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Sen. McConnell Says Filibuster Of Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor Remains Possible
Appearing on CBS" "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-Ky.) said that Senate Republicans have not ruled out a filibuster on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, The Hill reports. Although McConnell acknowledged that he has "consistently opposed filibustering judges," he added that the "precedent was established" when Democrats filibustered Miguel Estrada, an appeals court nominee under former President George W. Bush. When asked to clarify his statement, McConnell added, "The Democrats have firmly established that as a precedent, but that doesn"t mean you are going to use it" (Blake, The Hill, 6/14). McConnell also said that it is "way too early to be talking about whether or not anybody opposes this nominee" (Schieffer, "Face the Nation," CBS, 6/14).According to The Hill, McConnell is the first top GOP senator to state that a filibuster is a possibility, as most other Republicans have said only that it is too early to determine if it should be an option. Republicans "face a difficult path" if they choose to filibuster Sotomayor because party members have long decried judicial filibusters, The Hill reports (The Hill, 6/14).

New York Times Examines Varying Definitions Of 'Pandemic'
"The new swine influenza virus [H1N1], which appeared suddenly after years of warning about a potential pandemic of avian influenza, upset the WHO"s assumptions that most people have the same understanding of the word pandemic," says the New York Times in a report that examines the difficultly health experts have had when attempting to agree upon what constitutes a pandemic.
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Interest Groups Crowd Airwaves, Pursue Lawmakers
"The increasingly heated fight over health-care legislation is saturating the summer airwaves, with groups on all sides of the debate pouring tens of millions of dollars into advertising campaigns designed to push the cause of reform forward, slow it down or stop it in its tracks," the Washington Post reports. So far, drug makers, labor groups, Democrats and Republicans - among others - have spent $52 million to finance the ad campaigns, a heady start that could lead to a "record-breaking legislative battle."
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G8, African Leaders Agree To Strengthen Water Access Partnership

G8 and leaders from Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and the African Union on Friday announced an agreement to strengthen their partnership to improve access to water in Africa, Ennahar Online reports (Oudina, 7/10). The increasing lack of water res and low sustainable access to water and sanitation in several African countries significantly slows development, wealth creation and the eradication of poverty, according to a statement released by the leaders, Xinhua reports. "Through the joint political weight of the G8 and the [African Union (AU)], we will ensure adequate momentum and commitment on water and sanitation improvements at national and international levels, for concrete results on the ground," the document said. It added that African countries, led by the AU, would continue working to make water-related Millennium Development Goals a "top development priority," according to Xinhua. G8 countries will assist African countries with the development and implementation of national water and sanitation plans, the document said. "The countries pledged to continue working to consolidate and develop their cooperation with a view to present a strengthened Africa-G8 Partnership on Water and Sanitation by the end of 2009," Xinhua writes. "The Africa Water Week due to take place in November in South Africa might provide an opportunity for tangible progress toward our common goal of meeting our water and sanitation challenges," according to the statement (7/10). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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