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The Democratic National Convention will be broadcast simultaneously in Spanish and English on the party's convention website, and highlights of the convention will be available on Comcast Corporation's Video on Demand platform, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced today.

Comcast, the convention's official cable provider, will produce the streaming simulcast for Demconvention.com, giving "live, gavel-to-gavel Spanish-language interpretation of all Convention activities," according to the committee.

Additionally, Comcast will place convention highlights in its on-demand platform, which lets cable subscribers play video segments at any time from a Comcast menu on their televisions. Spanish-language content will be available through the platform as well.

The convention committee says Spanish coverage will make the event more inclusive and accessible.

"With Spanish as the primary language of approximately 35 million Americans - not to mention the more than 300 million Spanish-speakers outside the United States - offering bilingual coverage of the Convention makes more people feel welcome under the Democratic Party's 'big tent'," Texas State Senator and Convention Co-Chair Leticia Van de Putte said in the committee's release.

The convention will be held in Denver, August 25-28. See The Hill's coverage on our Democratic Convention site here.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is back in the Senate Tuesday. Clinton will attend votes and the Senate Democrats caucus lunch, her office says.

This is Clinton's first appearance back in the Senate after ending her presidential bid and endorsing Barack Obama. Clinton will make her first joint campaign appearance with Obama Friday in Unity, New Hampshire.

John McCain has taken hits recently from liberal bloggers, including kos, over his understanding of the Internet.

One of McCain's Web staffers, Mark Soohoo, was asked yesterday in New York whether the candidate even uses a computer. Here's Soohoo's response, courtesy of the Guardian:

"You don

In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine, John McCain listed Islamic extremism as the greatest threat to the U.S. economy.

When asked about the "gravest long-term threat to the U.S. economy" by Fortune Editor at Large David Whitford, McCain replied, "Well, I would think that the absolute gravest threat is the struggle that we're in against radical Islamic extremism, which can affect, if they prevail, our very existence. Another successful attack on the United States of America could have devastating consequences."

The Fortune piece suggests McCain tries to tie national security to issues more prominent in voters' minds -- like the economy and the war in Iraq -- because those issues are problematic for him.

"When the topic is economics, the same fire isn't there--at least not yet," Whitford writes in the piece.

-Beth Sussman

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) today called on President Bush to declassify information regarding plans for U.S. military bases in Iraq, expressing concern about speculation of permanent bases.

The administration's critics have speculated that Bush intends to establish permanent bases, as the administration pushes for a security deal between the U.S. and Iraq. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq, has denied any such plans.

In a letter to Bush today, Waxman asked that "in light of these [Crocker's] statements, I respectfully request that you exercise your authority under Executive Order 12958 to declassify information regarding the plans for military bases in Iraq."

"Mr. President, many Americans believe that a plan exists to establish military bases in Iraq that will remain indefinitely.

President Bush on Monday, the 36th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, welcomed WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury to the White House, but failed to mention the landmark law.

When Barack Obama apologized in person last week to two women at a rally in Detroit wearing head scarves, he did it only after Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), one of two Muslim members of Congress, confronted him about the incident. An Obama campaign volunteer removed the women from Obama's backdrop so they would not appear behind him on camera.

Sources tell Betsy Rothstein, editor of The Hill's In the Know, that Ellison confronted Obama last Thursday during a closed-door meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

Holding the numbers of the two women, Ellison told Obama the actions of his volunteers were wrong, saying his campaign needed to maintain an air of openness, not discrimination.

The conversation got so heated that CBC Chairwoman Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.) banged her gavel to try and quiet Ellison. Obama though asked Kilpatrick to let Ellison speak.

After Ellison finished, Obama told the caucus that he regretted the incident, but said that he had not ordered the women to be removed. Following the meeting, Obama called the women to apologize.

An Ellison spokesman says the meeting satisfied the Minnesota lawmaker's concerns.

Barack Obama cannot be serious about expanding nuclear power, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today, as he opposes building the nation's first permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel.

"If you

A Rasmussen poll finds that a majority of Americans want the United States to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is a position that Barack Obama has taken.

In the poll of 1,000 likely voters, 56 percent said they support renegotiation of NAFTA while just 16 percent oppose it. John McCain has also argued against reopening the free trade deal, which involves the United States, Canada and Mexico.

When asked whether free trade is good for the U.S. economy, 34 percent say that it does while 36 percent said that it does not.

Blue America PAC, a liberal online group, has raised more than $310,000 to oppose the rewrite of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and to target House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).

"After [former Rep.] Dick [Gephardt] (D-Mo.), former Democratic House Leader, betrayed the majority of House Democrats and plotted with [President] Bush, [Vice President] Cheney and some Blue Dogs to thwart the will of the majority and rubber stamp Bush