The debate surrounding the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline has provoked ire from environmentalists and politicians alike. Foreign Policy's Steve LeVine weighs the opinions on both sides, and concludes that the truth is less absolutist than it appears.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140085934/the-nation-who-will-prevail-in-pipeline-politics?ft=1&f=1057

Gingrey, Phil Gohmert, Louie Gonzalez, Charles A. Goodlatte, Bob Gordon, Bart

The rebel fighters have Moammar Gadhafi's forces pinned down in the coastal city of Sirte and say they have until this Saturday to surrender or face a rebel offensive.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140070513/libyan-rebels-set-deadline-for-surrender?ft=1&f=1004

Blackburn, Marsha Blumenauer, Earl Blunt, Roy Boccieri, John A. Boehner, John A.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times
So the big, bad storm huffed and puffed and didn’t blow all the houses in.Reversing Katrina, on the sixth anniversary of that shameful episode in American history, the response to Irene was more powerful than Irene.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/08/31/what_price_life_262591.html

Barton, Joe Bean, Melissa L. Becerra, Xavier Berkley, Shelley Berman, Howard L.

Is Tha Carter IV, greeted with disappointment by many, the beginning of a new phase for the rapper?

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/08/30/140056801/lil-waynes-aggressive-softcore?ft=1&f=1057

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President Obama traveled to Minneapolis Tuesday and addressed the annual national conference of the American Legion. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Mara Liasson for more.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140070127/obama-addresses-american-legion?ft=1&f=1003

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The two leading GOP presidential candidates got a warm welcome at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in San Antonio this week. Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney both boasted of their support for the military and aimed their vitriol at President Obama.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140070129/veterans-discuss-romney-perry?ft=1&f=1014

Boyd, Allen Brady, Kevin Brady, Robert A. Braley, Bruce L. Bright, Bobby

Vice President Joe Biden has let his tongue slip while in China, making some shake their heads. Though the current administration has said it's just a misunderstanding, Ellen Bork of The Weekly Standard thinks its more evidence of incompetent leadership.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140053855/weekly-standard-biden-embarrasses-america-again?ft=1&f=1057

Bishop, Sanford D. Jr. Bishop, Timothy H. Blackburn, Marsha Blumenauer, Earl Blunt, Roy

Would you eat a steak grown in a laboratory? Science writer Michael Specter examines the progress scientists have made in developing test-tube meat. "Depending on what your definition of any sort of life is, this is as fundamental as any animal is," he says.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat?ft=1&f=1007

Dent, Charles W. Deutch, Theodore E. Diaz-Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Dicks, Norman D.

The Obama administration is considering several new ideas to help shore up the struggling housing market. As first reported by The New York Times this week, one proposal would allow homeowners with government-backed mortgages to refinance them at the current, lower interest rates. Host Scott Simon talks with Columbia University's Christopher Mayer, who helped introduce the mortgage refinancing proposal in 2008.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/27/139990500/obama-considers-new-solutions-for-the-housing-market?ft=1&f=1014

Cohen, Steve Cole, Tom Conaway, K. Michael Connolly, Gerald E. Conyers, John Jr.

Living well inland in Mississippi, Pamela Landry didn't get any storm-surge damage during Katrina, but the wrath of the hurricane's wind destroyed her mobile home. The money she received from the state wasn't enough to buy a home, so she decided to put two sheds together to live in.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/29/139921719/after-the-storm-a-fight-for-recognition-housing?ft=1&f=1003

Hall, Ralph M. Halvorson, Deborah L. Hare, Phil Harman, Jane Harper, Gregg