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6B – Daily News – Monday, January 24, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING House leader: Americans are beyond questioning citizenship WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Republican House majority leader says he doesn’t think questions about President Barack Obama’s citizenship should play a role in the discussion of policy matters. Two years into the Obama administration, so- called birthers continue to argue that Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and that he hasn’t proved he’s constitutionally qualified to be president. Birth records in Hawaii haven’t dissuad- ed them. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question. ‘‘I don’t think it’s an issue that we need to address at all. . It is not an issue that even needs to be on the policy-making table right now whatsoever,’’ he said. Republicans push for vote on repealing health care WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side. ‘‘We need to have a vote on it because we promised the people we would,’’ Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday on ‘‘Face the Nation’’ on CBS. ‘‘We have to have a vote on repeal so that everybody is on record whether they want to repeal.’’ Republicans took con- trol of the House after November’s elections and last week voted, as promised, to repeal the health care law. Only three Democrats joined all Republicans in the 245-189 vote to scrap the law. In the Senate, Democrats retained majority control, even though the 53-47 split is narrower than the advan- tage they held before November. Two of those votes come from indepen- dents who caucus with the Democrats and support the health care law overall. Moreover, Senate measures usually require a 60-vote majority to advance. While Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who controls the Senate agenda, has said such a bill won’t come to a vote, Republican leader Mitch McConnell repeated his promise that a repeal vote will indeed take place. Woman who raised child surrenders HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a parole violation charge Sunday, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby. Ann Pettway surren- dered Sunday morning to the FBI and Bridgeport, Conn., police on a warrant from North Carolina, FBI supervisory special agent William Reiner said. Pettway, who has family in Bridgeport, was on pro- bation because of a convic- tion for attempted embez- zlement and wasn’t allowed to leave North Carolina. She remained in custody in Bridgeport on Sunday after- noon and couldn’t be reached for comment. North Carolina officials said Friday they believed Pettway was on the run from authorities. Correction officials had tried repeated- ly to contact Pettway after finding out investigators wanted to question her in the 1987 abduction of the infant, Carlina White, who’s now grown and has reunited with her long-lost family. The Department of Cor- rection said Sunday it will seek Pettway’s extradition to North Carolina. GOP looks for a new approach WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say they want to hear less about everything they’ve been hearing for the past two years when President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address. Less spending and less of a government hand in trying to solve America’s problems, GOP lawmakers said on the talks shows Sun- day, two days ahead of Obama’s speech. More about anything? Yes, reducing the federal debt. ‘‘The president needs to pivot,’’ said Senate Republi- can leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. ‘‘He obviously saw what happened in the November election and is trying to go on a different direction.’’ In his own preview, Obama told supporters in a video released Saturday that he will focus on economic issues, particularly jobs, as the economic recovery creeps along and unem- ployment hovers above 9 percent. Daily News Home Delivery Customers! D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNT Y SINCE 1885 ONLINE E-EDITION IS REGISTER NOW! Sign up by February 1, 2011 and avoid any future charges for e-edition access as long as you are a home delivery subscriber. It’s our way of saying THANK YOU for Subscribing to the Daily News print edition! • Access every page of the Daily News print edition from any computer, 24/7 • Access back editions to December, 2009 • Open, print, email and copy stories and ads! FREE REGISTRATION IS EASY! Just go to the online edition portal at www.redbluffdailynews.com or type this URL into your browser www.epageflip.net/title/5441 Not a home delivery subscriber? Go to the same location online for online-only subscription information subscription to the Your FREE