Dffx Paul Ryan: Obama engaged in class warfare
California Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic candidate for president, will unveil a new bill Wednesday that promises to provide hundreds of millions in new funding for public defenders. Harris EQUAL Defense Act would allocate $250 million to establish workload limits for public defenders and create pay parity between public defenders within five years, according to a statement released by her office. It would also authorize an additional $5 million to train public defenders. Some progressives have criticized Harris, who was San Francisco s district attorney and California s attorney general, for her record as a prosecutor. Harris has responded that she was a progressive prosecuto stanley mug r who fought racial bias in police departments, opposed the death penalty, and tried to keep first-time offenders out of jail. stanley cup In the statement announcing the bill, Harris office said that the scales are too often tipped in favor of the pro stanley termoska secution in criminal cases. And even though there have been encouraging signs, including the election of reform-minded prosecutors, the only way to create an effective system that holds prosecutors accountable and allows criminal defendants to get a truly fair shot is to have a strong and competent defense, the statement adds. Public defenders often carry massive workloads and work for comparatively little pay. A January New York Times story highlighted by Harris statement reported that the number of cases pu Lysu Rubio, Menendez express concern about Russian influence in Mexican election to Tillerson
Republican presidential can stanley cup didate John McCain said Wednesday the stanley spain resurrected financial bailout bill isn t perfect but warned that the nation s financial crisis will become a full-fledged disaster if the plan fails.In an economic speech Wednesday at the Truman Library and Museum, McCain said the original proposal that failed in the House was flawed because it did not contain taxpayer protections, limitations on executive compensation and sufficient protections for people s bank accounts. I am pleased that these are being added to improve the original bill, he said. In fact, the bill that failed did contain limits on executive compensation and provisions for taxpayers to recoup some or all of the bill s aid, as both McCain and his Democratic opponent Barack Obama had advocated. The new version contains increased protection for individual bank accounts, again advocated by both presidential candidates. The new bill also adds tax cuts that neither candidate had linked to the rescue.If the revised version, up for a vote in the Senate later Wednesday, were to fail, students won t be able to get college loans and families will have trouble buying new homes, he sai stanley cup d. Car sales will take a hit and businesses will have difficulty paying employees and securing credit for operations, he said. If we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt, McCain said.McCain planned to return to Washington to vote on the bill, which adds s
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Npuc White House talks reform with families of those killed by police
Besa Pinchotti was juggling tasks in her car, returning calls on her cellphone in between dentist visits for her children, when, after pausing for a moment, she said into her phone, Military families are sick of feeling like political pawns. She waited a beat and then emphasized the word sick. Pinchotti, the wife of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, operates an email list of hundreds of thousands of military stanley flask families from her post with the National Military Family Association, based in Virginia. For a third time in less than six months, Pinchotti has been warning families about the potentially blistering impact of a government shutdown. Congress is racing toward March 1 and March 8 deadlines to fund the federal government. If no deal is agreed upon this week, a series of key programs and services for military service members and their families will shutter. If a deal isn t reached by March 8, the Pentagon itself is at risk of disruption.Short-term continuing resolutions were agreed upon by Congress just hours before the prior two deadlines for federal government shutdowns, stanley vaso creating a disruptive rhy stanley cup thm for federal workers and servicemembers who worry their paychecks and services will be interrupted. The brinkmanship has returned again. With continuing resolution after continuing resolution after continuing resolution, our families keep feeling the uncertainty, Pinchotti said.The first of the two deadlines, which arrives at 11:59 p.m Ugya Dr. Biden s Swine Flu Advice: Stay Home
John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama s ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best mdash; and perhaps last mdash; chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said. With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however. Wright is of stanley quencher f the table, said one top campaign official. Itrsquo stanley borraccia all McCain. He wonrsquo;t go there. His advisers would have gone there. The aides argue that the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wrightrsquo pastoral care mdash; and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former ministerrsquo more extreme statements mdash; provide an opening to challenge Obamarsquo judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way. He was a central figure in Obamarsquo life, shaping Obamarsquo thinking, and he made the extreme radi stanley mug cal comments that are borderline anti-American, the campaign offi
Besa Pinchotti was juggling tasks in her car, returning calls on her cellphone in between dentist visits for her children, when, after pausing for a moment, she said into her phone, Military families are sick of feeling like political pawns. She waited a beat and then emphasized the word sick. Pinchotti, the wife of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, operates an email list of hundreds of thousands of military stanley flask families from her post with the National Military Family Association, based in Virginia. For a third time in less than six months, Pinchotti has been warning families about the potentially blistering impact of a government shutdown. Congress is racing toward March 1 and March 8 deadlines to fund the federal government. If no deal is agreed upon this week, a series of key programs and services for military service members and their families will shutter. If a deal isn t reached by March 8, the Pentagon itself is at risk of disruption.Short-term continuing resolutions were agreed upon by Congress just hours before the prior two deadlines for federal government shutdowns, stanley vaso creating a disruptive rhy stanley cup thm for federal workers and servicemembers who worry their paychecks and services will be interrupted. The brinkmanship has returned again. With continuing resolution after continuing resolution after continuing resolution, our families keep feeling the uncertainty, Pinchotti said.The first of the two deadlines, which arrives at 11:59 p.m Ugya Dr. Biden s Swine Flu Advice: Stay Home
John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama s ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best mdash; and perhaps last mdash; chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said. With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however. Wright is of stanley quencher f the table, said one top campaign official. Itrsquo stanley borraccia all McCain. He wonrsquo;t go there. His advisers would have gone there. The aides argue that the 20 years that Obama spent in the fiery Wrightrsquo pastoral care mdash; and his later assertion that he knew nothing of his former ministerrsquo more extreme statements mdash; provide an opening to challenge Obamarsquo judgment and honesty in a relevant and politically resonant way. He was a central figure in Obamarsquo life, shaping Obamarsquo thinking, and he made the extreme radi stanley mug cal comments that are borderline anti-American, the campaign offi
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Bthf Romney calls Obama out of touch on hiring impact of health care law
Though we re several years out, we nonetheless already have a sense of the basic shape of the 2020 presidential contest. On the one hand, we ll have a snakebit and polarizing Republican incumbent who s been largely ineffectual at pushing through a stanley cup domestic agenda. On the other will be his principal challenger, who will come from the Bernie Sanders wing of a Democratic Party that s moved decidedly leftward, likely embracing positions like single payer that were until recently seen as non-starters in American politics. Is Joe Biden running in 2020 05:15 More on how all that shapes out in a moment. But first we should realize that, if all that happens, another path to the presidency will have suddenly opened up. Centrist pundits and much of the political donor class have long dreamed about some charismatic moderate making an independent run at the White House. This fantasy stanley cup has long been derided by most political observers, and for good reason, because putting aside the obvious difficultie stanley tumbler s of running outside the two party system, the centrist always looks decidedly unappealing to anyone outside a tiny demographic of moneyed elites. The last attempt at generating such a candidate, a well-funded scheme called Americans Elect, collapsed in 2012 despite a spate Aftr Sebastian Gorka sues January 6 committee over subpoena for phone records
It has been more than a decade since Gennifer Flowers made national headlines claiming she had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was the governor of Arkansas. Now a federal judge has ruled that Flowers can move ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton and others of trying to discredit her during the 1992 presidential campaign.The allegation names Mrs. Clinton, now a Democratic U.S. senator from New York, former presidential aide George Stephanopoulos and James Carville, former campaign strategist for former President Clinton. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro s order, issued Monday, dismissed defamation claims against Clinton.Flowers and her attorney Larry Klayman appeared Thursday on CBS The Early Show. I want my day in stanley mug court, Flowers said. Unfortunately it s not a criminal court. I believe that it should be, but I want my day in court to prove once and for al stanley termosy l. I mean, I know in my heart of hearts that I deserve the justice that every American citizen d stanley mug eserves. I want my day in court. Sen. Clinton and her lawyer, David Kendall, could not immediately be reached Wednesday for comment.Flowers lawsuit stems from her claim during the 1992 presidential race that she and President Clinton had an affair while Mr. Clinton was Arkansas governor.When the presidential candidate denied it, Flowers held a news conference to play audiotapes that she said were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls between them.
Though we re several years out, we nonetheless already have a sense of the basic shape of the 2020 presidential contest. On the one hand, we ll have a snakebit and polarizing Republican incumbent who s been largely ineffectual at pushing through a stanley cup domestic agenda. On the other will be his principal challenger, who will come from the Bernie Sanders wing of a Democratic Party that s moved decidedly leftward, likely embracing positions like single payer that were until recently seen as non-starters in American politics. Is Joe Biden running in 2020 05:15 More on how all that shapes out in a moment. But first we should realize that, if all that happens, another path to the presidency will have suddenly opened up. Centrist pundits and much of the political donor class have long dreamed about some charismatic moderate making an independent run at the White House. This fantasy stanley cup has long been derided by most political observers, and for good reason, because putting aside the obvious difficultie stanley tumbler s of running outside the two party system, the centrist always looks decidedly unappealing to anyone outside a tiny demographic of moneyed elites. The last attempt at generating such a candidate, a well-funded scheme called Americans Elect, collapsed in 2012 despite a spate Aftr Sebastian Gorka sues January 6 committee over subpoena for phone records
It has been more than a decade since Gennifer Flowers made national headlines claiming she had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was the governor of Arkansas. Now a federal judge has ruled that Flowers can move ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton and others of trying to discredit her during the 1992 presidential campaign.The allegation names Mrs. Clinton, now a Democratic U.S. senator from New York, former presidential aide George Stephanopoulos and James Carville, former campaign strategist for former President Clinton. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro s order, issued Monday, dismissed defamation claims against Clinton.Flowers and her attorney Larry Klayman appeared Thursday on CBS The Early Show. I want my day in stanley mug court, Flowers said. Unfortunately it s not a criminal court. I believe that it should be, but I want my day in court to prove once and for al stanley termosy l. I mean, I know in my heart of hearts that I deserve the justice that every American citizen d stanley mug eserves. I want my day in court. Sen. Clinton and her lawyer, David Kendall, could not immediately be reached Wednesday for comment.Flowers lawsuit stems from her claim during the 1992 presidential race that she and President Clinton had an affair while Mr. Clinton was Arkansas governor.When the presidential candidate denied it, Flowers held a news conference to play audiotapes that she said were of secretly recorded intimate phone calls between them.
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Jhoj Hurricane Irene could bring Katrina-style flooding to coast, FEMA warns
Republican presidential candidate and stanley uk Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Friday that gay people are probably born that way, conceding that view during a testy exchange with a gay voter at a California event.Asked by Kelly Bryan, a gay 62-year-old man, during an event at the Commonwealth Club of California whether people are born gay, Kasich first attempted to avoid answering the question. I m not gonna get into all the analysis of this or that, Kasich said at the San Francisco town hall. I m not gonna do that. But the questioner pressed again: It s not analysis. Are people born gay Kasich replied, You know, sir, probably. I mean, I don t -- I don t know how it all works, OK he added. I mean, look. Are they You know, probability they are. How Ted Cruz John Kasich plan to stop Trump 10:51 stanley uk Asked whether the LGBT community deserved free, regular rights like everybody else, Kasich said: Well, you have free regular rights, we re not denyi stanley cups ng you any rights, I m not in Ohio. I m not out to discriminate against you. I think you ought to have as good a life as anybody else. The Ohio governor also noted that he had recently attended a same-sex marriage ceremony. I don t agree with gay marriage, he said. But I m not -- I went to a gay wedding. O Leyh Doctor s note: Hillary Clinton is in excellent physical condition
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R-Texas said that she will not be seeking re-electionin 2012, and may resign her seat earlier to run stanley cup becher for governor, according to The Associated Pre stanley cups uk ss.The AP is citing a piece from Texas Monthly that is scheduled to run in the magazinersquo December edition. Is it better for Texas for me to leave early and give someone else a chance to start building seniority before the class of 2013 I think it probably is, Hutchison told the magazine. Hutchison strongly considered running against Gov. Rick Perry R in last yearrsquo primary, but ultimately opted to remain in the Senate. His term expires in 2011, and he has not indicated whether he plans to run for reelection in 2010. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d garrafa stanley display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
Republican presidential candidate and stanley uk Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Friday that gay people are probably born that way, conceding that view during a testy exchange with a gay voter at a California event.Asked by Kelly Bryan, a gay 62-year-old man, during an event at the Commonwealth Club of California whether people are born gay, Kasich first attempted to avoid answering the question. I m not gonna get into all the analysis of this or that, Kasich said at the San Francisco town hall. I m not gonna do that. But the questioner pressed again: It s not analysis. Are people born gay Kasich replied, You know, sir, probably. I mean, I don t -- I don t know how it all works, OK he added. I mean, look. Are they You know, probability they are. How Ted Cruz John Kasich plan to stop Trump 10:51 stanley uk Asked whether the LGBT community deserved free, regular rights like everybody else, Kasich said: Well, you have free regular rights, we re not denyi stanley cups ng you any rights, I m not in Ohio. I m not out to discriminate against you. I think you ought to have as good a life as anybody else. The Ohio governor also noted that he had recently attended a same-sex marriage ceremony. I don t agree with gay marriage, he said. But I m not -- I went to a gay wedding. O Leyh Doctor s note: Hillary Clinton is in excellent physical condition
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R-Texas said that she will not be seeking re-electionin 2012, and may resign her seat earlier to run stanley cup becher for governor, according to The Associated Pre stanley cups uk ss.The AP is citing a piece from Texas Monthly that is scheduled to run in the magazinersquo December edition. Is it better for Texas for me to leave early and give someone else a chance to start building seniority before the class of 2013 I think it probably is, Hutchison told the magazine. Hutchison strongly considered running against Gov. Rick Perry R in last yearrsquo primary, but ultimately opted to remain in the Senate. His term expires in 2011, and he has not indicated whether he plans to run for reelection in 2010. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d garrafa stanley display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c853ccb4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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fhos IRS to conduct safety review after threats to workers
Hbhc Kerry arrives in France with a big hug for Paris
President Trump lowered the American flags at the White House Tuesday morning in honor of the four journalists and one staffer killed by a gunman at TheCapital Gazettenewspaper in Annapolis, Maryland last week.The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that Mr. Trump denied the request made over the weekend by Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley, who is a Democrat, to honor the slain journalists by setting the White House flags at half-mast. Our Nation shares the sorrow of stanley shop those affected by the shooting at the Capital Gazett stanley deutschland e newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, Mr. Trump said in the proclamation released Tuesday morning. Americans across the country are united in calling upon God to be stanley spain with the victims and to bring aid and comfort to their families and friends. Tuesday morning, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that as soon as Mr. Trump heard about the request from Buckley, he asked his staff to reach out and verify that the mayor made the request. She says that once its validity was determined, Mr. Trump asked that the flag be lowered immediately. I spoke with the mayor last night and again this morning to let him know the president s decision, Sanders said. Mr. Trump has order the flag to be lowered at half-staff 16 times during his presidency, five of them in tribute to mass-shooting victims: the Santa Fe high school shooting, the Parkland high school shooting, the Sutherland Springs church shooting, the Las Vegas mu Zjqx Tim Walz pressed about 2018 weapons of war statement in CNN interview
DEBT RELIEF....The latest rumor making the rounds is that maybe Barack Obama will pay off Hillary s $11 million loan to her campaign if she quits the race. I suppose that makes some kind of sense mdash; and it would be a gracious and unifying gesture from Obama mdash; but I m not sure why Hillary would really be moved by this. She and Bill have earned over $100 million in the past few years and Bill obviously has tremendous earning capacity in the future. $11 million just isn t a big deal to them.Or shouldn t be, anyway. But I suppose that ki stanley trinkflaschen nd of casual attitude toward money is one of the reasons I m not rich.Oh, and while we re on the subject, I want go on the record as being pretty unenthusiastic about an Obama/Clinton dream ticket. It reminds me of the fabled Reagan/Ford dream ticket of 1980, and I d say Reagan and Ford were smart to kill that stanley termosy idea. A strong vice president is one thing, but having Bill Clinton stanley cup as a de facto part of the White House staff just smells like big trouble. Basically, picking Hillary would be a sign of weakness from Obama, and a completely unnecessary one. There are plenty of good, solid VP choices out there that would nonetheless make it crystal clear than an Obama White House would be an Obama White House. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8f9ea36-8c88
President Trump lowered the American flags at the White House Tuesday morning in honor of the four journalists and one staffer killed by a gunman at TheCapital Gazettenewspaper in Annapolis, Maryland last week.The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that Mr. Trump denied the request made over the weekend by Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley, who is a Democrat, to honor the slain journalists by setting the White House flags at half-mast. Our Nation shares the sorrow of stanley shop those affected by the shooting at the Capital Gazett stanley deutschland e newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, Mr. Trump said in the proclamation released Tuesday morning. Americans across the country are united in calling upon God to be stanley spain with the victims and to bring aid and comfort to their families and friends. Tuesday morning, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that as soon as Mr. Trump heard about the request from Buckley, he asked his staff to reach out and verify that the mayor made the request. She says that once its validity was determined, Mr. Trump asked that the flag be lowered immediately. I spoke with the mayor last night and again this morning to let him know the president s decision, Sanders said. Mr. Trump has order the flag to be lowered at half-staff 16 times during his presidency, five of them in tribute to mass-shooting victims: the Santa Fe high school shooting, the Parkland high school shooting, the Sutherland Springs church shooting, the Las Vegas mu Zjqx Tim Walz pressed about 2018 weapons of war statement in CNN interview
DEBT RELIEF....The latest rumor making the rounds is that maybe Barack Obama will pay off Hillary s $11 million loan to her campaign if she quits the race. I suppose that makes some kind of sense mdash; and it would be a gracious and unifying gesture from Obama mdash; but I m not sure why Hillary would really be moved by this. She and Bill have earned over $100 million in the past few years and Bill obviously has tremendous earning capacity in the future. $11 million just isn t a big deal to them.Or shouldn t be, anyway. But I suppose that ki stanley trinkflaschen nd of casual attitude toward money is one of the reasons I m not rich.Oh, and while we re on the subject, I want go on the record as being pretty unenthusiastic about an Obama/Clinton dream ticket. It reminds me of the fabled Reagan/Ford dream ticket of 1980, and I d say Reagan and Ford were smart to kill that stanley termosy idea. A strong vice president is one thing, but having Bill Clinton stanley cup as a de facto part of the White House staff just smells like big trouble. Basically, picking Hillary would be a sign of weakness from Obama, and a completely unnecessary one. There are plenty of good, solid VP choices out there that would nonetheless make it crystal clear than an Obama White House would be an Obama White House. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8f9ea36-8c88
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fwou Trump Organization subpoenaed over hush money payments
Pgac Bridgegate star witness: Gov. Christie seemed happy about gridlock
Mississippi goes to the stanley becher polls again on Tuesday to vote in a special election in the U.S. Senate race. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed earlier this year by Gov. Phil Bryant when Sen. Thad Cochran stepped down, has the chance to become the first woman elected to the Senate from Mississippi. Hyde-Smith is facing off against Democrat Mike Espy, a former congressman and Clinton official who could be the first black man elected to the Senate in the state since Reconstruction.Although President Trump won Mississippi by nearly 18 points, Hyde-Smith is vulnerable, thanks to the popularity of Espy and her own gaffes. CBS News rates this race as leaning Republican. Should Hyde-Smith win, the GOP will have a Senate majority of 53-47.Here is what to watch for when voters go to the polls on Tuesday: The candidatesCindy Hyde-Smith is the former agricultural commissioner of Mississippi. Before being elected to that position stanley mug in 2011, she served in the Mississippi state Senate as a Democrat. She changed her party affiliation to Republican in 2010, a reflection of the fact that the Democratic party was growing more liberal and the GOP, she felt, better represented her conservative values.Mike Espy was a congressman in Mississippi before Bill Clinton tapped him to be agriculture secr stanley cups etary, and he was the first African-American to hold that position. Hyde-Smith and Espy advanced to the runoff election on Nov. 27 because neither won Tsil Barbed humor from Obama at annual Gridiron dinner
fortaleza.gobierno.pr TITUSVILLE, Florida -- Hoping to further ingratiate itself to Florida s Hispanic community, Mitt Romney s campaign announced Friday the endorsement of Puerto Rico s Go cups stanley vernor Luis Fortuno. Fortuno will appear alongside Romney at a rally Friday evening in Orlando.Puerto Rico has 23 delegates up for g stanley mugg rabs in its March 18 caucuses -- 11 more than New Hampshire. An important issue to Puerto Rican voters is that of statehood, which will be voted on by the commonwealth later this year. Fortuno leads the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, and earlier today, Romney said he would lend his full support to Puerto Rico were they to vote in favor of seceding to the U.S. Should the referendum vote determine that Puerto Rico would like to become a state, Congress and the president would need to ma starbucks stanley cup ke final approval of such an addition.Addressing the Hispanic Leaders Network in Miami, Romney said he expected Puerto Rico to vote in favor of becoming the 51st state, and if so, we will vote for the process in Washington to provide statehood to Puerto Rico, and again create a model in the Caribbean - one more model in Latin America - of the benefits of having freedom. Can Romney or Gingrich win over Latinos Romney s chief rival, Newt Gingrich, also addressed the issue of Puerto Rican statehood when speaking to the group just moments before, but would not say definitively if he believed t
Mississippi goes to the stanley becher polls again on Tuesday to vote in a special election in the U.S. Senate race. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed earlier this year by Gov. Phil Bryant when Sen. Thad Cochran stepped down, has the chance to become the first woman elected to the Senate from Mississippi. Hyde-Smith is facing off against Democrat Mike Espy, a former congressman and Clinton official who could be the first black man elected to the Senate in the state since Reconstruction.Although President Trump won Mississippi by nearly 18 points, Hyde-Smith is vulnerable, thanks to the popularity of Espy and her own gaffes. CBS News rates this race as leaning Republican. Should Hyde-Smith win, the GOP will have a Senate majority of 53-47.Here is what to watch for when voters go to the polls on Tuesday: The candidatesCindy Hyde-Smith is the former agricultural commissioner of Mississippi. Before being elected to that position stanley mug in 2011, she served in the Mississippi state Senate as a Democrat. She changed her party affiliation to Republican in 2010, a reflection of the fact that the Democratic party was growing more liberal and the GOP, she felt, better represented her conservative values.Mike Espy was a congressman in Mississippi before Bill Clinton tapped him to be agriculture secr stanley cups etary, and he was the first African-American to hold that position. Hyde-Smith and Espy advanced to the runoff election on Nov. 27 because neither won Tsil Barbed humor from Obama at annual Gridiron dinner
fortaleza.gobierno.pr TITUSVILLE, Florida -- Hoping to further ingratiate itself to Florida s Hispanic community, Mitt Romney s campaign announced Friday the endorsement of Puerto Rico s Go cups stanley vernor Luis Fortuno. Fortuno will appear alongside Romney at a rally Friday evening in Orlando.Puerto Rico has 23 delegates up for g stanley mugg rabs in its March 18 caucuses -- 11 more than New Hampshire. An important issue to Puerto Rican voters is that of statehood, which will be voted on by the commonwealth later this year. Fortuno leads the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, and earlier today, Romney said he would lend his full support to Puerto Rico were they to vote in favor of seceding to the U.S. Should the referendum vote determine that Puerto Rico would like to become a state, Congress and the president would need to ma starbucks stanley cup ke final approval of such an addition.Addressing the Hispanic Leaders Network in Miami, Romney said he expected Puerto Rico to vote in favor of becoming the 51st state, and if so, we will vote for the process in Washington to provide statehood to Puerto Rico, and again create a model in the Caribbean - one more model in Latin America - of the benefits of having freedom. Can Romney or Gingrich win over Latinos Romney s chief rival, Newt Gingrich, also addressed the issue of Puerto Rican statehood when speaking to the group just moments before, but would not say definitively if he believed t
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Zzzp Clyburn: Not Whipping Yet
WASHINGTON-- President-elect Donald Trump sold all of his stocks in June as he plunged into the costly general election campaign, his transition team abruptly announced Tuesday. His advisers provided no proof of the transactions and would not explain the apparent sell-off.In a phone interview with NBCrsquo Today show on Wednesday, Mr. Trump seemed to confirm his transition staffrsquo a stanley cup nnouncement.Irsquo;ve never been a big person for the stock market, frankly, he said. Asked why he took that action back in June, the president-elect replied: Because I felt that I was very much going to be winning and I think I would have a tremendous -- a really conflict of interest. When pressed on why he didnrsquo;t tell the press about selling off his stocks, Mr. Trump said, Oh, I let everybody know. stanley becher I had a lot of stocks before then too. and what I did is I sold them, he said. I just donrsquo;t -- I donrsquo;t think itrsquo appropriate for me to be owning stocks when Irsquo;m making deals for this country that maybe will affect one company positively and one company negatively. I just felt it was a conflict. The announcement comes amid swirling questions about potential conflicts of interest between Mr. Trumprsquo expansive financial holdings and the decisions that will reach his desk as pres stanley cup spain ident. Some details of Trumprsquo finances are unkno Gqwe Editorial: Obama Serves Up Real Change, Unlike McCain s Rehashings Of Status Quo
As the presidential race heads into the home stretch, CBS News reporters are out on the road traveling with the Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards campaigns. Read their dispatches and keep up with the latest campaign news in Trail Bytes, updated daily on CBSNewsPRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Before ending his United Nations campaign swing, Pres stanley cups uk ident Bush has a final diplomatic get-together: a morning meeting with Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan on Wednesday.Once viewed by the U.S. as a military opportunist who overthrew a civilian president, Musharraf is now warmly embraced as an ally in the War on Terrorism. stanley mug If Osama bin-Laden is ever to be captured, U.S. officials think it will be with the help of Musharraf s forces. Musharraf is also being pressed by Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to contribute troops to the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq. The meeting with Musharraf comes after Bush spoke to the U.N. on Tuesday, where the General Assembly proved to be a tough room for the President. He delivered his 35-minute speech in 26 minutes. It helped that not once during his speech did the representatives of the UN s 191 member nations interrupt Mr. Bush with applause.The same lines about ousting Saddam and staying the course in Iraq always get Mr. Bush an eruption of thunderous cheers at his campaign rallies, but at the U.N. yesterday the response was dead silence. Most of the UN members opposed the U.S.-led invasion o stanley cup f Iraq
WASHINGTON-- President-elect Donald Trump sold all of his stocks in June as he plunged into the costly general election campaign, his transition team abruptly announced Tuesday. His advisers provided no proof of the transactions and would not explain the apparent sell-off.In a phone interview with NBCrsquo Today show on Wednesday, Mr. Trump seemed to confirm his transition staffrsquo a stanley cup nnouncement.Irsquo;ve never been a big person for the stock market, frankly, he said. Asked why he took that action back in June, the president-elect replied: Because I felt that I was very much going to be winning and I think I would have a tremendous -- a really conflict of interest. When pressed on why he didnrsquo;t tell the press about selling off his stocks, Mr. Trump said, Oh, I let everybody know. stanley becher I had a lot of stocks before then too. and what I did is I sold them, he said. I just donrsquo;t -- I donrsquo;t think itrsquo appropriate for me to be owning stocks when Irsquo;m making deals for this country that maybe will affect one company positively and one company negatively. I just felt it was a conflict. The announcement comes amid swirling questions about potential conflicts of interest between Mr. Trumprsquo expansive financial holdings and the decisions that will reach his desk as pres stanley cup spain ident. Some details of Trumprsquo finances are unkno Gqwe Editorial: Obama Serves Up Real Change, Unlike McCain s Rehashings Of Status Quo
As the presidential race heads into the home stretch, CBS News reporters are out on the road traveling with the Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards campaigns. Read their dispatches and keep up with the latest campaign news in Trail Bytes, updated daily on CBSNewsPRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Before ending his United Nations campaign swing, Pres stanley cups uk ident Bush has a final diplomatic get-together: a morning meeting with Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan on Wednesday.Once viewed by the U.S. as a military opportunist who overthrew a civilian president, Musharraf is now warmly embraced as an ally in the War on Terrorism. stanley mug If Osama bin-Laden is ever to be captured, U.S. officials think it will be with the help of Musharraf s forces. Musharraf is also being pressed by Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to contribute troops to the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq. The meeting with Musharraf comes after Bush spoke to the U.N. on Tuesday, where the General Assembly proved to be a tough room for the President. He delivered his 35-minute speech in 26 minutes. It helped that not once during his speech did the representatives of the UN s 191 member nations interrupt Mr. Bush with applause.The same lines about ousting Saddam and staying the course in Iraq always get Mr. Bush an eruption of thunderous cheers at his campaign rallies, but at the U.N. yesterday the response was dead silence. Most of the UN members opposed the U.S.-led invasion o stanley cup f Iraq
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MANILA, Philippines -- President Barack Obama lashed out Wednesday at Republicans who insist on barring Syrian refugees from entering the U.S., deeming their words offensive and insisting it needs to stop. Apparently they re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America, Obama said, mocking GOP leaders for thinking they re tough. But he also remarked that their sentiments could be used against the U.S. by Islamic State militants .GOP poised to block Syria refugee plan in Congress I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of stanley taza the rhetoric that s been coming out of here during the course of this debate, the president said. He insisted the U.S. process for screening refugees for possible entry into the U.S. is rigorous and said the U.S. doesn t make good decisions based on hysteria or exaggerated risk. We are not well served when in response to a terrorist attack we descend into fear and panic, the president said. Obama s comments during a meeting with P stanley taza hilippine President Benigno Aquino marked his harshest condemnation yet of Republicans response to the Paris attacks blamed on IS that killed 129 people last week. Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential trail have urged an immediate closure of America s borders to Syrian refugees, but the Obama administration has shown no sign of backing off its plans to bring an additional 10,000 Syrians fleeing civil w stanley polska ar into th Ohjk Some New Year s Resolutions Very Likely To Be Ignored
WASHINGTON - Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher tax revenues backed by fellow Republicans on Congress supercommittee, yet expressed confidence the panel would agree on a deficit-reduction plan of at least $1.2 trillion by a Nov. 23 deadline.A proposal for $300 billion in higher taxes has stirred grumbling within the ranks of congressional Republi stanley thermos mug cans, for whom opposition to such me stanley mugs asures has been political bedrock for more than two decades.Two of the party s presidential hopefuls said Monday they wouldn t support any committee deficit-reduction plan that includes higher taxes. Congressional supercommittee punts on taxesDebt supercommittee getting nowhere fastVideo: Supercommittee running out of time on debt dealFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Iowa, said he wou vaso stanley ld do everything in my power to defeat any such proposal. A spokesman for Rick Perry said the Texas governor wants to look at details but if those details include a tax increase he s not going to be for it. He does not favor higher taxes, added David Miner.Additionally, officials said that Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who outlined the plan last week in a closed-door meeting of four Republicans and three Democrats, has encountered criticism from fellow conservatives despite strong credentials as an opponent of higher taxes. There s been a little bit, but it s been pret
MANILA, Philippines -- President Barack Obama lashed out Wednesday at Republicans who insist on barring Syrian refugees from entering the U.S., deeming their words offensive and insisting it needs to stop. Apparently they re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America, Obama said, mocking GOP leaders for thinking they re tough. But he also remarked that their sentiments could be used against the U.S. by Islamic State militants .GOP poised to block Syria refugee plan in Congress I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of stanley taza the rhetoric that s been coming out of here during the course of this debate, the president said. He insisted the U.S. process for screening refugees for possible entry into the U.S. is rigorous and said the U.S. doesn t make good decisions based on hysteria or exaggerated risk. We are not well served when in response to a terrorist attack we descend into fear and panic, the president said. Obama s comments during a meeting with P stanley taza hilippine President Benigno Aquino marked his harshest condemnation yet of Republicans response to the Paris attacks blamed on IS that killed 129 people last week. Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 presidential trail have urged an immediate closure of America s borders to Syrian refugees, but the Obama administration has shown no sign of backing off its plans to bring an additional 10,000 Syrians fleeing civil w stanley polska ar into th Ohjk Some New Year s Resolutions Very Likely To Be Ignored
WASHINGTON - Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher tax revenues backed by fellow Republicans on Congress supercommittee, yet expressed confidence the panel would agree on a deficit-reduction plan of at least $1.2 trillion by a Nov. 23 deadline.A proposal for $300 billion in higher taxes has stirred grumbling within the ranks of congressional Republi stanley thermos mug cans, for whom opposition to such me stanley mugs asures has been political bedrock for more than two decades.Two of the party s presidential hopefuls said Monday they wouldn t support any committee deficit-reduction plan that includes higher taxes. Congressional supercommittee punts on taxesDebt supercommittee getting nowhere fastVideo: Supercommittee running out of time on debt dealFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Iowa, said he wou vaso stanley ld do everything in my power to defeat any such proposal. A spokesman for Rick Perry said the Texas governor wants to look at details but if those details include a tax increase he s not going to be for it. He does not favor higher taxes, added David Miner.Additionally, officials said that Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who outlined the plan last week in a closed-door meeting of four Republicans and three Democrats, has encountered criticism from fellow conservatives despite strong credentials as an opponent of higher taxes. There s been a little bit, but it s been pret
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Washington mdash; Senate Republicans unveiled legislation responding to nationwide protests calling for police reform and an end to racial violence, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying the upper chamber plans to vote on the bill as early as next week.The measure, spearheaded by Senator Tim Scott, the lone black Republican in the Senate, comes after President Trump signed an executive order implementing some reforms on Tuesday.Scott and Mitch McConnell presented the legislation in a press conference Wednesday morning. House Democrats introduced their own le stanley cup gislative package last week, but McConnell has said he won t bring that legislation to the Senate floor once it passes in the House. Scott said that too often Americans were presented with the false, binary choice of supporting black Americans or supporting law enforcement, arguing that his measure proved it was possible to do both. McConnell urged Democrats to support the legislation. Senator Tim Scott, acco stanley flask mpanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. Andrew Harnik / AP Our Democratic friends, if they want to make a law, and not just make a point, I hope they will join us in getting on the bill, McConnell said. Senator Ben Sasse argued that the vast stanley mugs majorit Sigg U.S. intercepts Russian, Chinese bombers off Alaskan coast
grayson.house.gov Updated 6:13 p.m. ETNOTE: Grayson has now apologized for the comments. Read more here.Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is under fire from both Republicans and Democrats after a month-old radio interview was posted online in which Grayson is heard calling an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a K Street whore. You can hear Grayson making the comment about the Bernanke adviser, who is named Linda Robertson, here. This lobbyist, this K street whore, is trying to teach me about economics, he said. Grayson has been widely criticized for his comment, as Politico and the Associated Press report. Republican Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Grayson is out of control, while Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner asked, Is this news to you that this guy stanley termosar s one stanley cup fry short of a Happy Meal Alan Grayson s latest comments are disgraceful, inappropriate and disrespectful to women, RNC Co-Chairman Jan Larimer said, calling on Grayson to issue an apology. That seems unlikely to happen. Todd Jurkowski, Grayson s spokesman, sent an email to Hotsheet standing by the comment and further criticizing Robertson. Let s be clear about the context, he said. The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life. She attacked the Congressman and his effort stanley mugs s to promote a Republican bill to audit the Federal Reserve, Jurkowski said. She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal an
Washington mdash; Senate Republicans unveiled legislation responding to nationwide protests calling for police reform and an end to racial violence, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying the upper chamber plans to vote on the bill as early as next week.The measure, spearheaded by Senator Tim Scott, the lone black Republican in the Senate, comes after President Trump signed an executive order implementing some reforms on Tuesday.Scott and Mitch McConnell presented the legislation in a press conference Wednesday morning. House Democrats introduced their own le stanley cup gislative package last week, but McConnell has said he won t bring that legislation to the Senate floor once it passes in the House. Scott said that too often Americans were presented with the false, binary choice of supporting black Americans or supporting law enforcement, arguing that his measure proved it was possible to do both. McConnell urged Democrats to support the legislation. Senator Tim Scott, acco stanley flask mpanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. Andrew Harnik / AP Our Democratic friends, if they want to make a law, and not just make a point, I hope they will join us in getting on the bill, McConnell said. Senator Ben Sasse argued that the vast stanley mugs majorit Sigg U.S. intercepts Russian, Chinese bombers off Alaskan coast
grayson.house.gov Updated 6:13 p.m. ETNOTE: Grayson has now apologized for the comments. Read more here.Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is under fire from both Republicans and Democrats after a month-old radio interview was posted online in which Grayson is heard calling an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a K Street whore. You can hear Grayson making the comment about the Bernanke adviser, who is named Linda Robertson, here. This lobbyist, this K street whore, is trying to teach me about economics, he said. Grayson has been widely criticized for his comment, as Politico and the Associated Press report. Republican Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Grayson is out of control, while Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner asked, Is this news to you that this guy stanley termosar s one stanley cup fry short of a Happy Meal Alan Grayson s latest comments are disgraceful, inappropriate and disrespectful to women, RNC Co-Chairman Jan Larimer said, calling on Grayson to issue an apology. That seems unlikely to happen. Todd Jurkowski, Grayson s spokesman, sent an email to Hotsheet standing by the comment and further criticizing Robertson. Let s be clear about the context, he said. The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life. She attacked the Congressman and his effort stanley mugs s to promote a Republican bill to audit the Federal Reserve, Jurkowski said. She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal an
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Washington mdash; After the House voted last week to impeach President Trump, Congress is stuck in a stalemate.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a list of documents on Monday that he believes are needed to carry out a fair impeachment trial, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News on Monday that they re at an impasse until Pelosi sends papers. By papers, he means the articles of impeachment. Before a Senate trial can happen, they must be officially sent from the House. But House SpeakerNancy Pelosi insistsshe won t send the articles or appoint impeachment managers until the Senate sets the rules for the trial. Senate trial rules are established by the m stanley cup ajority party, which in this case is the Republicans. They must decide whether to call witnesses and what evidence to admit.Mr. Trump was impeached for abusing his power in his diplomacy with Ukraine and stanley kubek obstructing Congress by blocking evidence and witnesses from the impeachment stanley cup inquiry. Schumer is now seeking some of that evidence. He wants records from the White House, State Department, and Office of Management and Budget related to three things: the president s effort to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations that would hurt his political rival s reputation, the order to hold and then later release military assistance to Ukraine, and the withholding of a White House meeting for Ukraine s new president. We don t know what these documents will say, j Kclh CIA Fires Employee For Media Leak
Clear Channel CEO Mark P. Mays responded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. in a letter hand-delivered to his office this evening. While I certainly do not agree with all views that are voiced on our stations, I will not condemn our talent for exercising their right to voice them, Mays wrote.He took arespectful tone, saying he regretted that Reid and others might have been offended by Limbaugh. But ultimately, Mays wrote, he didn t believe Limbaugh s statements were intended to personally indict combat soldiers simply because they stanley cup becher didn t share his own beliefs stanley italia regarding the war in Iraq. Take a look at the letter here. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5 stanley mug c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
Washington mdash; After the House voted last week to impeach President Trump, Congress is stuck in a stalemate.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a list of documents on Monday that he believes are needed to carry out a fair impeachment trial, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News on Monday that they re at an impasse until Pelosi sends papers. By papers, he means the articles of impeachment. Before a Senate trial can happen, they must be officially sent from the House. But House SpeakerNancy Pelosi insistsshe won t send the articles or appoint impeachment managers until the Senate sets the rules for the trial. Senate trial rules are established by the m stanley cup ajority party, which in this case is the Republicans. They must decide whether to call witnesses and what evidence to admit.Mr. Trump was impeached for abusing his power in his diplomacy with Ukraine and stanley kubek obstructing Congress by blocking evidence and witnesses from the impeachment stanley cup inquiry. Schumer is now seeking some of that evidence. He wants records from the White House, State Department, and Office of Management and Budget related to three things: the president s effort to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations that would hurt his political rival s reputation, the order to hold and then later release military assistance to Ukraine, and the withholding of a White House meeting for Ukraine s new president. We don t know what these documents will say, j Kclh CIA Fires Employee For Media Leak
Clear Channel CEO Mark P. Mays responded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. in a letter hand-delivered to his office this evening. While I certainly do not agree with all views that are voiced on our stations, I will not condemn our talent for exercising their right to voice them, Mays wrote.He took arespectful tone, saying he regretted that Reid and others might have been offended by Limbaugh. But ultimately, Mays wrote, he didn t believe Limbaugh s statements were intended to personally indict combat soldiers simply because they stanley cup becher didn t share his own beliefs stanley italia regarding the war in Iraq. Take a look at the letter here. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5 stanley mug c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85155d8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;