Edwards Proposes Greenhouse Gas Plan

Former senator and democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speaks at the 30th annual Labor Awards Dinner in New York on Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The awards dinner, thrown by the Labor Research Association, honors those that have made contributions in support of the labor movement. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (Seth Wenig - AP)

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut is the only Democratic presidential hopeful to support the Reid-Feingold measure.

Addressing nearly a thousand people later in a high school gym, Clinton faced her harshest questioner of the day: a young woman who said she had traveled from New York to ask the senator whether she had read a 92-page intelligence document before her 2002 vote to authorize the war.

"I was thoroughly briefed on it. I was briefed on it," Clinton said repeatedly, as the woman tried to interrupt her. "I think it's such a difficult thing to go back in time and say what everyone was thinking.

"What I will say is I believed that what we were doing was giving the president the authority to put inspectors in Iraq. That's what we were told privately. That's what we were told publicly."

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) _ Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani called for a national campaign to achieve energy independence during a Missouri campaign stop Saturday.

The former New York mayor said a national program to tap new energy sources, akin to the 1960s technological race to beat the Soviets to the moon, would give Republicans a positive issue to stand for in the 2008 White House race.

"Too much of our party is defined by what we're against. Too little is defined by what we're for," Giuliani told a fundraising breakfast for Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the House minority whip.

"Energy independence, I think, is the single most important thing that's going to face us in the next four or five years aside from the terrorist war on us," he told about 200 Blunt supporters who paid $250 each for the event.

Blunt has not endorsed Giuliani or any other Republican for the presidential nomination, Blunt's spokesman said.

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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) _ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a GOP county convention crowd here Saturday that politicians in Washington aren't getting the job done as he pledged to cut government spending and push middle-income tax breaks.