The Daily Background

Senate
Another Department of Justice document dump (related to the US Attorney scandal) is expected to be released to the Senate Judiciary Committee today, consisting of perhaps 1,000 pages. The contents are unknown and these are not subpoenaed documents, as far as anybody knows.

House
The House of Representatives is expected to return on April 16th.

Iraq
3,296 (3,294 yesterday).

The week ahead
On Monday, the FEC is expected to release First Quarter fundraising records from all the Presidential candidates who will have turned them in by that point. There will likely be some interesting analysis done, and analysts will surely be interested in knowing the answers to the following questions:

How much of Hillary’s fundraising was from big dollar events? What effect did Edwards’ cancer announcement have on his fundraising? How much momentum does Rudy have? Did anybody outside of Boston and Utah donate to Mitt Romney’s campaign? Has there been a steady decline in John McCain’s donations that is comparable to the steady decline in his poll numbers? How many of Barack Obama’s 100,000+ donors gave five dollars?

By Tuesday, the Department of Justice is supposed to turn over redacted and restricted documents to Congress as per a subpoena related to the US Attorney scandal.

On Wednesday, the Attorney General will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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