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The vote was 10 to 7 with one Senator just voting present. Committee chairman Bob M*lander so announced the outcome. 

The resolution has agreed to as already fairly reported by the committee, 

report it to the full Senate which will take up the measure next week. There are Senators in both parties including Democratic Tom * who opposed the resolution even with its built-in limitations.

US military involvement no matter the limits at this point will likely only pull us towards greater involvement and with no clear endgame.

Before the final vote, the committee approved by partisan³ amendment⁴ to the resolution calling for a strategy to strengthen the moderate rebel groups fighting the Syria regime. Kr* NPR news, Washington.

Former president Bill Clinton is headlonging into Obama administration efforts. Now the public better understand the federal health law. NPR's * explains the public relations push come just a month before enrollment⁵ begins for new House insurance exchanges. 

In an yearly hour long address webcast from his presidential library in little rock, the former president laid out on link the case for the law and how it will help Americans go with health insurance and then without. 

For the underlined theme at his speech was a plead of Republicans to drop their opposition⁶ and worked to help fix the * which propped⁷ up so far and those that are willing in the future.

We will be better off, working together to make it work as well as possible, to identify the problems and fix them, instead of to keep replying the same old battles. 

That part clearly fell on deaf years where Republicans were quick to resume their call for defunding the measure before the end of the month. Julie Barbara, NPR news. 

Asians' Trade shortfall General measures as the difference between what US companies send abroad in an overseas firm ship to American shores wind in July. Governmental department reports the trade short fall grows by 13.3 % to $ 39.1 billion. senior  Financial.

Consumers in the US continue to spend so that's what's raising imports. We do have a little bit of a drag from slow global growth but I think export will pick up through the rest of this year. 

Analysts⁸ say in this case the gap may be due to Europe's recession signs of easy increased spending on the part of the US consumers. 

On the h* of a much larger outage last month, the Nasdaq stock market says a briefer outage took place today. Nasdaq says its security information processor which receives all the traffic on quotes in order suffered a 6-minute glitch⁹ but the problem was quickly resolved. 

On Wall Street today, stocks move higher beats and stronger auto¹⁰ sales numbers. Johns&Industrial Average was up 196 points. You are listening to NPR. 

Major US car makers¹¹ again on track to show strong sales gains in August had what is generally the strongest sales * for the industry. Based on an initial report, major car companies appear to be on paste to top 16 million vehicle sales and an angle lies basis. General Motors say its August sales up 15%; M* Kr* say their August sales both rise by 12% while Toyota says sales up 23%. 

The French and German presidents held hands in an emotional visit to a French village burned to the ground by the Nazis¹³ 69 years ago. NPR's * Bill reports. The days of answer testament¹⁴ the strong friendship now shared by the two countries bypassed words and passed patrons. 

News programs show President Francois Hollande hand and hand with German President Joachim Gauck as they toured the burned down ruins of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 as SS unit designated the village killing¹⁵ nearly all its inhabitants. The women and children were locked inside the church and were set on fire. Oradour-sur-Glane has been left as is its raised houses burned up cars and a tram truck that leads to nowhere now in open air warm memoir¹⁶. 

Hollande hailed dignity and being able to look Nazi¹² barbarism in the face and he called Franco-German friendship an example for the whole world. Alexandra NPR news, Paris. 

Car driven by none human operators has taken a Pennsylvanian Congressman¹⁷ from Cranberry¹⁸ Township to the Pittsburgh airport, a 33 mile journey without incidents. Computer operated catalog SXR model * transporting Republican Bill Shuster. The car designed by Carnegie Mellon was driven 65 miles an hour in times. I'm Jack¹⁹ NPR Speer news. 

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