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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi set the record for the longest-continuous House floor speech on record Wednesday, speaking for 8 hours and 7 minutes -- in four-inch heels. Pelosi told the stories of people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers, as Cong stanley cup ress debates federal funding.Leaders, when they are recognized on the House floor, are able to speak for as long as they please. The previous record for the longest continuous speech was held by then-Rep. Champ Clark, a Missouri congressman who spoke for five hours and 15 minutes in 1909, according to the House historian s office. Pelosi concluded her speech just after 6 p.m. I just got word that the historian confirms you have now set the record for the longest continuous speech in the House stanley water bottle since at least 1909, Pelosi said on the floor. I wonder what that was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has set the record for the longest-continuous House floor speech on record, holding a fake filibuster of sorts since 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. stanley flask CBS News The California Democrat announced on the floor earlier in the day that she will oppose a budget deal negotiated between her Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to lift spending ceilings over the next two years. That s her stance, she said, un Kruh Romney: Campaign was a roller coaster but the ride s over
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President Barack Obama joined leaders from more than 300 cities around the world for a virtual talk hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in his remarks, the former president highlighted the crucial role mayors have in responding to the coronavirus crisis.Attendees of the virtualCOVID-19 Local Response Initiativeincluded mayors, local leaders, and members of response teams, as well as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also spoke. Mr. Obama urged mayors to build strong, reliable teams of experts, saying, The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be. He also warned against the spread of misinformation during this time. Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it wit stanley taza h empathy for what folks are going through, Mr. Obama said. Mayors have been working ha stanley quencher rd to help us get through this pandemic, and theyrsquo;ll have just as big a task to help people through hard times ahead. I spent s stanley water bottle ome time with many of them today to thank them for their efforts, and asked them to keep up the good work. https://t.co/YzqPMPo8m2mdash; Barack Obama @BarackObama April 9, 2020 Many mayors and other local and state government officials have had to deal with unprecedented challenges like enforcing social distancing, deciding which businesses to shut down, and supporting struggling hospitals. In some cases, there has also been a disconnect between local and feder Bnjh Obama Brings Game To Golf
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak The tactic worked for Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin: a leader making a high-profile bid to host an Olympic Games. Now President Barack Obama is throwing his weight towards Chicago s bid to host the 2016 Summer Games. Left: President Obama wields a light saber at Olympic fencer Tim Morehouse, at the White House, Sept. 16, 2009. But given all that is on the president s plate mdash; health care reform, Iran s nuclear program, the Afghan battle front, climate change legislation, and a struggling economy mdash; is Mr. Obama in danger of spreading himself too thin by spending time on wooing the Olympiad to the shores of La stanley water bottle ke Michigan Not a problem, says CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. stanley thermosflasche Think of Ronald Reagan: He tied his whole re-election campaign, Morning in America, to the Olympics that summer in Los Angeles, Scheiffer told CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith. I think in the end you and I will talk about this, a lot of the chattering class will debate it back and forth, but in the end, I don t think it s going to make any difference to the success or failure of the Obama presidency. If the Obama presidency goes down because Barack Obama stanley cup went to Copenhagen [to lobby the International Olympic Committee], it wasn t much of a presidency to start with. I think this president s success will be judged by how other things come out, not the least of which is Afghanistan, Iran and health ca
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi set the record for the longest-continuous House floor speech on record Wednesday, speaking for 8 hours and 7 minutes -- in four-inch heels. Pelosi told the stories of people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers, as Cong stanley cup ress debates federal funding.Leaders, when they are recognized on the House floor, are able to speak for as long as they please. The previous record for the longest continuous speech was held by then-Rep. Champ Clark, a Missouri congressman who spoke for five hours and 15 minutes in 1909, according to the House historian s office. Pelosi concluded her speech just after 6 p.m. I just got word that the historian confirms you have now set the record for the longest continuous speech in the House stanley water bottle since at least 1909, Pelosi said on the floor. I wonder what that was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has set the record for the longest-continuous House floor speech on record, holding a fake filibuster of sorts since 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. stanley flask CBS News The California Democrat announced on the floor earlier in the day that she will oppose a budget deal negotiated between her Democratic counterpart, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to lift spending ceilings over the next two years. That s her stance, she said, un Kruh Romney: Campaign was a roller coaster but the ride s over
BOMBINGS IN IRAQ....Last night I was reading the report O Hanlon and Pollack wrote after their recent trip to Iraq not the NYT op-ed, the actual report because I was curious to see if they provided any actual metrics indicating that the surge was working, as opposed to merely subjective judgment about things like morale and COIN effectiveness. The short answer is no, though more about that later.As I mentioned yesterday, though, there s one piece of good news from Iraq these days: the number of bombings is down this summer compared to last summer. This is one metric that O Hanlon and Pollack did mention, but look at how they do it:Successful U.S. tactics have gone well beyond classic military measures. For example, coalition forces are now trying to remove stanley mug nitric acid and urea from stores, since these are the ingr stanley cup edients for homemade explosives. As a result, when many car kubki stanley and truck bombs are detonated these days, they are often less powerful than before, further helping to explain the reduction in casualties....This is crazy. The Brookings Iraq Index author: Michael O Hanlon doesn t specifically track car and truck bombings anymore because we are no longer receiving useful data on the number of car bombs in Iraq, but they do track multiple fatality bombings in general. Here are the numbers:Feb/Mar/AprMay/Jun/JulChangeTotal Bombings160124-22%Total Fatalities20611579-23%Fatalities Per Bombing12.8812.73-1%This is the absolute best case for these numbers. In fact,
Wfss Column: Anti-choice Legislation Cannot Be Ignored
President Barack Obama joined leaders from more than 300 cities around the world for a virtual talk hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in his remarks, the former president highlighted the crucial role mayors have in responding to the coronavirus crisis.Attendees of the virtualCOVID-19 Local Response Initiativeincluded mayors, local leaders, and members of response teams, as well as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also spoke. Mr. Obama urged mayors to build strong, reliable teams of experts, saying, The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be. He also warned against the spread of misinformation during this time. Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it wit stanley taza h empathy for what folks are going through, Mr. Obama said. Mayors have been working ha stanley quencher rd to help us get through this pandemic, and theyrsquo;ll have just as big a task to help people through hard times ahead. I spent s stanley water bottle ome time with many of them today to thank them for their efforts, and asked them to keep up the good work. https://t.co/YzqPMPo8m2mdash; Barack Obama @BarackObama April 9, 2020 Many mayors and other local and state government officials have had to deal with unprecedented challenges like enforcing social distancing, deciding which businesses to shut down, and supporting struggling hospitals. In some cases, there has also been a disconnect between local and feder Bnjh Obama Brings Game To Golf
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak The tactic worked for Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin: a leader making a high-profile bid to host an Olympic Games. Now President Barack Obama is throwing his weight towards Chicago s bid to host the 2016 Summer Games. Left: President Obama wields a light saber at Olympic fencer Tim Morehouse, at the White House, Sept. 16, 2009. But given all that is on the president s plate mdash; health care reform, Iran s nuclear program, the Afghan battle front, climate change legislation, and a struggling economy mdash; is Mr. Obama in danger of spreading himself too thin by spending time on wooing the Olympiad to the shores of La stanley water bottle ke Michigan Not a problem, says CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. stanley thermosflasche Think of Ronald Reagan: He tied his whole re-election campaign, Morning in America, to the Olympics that summer in Los Angeles, Scheiffer told CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith. I think in the end you and I will talk about this, a lot of the chattering class will debate it back and forth, but in the end, I don t think it s going to make any difference to the success or failure of the Obama presidency. If the Obama presidency goes down because Barack Obama stanley cup went to Copenhagen [to lobby the International Olympic Committee], it wasn t much of a presidency to start with. I think this president s success will be judged by how other things come out, not the least of which is Afghanistan, Iran and health ca