Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Senator Franken's sweaing in.
Splitting Seconds -- Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France
ABC's Christophe Schpoliansky reports from London: U.S. cycling legend and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is tonight in 2nd position overall of the 96th Tour de France, just a few thousandths of a second behind the still leader...
Sarah Palin: 'Fighter... next fish run'
by Mark Silva and updated with ABC and FOX talks
'I knew that everything changed on Aug. the 29th,'' says Sarah Palin, the resigning governor of Alaska who was chosen as the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee last year. "That was the day I was tapped.''
Reporters caught up with Palin at "a remote fishing village'' in Alaska where husband Todd Palin's family has run a commercial fishing operation for years, a favorite Fourth of July weekend resort for Alaska's first family -- which became a lame-duck first family on the eve of the Fourth, when Palin abruptly announced her resignation..
Allowing that she may not have political staying power after her surprise resignation Friday, Palin told Kate Snow on ABC's Good Morning America: "I said before ... 'You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it.''
NBC's Andrea Mitchell offered this account this morning, asking Palin, wearing overall waders and jumping out of a boat on a beach 300 miles from Wasilla, if, now that she is stepping down as chief executive 18 months before the end of her first term as governor, she can envision herself running for president in 2012:
"I don't know what the future holds,'' said Palin, smiling on the shore of the remote waters of her home state. "Can't predict what the next fish run is going to look like, much less what's going to happen in the next few years....''
So why he she resigning on July 26?
"I knew that I wasn't going to run for election,'' Palin said. "The choice I had to make was how I was going to react.''
She cited "the political game that's being played right now,'' all of the ethics complaints that her administration has had to defend against since she returned to Alaska as the failed GOP vice presidential nominee. ""I think that some people may not be fully aware of all the conditions. We have sat down with many reporters and we have shown them how it has cost thousands of hours in time and thousands of dollars.''
She personally has "a legal bill of about a half million dollars, but that's not the consideration,'' said Palin, who also has a book deal that should be worth a few million dollars to her next year. "The consideration is how it affects the state....''
pretty darn independent, and not get wrapped up into a strong political machine that hasn't been extremely successful in some ways."
In the media swarm around Palin out there in the salmon-fishing grounds, the outgoing governor told Dan Springer of the FOX News Channel: ""I do not know what the future holds...
""I want to work, right now, for people who are going to work in office or out of office for the right things,'' Palin said. "Those principles that built up America, those who are inspired by the values of America, and will not deride or apologize for the values we hold as Americans. I'm gonna work for those people."
"Knowing I was not going to run for reelection... I knew I wasn't going to run again, so I was going to be honest with Alaskans,'' she said, pressed about quitting in the middle of the stream. "You're not listening to me...''
Was it difficult to readjust to 'the nitty gritty'' of government in Alaska following the brief national run that she enjoyed last year? "You mean like the fish slime and the dirt under the finger nails?'' she replied. "No... I am a fighter, I thrive on challenge.''
The family "vote'' cast for the resignation was unanimous, Palin has said.
And Todd Palin, who now has become a lame-duck "first dude,'' told Mitchell the family has "no doubts at all.''
New Funding Rules Issued On Stem Cell Research
The National Institutes of Health says it deems stem cell lines eligible for government research dollars if scientists can prove they meet the spirit of the new ethics standards. An NIH registry will list all that qualify. The rules settle the question of whether new ethics requirements would disqualify many of the stem cells created over the past decade.
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