microsoft to abide by the European Union’s recently recognized legal principle of a “right to be forgotten” not just in the 28 countries of the union but everywhere.
Finance
TARP Watchdog Isn’t Ready to Pack It Up
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Ryan Tracy
The U.S. has largely ended its financial-system rescue program and exited from the lion’s share of its investments, yet the watchdog created to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program continues to grow. The White House, in its budget request sent to Congress on Monday, is seeking a $48 million budget for the special inspector general for TARP. That amount would be a $2 million increase over this year’s estimated spending level.
Politics
Big Gap in College Graduation Rates for Rich and Poor, Study Finds
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Melissa Korn
College completion rates for wealthy students have soared in 40 years but barely budged for low-income students, leading to a yawning gap in educational attainment between rich and poor that could have long-lasting implications for the socioeconomic divide. In 2013, 77% of adults from families in the top income quartile earned at least bachelor’s degrees by the time they turned 24, up from 40% in 1970, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy and the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. But 9% of people from the lowest income bracket did the same in 2013, up from 6% in 1970.
The Weird Vaccine Panic
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Editorial
Let’s chalk up the weird science of Messrs. Paul and Christie to a lack of information, and we’re happy to send them 13 years of vaccine editorials if they want to study up. The not-so-great measles vaccine debate of 2015 is one of those events that makes us wonder if there is such a thing as human progress. But then we live in America, so we know there’s hope.
Walker’s Wisconsin Budget Has a National Message
NEW YORK TIMES
Monica Davey
Gov. Scott Walker, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday proposed a new spending plan for Wisconsin that relies on borrowing and spending cuts, including deep reductions to state universities, and steers clear of tax increases. Mr. Walker called for drug testing for people applying for some public assistance; the merging of several state agencies and the elimination of 400 state jobs, some of which are vacant; and an end to a cap on students’ attending private schools with taxpayer-funded vouchers.
For Christie, a trip to boost foreign policy portfolio has little talk of foreign policy
WASHINGTON POST
Philip Rucker
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie began an overseas trip Sunday exclaiming how much he loved being back in London, one of his favorite cities to visit. The Republican ended it Tuesday by refusing to answer questions lobbed at him all day by reporters. Journeying to England for three days to polish his foreign-policy résumé ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign, the likely candidate ended up having little to say about foreign policy.
Senate Democrats Recruiting Past Picks to Run Again In 2016
NATIONAL JOURNAL
Alex Roarty
Senate Democrats are turning to tried-and-true veterans over fresh-faced alternatives in marquee races, and not everybody in the party is thrilled.
‘Reformicons’ Put New Twist on Tax Debate
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Bob Davis
A group of young conservatives, dubbed “reformicons,” are making inroads among Republican presidential candidates by arguing the party’s traditional reliance on broad-based tax cuts, GOP orthodoxy for a generation, isn’t enough to cure middle-class woes. … While it is unlikely any would-be Republican nominee would turn his back on tax cuts as a primary tool for encouraging growth, a few have been consulting with this crowd and incorporating their ideas into their thinking. Among them are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry .
Why 3 House Republicans Voted Against Repealing Obamacare
ROLL CALL
Emma Dumain and Emily Cahn
The defectors’ rationale? They might hate Obamacare, but Republicans still haven’t put forward a legislative proposal that would act as a substitute in the event the law ever got repealed.
GOP majority faces problems as Democrats block bill to fund DHS in immigration fight
WASHINGTON POST
Sean Sullivan
The Republican-led Senate tried — and failed — to move ahead on a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security but strip it of money for Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The Republicancontrolled House again voted to repeal Obama’s sweeping health-care reform law, a symbolic move that stands no chance of taking effect. And in both chambers, Republicans sought to shoot down Obama’s $4 trillion budget in advance of releasing their own plans.
Draft of Arrest Request for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home
NEW YORK TIMES
Simon Romero
Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a request for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, the lead investigator into his death said Tuesday.
