First Word: Senators reach agreement to avert filibuster fight

After a long partisan fight, Senate Democrats and Republicans struck a deal to avert filibuster changes and confirmed Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama praised Cordray’s work during his recess appointment. “Thanks to the hard work of folks at the CFPB, so far 6 million Americans have gotten more than $400 million in refunds from companies that engaged in unscrupulous practices.”

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• The 71-29 cloture vote on Cordray’s nomination highlighted a split between the Senate GOP’s old guard and new guard

• Sen. Ted Cruz’s tweet about the deal to avoid changes to filibuster

• Good health-care news for the Obama administration

• House Republicans are set to vote on delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate by a year

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• President Obama also said he wants a path to citizenship included

• If House GOP votes “against immigration reform or boycott the process,” they will the 2016 presidential election

• Boehner and Cantor endorse DREAM Act principles

• Democrats pursuing immigration bill are counting on help from Rep. Paul Ryan

• Vladimir Putin: U.S.-Russia relations greater than Edward Snowden

• Perry Bacon notes how Eric Holder is much more willing to talk about race than Obama is

• Mike Enzi said he was not notified by either Liz Cheney or her father about her intentions

• Cheney’s video where she takes aim at President Obama

• Why Republicans are annoyed by the Liz Cheney candidacy

• Will the Republican Party push Gov. Tom Corbett out of next year’s race?

• Sen. John McCain doesn’t like being called a maverick

• A new Quinnipiac poll shows that the scandal hitting Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has taken a toll on him

• Nine months after Superstorm Sandy, victims still struggle

• A National Journal poll finds 67% of people support the Keystone XL pipeline

• Hillary Clinton continues to lead in hypothetical matchups for 2016

• Masssachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says he won’t run for president in 2016

• Christine Quinn’s on the front page of both the New York Post and New York Daily News

• San Diego Mayor Bob Filner scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a benefit for sexual assault victims

• Controversial Rolling Stone cover of Boston Marathon bombing suspect

• Russian lawmaker slams Lindsey Graham’s call for Olympics boycott

• U.K. legalizes gay marriage

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