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BALTIMORE -- Hillary Clinton officially began planning for her White House on Wednesday, tapping campaign chairman John Podesta and long-time aide Minyon Moore to prepare her transition planning effort.In paperwork filed with the District of Columbia, Clinton formed a new non-profit, called the Clinton-Kaine Transition Fund, taking one of the first formal steps to plan for the possibility of becoming president. The filing comes after weeks of meetings between the White House and representatives of Tr stanley cup usa ump and Clinton s campaigns. Clinton rips Trump for outsourcing as GOP leaders defect 02:48 On Friday, White H stanley website ouse chief of staff Denis McDonough informed the campaigns that that Trump and Clinton are now eligible to receive intelligence briefings from the government and government-provided workspace for transition planning. Traditionally, the outgoing administration helps potential successors with their planning to ensure a smooth transition. In May, Trump tapped New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to lead his tran stanley mug sition team. Podesta will be president of Clinton s effort and Moore will be secretary, though she has not yet named a chair of her transition operation. Instead, she has dispatched campaign policy aides Ed Meier, Ann OLeary and Sara Latham, Podesta s chief o Akbk Rove Slammed For 9/11 Comments
Sen. Larry Craig R-Idaho is expected to announce his resignation during a Saturday morning press conferencefollowing his arrest and subsequent guilty plea stemming from an incident in an airport bathroom in June, the Associated Press is reporting.Citing three unnamed Republican officials in the state, the new agency is reporting what many have been speculating in Washington and Idaho for most of the day.Craig is set to hold a press conference at 10:30 mountain to announce his plans as pressure to resign mounted throughout the week. stanley cups uk One senior Republican o stanley website fficial, who has been closely monitoring the situation, said Friday he fully expected Craig to resign. Though his decision took several days, it was pretty quick in Washington speak, the same official said. There was never any support for him, the official said. Everybody pulled o stanley thermobecher ut the rug. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84bd4e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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On the eve of Nancy Pelosi s election to speaker, associates of the first woman ever to get that post and incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are working overtime to mute stories that the two are political enemies. Still, nobody s saying that the two a stanley cups uk re cozy. They have a very productive relationship, says a Pelosi associate. We are working well with Nan stanley cup cy and her staff, offers a Hoyer ally.The effort to portray a calm and professional working relationship is a bid to finally close the post-election divide among Democrats over Hoyer s election to majority leader over Pelosi s choice, Rep. John Murtha. A Hoyer associate said that the Maryland representative feels no bitterness about Pelosi s efforts and understands why she backed the Pennsylvania antiwar lawmaker. A Pelosi insider said that the new speaker felt that Murtha deserved a shot at the post since it was his vocal opposition to the war that turned around Democratic chances last year and set the party up for an election victory. She felt that we wouldn t have won without his opposition, added the Pelosi associate who also called reports that the two have feuded since they were House interns B.S. By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfc41b3a- caneca stanley 8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfc41b3a-8c88-11e2-b