(CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer(D-Md.) told Cybercast News Service Thursday that he does not think it would be "practical" to stop the war in Iraq simply by not allowing a war-funding bill to come up for a vote on the House floor. As majority leader, he has the power to do such a thing.Hoyer also said that U.S. troops in harm's way in Iraq need support from Congress.

On the Spot. (CNSNews.com) - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), if elected president, would be "ill-advised" to implement a new international agreement on global warming as he suggested in a recent speech, said Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho). Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), while not as dismissive as Craig about McCain's idea, nonetheless said he had a lot of questions about a new climate change plan.

On the Spot. (CNSNews.com) - A sampling of Senate Democrats expressed sharply divergent views yesterday on whether they would support Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) call to "fully repeal" the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which in the wake of this week's California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage as well as a similar 2003 decision by the high court of Massachusetts, would have the effect of legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - The Pentagon's Iraq war funds, which are used to pay for food and ammunition for soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, will run out if Congress does not quickly pass a supplemental funding bill, said Office of Management and Budget Director Jim Nussle at a conference Wednesday.Speaking before the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a conservative group in Washington, D.C., Nussle said that so far, Congress is doing nothing but hold U.S. troops hostage to pursue its domestic policy objectives.

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may lose the presidential election if he fails to win as many Hispanic votes as George W. Bush did, says Simon Rosenberg, who is president of the liberal New Democratic Network (NDN) and a veteran of the Dukakis and Clinton presidential campaigns.

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) - Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader told Cybercast News Service Thursday that he opposes nuclear energy, opposes expanded domestic oil drilling, and opposes the use of coal energy. Instead, he thinks Americans should scale down their energy use and get the power they need from the wind and the sun.Nader also accused his opponents in the presidential race of being "lip serving politicians."

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats are not rushing to endorse their colleague Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) for the vice presidential slot on the Democratic ticket this fall.A few declined to answer when asked by Cybercast News Service on Wednesday whether it would help or harm their party's prospects if Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) chose Clinton as his running mate.

(CNSNews.com) - Conservative lawmakers and activists are pressing the House of Representatives to hold a floor vote on the Broadcaster Freedom Act, a bill that would ensure that no future president could regulate the airwaves without an act of Congress.The bill is a preemptive effort to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that broadcasters airing opinion programs must also grant air time to those expressing an opposing viewpoint. The Fairness doctrine was in effect from1949 to 1987.

(CNSNews.com) - Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have said in recent weeks that U.S. oil refineries should be "socialized" -- that is, nationalized and run by the federal government. But Waters apparently is now backing away from those comments.In speaking to oil company executives at a May 22 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Waters tried to hold her tongue but nonetheless said: "This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh ... would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."