Roundup: Jobless activist lobbies alone
* The Huffington Post reports that Connie Kaplan, an unemployed New Yorker who has exhausted her jobless benefits, has launched a one-woman grassroots campaign to lobby for more aid.
* Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) still hopes to pass an energy bill this year. Platts reports that the lawmaker wants narrow legislation that could set renewable energy requirements.
* A Florida judge has rejected a ballot initiative that would let the state override the federal health care mandate, calling the ballot's language misleading, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
* A candidate supported by the tea parties has defeated incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the Republican primary in Alaska, the Los Angeles Times reports.
-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org
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