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Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent out an email Monday inviting colleagues to a “bipartisan congressional prayer service,” as a tribute to the victims of Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz. shooting that left six dead, many injured, and Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition. (more)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn defended a massive increase in state income taxes passed by lawmakers Wednesday and promised to quickly sign the measure to help heal the state’s ailing finances. (more)

Texas Democrat Rep. Rubén Hinojosa said Monday that he is open to joining Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Robert Brady in support of a bill to curb speech that could be perceived as “threatening” to public officials. (more)

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s comments about the root cause of Saturday’s shooting of Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have elicited mixed reactions in the press. (more)

1.) Two Democrats announce plans to overreact to Tucson massacre — A little more than 24 hours after a lone gunman attempted to assassinate Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killing and wounding more than a dozen others in the process, two Democratic representatives announced their plans to further restrict Americans’ freedom. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed and her son injured in a subway car shooting, wants to renew a Clinton-era ban on large ammunition magazines, as well as investigate the type of ammunition used by deranged (and possibly schizophrenic) shooter Jared L. Loughner. “Looking at the number of clips that he was able to fire, from 15 to 20 rounds, we need to look at those and say, ‘Why should an average citizen be able to have that?’” McCarthy told Newsday. “If you have a semiautomatic and can’t take someone down with a standard clip, you shouldn’t have one.” Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Robert Brady would like to make it “a federal crime for a person to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a Member of Congress or federal official.” When asked by CNN if he honestly expected his colleagues to join him in defecating on the First Amendment, Brady replied, “Why would you be against it?” (more)

On Fox News Sunday, political commentator Juan Williams spoke out against pointing fingers and blaming the right for Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz. shooting that left six dead, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in serious condition, and many more injured. (more)

Here’s one way to go above and beyond as an intern: Save your boss’ life. (more)

Roxanna Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green who was shot dead at a Tucson, Ariz. event Saturday, has pleaded with the country to “stop the violence, stop the hatred,” according to an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday morning. (more)

Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old gunman who allegedly shot Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head, killed six and injured many others at a Tucson, Ariz. public event Saturday, had prior run-ins with the law in the form of at least one arrest, according to two Public Access documents obtained by The Daily Caller. (more)

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others were shot Saturday when a gunman opened fire on a public event at a Tucson, Ariz. grocery store. Several national news outlets confirmed Giffords’ death shortly after the shooting but local news station KOLD subsequently reported that she is in surgery. (more)

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — The waiting game continues for former Illinois Gov. George Ryan and his family as they hope he’ll be released from prison to visit his wife, who is in intensive care with cancer. (more)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he isn’t ruling out a possible presidential run in 2016. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California’s 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the one he led then. (more)

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Billy the Kid, the Old West outlaw who killed at least three lawmen and tried to cut a deal from jail with territorial authorities, won’t be pardoned, Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday, nearly 130 years after the gunslinger’s death. (more)

HONOLULU (AP) — Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger landed in the governor’s office after announcing his upstart bid on late night TV and railing against government spending during raucous campaign rallies — at one playing a spirited round of air guitar to the rock anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” (more)

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court delivered another stinging setback to Republican Joe Miller, refusing to overturn election results that favored his GOP rival, Lisa Murkowski, in the state’s U.S. Senate race. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections. (more)

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Joe Miller is taking his challenge to the Alaska Senate race to the state Supreme Court. (more)

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A judge has all but ended tea party-backed Republican Joe Miller’s hopes of getting legal relief in state court in his long-shot challenge of how the state counted write-in votes for incumbent Lisa Murkowski in their Senate race. (more)