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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says donors at Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin s Red Vest Retreat in Virginia Beach have been speculating about whether Youngkin will step off the sidelines and into the 2024 presidential race. It s fair to say there are absolutely people here who think he would make a great president, Pompeo said in an exclusive interview with CBS News. By the way, I would include myself amongst the people who think he would be really good in that place, that he s a very capable leader and someone who understands the American people. The first Republican presidential primary contest, the Iowa caucuses, will be in about three months, in mid-January. If he were to run, Youngkin botella stanley would be joi stanley termohrnek ning a crowded field of GOP candidates who have been campaigning in early states for months and have ground operations in place. It s also likely at this late date that he would not be on the ballot in some states, as the deadlines for ballot access start to pass. The earliest deadline, stanley water bottle in Nevada, was Oct. 16. We re still a long ways off. We re rounding into Halloween here, but we re still an awfully long ways off figuring out who the Republican nominee is gonna be, Pompeo said.Pompeo previously considered seeking the GOP nomination himself after serving as secretary of state and CIA director in the Trump administration. He ruled out a run in April,tweetingthat after much consideration and prayer, ... I will not present myself a Shmh What Mitt Romney will face should he decide to run
This story was written by Elizabeth Hartman, The BG NewsA voter registration campaign headed by Bowling Green State University s Undergraduate Student Government registered a record-setting 4,500 students in Wood County since the summer months. During the course of the summer and fall semester, USG headed a campaign with Graduate Student Senate, College Democrats, College Republicans and Progressive Future, among others, to register as many students as possible in Wood County. Deputy Director of Wood County Board of Elections Debbie Haz cups stanley ard said, Although the Board of Elections is not active in voter registration drives, special interest groups termo stanley are very active. stanley cups Board of Elections supplies information through press releases, its Web site and office resources, she said. Hazard s office supplied USG with all the information needed to register voters. The state-wide voter registration goal was to register 20,000 students, but it was well surpassed and Bowling Green registered over 4,500 students, said USG President John Waynick. The campaign targeted students through numerous strategies. During the summer, USG s campaigning efforts resulted in 1,000 student registrations. This segued into their fall semester s efforts including sending all on-campus students and 3,200 off-campus students voting information. Forty-five classroom presentations were held, as well as canvassing on campus and
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Kqkw Trump says he ll give Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom after Masters win
The acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics is warning the leaders of government agencies that they should promote an ethical culture, while suggesting some have practiced the opposite. In a memo issu stanley cup ed to agency heads, David Apol, the acting director and general counsel of the Government Ethics office, wrote that he s grateful to leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to ethical service. At the same time, I am deeply concerned that the actions of some in government leadership have harmed perceptions about the importance of ethics and what conduct is, and is not, permissible, Apol wrote. Tom Price forced to resign over use of expensive charter flights 01:58 Apol called on these agency heads to redouble their commitment to stanley cup ethics in government. He attached a list of recommendations for these officials to follow such as modeling a Should I do it rather than a Can I do it mentality and promoting a safe culture for reporting misconduct. This comes after Tom Price resigned late last month as Health and Human Services secretary over his use of private charter flights for official government business. Other officials use of charter flights such as by Treasury Secretary Steve stanley cup usa Mnuchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Interior Secretary Ry Cwvf Open Senate Seat Yields Political Quandary
NATIONAL SOLIDARITY PROGRAM.... Once in a while, a good op-ed is even better when you read between the lines and appreciate the point the writer hopes to make with subtlety.Today, for example, World Bank president Robert Zoellick, who replaced Paul Wolfowitz about a year ago, has an important piece in the Washington Post that might get overlooked.During a recent visit to Afghanistan, I was reminded of the counterinsurgency principles of clear, hold, build. In the language of the World Bank Group, that translates to security, governance and developmen stanley thermos mug t. As events in Iraq have shown, who assumes responsibility for these principles is as important as the principles themselves: Local ownership is key to achieving legitimacy and effectiveness. [...]The National Solidarity Program NSP that the World Bank helped launch with former finance minister Ashraf Ghani in 2003 empowers more than 20,000 elected Community Development Councils to allocate modest grants to local priorities, whether micro-hydroelectric generators, schools, roads, irrigation, erosion or water supply projects. It touches more than 17 million Afghans in all 34 provinces and has an economic rate of return of close to 20 percen stanley canada t. The program links self-help with self-determination.In many ways, the NSP is a silver-bullet program for Afghanistan. It gets needed r stanley thermos mug esources to Afghan villages; it promotes stability by connecting local governance and development with the national government in Kabul; and it fosters d
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied in four battleground states, according to anNBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Monday. In Arizona, Trump leads Clinton by a razor-thin margin of 42 percent to 41 percent among likely voters. John McCain won his home state in 2008 and Mitt Romney won it in 2012.The survey found that Trump leads Clinton by 3 percentage points in Georgia -- 46 percent to 43 percent -- among likely voters. McCain and Romney won the st stanley cups ate in the last two presidential elections. Clinton narrowly leads Trump, meanwhile, in Nevada, 45 percent to 44 percent among likely voters. She also leads Trump by the same margin in New Hampshire, 42 percent to 41 percent. President Obama won both states in 2008 and 2012.The poll also measured support in the statesrsquo; key Senate contests. In Arizona, McCain leads Democratic challenger Ann Kirkpatrick by 19 percentage points. In Georgia, incumbent GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson leads Democratic Jim Barksdale by 15 percentage points. In Nevada, Republican Joe Heck leads Democrat Catherine Cortez, 47 percent to 45 percent in the race to fill Harry Reidrsq botella stanley uo Senate seat after he retires. In New Hampshire, incumbent GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte leads Democratic challenger Maggie Hassan 52 percent to 44 percent. The CBS News battleground tracker shows Clinton leading Trump only by 1 percentage point - stanley spain - 43 percent to 42 percent -- in a set of 13 battleground states.The poll s Dpon Tulsi Gabbard says Kamala Harris hatched political ploy to smear Joe Biden on race
Although revelations that she p stanley website rovided housing and financial aid to an illegal alien stanley mugs ultimately scuttled Linda Chavez s chance to be labor secretary, the conservative commentator and former Reagan administration official was already facing an uphill battle in her bid to win confirmation by the kubki stanley Senate.Even before the weekend reports that she housed and paid a Guatemalan woman, Marta Mercado, in the United States illegally, Chavez was under fire from Democrats, women s groups and union leaders for some of her outspoken positions on labor issues.Chavez, who was George W. Bush s campaign adviser on immigration, is a steadfast opponent of affirmative action who has scoffed at raising the minimum wage and cheered proposals to trim Social Security benefits. A syndicated columnist and author, she wrote earlier this year: America is increasingly a multiracial, multiethnic society, one in which both women and men are found in most jobs and universities. It is foolish and dangerous for the government to rank favorites on the basis of skin color, ancestry and sex. A review of Chavez s writings also finds that she:Argued there was no glass ceiling blocking women from advancing at work, saying women make different job choices from men, often putting their families first.Suggested the increase in sexual harassment lawsuits is making the United States a nation of crybabies. She added: With men so often the targets of such witch hunts, it s no surp
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NEW YORK - Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner has acknowledged he communicated online with a girl who accused him of sending sexually explicit messages, but hersquo also claiming hersquo been the subject of a hoax.An online news outlet, DailyMail, on Wednesday published an interview with the 15-year-old girl, who said the online text and video exchanges, including Skype chats in which Weiner asked her to undress and touch herself, went on for several months this year.The Daily Mail also published screen grabs of texts provided by the girl, whose identity it didnrsquo;t disclose. Weiner, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 2011 after revelations he was sending sexually explicit messages to multiple women, issued stanley cup a statement apologizing but not directly addressing the issue of whether he had engaged in chats with the girl. Huma Abedin 18 photos stanley cup I have repeatedly demonstrated terrible judgment about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent. I am filled with regret and heartbroken for those I have hurt, stanley becher Weiner wrote. While I have provided the Daily Mail with information showing that I have likely been the subject of a hoax, I have no one to blame Qsih Big Apple Protesters Bash Bush
Racial disparity will remain an issue in America, regardless of whether Barack Obama is elected as the nation s first black president, the chairman of the NAACP told the organization s national convention Sunday night.Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama s candidacy doesn t herald a post-civil garrafa stanley rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America. But he drew loud applause when he said the country, and all of us here, are taking pride in the success in this year s campaign by a candidate who couldn t have stayed in some cities hotels a few decades ago. stanley canada We know that Obama s electoral success - even if he should win the ultimate prize - won t signal an end to racial discrimination, but it does mark the high point of an interracial movement that dates back to the Underground Railroad, Bond said, referring to Cincinnati s historical role in helping fleeing slaves reach freedom.Obama plans to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People s convention Monday night, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain will speak here Wednesday. Bond said blacks are being hit hard by the nation s mortgage loan crisis, and he was sharp vaso stanley ly critical of the Bush administration, saying it has undermined constitutional rights, failed to oppose racial discrimination, supported voter identification laws that suppress black voters and thrive
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President Trump responded Saturday to a fatal shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left at least eight dead. He said the outcome might have been different if the synagogue, which is located in a neighborhood known for its Jewish population, had protection. If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him, maybe there would have been nobody killed, except for him, frankly, Mr. Trump said. If they have some kind of protection inside the temple maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn t, he said. vaso stanley He also said we should stiffen up our laws in terms of the death penalty. When peop stanley cup le do this they should get the death penalty, he said. And they shouldn t have to wait years and years. ... And, I think they should very much bring the death penalty into vogue. Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, said the violence has to stop. It s a terrible thing what s going on with hate in our country, he said. Trump on synagogue shooting: When people do this they should get the death penalty 06:39 City officials said the shooting was being stanley drinking cup investigated as a federal hate crime. It comes amid a rash of high-profile attacks in an increasingly divided country, includin Zfne Beto O Rourke gives emotional statement in response to El Paso shooting
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overh stanley canada eard House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: We re closing in on Rove. Someone s got to kick his ass. Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn t, said Conyers, We ll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We d hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested. Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, among other things. stanley becher We want him for so many things, it s hard to keep track, Conyers said. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c874ffce-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c874ffce-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c874ffce-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3 stanley cup d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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A federal judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, finding such laws violate the constitutional right to vote in a ruling with national implications. Th stanley cup e ruling by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson is the latest setback for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has championed such laws and led President Donald Tru stanley cup mp s now-defunct voter fraud commission. The 118-page decision came in two consolidated cases challenging a Kansas voter registration law requiring people to provide documents such as a birth certificate, U.S. passport or naturalization papers.The decision strikes down the Kansas proof-of-citizenship registration law and makes permanent an earlier injunction that had temporarily blocked it.In an extraordinary rebuke, the judge also ordered Kobach on Monday to complete an additional six hours of legal education on top of other requirements before he can renew his law license for the upcoming year. She imposed the sanction for his numerous disclosure violations. stanley cup website Kobach said his office would appeal the judge s extreme conclusion, which he said was unlikely to survive scrutiny by a higher court. Her conclusion is incorrect, and it is inconsistent with precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court, Kobach said in a statement. No other state has been as aggressive as Kansas in imposing proof-of-citizenship voter registration requirements. Alabama and Georgia have p Grgi Gates Gets Senate OK As Defense Secretary
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Pgot Shutdown showdown is first battle for Trump in new era
Some workers at Donald Trump s organizations may wish they had never heard the words, You re hired! That s because the 401 k offered to the employees at Trump s 35 entities -- from Trump Model Management to Trump Sales Leasing Chicago -- is what Bloomberg c stanley polska alls a stingy plan. It scored only 30 points out of a possible 100 on the news organization s ratings system for 401 k plans. A spokesman for Trump didn t immediately ret stanley cups urn a CBS MoneyWatch request for comment. GOP candidates come stanley cup becher out against Donald Trump 02:04 With American corporations shifting away from traditional pension plans in favor of defined-contribution plans such as 401 k s, that puts the onus on workers to sock away money and manage their own retirement funds. And when an employer adds limitations, such as delaying enrollment or vesting, that can throw up roadblocks to a secure retirement. In the case of Trump s plan, employees can t even join until they ve worked for at least one year, an unusually long period given that the majority of plans now offer instant eligibility. While Trump has a matching contribution, employees face yet another catch. The organization contributes only at the end of the calendar year. That means any workers who leave midyear will end up missin Awev GOP senator: Holiday season is a reminder of freedom of religion
Updated: 1:28 p.m. ETMore than two months after Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced her resignation, President Obama this morning nominated Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez to succeed her as the head of the Labor Department, lauding the longtime government employee for having fought for a level playing field where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, and working families can get ahead throughout his career. Perez, former labor secretary to Gov. Martin O Malley, D-Md., is currently serving in the civil rights division of the Justice Department. He was also the first Latino elected to the Montgomery County Md. Council, on which he served from 2002-2006, and served as the council s president in 2005. If confirmed, he will be the president s first Latino pick for his second-term cabinet. Perez to be announced as Obama s choice for labor secretaryP stanley flask erez testimony questioned in civil rights case Like to many Americans, Tom knows what it s like to climb the ladder of opportunity. He s the son of Dominican immigrants. He helped pay his way through college as a garbage collector and working at a warehouse. He went on to become the first lawyer in his family, Mr. Obama said. So his story reminds us of this country s promise, that if you re willing to work hard, it doesn t matter who you are, where you come from, what your last name is, you can stanley quencher make it if y copo stanley ou try. The nominee is popular among labor groups, and some De
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James Butler, a Black, 42-year-old Atlanta-based Democrat, is planning on casting his ballot for President BIden in November mdash; but he isn t so enthusiastic this time around. I guess it s the best we got, he said about the 2024 election.Butler s not alone among Black voters in Georgia in his lack of enthusiasm in voting for Mr. Biden for stanley cups a second stanley mugs time. A CBS News poll in late February showed 76% of likely Black voters said they backed his reelection bid, down from 87% who voted for him in 2020. In 2020, Georgia was one of Mr. Biden s closest victories, with fewer than 12,000 voters making the difference mdash; and Black voters were a key part of Mr. Biden s winning coalition there.The Biden-Harris campaign appears to have taken notice. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday kicked off a multistate tour in Atlanta, to talk about investments in Black communities and opportunities for minority families to build wealth under the Biden administration. A member of the audience wearing a Black Voters Still Matter t-shirt fro stanley cup m Georgia NAACP as Georgia Democratic Senate candidate U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock D-GA speaks during a Get Out the Vote rally December 3, 2022 in Hephzibah, Georgia. Win McNamee / Getty Images We re going to keep talking about the record and the work that is being done to advance the economic opportunity for Dqls As Congress limps toward government shutdown, some members champion punitive legislation to prevent future impasses
5209744House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-CA was lukewarm about Senator Max Baucus health care proposal today. The speaker showed little enthusiasm for the specifics of the Senate Finance bill and voiced concern that stanley cups the plan does not include the public insurance option. Pelosi said, however, she s still optimistic that the House and Senate can reach some kind of consensus and thinks they are already about 85 percent there. Our bill is stronger for seniors than the Senate bill, Pelosi said. We hope we can persuade them to our point of view. And while Baucus s proposal includes state-run cooperatives to compete with private insurers, Pelosi reiterated that the House bill will include the government, or public, health care option. The speaker would not say when the House will bring a bill to the floor, or even if the House will vote on a bill before the Senate does. She said she will w stanley becher ait to see the final product after the Senate Finance Committee amends Baucus proposal next week. Many House members would like the Senate to vote on health care reform first. They took a tough vote on an energy bill earlier this year t stanley cup nz hat they see going nowhere fast in the Senate. Some don t want to stick their necks out on the health care bill, and vote for a public option, if it s not going to become law. Meanwhile, the Senate Finance bill didn t win over House Republicans either. The partisan proposal introduced by Senator Baucus relies on t
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Mvip Senate Approves $600 Million for Border Security
Secretary of Defense James Mattis first-ever meeting with John Bolton, President Trump s latest pick fornational security adviser, started off with a laugh as the secretary joked that he had heard Bolton is the devil incarnate. Ambassador Bolton, so good to see you. Thanks for coming and it s good to finally meet you. I heard that you re actually the devil incarnate and I wanted to meet you, the secretary can be heard saying in an off-mic moment while greeting the former Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton laughed off the remark as the two entered the Pentagon for their official meeting.The meeting was the first for the two as Bolton is set to officially replace Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as national security adviser on April 9. Speculation concerning Bolton s ability to work well with Mattis has circulated in recent weeks. Bolton, a noted stanley cup hawk, has argued for military intervention aga stanley cups uk inst North Korea as well as completely abandoning the Iran nuclear deal.Mattis, however, h stanley tumbler as tried todispel concerns about their working relationship, saying he was confident in a partnership developing between the two. He s going to come over this week. Last time I checked he s an American. I can work with an American, Mattis told reporters last week.According to CBS News David Martin, after his meeting with Mattis, Bolton was expected to also meet with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.Mr. Trump tweeted about the s Qatu Reid: I ll do Climate Bill Before Immigration
John Shearer The city of New York has been abuzz with rumors th stanley cup at the band Radiohead will perform at the Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan this afternoon. As of this writing, Radiohead s management has denied that the band will perform, while Occupy Wall Street representatives are insisting that Radiohead will show up at 4 p.m. Eastern. The latter have suggested that Radiohead s management is seeking to keep the crowd from becoming overwhelming. No matter what happens, however, the truth is the concert or lack thereof is a sideshow - much like the other incident to have garnered significant mainstream media attention for the protests, the pepper spraying of seemingly well-behaved protesters by New York police. While both have brought more attention to the protests, they haven t much helped them grow into something more substantial. That may change next week, which brings the most significant development - by far - in the occupation that has been going on for nearly two weeks. It s then that New York City s major la stanley cup bor unions - including two sections of the Service Employees International Union, as well as teacher and transit unions - say they will join up with the protests. stanley isolierkanne That matters because it will make Occupy Wall Street that much harder for the mainstream media to dismiss. The protests have largely been characterized thus far as unfocused and self-indulgent - a critique gr
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Lovg Donald Trump: Conservative group mocking me sought my money
Grieving a Treasury inspector general report showing that the Internal Revenue Service singled out for excessive review conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, all 45 Republican senators Wednesday demanded in a letter to President Obama utmost cooperation in upcoming probes so that the public has a full accounting of these actions. The letter, spearheaded by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah - ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee - asks the administration to comply with all requests related to Congressional inquiries without any delay, including making available all IRS employees involved in designing and implementing these prohibited political screenings. According to a timeline released in a report by a Treasury Department inspector general, the IRS in the spring of 2010 began targeting groups with stanley cup spain keywords like Tea Party, Patriot and 9/12 Project in their names to flag for heightened, typically burdensome, scrutiny. Though the agency insisted last week no high-level employees were aware of the targeting, the inspector general report showed that Lois Lerner - an IRS official in charge of oversight of tax-exempt groups - knew about it stanley cup as early as June 2011. IRS controve stanley uk rsy: What s the potential fallout Ineffective management led to IRS tea party targeting Lerner allegedly became aware of the targeting during a meeting two summers ago - 10 months before penning an April 2012 letter to House Oversight Comm Dcyz Will she or won t she: Hype building for Hillary Clinton in 2016
Reps. Henry A. Waxman D-Calif. and Tom Davis R-Va. , chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today asked the Justice Department to investigate whether former professional baseball player Roger Clemens committed perjury and made knowingly false statements when he t stanley becher estified before the committee recen vaso stanley tly.The letter stanley tazas to Attorney General Michael Mukasey after the jumphellip;Continue reading post... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8674758-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8674758-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8674758-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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DAVOS, Switzerland -- Violent extremists who are killing children and others in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and other parts of the world may cite Islam as a justification, but the West should be careful about calling them Islamic radicals, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience of opinion leaders Friday at the World Economic Forum.In a speech calling for a global effort against violent extremism, Kerry said it would be a mistake to link Isl stanley cups am to criminal conduct rooted in alienation, poverty, thrill-seeking and other factors. John Kerry on what U.S. partners need to do in the fight against ISIS 01:31 We have to keep our heads, Kerry said. The biggest error we could make would be to blame Muslims for crimes...that their faith utterly rejects, he added. We will certainly not defeat our stanley flask foes by vilifying potential partners, the top U.S. diplomat said. We may very well fuel the very fires that we want to put out. Kerry s comments highlighted a rhetorical division between the U.S. and its closest allies. French President Francois Hollande told the same audience earlier Friday that Islamic ex stanley france tremism is a problem that must be opposed. On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond stood next to Kerry and urged the defeat of what he called the scourge Jrtx Rev. Wright: I Meant Zionists, Not Jews
The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week s White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency rema stanley thermobecher ins unshaken.The chairman of the House Homeland Security Comm stanley thermoskannen ittee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said the country is fortunate the affair in honor of visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not end in a night of horror. Meantime in an interview at the White House, Obama said that even though the system didn t work the way it was supposed to last week, he still feels safe in the mansion and trust the agency fully to protect not only him but his wife and children. I could not have more confidence in the Secret Service, Obama told USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press. Appearing before Thompson s panel for questioning, Sullivan acknowledged his officers made mistakes and that the Secret Service m stanley cup ust have a 100 percent performance record.Thompson, a Democrat, also said that Congress needs to talk not only to Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple who got in without invitations, but also to White House social secretary Desiree Rogers. All three have declined to appear. Thompson said he is likely to authorize a subpoena for the Salahis to testify.Rep. Pete King, the panel s top Republican, accused the White House of stonewalling in not permitting Rogers to appear. The conngressman said he th
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, facing an uphill battle heading into the Republican nominating contest in South Carolina, said the race is just getting started and appeared undeterred by polls that show former President Donald Trump leading in her home state. I just got to South Carolina, Haley said in an interview on CBS Mornings on Tuesday. We just left New Hampshire. My goal has always been to keep building. For the former South Car stanley cups uk olina governor, the Palmetto State marks a major opportunity, after a third-place finish in Iowa and a loss to Trump by more than 10 points in New Hampshire earlier this month. And with a quirk in next week s contest in Nevada, where Trump and Haley won t go head-to-head, the Feb. 24 South Carolina primary marks the next major showdown. Though voters have familiarity with Haley, w stanley cup ho served as the state s governor from 2011 to 2017, the conservative electorate is favorable for Trump. But Haley is aiming to come in even stronger in South Carolina than in the Granite State. They know that I was a good governor, she said. Now I have to show them I ll be a good president. Republican presidential hopeful and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a rally on January 2 stanley cup 8, 2024 in Conway, South Carolina. ALLISON JOYCE / Getty Images Still, a slew of endorsements of her opponent by GOP state offi Fcau Hillary Vs. Hitlery
The House overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday substantially in stanley website creasing the maximum fine for radio and TV indecency.The vote was 391-22. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate. I am t stanley mug ired of hearing parents tell me how they have to cover their children s ears, Rep. Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., said during debate on the measure. Today, we re saying enough is enough. The bill would raise the maximum fine for a broadcast license-holder from $27,500 to $500,000. The fine for a performer would jump from $11,000 to $500,000.The measure picked up momentum after the now-infamous Feb. 1 Super Bowl halftime show during which singer Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson s breast to 90 million viewers. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said the bill will give the Federal Communications Commission the ammunition it needs to enforce indecency standards.The Bush administration strongly endorsed the bill in a memo to lawmakers Thursday.Critics said the legislation would undermine free speech rights. We re moving in a direction of undermining the First Amendment, said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. On Wednesday, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists sent a letter to House members objecting to the provision allowing the FCC to fine individual performers for indecency. Such legislation should be re stanley thermoskannen jected on the grounds that it represents an unconstitutional threat to free speech and would have an unnecessary chilling effect
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