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the Libyan capital by seeking sanctuary at night in hospitals he knows will not be bombed, according to a British official accompanying Prime Minister David Cameron to a summit meeting in Deauville, France.

The official’s account of Gaddafi’s movements, given on a cheap fashion wholesale background basis to British reporters, was quoted in the Friday editions of The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph.

In the Guardian report, the official was quoted as saying British intelligence had told Cameron that Gaddafi was “increasingly paranoid, on the run, and hiding in hospitals by night,” with senior Libyan military commanders unable to communicate with each other because of a concern that NATO can tap their phones.

The Telegraph quoted the British official as saying, “One quite striking thing is the fact that Gaddafi appears to be moving from hospital to hospital. What he is doing is moving from one place we won’t bomb to another place we won’t bomb.”

Netanyahu has a mostly cheapfashionwholesale sympathetic ear in Congress, where few lawmakers in either party speak up for the Palestinians, hewing to decades of close U.S.-Israeli ties. But the Israeli prime minister has had a rocky relationship with President Barack Obama, and last week said the president's vision of a Palestinian state based on the borders of 1967 could leave Israel "indefensible." Obama articulated that vision on Thursday in a major policy speech on the Middle East. His position essentially embraced the Palestinians' view that the state they seek in the West Bank and Gaza should largely be drawn along lines that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel captured those territories and East Jerusalem. On Sunday Obama seemed to ease Israeli anger somewhat when he made clear that the Jewish state would likely be able to negotiate keeping some settlements as part of a land swap in any final deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu voiced appreciation for those comments, and some analysts think Netanyahu will not further escalate the quarrel with Obama in his remarks to Congress on Tuesday. "Netanyahu will most likely try to tone down any perceived differences between his position and the president's, because his disagreements with President Obama have become counterproductive for both and ultimately undermine Israel's own interests," said Haim Malka, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But Republicans in Congress, including House leaders, are not about to drop their criticism of the Democratic president's newly articulated Mideast vision. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that Obama's comments on Middle East borders left "most Americans ... just questioning what kind of strategy there is. It doesn't make sense to force a democratic ally of ours into negotiating with now a terrorist organization" about land swaps. Cantor was referring to a unity deal last month between wholesale shoes Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and Hamas, an Islamist group viewed by the United States as a terrorist organization. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch's office says he will introduce a resolution that it is not U.S. policy to have Israel's borders return to the boundaries of 1967. ISRAELIS SAY TO EXPECT SOME SURPRISES Israeli officials said they expected Netanyahu to deliver several "surprises" in his address to Congress on Tuesday, but they declined to elaborate, saying he would likely be working on a final draft up until the last minute. Speculation had been high in Israel that Netanyahu would offer new ideas on peacemaking to try to display flexibility and rally opposition to the Palestinians' plan to ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state in September. The official Israeli statement on Netanyahu's speech noted that he is "among the few world leaders, who include Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Yitzhak Rabin, invited to address Congress for a second time." Netanyahu first addressed a joint meeting of Congress in 1996 during his first term as prime minister. Netanyahu will speak about recent changes in the Middle East, Iran and the principles for a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, the statement said. Peace talks are frozen, largely over the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Neither Obama nor Netanyahu have offered a concrete plan to try to revive them. IMPACT ON U.S. POLITICS Cantor said he believed most U.S. voters agreed with his criticism of Obama's Middle East policy. "Just responding to the pressure of the Palestinians, and some of their supporters around the world, is not leadership. That's not what people I think in this House and their constituents want to see out of our president." But Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation in Washington isn't so sure Obama will pay a political price for his comments about Middle East borders, even in the 2012 re-election campaign just ahead. "There is this perception that there is a huge political price to be paid (for upsetting Israel), which I don't think is borne out in reality," Levy said. He said power balance Obama had done a good job blunting criticism with his clarifying comments on Sunday, which were made to Washington's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "I don't think that the extreme positions taken by Congress on this issue -- which are really extreme, often more extreme than Israel's parliament itself -- I don't think they are reflective of American broader public opinion," Levy said.

The benefit cuts come as legislatures deal with the damage that the recession inflicted on state unemployment insurance programs. The sharp increase in the number of people who lost their jobs drained the reservoir of money dedicated to paying out benefits.

About 30 states borrowed more than $44 billion from the federal government to continue payments to laid-off workers. Many states hastened the insolvency of their funds by keeping balances at historically low levels going into the downturn.

The burden of replenishing the funds and paying off the loans will fall primarily on businesses through higher taxes, but the benefit cuts are an effort to limit the tax increases.

States usually provide up to 26 weeks of benefits to laid-off workers. Michigan and Missouri have cut that to a maximum 20 weeks. Arkansas went to 25.

Florida is considering a more complex change that would link the duration of benefits to the strength of the economy. The cap would range from 23 weeks during periods of double-digit unemployment to as low as 12 weeks during periods of extremely low unemployment. The Florida Legislature approved the changes, but the governor hasn’t signed the bill.

Once state benefits are exhausted, laid-off workers often are eligible for 13 to 20 weeks of extended benefits. States and the federal government usually split the cost for that program. During recessions, Congress typically takes the aid a step further, providing several more months of emergency benefits entirely paid for by the federal government.

The actions taken by legislatures apply specifically to state benefits, but also will reduce future federal benefits because the changes affect the formula used to calculate them.

Allen McClendon, 40, of Kansas City, Mo., said he lost his job as a mechanic last August and has been getting unemployment benefits in Missouri since February. He said the payments allow him to buy food, make payments on his pickup truck and pay for gas and auto insurance. He is worried about what will happen if his state and federal benefits run out before he lands a job.

that would allow him to get a commercial driver’s license or repair heating and cooling units.

“If they run out before I’ve completed my schooling and have got a job, then I’m really in trouble,” he said. “I’d so much rather be working than dealing with this.”

Benefits vary from state to state, but average about $300 a week, or about one-third of a recipient’s previous wages.

In good economic times, most of the unemployed find a job before their benefits expire. But in times of high unemployment, states have come to count on extra help from the federal government. Some say that reliance is playing a role in the bills to cap benefits.

“A lot of states are basically saying, ‘Hey, why are we paying for these benefits when, in a recession, the federal government will step in?’” said Steve Woodbury, an economics professor at Michigan State University.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said relying on the federal government to keep up the cash flow is risky. She said last year’s fight to extend unemployment benefits was difficult, with Democrats barely able to generate the votes necessary to pass a bill.

“I think it would be an error in judgment to assume that the Republican House would extend unemployment benefits,” she said.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said Congress in the future might worry that repeated extensions of unemployment benefits would serve as a deterrent to finding a job. “There’s some truth to that” concern, said Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program.

Employers pay both state and federal taxes for unemployment insurance. States collect the taxes that pay for basic benefits. The federal taxes help pay for administering the program and providing the federal government’s share of extended benefits. State tax collections will have increased about 44 percent since 2009, according to the Labor Department.