Morning Buzz: May 11, 2007

By U.S. News Staff

May 11, 2007 RSS Feed Print

Iraqi officials are now visiting the United States to lobby individual members of Congress in an attempt to shore up support for the war, the AP reports.
Meanwhile, the war spending bill caught in the crossfire between President Bush and Democrats in Congress now faces an uncertain future.
The major Democratic candidates--Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards--now all say they support a measure that would allow shareholders in public companies to cast an annual, nonbinding vote on whether the executives' pay is excessive.
In the third day of testimony in the criminal trial of a Marine captain facing charges related to the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, officials indicated that they did not originally see a need to further investigate the incident.