Washington Roundup
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have an audience with the possible future president today. The actors (who happen to be married to each other), along with CARE President Helene Gayle, are meeting with Sen. Hillary Clinton in her office to address international poverty issues.
Joystick gerrymandering
Now that he can play a video game about it, even your teen will hate gerrymandering. Game designer and USC professor Chris Swain, along with Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., debuted “The Redistricting Game” on the Hill on Wednesday.
Available free online at www.redistrictinggame.org, the player “begins with the fundamentals of population equality before being tasked with partisan gerrymandering.”
Try it at your next cocktail party.
More people, smaller cars
At an event to promote Ford’s new E85 SUVs Wednesday on the Hill, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., cut to the heart of the fuel economy issue: size.
“Do people in America want to drive the same-sized vehicles as China?” he asked. “Ask the American people, and they’ll give you the answer. No.”
