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ST. LOUIS -- Missouri Governor-elect Eric Greitens said on Facebook Monday night that his wife was a victim of a robbery at gunpoint not far from their home.She is safemdash;but shaken. We are grateful for the men and women of law enforcement. Their response was swift and skilled, and we thank God for their presence tonight, said Greitens in the post. Tonight, my wife Sheenamdash;the mother of my two boys, and the future First Lad stanley quencher y of Missourimdash;was robbed at gunpoint not far...Posted by Eric Greitens onMonday, December 5, 2016 Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis, said in an incident summary that the wife of the governor-ele stanley website ct had just left a restaurant, and was seated inside her vehicle in the parking lot looking at her cellphone when her car door was suddenly opened. The suspect pointed a gun at the victim and demanded her property. The victim complied and gave the suspect her laptop and cellphone. The victim then observed several black males running from the scene, the statement read.Police were called to the scene. Further invest stanley canada igation revealed another vehicle on the parking lot had been broken into, and a cellphone was taken. Police said that the male victim in that case began to track his cellphone, which led officers to the suspects. Three males are in custody, and ages are 14, 15, and 19, according to police.Greitens, a Republican, is to take over for term-limited Democr Gsdh Rep. Duncan Hunter says he s guilty of taking a photo with enemy corpse
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogO stanley cups uk bama s radicalism is the theme of Stuart Taylor, mild-mannered centrist. Great quote: The house is burning down. This is no time to water the grass. Charles Krauthammer makes the same point at greater length:But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the stanley cup absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe. And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing-in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.Amen. On Facebook You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs.-- Read more by Michael Barone.-- Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.-- Read more about Barac stanley quencher k Obama. By Michael Barone ponent--type-recircul

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Washington mdash; The Trump administration announced Thursday it has sanctioned a pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker who has been spreading unsubstantiated allegations designed to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for attempting to i stanley uk nfluence the U.S. presidential election.The Treasury Department said the lawm stanley canada aker, Andriy Derkach, has been an active Russian agent for more than a decade and has close ties to Russian intelligence. Since late 2019, Derkach has waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 presidential election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the U.S. designed to culminate prior to election day, the agency said.Derkach released edited audio tapes and other unsubstantiated information between May and July that aimed to discredit unnamed U.S. officials, the Trump administration said. The Ukrainian lawmaker has also leveled unsubstantiated allegations against other American and international politicians. In addition to Derkach, the U.S. sanctioned three others with ties to Russia. The three mdash; Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreyev and Darya Aslanova mdash; are employees of the Internet Research Agency, a Russia-based troll farm that spr stanley cup ead disinformation on social media as part of the Kremlin s interference operation in 2016. Lifshits was also charged with wire fraud conspiracy for allegedly worki Mahb Top general leading U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria warns of ISIS resurgence
Credit: Twitter CBS News On Wednesday morning, Twitter debuted Twitter Political Index, thenewest tool for keeping an eye on public feelings toward President Obamaand pres stanley cup umptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.By sorting through the site s 400 million tweets a day, the tool aims tofind those messages mentioning Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It thenanalyzes the positive or negative character of those tweets, andcalculates an overal stanley cup l approval rating based on that data.There are obvious drawbacks to creating an approval rating strictly froman algorithm that relies on the musings of Twitter users. For example,the computer judging the tweet may not be able to pick up on a sarcastictone, something a human would notice. Also, last year the Obama teaminvited users to tweet Happy Birthday to the president, causing a slightspike in positive tweets relating to him. But according to Twitter, the company is not trying to supplementpolling, but rather add context to stanley mug the conversation. It s not intended to be a replacement for traditional research methodslike polling and focus groups, said Adam Sharp, head of government,news and social innovation at Twitter. It is able to give journalistsand researchers a more complete picture of the electorate. When the Twitter Political Index is giving a different indication thanthe polls as to where the winds of the electorate are shifting, that isa signal to perhaps dig

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As the race for the White House heats up with the first Republican debate set for Thursday, there appears to be a growing number of supporters showing up at campaign speeches and appearances. The increasing pressure to gain an edge has some candidates paying actors to be faces in the crowd, CBS News Carter Evans reports. When Donald Trump entered the presidential race, spurred on by an energetic crowd, apparently not all were true believers. According to an email obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, actors were offered $ water bottle stanley 50 to wear T-shirts, carry signs and cheer. Trump denies paying supporters, but if he did, he is hardly alone. stanley cup Adam Swart is CEO of Crowds on Demand. His initial clients were minor celebrities looking to get create a buzz. He hired actors to play paparazzi and fans. It wasn t long before politicians came calling. You want the world to think that it s really a genuine crowd, and that s what we do, Swart said. Swart said party affiliation doesn t matter. You want a crowd, he ll give you a crowd to cheer or go negative. He ll even provide protesters for an event. We don t trick people, Swart said. We engage them. Obviously what we really want are authentic politicians, stanley canada University of Southern California public policy professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett said. But they know the game, and they know how to get more people to follow is to at least create the illusion that everyone s very interested. The practice Awhy Former CIA director says intelligence community will recover under Biden
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who outraged some Mexican-American groups last week by calling for a closed border, praised the civilian volunteer Minuteman Project for its patro stanley cups uk ls to spot illegal immigrants. Look, they ve cut down the crossing of illegal immigrants by a huge percentage, Schwarzenegger told KFI-AM s The John Ken Show on Thursday.The Republican governor accused the federal government of failing to control the border and said it encouraged illicit crossers by giving them access to water. The whole system is set up to really invite people to come in here illegally, and that has to stop, he said.The Minuteman Project involves hundreds of volunteers, some armed, who have been patrolling the Mexico-Arizona border since April 1 to document and report illegal crossings. Chris Simcox, a Minuteman organizer, welcomed Schwarzenegger s support. It s gratifying to see that elected officials are responding to the will of the people, he said.There are plans to expand the patrols stanley mug to California in June, a move Schwarzenegger does not oppose, said Margita Thompson, his press secretary.President Bush has denounced the volunteers as vigilantes.Nativo V. Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association, called Schwarzenegger s comments Thursday nothing short of base racism. stanley thermoskannen Those of immigrant stock should have no illusions about what his real sentiments and feelings are toward them, he said.Schw

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The Department of Homeland Security s center for outreach to faith and community groups has resigned after it came to light that he had said black people turned cities into slums and Islam s only contribution to society was oil and dead bodies, CBS News has learned.Rev. Jamie Johnson was appointed in April by then-DHS SecretaryJohn Kellyto the Center for Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.A statement sent to CBS News from DHS confirms Johnson s resignation. stanley cup Acting [DHS] Secretary [Elaine Costanzo] Duke has accepted Rev. Jamie Johnson s resignation as Director of the Center for Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships at DHS, the statement read. His comments made prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security clearly do not reflect the values stanley tumbler of DHS and the administration. The Department thanks him for his recent work assi stanley cup sting disaster victims and the interfaith community. His resignation comes after abombshell report by CNNrevealed that between 2008 to as recent as 2016, Johnson said numerous disparaging comments targeting the black community and the Islam faith. CNN posted audio clips from Johnson s various shows. Johnson was discovered to have said publicly on conservative talk radio shows -- even his own weekend show -- that he thought black people turned U.S. cities into slums because of laziness, drug use and sexual promiscuity and that Islam s only contribution to society was oil and dead bodies Mxlj Feds and Penguin Random House set to square off over Simon amp; Schuster deal
Newt Gingrich CBS The story behind Newt Gingrich s first divorce more than three decades ago is coming back to haunt the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination for president.The thrice-married Gingrich has long claimed that it was his first wife, Jackie, who initiated the 1980 proceedings, an stanley cup d their daughter penned an article in May to rebut claims that Gingrich served her with divorce papers on a hospital bed.But this week, CNN and Bloomberg have each published accounts casting serious doubt on the former House speaker s version of events In essence, CNN and Bloomberg say it was Gingrich himself who wa stanley cup nted the divorce, not Jackie. It s totally untrue that she wanted the divorce, and Newt knows that, Dot Crews, who worked in the former Georgia lawmaker s office for five years through 1984, told Bloomberg in a telephone interview this week and published Wednesday. Now 80, Crews told the financial news agency that Gingrich confided to him during a car ride in Georgia that he d decided to file for di stanley italia vorce.On Monday, CNN said it had obtained documents from the Georgia courthouse where the divorce papers were filed which contradict Gingrich s assertion that Jackie Battley Gingrich initiated the proceedings.In the documents, Gingrich filed a complaint on July 14, 1980, arguing for divorce because the marriage was broken.Full cov

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Awop Bush Grabs Third Rail
Even President Obama is interested in what Francis Underwood is up to these days, but he doesn t want any spoilers.All 13 episodes from the second season of House of Cards made their way onto Netflix Friday, Valentine s Day, and it seems the real-life commander-in-chief may be one of many viewers tuning in to the series this President s Day weekend.On Thursday, in anticipation of the premiere, this message was posted on Mr. Obama s official Twitter page: Tomorrow: @HouseOfCards. No spoilers, please.mdash; Barack Obama @BarackObama February 13, 2014 It may come as a surprise that the president is a fan of House of Cards, given its dark take on Washington s elite. Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey portrays Underwood, a ruthless Democratic congressman who ahem, spoiler alert killed one of his supposed allies in the first season.During a meeting with tech giant CEOs in December, Mr.Obama jokingly asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings if he could have advanced copies of new House stanley cups uk of Ca stanley cup rds episodes. Hastings replied by asking Mr. Obama if he stanley cup becher would like to cameo on the series. The president didn t respond. But Mr. Obama did add that he wished, in real life, things were that ruthlessly efficient as they re depicted in the series.At the beginning of the second season, Underwood finds himself being sworn in as the new vice president of the United States, before being met with a major scandal that could destroy his career, and po Hckm Pennsylvania election official on the greatest threat in the 2024 presidential election
Sen. John Kerry has captured the Democratic caucuses in Michigan and Washington state, lengthening his lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.The front-runner by far, Kerry fashioned his latest vict stanley mugs ories by outsized margins on Saturday.The Massachusetts senator s share of the vote in a multi-candidate field hovered at 50 percent in both Washington and Michigan. Howard Dean had his best showing of the campaign season. He finished second in Washington with 30 percent of the vote and was battling for runner-up status in Michigan. But that was cold comfort for the former Vermont governor, whose once promising campaign unraveled further when the head of a major union withdrew his support.Democratic officia stanley italia ls said Gerald McEntee, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, delivered the news to the former front-runner during a meeting in Burlington, Vermont. It was a fresh blow for Dean, who has been shut-out in the primary season to date. With 80% of precincts in Washington reporting their results, Kerry stanley cup price had logged 49% of the vote. In second place was Dean, who trailed the senator by 18 percentage points. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich had 8% of the vote, and Sen. John Edwards trailed him by one point with seven percent.Returns from 15 percent of Michigan s caucuses showed Kerry with 57% support. Edwards had 15 percent and Dean 14 percent.A Michigan party official speaking on condition of a

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President Trump signed three executive memos on trade Monday morning -- one withdraws the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership TPP , another reinstates the Mexico CityPolicy dealing with non-governmental organizations NGOs and abortion access, and a third freezes federal wor stanley cup kforce hiring.Asked about the ethics lawsuit filed against him, Mr. Trump said only, Without merit. Totally without merit.What is the TPP TPP was an enormous trade deal that would have aligned the U.S. and 11 nations in the Asia-Pacific region including Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Canada and Mexico under an agreement that would have eliminated thousands of tariffs and streamlined regulations. The countries involved in the deal collectively conduct 40 percent of global trade. Everyone knows what that means, right Wersquo;ve been talking about this for a long time, Mr. Trump said as he signed the order withdrawing the U.S. from the TPP. Great thing for the American worker, what we just did.As he signed the federal workforce hiring freeze, Mr. Trump noted that the military was exempted from the hiring freeze. TPP also would have required ratification by Congress, and President Obama had hoped to see it r stanley cup atified before he left office.The Mexico City Policy was originally announced by President Reagan in 1984 and required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of receiving any federal vaso stanley funding that they Dtcr Congress far apart on border crisis plan as summer recess looms
CBS In the wake of President Obama s release of his long-form birth certificate, the percentage of Americans who doubt that President Obama was born in the United States has dropped dramatically, according to a new Washington Post poll. The poll finds that 77 percent of Americ stanley sverige ans say Mr. Obama was born in the United States, up from 68 percent one year ago. Eighty-six percent say it is at least their best guess he was born in the United States. The percentage of those who say Mr. Obama was likely born abroad has fallen from 20 percent in a Post-ABC poll one year ago to 10 percent in the new poll; only one percent of respondents say they have solid evidence to support that belief. Even before the long-form birth certificate was released, there was overwhelming evidence that Mr. Obama was indeed born in the United States. A CBS News/New York Times survey taken in mid-April, before the relea stanley website se of the long-form birth certificate, found stanley mug that one in four Americans - including nearly half of Republicans - wrongly believed Mr. Obama was born outside the United States. The new poll was taken from April 28 - May 1. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-d257ceea-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d257ceea-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { dis

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A number of top intelligence community officials gathered at Thursday s White House briefing to discuss U.S. efforts going forward to combat election interference attempts. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was joined by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone.The briefing came after a Senate intelligence hearing Tuesday in which key officials criticized the Trump administration for not taking foreign election threats more seriously.Each intelligence official opened with a statement on what their agency is doing ahead of the 2018 midterm elections while also cautioning that election meddling efforts are real and pervasive. Nielsen said that our democracy is in the crosshairs. Ahead of the briefing on Thursday, Bolton also sent a letter to Democratic Senators outlining how the Trump Administration is taking action to ensure election integrity. I think the president has made it abundantly clear to everybody who has respon botella stanley sibility in this area that he cares deeply about it and that he expects them to do their jobs to their fullest ability, stanley mugs and that he supports them fully, Bolton said in the briefing.Coats, who fielded most of the reporter questions f stanley website ollowing each official s opening statement, said that while the U.S. is just one keyboar Iyuk Every Dem Senate Candidate Now Backs Net Neutrality
President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the Bunch of Grapes book store with his family Friday, in Vineyard Haven, Mass. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster While the President may stanley mugs be enjoying what many describe as a working vacation, a White House official says he did take time to buy precisely two books for himself yesterday during a visit to Vineyard favorite Bunch of Grapes bookstore with daughters Sasha and Malia. Three more books were brought to the island from home. The five books average 512 pages in length, and are predominantly fiction. Whether or not Mr. Obama will have a chance to actually read them is another question altogether, but behold, the Presidential Summer Reading List: 1. The Bayou Trilogy, by Daniel Woodrell 496 pages Crime novels featuring detective Rene Shade.2. Rodin s Debutante, by Ward Just 272 pages A co stanley mugs ming-of-age novel set against t stanley thermos mug he crude glamour of midcentury Chicago. 3. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese 560 pages A first novel telling the story of twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. 4. To the End of the Land, by David Grossman 592 pages Fiction involving a mother s powerful meditation on war and family. 5. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkinson 640 pages The lone non-fiction t

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Last week, intelligence officials warned lawmakers in a briefing bef stanley cup ore the House Intelligence Committee that the Russians are continuing their efforts to interfere in the2020 election, and that one prong is aimed a stanley flasche t helping re-elect President Trump. But the president s top national security official said there s no intelligence behind such claims.Speaking to Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan, National Security Adviser Robert O Brien disputed the reports of what was presented during a House Intelligence C botella stanley ommittee briefing that he said was leaked to members of the press. O Brien said he had not seen the finding himself. From what I understand about the report....I get this second hand, but from Republican congressmen that were in the committee, there was no intelligence behind it, O Brien said. I haven t seen any intelligence to support the reports that were leaked out of the House. But it s just hard to comment on that because, again, I wasn t there. And these are leaks that were coming from a House Intel Committee hearing. I haven t seen any intelligence that would- would back up what I m reading in the papers. Following the congressional briefing, intelligence officials then briefed the White House on election security and offered the same assessment mdash; that Russia is trying to help Mr. Trump win re-election in 2020 mdash; a senior administration official told CBS.Moscow has since denied that it s trying to in Bydx Bush Briefs Congress On War Plan
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic: CHICAGO Barack Obama heads to Missouri today, in what will be his seventh trip to the state since securing the Democratic nomination. Although Obama hasn t been to Missouri since the end of August, a recent boost in poll numbers may have given the campaign confidence that they could take the state on November 4th.The economy may be one of the reasons that Obama is advancing in the state. Missouri has seen some of the highest unemployment rates in years, as factories and small businesses continue to suffer as a result of the economic slump. Obama will focus on his tax cut policy as well has jobs in speeches in both St. Louis and Kansas City. He believes that his tax plan has been misrepresented in McCain TV and radio ads. The events today have a strategic significance, as Obama tries to win the urban and suburban areas of Missouri. Most rural voters in the state tend to vote Republican, but a h stanley italia igh turn out in cities such stanley becher as St. Louis could prove to be the key to winning the state. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-cb1cce82-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right- stanley cup price rail-recirc-item--id-cb1cce82-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-cb1cce82-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Kynj Pence meets with Zelenskyy in Ukraine in surprise trip
On the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren often tells voters, stanley taza Whatever issue brought you here today, I guarantee if there is a decision to be made in Washington, it has been touched by money. Warren may feel that the nation s ethics laws needed work long before Donald Trump was elected president, but as far as she s concerned, he s the poster boy for the problem.In a revamped version of her Senate anti-corruption plan published on Medium, Warren called Mr. Trump a walking conflict of interest and pointe stanley cup quencher d out examples illustrating his and his family s conflicts and offered a corresponding solution to shut them down.Warren wants, for instance, to end the practice of ending misconduct investigations into federal judges who step down. She cited an investigation into whether President Trump s older sister Maryanne Trump Barry had violated judicial conduct rules by taking part in potentially fraudulent tax schemes with her family, which came to an abrupt end this year when she resigned as a Third Circuit Appeals Court judge. The president s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has seen the value of one of his companies skyrocket since he took a job as one of Mr. Trump s top White House advisers. This strikes Warren as a prime example of why top government officials should be forced to divest from their privately-owned as stanley bottles sets that could create conflicts. The goal of these measures is straightforward, Warren wrote in the post, which outlined nearly 1 Kcfu Biden deeply concerned by possible leak of U.S. intel about Israel s plans for Iran, White House says
SOUTH BEND, Ind.mdash;President Barack Obama confronted the issue of abortion head on Sunday at Notre Dame, acknowledging that differences over the issue are stanley cup largely irreconcilable but issuing a plea to those on both sides to tone down harsh rhetoric and search for common ground he believes is possible. I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away, Obama said. No matter how much we may want to fudge it ndash; indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory ndash; the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps stanley cup are irreconcilable, he told graduates. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reduci stanley cups ng those with differing views to caricature. Obamarsquo commencement address marked his most direct remarks on abortion as president ndash; and he delivered them at the nationrsquo flagship Catholic university, where his appearance sparked protests. But while he often drew on his personal experiences to make his points and highlight his respect for Catholicism, Obama never substantively addressed why he believes a woman has the right to abortion. Still, it wasnrsquo;t long into his speech before Obama touched on the issue that has defined his commencement invitation. He asked in a rhetorical way ndash; a const

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo called his Republican challenger, Marc Molinaro, an acolyte of President Donald Trump, and Molinaro punched back by assailing the Democrat as corrupt as the two candidates faced off Tuesday stanley cup spain at their only scheduled debate before next month s election.The exchanges between the two men were sharp and unfriendly.Cuomo, at one point, called Molinaro Trump s Mini-Me, a reference to the evil sidekick in the Austin Powers movies. Molinaro brought up the recent criminal conviction of a close Cuomo aide, Joseph Percoco, who traded influence for money and a cushy job for his wife. Governor, you have led the most corrupted state government in America, Molinaro said. At what point, after eight years of being in office, do you take responsibility New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo L and Republican challenger Marc Molinaro R seen at the New York gubernatorial debate on Tue., Oct. 23, 2018, in New York. CBS Ne stanley tumblers w York Cuomo, looking for his third term, sparred with Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, at the CBS B stanley cup becher roadcast Center in Manhattan. The debate was scheduled to be webcast and televised at 7 p.m. on several CBS affiliates. Cuomo is far ahead in the polls and in fundraising and until this weekend showed little interest in debating his lesser-known Republican challenger.During the debate, Cuomo made Trump, who is Zimt Trump says crime in Germany is way up, but it s actually down
Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-Calif. stanley nz , chairwoman of the Rules and Administration Committee, has scheduled a March 28 mark-up for her bill S. 223 to require Senate candidates and incumbents to file their campaign-finance reports electronically. Under the current Senate system, these reports are filed on paper, making them difficult to read and copy.The House already requires their candi stanley becher dates and incumbents to file electronically with the Federal El copo stanley ection Commission.Here s Feinstein s statement announcing the mark-up: House candidates, Presidential candidates, political action committees and party committees are all required to file electronically. But Senators, Senate candidates and Senate campaign committees are exempt. Itrsquo time to bring the Senate into the modern era, SenatorFeinstein said.We currently have a cumbersome system in which paper copies of disclosure reports are filed with the Senate Office of Public Records, which scans them to make a digital copy and sends the copy to the FEC on a dedicated communications line. The FEC then prints the report and sends it to a vendor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the information is keyed in by hand and then transferred back to the FEC database ndash; at cost of approximately $250,000 annually to taxpayers. Frankly, this makes no sense to me. In scheduling this markup, I am also urging my colleagues to refrain from holding this bill hostage over other campaign