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Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled Office of Budget and Management Director Mick Mulvaney on Thursday over his numerous votes to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB . Mulvaney, the Bureau s interim director, was giving his mandated semi-annual update to Congress about the CFPB, which under his leadership has taken a much more humble approach than in previous years. The issue is a personal one for Warren, who helped create the CFPB in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Mulvaney, who was an outspoken critic of the Bu stanley puodelis reau when he served in Congress, has led the CFPB since President stanley bottles Trump appointed him acting director in November. When Mulvaney was placed in charge of the the Bureau, Warren blasted him as a Trump-appointed industry hack. Mick Mulvaney: I have not burnt the place down Warren began her questioning by Mulvaney by saying that mortgage lenders ripped off families before the 2008 crisis that precipitated the CFPB s creation. She then noted that Mulvaney has repeatedly voted in favor of legislation that would have eliminated the CFPB, which he has called a sick, sad joke in the past. .@MickMulvaneyOMB has been bringing up my name a lot lately when talking about the @CFPB. But stanley mug what he doesnrsquo;t get is that this isnrsquo;t about me. Itrsquo about the millions of Americans who want someone to go after the companies that cheated them. pic.twitter/FFNuxFU0rDmdash; Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren April 12, 2018 Mulva Nsaf How $98 trillion of household wealth in America is distributed: It s very depressing
A long-threatened showdown over changing Senate rules to stop Democratic filibusters of President Bush s judicial nominations could come as early as next week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday.Frist, in his weekly news conference with reporters, said he hopes the Senate finishes a highway bill and an emergency spending paackage to fund military operations overseas this week. And then we need to turn to 100 United States senators and move to the issue surrounding judges, he said.After Frist s remarks, CBS News Correspondent Bob Fuss reports Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid of Nevada angrily refused to back down, saying President Bush has manufactured the crisis over filibusters and is pu stanley mugg shing the Senate towards a precipice. Reid apologized last week for telling high school students that Mr. stanley cup Bush was stanley cup a loser, but said Tuesday he regrets only the choice of words, saying he strongly believes the president has been bad for the country and for the world. In a letter to Frist, the Nevada Democrat said he was ready for a vote and expected to win. I want to be clear: We are prepared for a vote on the nuclear option, Reid said, referring to the GOP threat to change the filibuster rules. Democrats will join responsible Republicans in a vote to uphold the constitutional principle of checks and balances. Democrats have blocked 10 of Mr. Bush s appellate court choices through filibuster threats, requiring those nomi
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a ban on transgender students playing girls sports on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican governor this week to overrule state lawmakers taking on youth sports amid broader culture wars as LGBTQ visibility grows.Leaders in the GOP-dominated Legislature, however, quickly called a veto override session and indicated they had enough support to keep the ban in place.There s also pushback against Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb s Monday decision to veto a statewide ban. Holcomb sai stanley cup d Indiana s Legislature had not demonstrated that transgender kids had undermined fairness in sports. Cox, for his part, referenced the potential effects on transgender youth. I struggle to understand so much of it and the science is conflicting. When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy and compassion, Cox wrote in a letter to Utah legislative leaders. The vetoes come as Cox and Holcomb s counterparts in nearly a dozen conservative-leaning states have enacted similar stanley water bottle legislation and politicians have honed in on transgender kids in sports as a campaign issue in states ranging from Missouri to Pennsylvania.As election season approaches, Republican leaders in Utah said listening to their constituents inspired the move to override the veto. Doing nothing is taking a step backward for women. Finding a solution to this complicated issue is stanley spain necessary to maintain fair competition now and in the future, U Zvjo Anti-Empathy, Anti-Judge Goes on Trial
An odd Watergate reunion of sorts is tak stanley cup ing place today way up in Minnesota at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Coming together for the first time ever at a conference are two key aides to then President Nixon: counsel John Dean and domestic affairs deputy and codirector of the secret stanley thermobecher plumbers unit Egil Bud Krogh. Also two key prosecutors, Charles Breyer and Jill Wine-Banks. The point To teach the lessons learned.When I interviewed Krogh and Wine-Banks, they were remarkably in agreement on the key lesson: integrity. Krogh, in fact, has recently come out with a book with that title, cowritten with son Matthew. You can never check your personal integrity at the door, said Krogh, who admits that he clearly did when accepting without question Nixon s request that he find out who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Once dubbed stanley trinkflaschen Mr. Clean, he conceded that there was so much pressure to do what Nixon wanted and also to be liked that we didn t even see the ethical issue of digging into the files of the psychiatrist for Pentagon Papers figure Daniel Ellsberg to find damaging information. His team found nothing. Now a long-serving lawyer in Washington State, Krogh has lots of advice for those who might join the new administration next January. First, he says, swear allegiance to the office, not the man. Next, align yourself with good people who can determine what s ethical and what s not. Avoid groupthink. And challenge requests and decisions you think are wrong. I m no
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Donald Trump on Monday called for blocking all Muslims from entering the U.S. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country s representatives can figure out what is going on, his campaign said in a statement.The press release sent by Trump stanley cup s campaign is titled, Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration, but the statement seems to go beyond immigration, calling for total and complete shutdown of Muslims from entering the U.S. CBS News has reached out to the Trump campaign for clarification. Trump calls for freeze on Muslims entering U.S stanley flasche . 13:19 Asked by The Hill, whether his Muslim ban would include Muslim-Americans who are currently abroad, Trump s spokesperson responded, Mr. Trump says, Everyone. The statement from the GOP presidential frontrunner cited surveys that the campaign said show there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. The survey it mentioned specifically came from the Center for Security Policy, a neoconserv stanley quencher ative think tank founded by an anti-Muslim activist, which has been widely accused of promoting conspiracy theories and claims that a global jihad movement exists. Trump s statement said that the gr Hpnl Full transcript of Face the Nation on Jan. 8, 2023
The Bush administration on Monday repealed a requirement that employers report repetitive stress injuries.The measure had not yet taken effect, and Labor Department officials said such data would be useless in identifying causes and preventing such injuries.Labor unions had fought for the requirement, claiming that tracking repetitive stra stanley becher in injuries, also known as ergonomic injuries, would help identify potentially hazardous jobs and provide a better understanding of injury rates and trends. The move continues the Bush administration s head-in-the-sand approach to ergonomic injuries, said AFL-CIO President John stanley us Sweeney stanley quencher . Just because the government is not going to require employers to track these injuries and just because the government is not going to enforce a safety standard doesn t mean that workers will stop becoming ill or permanently disabled on the job, he said. Employers would have been required to record ergonomic-related injuries, which include disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage and spinal discs, except those caused by slips, trips, falls, motor vehicle accidents or other similar accidents.That requirement would have taken effect in 2001, but was delayed that year after the GOP-controlled Congress repealed regulations issued by the Clinton administration that would have required businesses to make changes to work stations and pay employees with such injuries.Instead of legal requi
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that President Trump had issued no red lines when it came to North Korea, suggesting that an atmospheric test by the rogue state might not automatically trigger a military response from the U.S. Tillerson s remarks were made at the U.S. ambassador s residence in Beijing on Saturday evening.Tillerson was in Beijing to lay the groundwork for the November summit when Mr. Trump visits China on an 11-day tour of Asian nations, which includes South Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and the Philippine stanley flasche s.Tillerson says the U.S. and China are seeing signs that s stanley cup anctions on North Korea are starting to have some effect. He did not cite any specific example, but said the Chinese are actively engaged in putting pressure on the regime. New sanctions we stanley thermos re imposed on North Korea in the United Nations on September 11 during the United Nations General Assembly. Trump administration announces new economic sanctions against North Korea 05:57 Tillerson said that the objective in North Korea is still denuclearization and not regime change, and said that the goal was still to engage diplomatically, in a step-by-step process. Tillerson gave no details on what a dialogue with North Korea would look like if the U.S. sat down with them, Tillerson Nrmm After swap on plane, Lindsey Graham gets his jacket back
The House approved legislation Wednesday giving the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving the president to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terror plan.The 253-168 vote in the House came shortly after senators agreed to limit debate on their own nearly identical bill, all but assuring its passage on Thursday.Republican leaders are hoping to work out differences and send Bush a final version before leaving town this weekend to campaign for the Nov. 7 congressional elections. For nearly two weeks the GOP have been embarrassed as the White House and rebellious Republican senators have fought publicly over whether Bush s plan would give him too much authority. But they struck a compromise last Thursday, and Republicans are hoping approval will bolster their effort to cast themselves as strong on national security, a marquee issue this election y stanley mug ear.House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, all but dared Democrats to vote against the legislation. stanley cup Will my Democrat friends work with Republicans to give the president the tools he needs to continue to stop terrorist attacks before they happen, or will they vote to force him to fight the terrorists with one ar stanley cups uk m tied behind his back he asked just before members cast their ballots.Four Democrats and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania are being given opportunities to offer amendments in the Senate,
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The country s top counterintelligence official, William Evanina, says China is devoting ungodly resources and increasingly employing more aggressive and more diversified non-traditional means to conduct espionage against the United States. It s a persistent thousand grains of sand, he said. They hit our academia, our industry, our research development, and obviously our government. The FBI has arrested double-digit individuals in the last year or s stanley puodelis o ndash; all for spying on behalf of China. Evanina, who has served as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center since stanley cup 2014, said the range, persistence and variety of operations from China put it, relative to other adversaries like Russia and Iran, in a category of its own.Read the full transcript of William Evanina s interview with Michael Morell China is number one, he said stanley thermos mug . Existentially, long term, they re the largest threat to our national security, bar none ndash; it s not even close. They bring ungodly resources that we can t handle right now, he said.National security officials have been issuing increasingly stark and public warnings about Chinese capabilities over the past several months. At an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum in July, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China, from a counterintelligence perspective, represents the broadest, most challenging threat we face at this time. The volume of it, the pervasiveness of it, the Uqrj Kidnappings cast shadow over Obama s meeting with Mexican president
U.S. Rep. Chr stanley cup is Cannon said his solid victory in Utah s Republican primary is good news for President Bush and those seeking a consensus on immigration policy this year. I hope what it means is Republicans look at this and realize we don t have to be divided on the issue of illegal immigration, Cannon said.The five-term incumbent defeated political newcomer John Jacob on Tuesday, 56 percent to 44 percent mdash; or 32,306 votes to 25,589 votes mdash; with all precincts reporting but an unknown number of absentee ballots to be counted. This is a big margin of victory. It says a lot about Republicans getting together and solving this problem, he said.The victory came after a race that focused mainly on whether millions of illegal immigrants should be forced to return to their home country before getting an opportunity to return to the U.S. Jacob portrayed Cannon as soft on illegal immigration. Cannon made the same criticism against stanley cup his Democratic incumbent in winning the seat in 1996.Last December, Cannon voted for a House bill that would toughen border security, crimi stanley termosar nalize people who help illegal immigrants and make being in the U.S. without the required papers a felony. But he also supports Bush s proposal for a guest-worker program.Cannon s willingness to compromise made him a target of Team America, a conservative group that calls illegal immigration the most critical problem facing the nation. It spent $40,000 on radio ads
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Republican Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cu stanley cup rrent lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, continued his forceful condemnation of President Trump s abrupt and controversial decision to withdraw the U.S. troops stationed in northern Syria tasked with preven stanley quencher ting fighting between Turkey and U.S.-allied Kurdish groups. The Kurds found out on Twitter, for goodness sakes. We have left them to the wolves, Kinzinger said on Face the Nation Sunday. The message this is sending to our allies around the world I think is really going to be bad. Transcript: Representative Adam Kinzinger on Face the Nation Mr. Trump s announcement to withdraw the small U.S. peacekeeping force in northern Syria after a call with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week fueled a flurry of bipartisan outcry in Congress, with even typically staunch allies like Senator Lindsey Graham urging him to reverse course. Democrats and Republican alike warned Mr. Trump that an American draw-down from the region would effectively sanction a Turkish slaughter of Kurdish groups, which were instrumental in U.S. efforts to eradicate ISIS. Those concerns became a reality soon af stanley thermos mug ter Mr. Trump s announcement, with the Turkish military and allied Arab forces launching an incursion into northern Syria and quickly overrunning smaller Kurdish forces. Reports have already emerged of possible atrocities committed by Turkish-backed m Jfhd President Obama s Schedule Today (10/5/10)
LONDON ndash; If Barack Obama wanted to present stanley tazas the aura of a president during his overseas tour, the visuals alone seemed to accomplish part of the task. He flew in a helicopter over Iraq with the chief commander in the region. Heads of state at his side, he gripped and grinned his way through two continents. And he placed himself against grand and gritty backdrops, from royal palaces and towering monuments to military base gymnasiums and dusty Middle Eastern landscapes. The question now is: Given the unprecedented scope of the trip for a presidential candidate, how will it play at stanley mug home Obama, as a first-term senator, needed to complete the immediate task of showing he could operate deftly on the international stage. He emerged almost incident-free, winning grudging respect even from Republican operatives. But his opponents see areas to exploit, including what some viewed as his occasionally presumptuous posture and the juxtaposition between his scuttled visit to wounded troops in Germany and his attention to the adoring European masses. The McCain camp launched a tough new ad Saturday accusing Obama of making time to go to the stanley termosar gym but not to visit wounded U.S. soldiers. Here are five developments from Obamarsquo trip that may well have a lasting impact beyond the conclusion Saturday of his eight-day tour through eight countries. Navigating the political bazaar of the Middle EastIt was viewed as the most peri
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During a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at President Trump s Mar-a-Lago estate on Wednesday, Mr. stanley cup Trump expressed confidence in Mike Pompeo s confirmation as the next secretary of state, despite increasing numbers of Senators voicing their concerns and no votes for the current CIA chief. We ll see what happens, a lot of people are predicting other things, but I think it s going to work out really well and I think our country really needs him, he s going to be a great leader, said Mr. Trump of Pompeo.The president, however, acknowledged Kentucky Senator Rand Paul s opposition to Pompeo s confirmation. He appeared confident the Republican would change his tune on the nominee. I will say this about Rand Paul -- he s never let me down. Rand Paul is a very special guy as far as I m concerned, he s never let me down and I don t think he ll let us down again. He added, in a jab at Sen. John McCain s dramatic no vote on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, As you remember he [Paul] voted for health care and he did us a big favor, it was someone else that voted against it that hurt us. McCain is likely to be absent from Pompeo s confirmation vote in the Senate as he continues to recuperate from complications stemming from his brain cancer diagnosis late last year. Paul responded to the president s comm stanley mug ents and suggestion that the two should meet shortly thereafter saying, At this point stanley deutschland I think i Kqct Whitehead Easily Advances To Runoff, One Step Closer To Congress
CBS President Obama s planned reception of an honorary degre stanley cup e from the University of Notre Dame Sunday stanley termoska is a divisive issue among Catholics. Whether motivat stanley cup ed by abortion policy or politics ndash; opposing Catholic groups have very different opinions on this weekend s commencement ceremony. Bob Schieffer spoke with two leaders who fall on different sides of the issue on cbsnews s Washington Unplugged. Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, has been on the front lines opposing the school s decision while Catholics United s James Salt supports the Catholic University. The religious debate is heated, watch it played out on Washington Unplugged : ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1886614-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d1886614-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1886614-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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Washington mdash; OneSenate Republican on Wednesday scuttled a Democrat-led effort to pass legislation that would safeguard access to IVF nationwide.The bill aims to preempt state efforts to restrict access to the fertility treatments since a ruling earlier the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos could be considered children under a state law. stanley mug Thedecisionmade it possible for couples whose frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed to sue for wro stanley canada ngful death of their extrauterine children. The ruling has paused IVF treatments and processes in the state as providers evaluate their liability.Sen. Tammy botella stanley Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, sought to approve the legislation under unanimous consent, which gives any single lawmaker the power to block its passage. The bill would create federal protections for IVF access nationwide, after access to the fertility treatment often used by women who struggle to become pregnant has come into question under state law in Alabama. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican blocked the bill on Wednesday. The bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far, Hyde-Smith said on the Senate floor after she objected to the bill s passage.Duckworth first introduced the legislation, known as the Access to Family Building Act, with Sen. Patty Murray in 2022. The move on Wednesday marked the second time Duckworth has brought the bill to t Mfdg Feds say they will seek charge of attempted assassination against Trump golf course suspect
This story was written by Laura Brennan, Badger HeraldLast week was beautiful, exciting and historic for so many reasons. Record voter turnout, record youth turnout and the election of the first black president of the United States. As a writer, I find it frustrating that I cannot find words to encompass the energy and feeling of Tuesday evening.There was something missing, though. On an evening full of cheers, screams, smiles andtears, a great injustice was brewing. It was far from the jubilant crowds in Chicagos Grant Park, in the polling booths of California: Proposition 8 was passed, adding a ban on same-sex marriage to California s constitution. I find it h garrafa stanley ard to believe that after so many have struggled no, bled for the civil rightsof black men, women, American-Indians andeven young voters, we could so blatantly tear them from the arms of others. It disgusts me that teachers in California would preach the life and lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.in the afternoon andthen vote against them in the evening. I dare these defenders of marriage to recall that, not very long ago, a person could be imprisoned for marrying someone of a different race. It seems ridiculous now, doesnt it Tuesdays legislation, however, is hardly a deviation from the days of Jim Crow. Many of those in favor of the ban claim the issue is not the acceptance of homosexuality, but stanley canada the preservation of the traditi stanley flask on and sanctity of marria
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Hillary Clinton doesn t need anyone going to bat for her reputation, she said in an interview airing Wednesday - not even her husband Bill. I shouldn t have said the five or so words that I said, the former secretary of state stanley shop conceded to PBS NewsHour host Gwen Ifill, referring to a comment she made that her irrefutably privileged family was dead broke upon its departure from the White House. But my unartful use of those few words doesn t change who I am, what I ve stood for my entire life, what I stand for today. After a tumultuous couple of weeks trying to explain away the cont stanley cups uk roversial statement, Clinton made the case in remarks published Sunday in the Guardian newspaper that her personal financial situation is largely dissimilar from that of the truly well off. She said stanley mugs she and her husband earn money through income - not investments - and that they ve worked hard for their success. Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday at his family s annual domestic policy summit heaped on additional defense, arguing Hillary is not out of touch with the struggles of poor and working Americans. According to early excerpts of the PBS interview, Hillary found his defense very sweet, if unnecessary: I don t need anybody to defend my record, she said. I think my record speaks for itself. An early frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton s rollout of her memoir Hard Choices has been scrutinized as so Ixpz Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah stir U.S. fears of wider conflict
stanley thermos Jack Lew, President Obama s former chief of staff, cleared the first hurdle this morning to becoming treasury secretary, earning confirmation from the Senate Finance Committee on his way to a full Senate vote.The committee voted 19-5 to approve Lew s confirmation. Among those who voted against him were Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, one of Lew s more vocal critics in the confirmation proces stanley termosy s.Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, voted in favor of Lew, registering serious reservations regarding the nominee s record, but arguing the president is owed a fair amount of deference in choosing people to work in his administration. Lew questioned about his Citigroup stintJack Lew accepts Treasury secretary nominationLew, who joined the Obama administration in 2009, testified earlier this month before the committee about his record both with the Obama administration and in the private sector. Of particular concern among Republicans were various elements of his record at the Wall Street giant Citigroup, where he worked from 2006-2008. Nevertheless, Lew, who worked under the Clinton administration as a budget director, faced only minor opposition in his bid to become treasury secretary, particularly compared to other controversial cabinet nominees, such as defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation is expected to pass today after weeks of resistance from Republicans, including a filibuster in the Senate. stanley cup
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