Political Grapevine: 11/3

" And now some fresh pickings from the political Greg -- Monday we told you detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility may get H1N1 vaccines before many American citizens. During today's White House briefing press secretary Robert Gibbs was emphatic saying --"

" There is no vaccine in one town -- there's no vaccine on the way to. So and I'll probably from the front. I don't know what pentagon. That's said that and I know -- and asking yesterday whether or not there was any vaccine there where there's a vaccine. It was on its way the answer both those questions please let us -- No -- because there was -- there and there wasn't any on the way."

" Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman tells Fox News the vaccine is expected to be delivered to the detention facility sometime. Near the end of this month. Back here in the US the Centers for Disease Control is still struggling. With a vaccine shortage the CDC director said today the agency is seeing an increase in availability but quote. Not nearly as much as we would have liked. Some African American members of congress are outraged -- all seven ongoing house ethics committee probes focus on black lawmakers. One African American Democrat tells politico quote. Is they're concerned whether someone is trying to set up congressional black caucus members. Yes there is it looks as if there is somebody out there who understands what the rules are and sends names to the ethics committee with the goal of going after the CBC. An -- to one senior black Democrat says quote it's kind of crazy how can it be that the ethics committee only investigates African Americans it doesn't make sense. The ethics committee which of course is run by the democratic majority. Has one African American lawmaker among its ten members committee members and staff chose not to respond to questions about the racial disparity in the investigations. And finally Rhode island's Republican governor has signed legislation. Closing what some are calling the states -- loophole. That made indoor prostitution legal and allowed more than thirty suspected brothels to operate. Back in 1980 state lawmakers inadvertently created this loophole when they passed a law cracking down on prostitutes and their clients who operated in public. But the law was mum on paid sex in private. Rhode Island was the only state to allow indoor prostitution statewide. Affect the governor says gave his stating quote terrible distinct."