Daily Briefing: 'Total Amnesia' Edition

•House approves repeal of estate tax, 272 to 162.Hulshof: "The death of a family member should not be a taxable event, period." [ WP , NYT ]

•Pentagon "doesn't have a system" to "determine with any degree of reliability and specificity how we spent" emergency war funds. [ USAT ]

• DeLaybacks off comments about retaliation against "activist" judges: "It was taken wrong. I didn't explain it or clarify my remarks, as I'm clarifying them here. I am sorry that I said it that way, and I shouldn't have." [ WP , WT , NYT , LAT , USAT ]

•"At least 39 members of Congress have engaged in the controversial practice of paying their spouses, children or other relatives out of campaign funds, or have hired companies in which a family member had a financial interest," according to theLAT. [ LAT ]

• Shaysoutcast after calling forDeLayto go. [ WP ]

•House Resources Committee okays ANWR drilling. [ WP ]

•Democrats on Senate Foreign Relations Committee delay vote onBoltonto ask more questions. [ WP , NYT , LAT , USAT ]

• Lotthas rebounded from fallout of segregation comment; he "has made a determined effort to ingratiate himself with some of the Senate leaders who helped depose him -- although his relationship with the White House appears to remain strained." [ WP ]

• Chertoffwants organizational fusion. [ NYT ]

• GingrichthinksHillarywill be "very formidable" nominee in 2008: "I think any Republican who thinks she's going to be easy to beat has a total amnesia about the history of theClintons." [ NYT ]