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In a nod to the title of her upcoming memoir, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday detailed the hard choices she confronted on Iran s nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations during her tenure as secretary of state.During a speech befo stanley cup website re the American Jewish Committee, Clinton said she and President Obama successfully rallied the international community to impose sanctions on Iran and bring the Iranians to the bargaining table on their nuclear program. She also discussed the current state of talks between Israel and the Palestinians, saying the prior rounds of negotiations she stanley cups guided as secretary of state impressed on her the difficulty of securing a lasting peace. stanley uk Hillary Clinton: Still thinking about 2016 presidential bid 01:34 The remarks were among Clinton s most extended to date on her record at the State Department - a record that she is sure brandish if she runs for president in 2016, but one that critics have said is thin on tangible achievements. The former top diplomat left no doubt that she intends to claim credit for more foreign policy accomplishments than her critics are prepared to concede. In 2008, she recalled, many believed Iran was on the rise -- its regional rival Iraq had been incapacitated by the 2003 U.S. invasion, and oil Zksd Justice Department in possession of Hillary Clinton s email server
Amid ongoing controversy surrounding the September 11 attacks in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, State Department officials acknowledged today that mistakes occurred regarding the security situation in Libya, and pledged the department is taking immediate action to correct systemic problems that may have prevented the department from preempting the attacks. We ve learned some very hard, and painful lessons in Benghazi, and all are acting on them, said William Burns, deputy secretary of state, during testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in Benghazi. Yesterday, four State Department officials either resigned or were let go after the release of a harsh report detailing stanley thermobecher the department s findings stanley cup about circumstances surrounding the Benghazi attack. The report accused the State Department of displaying a lack of leadership in burgeo stanley hrnek ning security issues in Benghazi, and argued the resulting security system was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place. The report specifically pointed to systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus. Among those who resigned were Eric Boswell, the head of diplomatic security at the State Department.State Dept. officials resign following Benghazi reportPanel cites systemic failures at State Department over Benghazi attackToday, Burns and Thomas

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The 17th a stanley cup nnual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday with pugnacious political words from Robert De Niro and the tender opening-night premiere, Love, stanley canada Gilda, an intimate celebration of the beloved comedian and former Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner.Lisa D Apolito s documentary opened the New York festival in a star-studded screening at New York s Beacon Theatre that drew generations of SNL cast members, including original member Laraine Newman and Tina Fey, who poignantly introduced the film. SNL creator Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase and Billy Crystal also came to see D Apolito s documentary, which closely follows Radner s meteoric rise, her struggles with eating disorders and depression and her tra stanley cup gically young death from cancer, through readings from Radner s personal diaries.Speaking for herself and SNL cast mates Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Rachel Dratch, Fey said Radner mdash; a frizzy-haired force of genuine and joyous comic spirit mdash; made an indelible impression on their generation of female performers. She was so authentically herself and so regular, in so many ways, said Fey, breaking up. She was who she was on the TV. We all saw that and were like: I want to do that, and it s possible. It was an early example to me of how important representation is for everyone from every walk of life. Gilda was our equivalent of Michelle Obama. It was the second time in a handful of years that Tribeca turned to its Zjnn Republicans say defense cuts should not be part of super-committee plan
President Bush took aim Wednesday at lavish salaries and bonuses for corporate executives, standing on Wall Street to issue a sharp warning for corporate boards to step up to their responsibilities and tie compensation packages to performance.Mr. Bush s State of the Economy speech, delivered from the financial center of the world, was aimed at bringing his economic message out of the shadows of the Iraq war. On his second day in a row focused on the economy, the government reported faster-than-expected growth of 3.5 percent in the final quarter of last year.The president acknowledged people s continuing nervousness about their financial picture, despite a string of similar reports that provide so stanley cup me reason for optimism. He said he realized that stories about the enormous salaries and other perks for CEOs, for instance, create a stanley cups uk nger and uncertainty that affect the country s investors. The president does not endorse any government role in reducing those packages. Instead, Mr. B vaso stanley ush highlighted new federal rules that the administration thinks are a better path toward wise compensation decisions by companies. Government should not decide the compensation for America s corporate executives, he said. But the salaries and bonuses of CEOs should be based on their success at improving their companies and bringing value to their shareholders. In effect starting last month, the rules give investors access to clearer and more detailed in

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Washington mdash; Attorney General William Barr announced a series of reforms to the FBI s process for pursuing warrants to secretly surveil elected officials, political campaigns and candidates, a move that comes nearly a year after an inspector general report documented numerous failures by the FBI during its 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign.Barr issued the new restrictions in a pair of memos released Tuesday. The first directive authorizes the creation of an Office of Internal Auditing within the FBI to ens stanley cup ure rigorous and robust auditing of the bureau s activities. The second memo establishes new oversight procedures for pursuing secret surveillance warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. FISA is a critical tool to ensuring the safety and security of Americans, particularly when it comes to fighting terrorism. However, the American people must have c stanley bottles onfidence that the United States Government will exercise its surve stanley becher illance authorities in a manner that protects the civil liberties of Americans, avoids interference in the political process, and complies with the Constitution and laws of the United States, Barr said in a statement. What happened to the Trump presidential campaign and his subsequent Administration after the President was duly elected by the American people must never happen again, he added.Among the new restrictions is a requirement that the FBI director first consider providing Jkmx Cummings And Edwards Flip To Yes
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Updated: 1:11 p.m. ETThe White House said Tuesday it will not move forward with a proposal that would have tested the ease or difficulty for Americans in finding and receiving primary medical care through the use of so-called mystery shoppers. The proposal, which meant to address a shortage of primary care physicians in America and investigate the possible subsequent coverage gap, would have had contractors call more than 4,000 doctors in nine states in America. The New York stanley isolierkanne Times, reporting on the story this week, described the mission as a stealth survey in which those contractors, acting as prospective patients, would attempt to make appointments in order to evaluate how difficult it was to find primary care. It would also stanley quencher have evaluated whether or not doctors were more likely to accept patients with private insurance over those covered by government health programs. On Tuesday, however, in light of criticism that t stanley portugal he program amounted to federal spying and a waste of tax dollars, Health and Human Services said it was scrapping the plan. After reviewing feedback received during the public comment period, we have determined that now is not the time to move forward with this research project, an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. Instead, we will purs

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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar disclosed that her husband, John Bessler, tested positive for coronavirus, according to results received early Monday morning. He is exhausted and sick but a very strong and resilient person, she wrote in a post on Medium, noting that she cannot see him and he is of course cut off from all visitors. She went on to say that he began to feel sick while she was in Minnesota and he was in Washington. Bessler, who is a law professor at the University of Baltimore, immediately quarantined himself. He had a fever and a bad, bad cough. Then, when he started coughing up blo stanley cup od, the senator said, stanley tumbler he was given a coronavirus test and a chest x-ray, and checked into a Virginia hospital. He was suffering from a variety of things including very low oxygen levels which haven t really improved. Klobuchar said he now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator. Abigail Klobuchar Bessler, Amy Klobuchar and John Bessler attend the 2018 DGA Honors at DGA Theater on Octobe botella stanley r 18, 2018, in New York City. Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for DGA Because Klobuchar and her husband have been in different place for the last two weeks, and she is outside the 14-day period for infection, her doctor has advised her not to get a test. Klobuchar said she is still working in the Senate, which is negotiating a Kdnr Bloomberg gives $2 million to grassroots organization Swing Left
New York civil rights activist Al Sharpton said Monday he will form a committee to explore a possible bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. Progressive leadership is in a deep crisis at the moment in the Democratic party and outside, Sharpton said at a news conference. He accused the Democratic Party of moving to the right.He said his lifelong record of dealing with public policy makes him less of a long shot than some others mentioned as presidential hopefuls. Sharpton said that his campaign, if he runs, would focus on reforming the criminal justic stanley thermos e and election systems. gourde stanley Cornell West, a Harvard professor of African-American studies and philosophy, will head Sharpton s exploratory committee.Sharpton has run for office before in New York, including a bid for a U.S. Senate seat in 1994 in which he came in third in a four-person primary. He also ran for mayor of New York in 1997 and lost. He s also had run-ins recently with the U.S. military. He took part in protests against U.S. Navy training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. On Friday, he ended a 90-day federal prison sentence for trespassing there.Sharpton lost 30 pounds during a 43-day hunger strike staged to pressure the government to end the exercises. President Bush has said he will withdraw the Navy from Vieques in 2003, but opponents want it to leave now. Sharpton was imprisoned along with some high-profile partners. Environmenta stanley cup l lawyer Rob

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S Capitol is demanding four social media companies turn over internal records as it examines stanley botella the spread of misinformation online and how violent extremists used social platforms to organize efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.The committee sent subpoenas to Twitter, Reddit, stanley us Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube stanley cup , and Meta, formerly known as Facebook, to immediately produce documents related to their investigation after inadequate responses to prior requests. Two key questions for the Select Committee are how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what stepsmdash;if anymdash ocial media companies took to prevent their platforms from being breeding grounds for radicalizing people to violence, select committee chair Bennie Thompson said in a statement. It s disappointing that after months of engagement, we still do not have the documents and information necessary to answer those basic questions. Former President Donald Trump posted on Twitter and Facebook during the riot, although he did not condemn the attack until several hours after it started. Two days after the riot, Twitter permanently banned Trump, citing the risk of further incitement of violence. Facebook soon followed suit, although the Oversight Board has ordered the company to review the decision by 2023. Then-Pres Ixwv Mick Mulvaney allowed big pay bumps at consumer agency he once wanted to abolish
Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Carl Paladino may be the only two candidates in New York that polls suggest have a plausible chance to win the governorship, but it was Jimmy McMillan who stole the show at last night s debate with a simple message: Rent is too damn high. McMillan, a former postal worker and perennial candidate in New York his party is called the Rent Is 2 Damn High party who sported black gloves and memorable facial hair, hit that note over and over again at the debate. He did get off message once: Asked about gay marriage, he said he suppor stanley cup ts it - and if you want to marry a shoe, he s fine with that too. Here s how McMillan, a self-described karate expert, explained the gloves after the debate, according to the New York Daily News: I m a war vet. Don t forget I was in Vietnam for two and half years and I have three Bronze Stars, but the chemicals of Agent Orange -- dioxin and a lot of other chemicals mixed up -- I would get sick. When I get home tonight, I know I m not going to be able to breathe if I take them off. It could be psychological, I don t know, but I just put em on and wear them anyway. stanley thermobecher McMillan has an amazing website and also records songs to make his case:Crying Out Loud by maxreadMcMillan was not stanley cup the only longshot candidate to put in a memorable appearance at the debate: Manhattan madam Kristin Davis, who became famous as a result of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, is running on a platform of legaliz

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Washington mdash;A group of bipartisan senators announced an agreement on a framework for an infrastructure proposal on Wednesday evening, even as the White House and congressional Democrats continue to pursue two tracks in passing President Biden s multi-trillion dollar plan.The group of 21 senators, 10 Democrats and 11 Republicans, previously reached an agreement on an infrastructure proposal costing roughly $1 trillion, with $579 billion in new spending mdash; although the proposal did not include details about funding. Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a lead negotiator, told reporters on Wednesday evening that negotiators have agreed to a framework that they would present to the White House.Several of the lead negotiators from both parties traveled to the White House on Thursday morning to discuss the new framework, which includes pay-fors. Funding for the bill had been a sticking point in negotiations. stanley romania President Biden is the ultimate person that will have to sign off on this and make sure he s comfortable. And he wants a bipartisan deal, he said stanley cup that from day one. His negotiators were with us the whole time that we ve that we ve negotiated, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told reporters on Thursday.The new framework comes after White House legislative team met with this group of senators twice on Wednesday. Senators faced a time crunch in their negotiations, as the Senate has a two-week recess beginning next week, leaving onl stanley cups uk y a Uarb FBI Recorded Stevens Phone Calls With Oil-company Exec
Outgoing Kansas City mayor Kay Barnes kicked off her campaign against Rep. Sam Graves R-Mo. this after stanley italia noon, giving the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee one of its top recruits for the 2008 cycle.Barnesrsquo; announcement took place in r stanley cup price ural St. Josephrsquo , MO -- the Republican-leaning part of the district where she will need to do well to carry the district.Shersquo hoping her bi-partisan ties -- she didnrsquo;t run under a party banner as mayor -- will serve her well during the campaign. Democrats are already highlighting favorable statements from Sen. Kit Bond R-Mo. at a joint news conference with her last month. At the presser, he said that Kansas City is a better place to live and work because of Barnesrsquo; leadership.She has a notable level of accomplishment in working across party lines to get things done, said DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer. This district is very hungry for change. Right now therersquo an anti-Republican, anti-Bush wave in that district. The district has leaned Republican at the presidential level, giving President Bush 57 percent of the vote in 2004. Since first elected in 2000, Graves has dispatched his last three Democratic opponents with over 60 percent of the vote.However, Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo. carried the district in 2006, raising Democratic hopes that itrsquo trending in their direction.NRCC spokeswoman Julie Shutl stanley quencher ey sa

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North Carolina officially kicked off the general election on Friday as it became the first state to mail absentee ballots to voters. It s a move that comes on the heels of the president, at a campaign stop last week, encouraging North Carolinians to vote by mail and vote in person.According to th stanley cup quencher e North Carolina State Board of Elections, state law makes it a Class I felony for a voter, with intent to commit a fraud to register or vote at more than one precinct or more than one timehellip;in the same primary or election. There are currently more than 7 million registered voters in North Carolina, with more than 400,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. And to date, the state has received more than 600,000 absentee ballot requests ahead of the general election, sixteen times as many as the 38,871 requests submitted at the same time in 2016. Democratsmdash;with more than 300,000 absentee ballot requestsmdash;have three times as many as Republicans. stanley cup The stakes are high in North Carolina this cycle. The 2020 CBS News Election Battleground tracker calls the state a toss- up for the presidential election and there s also a competitive Senate race in the state that is crucial for Democrats ambitions to flip stanley deutschland that chamber. North Carolina Democratic presumptive Governor elect Roy Cooper waves to a crowd at the North Carolina Democratic Watch Party as he walks on stage with his family on November 9, 2016 in Raleigh, N Zohv Hillary Clinton: You can oppose abortion and still be a feminist
On his first day back in Washington after a 26-day Texas vacation, President Bush plans a round of strategy sessions with aides to plan for a busy fall. The agenda includes big increases in defense and education spending, protections for HMO patients, and Medicare coverage for prescription drugs, as well the expected tussle with Congress over where the money s going to come from.This year s fight with Congress over the 13 annual spending bills due by October promises to be especially bloody. Democrats, pointing to the new surplus projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, say Mr. Bush can t pay for his agenda without breaking one of his most central campaign promises: to not use Social Security reserves to cover general budget shortfalls. Budget ProjectionsClick here to read the Congressional Budget Office s new budget outlook .pdf format .Click here to read the White House Office of Management and Budget s revised figures .pdf format .In a preview of the rough ride Democrats plann gourde stanley ed to give him, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bemoaned to her constituents Wednesday the hole that this tax cut has dug for us. Congressional Democratic leaders demanded to meet with the president and have him explain how he plans to pay for everything without touching Social Security. Mr. Bush s answer stanley portugal s so far have been to circle the wagons around the tax cut, declaring it the right prescription for the ailing e stanley trinkflaschen conomy and to warn Congr

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As millions of federal student loan borrowers are set to start repaying their student loans in roughly two months, a group of Democratic senators are calling on President Joe Biden to waive interest, which has been set at zero percent throug stanley mug hout most of the coronavirus stanley cup pandemic. The move could save borrowers millions of dollars a month even as repayments kick back in.The Biden administration announced in August that an extension of the student loan repayment pause ndash; giving some 42 million borrowers a break ndash; would run through January 31, 2022 as people continued to struggle with the pandemic. Student loan repayment had been on hold since March 2020, when COVID-19 sent the U.S. into an economic crisis. Interest is also set to kick back in when loans resume. But the group of 14 lawmakers want the interest waived through the end of the coronavirus pandemic health emergency. Accumulating student loan interest can be a daunting challenge for borrowers with the lowest incomes or the heaviest student debt burdens, the senators said in the letter Monday to Mr. Biden. The group noted that the debt has also disproportionately impacted Black, Latino and Native communities. Continuing to waive student loan interest will provide borr stanley mug owers with vital financial support during a time when students, borrowers, and higher education institutions are still recovering from economic and academic disruptions caused by the pandemic, including risi Cpzp Legal Group: Gays Should Avoid Pentagon Survey
SERIOUS....I don t know Anne-Marie Slaughter. Here s what I mean by this: not just that I ve never met her, but that I don t even know much of anything about her views, what she s written, or, when you get right down to it, what kind of foreign policy she prefers. What little I ve read of hers has always seemed so mushy and broad that it defeats any attempt to take away a sharp point.What I do know is that she s the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She s famously moderate and, equally famously, practically the fairy godmother of foreign policy bipartisanship. She s the kind of person who get stanley cups uk s mentioned as a possible secretary of state in a Democratic administration. Serious 153; players don t come much more serious. With that in m stanley canada ind, here s what she had to say today over at TPM Cafe:Here is my nightmare. The Cheneyites succeed in creating a situation in which Bush does decide to bomb Iran. Iran retaliates, as they openly th caneca stanley reaten to do, with terrorist attacks against us on U.S. soil. That tilts the election. I can imagine a Karl Rove political calculation that would buttress a Cheney-Addington national security calculation, probably with Eliot Abrams support.Let me get this straight. Anne-Marie Slaughter, one of the most accomodating, serious, centrist, liberal foreign policy players on the planet, has just said that she thinks it s entirely possible that the Bush administration will launch a foreign war next year in order to he

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President Obama is praising a new jobs initiative aimed at helping military spouses achieve occupational stability just days bef stanley cup ore he hosts a July 4th celebration with American troops, veterans and their families at the White House. Our troops are often transferred from base to base -- it s part of the job, the president said in a video published Saturday. And because their families serve with them, stanley quencher that means their spouses move 10 times more often than the rest of us -- 10 times more often. That s tough on a career. The constant relocation, Mr. Obama said, also makes it difficult for military spouses in professions that require licenses or certifications -- including fields like nursing, child care, accounting -- to continue their jobs without having to re-certify. He gave examples: A nurse with years of experience might have to take entry-level classes, or pay a fee or wait months for paperwork to be processed before he stanley cup or she could get back to work on the job they love and that lets them support their families. The re-certification requirements, the president added, didn t make any sense. So we changed it, he said, giving credit to his wife, Michelle Obama, and Dr. Jill Biden for leading the charge. This week, we reached a milestone, the president said. Today, all 50 states have acted to streamline many of these licensing issues. He noted that though this is a big step forward, the work was not done yet. We re goi Dnam Starting Gate: Fully Vetted
House leaders neared a deal Wednesday night to break the partisan deadlock over lawmakers pet spending projects, ending a stanley cup standoff that has prevented them from considering their annual spending bills.Democratic leaders gave in to Republican demands that lawmakers be allowed to challenge individual member-requested projects from the final version of each appropriations bill, while Re stanley isolierkanne publicans agreed to limit debate in order to allow the House to complete its work, leadership aides on either side of the aisle said Wednesday night.The deal would end a bitter impasse between the two parties over the process by which these so-called earmarks are added to bills. The conflict presented Republicans with a political opening to regain some of the credibility they lost on fiscal responsibility during their time in the majority.Republicans had not signed off the compromise, but it appeared likely they would agree to the concession by their Democratic counterparts after slowing the House floor to a standstill, one GOP leadership aide said.Majority botella stanley Leader Steny H. Hoyer D-Md. brokered the compromise with Minority Leader John A. Boehner R-Ohio after huddling with Democratic leaders to discuss the changes Wednesday afternoon. The Democrats have made significant concessions, but there is no deal, Boehner spokesman Brian Kennedy said. Our leadership will not sign-off on a deal until theyrsquo;re certain it provides transparency and accountability consistent with the reforms we enacted

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Washington mdash; A Michigan judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the state s near-century old ban on abortions should the Supreme Court overrule its landmark decision that established the right to an abortion nationwide.In a 27-page order in a case brought by Planned Parenthood of Michigan and an abortion provider, Judge Elizabeth Gleicher of the Michigan Court of Claims granted the organization s request for a prel stanley website iminary injunction barring enforcement of the law, which was enacted in 1931 and makes abortion a felony in most instances.The ban has been dormant since the Supreme Court s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, but would go back into effect mdash; making abortion in Michigan illegal mdash; if the high court strikes down Roe, which it appears likely to do in the coming weeks. Gleicher s order, though, suspends enforcement of the law if th stanley italia e Supreme Court overrules its decision in Roe. In her order, Gleicher wrote there is a substantial likelihood that the ban on abortion violates Michigan s constitution, and said there is a strong likelihood that Planned Parenthood will prevail on the merits of its challenge to the decades-old measure under the state constitution. After 50 years of legal abort stanley uk ion in Michigan, there can be no doubt but that the right of personal autonomy and bodily integrity enjoyed by our citizens includes the right of a woman, in consultation with her physici Wrxm Massachusetts sheriff offers to have inmates help build Trump s border wall
Gov Mitch Danie stanley mug ls, R-Ind. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana This article originally appeared on RealClearPolitics.Though he did not watch last night s GOP presidential debatein which Rick Perry was widely criticized for appearing to lose focus and botching an attempt to challenge Mitt Romney s conservative bona fides, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on Friday sounded lukewarm at best about Perry s candidacy.Asked during a breakfast briefing with reporters about concerns regarding Perry s electability, Daniels remained somewhat deferential to the Texas governor but also echoed the growing rumblings among the party establishment that Perry may not be the GOP s best bet to go toe-to-toe with President Obama next November. I don t think we know en stanley cups uk ough to say yet, Daniels said of Perry s electability. I ll tell you honestly that if you d asked me that question a year ago, I would ve said, I like Rick Perry, and I think he s been a good governor, but I don t think that would fly actually. But the situation has become so grave, and the failure of the current policies so obvious, that I think all kinds of people could be elected. Daniels -- a fiscal ha stanley cup wk who cited family concerns in deciding not to mount his own presidential bid -- then ratcheted up his backhanded compliment of Perry. It could be that any Republican who can breathe and speak E

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The White House said Sunday night that President Trump signed legislation for $900 billion in coronavirus economic aid and $1.4 trillion in government spending, providing support for millions of Americans and averting a government shutdown.Mr. Trump signed the bill one day before the government was set to shut down ndash; but not before unemployment benefits for an estimated 12 million Americans lapsed. I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more, Mr. Trump said in a statement. Mr. Trump added that he will be sending back a redlined version of the bill to address what he considers unnecessary funding. Additionally, he said the House will vote Monday on providing $2,000 relief checks to adults and $600 for children. The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, he said. stanley water bottle It s unclear what will happen to this version of the bill, since it would have to pass both houses of Congress, and Republicans in the Senate have blocked extra payments in the past. Congress passed the package on December 21. But in a stanley cup surprise video posted to Twitter last week, Mr. Trump blasted the package, calling for larger stimulus payments and other ch stanley quencher anges. I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $ Iapy Obama American summit goals at odds with summit leaders
AP Photo/Jim Mone This aftern stanley cups uk stanley thermos oon, the Minnesota state Canvassing Board is set to certify recount results showing Democrat Al Franken with 225 more votes than incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. Coleman isn t exactly calling Franken to congratulate him on a victory, however: His campaign s lawyers have seven days to file suit challenging the results, and they have suggested they will do so. According to the Star Tribune, the ensuing court battle could leave the seat vacant for weeks. The Coleman camp s hopes rest on two arguments: One, that a small number of ballots were counted twice in the recount, and two, that 650 improperly rejected ballots were never forwarded to local officials to be counted.* As the Associated Press reports, New York Sen. Charles Schumer has indicated he favors seating Franken soon. While there are still possible legal issues that will run their course, there is no longer any doubt who will be the next Senator from Minnesota, he said. With the Senate set to begin meeting on Tuesday to address the important issues facing the nation, it is crucial that Minnesota s seat not remain empty, and I hope this process will resolve itself as soo caneca stanley n as possible. But Republicans are signaling that they will fight efforts to seat the former comedian. On CNN this morning, National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Sen. John Cornyn said there is a likelihood of a filibuster over Franken being seated even provisionally

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DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Donald Trump s day in a nutshell: At a rally in Vi stanley cup rginia, Trump accepted the gift of a Purple Heart, an stanley spain honor given to service members who are killed or wounded, from a r botella stanley etired veteran and said, I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier. At the same speech, Trump ordered that a crying baby be escorted out of the room - and it was unclear whether he was kidding.Then, Trump left the rally to have lunch with a Washington Post reporter, where he informed the reporter that he wasn t endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary campaign I m not quite there yet, he explained or Sen. John McCain in his. Both Ryan and McCain have endorsed Trump for president. Full video: Trump given replica Purple Heart, calls out crying baby 01:04:15 In that same conversation, Trump decried recent rulings about voter ID laws that have faced defeats in federal courts, saying We may have people vote 10 times... If you don t have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting. If you re wondering, we re still in the nutshell, and the check hadn t come for lunch yet.Trump did an interview in the afternoon with WJLA s Scott Thuman, where his verbal barrage continued. Even as denunciations rapidly piled up against the Republican Vxcp Optimism fades ahead of government shutdown deadline
CBS From CBS News Dante Higgins:APPLETON, WIS. -- In the skies between Texas and Wisconsin today, John cups stanley McCain spoke with reporters following his endorsement by former President George H.W. Bush. He admitted former President Bush didn t offer him any special advice today other than to keep going. He s such a gentleman, such a good hearted guy. Couldn t have been nicer, McCain said. He added that the current President Bush is welcome to step into his campaign at anytime stanley travel mug and anywhere he wants. stanley cup We would sit down and talk about that at the right time but I ll be glad to have him with me under any circumstances, said McCain.Meantime, McCain campaign adviser Mark McKinnon has made news recently by stating publicly that he will step down if McCain and Barack Obama are the presidential nominees of their parties. On National Public Radio last week, McKinnon said he would be uncomfortable in a campaign that would be attacking Obama. Could I just say no matter what happens, I love Mark McKinnon, I have the greatest respect and appreciation for him, because when we were really difficult times, McKinnon did those ads for free, McCain said about the campaign ads that were produced last year when he was having trouble raising money. He did those and he came up with them. I m not sure we... would have in any way succeeded without Mark s incredible help, and I ll always be grateful, he said. Over the weekend, while not campaigni