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President Obama has been facing a barrage of criticism from Republican lawmakers for not pushing to leave a residual troop presence behind in Iraq after 2011, but has found a defender in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Those who attack President Obama for bringing our troops home are flat wrong in criticizing him for that, and they re out of step not only with the president but with the American people, Reid told reporters Tuesday. After a decade of war we ve all had enough. I do not support putting our men and women in harms way in Iraq. Reid, like many Democrats, was a staunch opponent of th stanley water bottle e war. But his opposition stanley cup to any American troops returning to Iraq in the coming days may land him on the opposite side of the issue from Mr. Obama. The White House is considering sending a small number of American special forces soldiers to Iraq to aid the government in Baghdad as it tries to fend the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , which has taken several towns and cities in the northern part of the country. Mr. Obama also notified Congress Monday afternoon that up to 275 U.S. military personnel have been deployed to Iraq to provide support and security to Americans and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Obama: Iraq violence a wake up call for Ir stanley cup aqi leaders 04:58 The soldiers Acpj Day 24: President Obama s Schedule
This story was written by Chris Frates.It didn t seem to matter to John McCain that when the final votes are tallied in Iowa, he could emerge as the surprise third-place finisher in the Republican preside stanley canada ntial caucus.He didn t even mention it during his last meeting with reporters Thursday night. But that s not to say the Arizona senator didn t take something away from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee s resounding victo stanley cup ry over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is McCain s chief rival in New Hampshire. The lesson of this election in Iowa is that, one, you can t buy an election in Iowa and two, negative campaigns don t work, McCain said. They don t work there, and they don t work here in New Hampshire. In Iowa, Romney aired negative ads against Huckabee and targeted McCain with similarly unflattering commercials in New Hampshire, where the two are locked in a fierce primary battle. McCain has staked his candidacy on his ability to win New Hampshire. So, Romney s loss Thursday night was McCain s gain. This is a great thing for us to be able to take Romney down a notch and not have to do anything, said a t stanley cup op McCain aide in New Hampshire. McCain didn t run any commercials in Iowa and spent little time campaigning there, instead campaigning heavily in New Hampshire, which has the nation s first presidential primary Tuesday. During his meeting with reporters in New Hampshire, McCain praised Huckabee for running a very

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President Donald Trump really, really wants interest rates to stay low, and judging by his recent tweets and media musings, berating the Federal Reserve Board and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is the best way to achieve that. Many on Wall Street and in government have de stanley france cried the president s attacks on the Fed, pointing to the long-term danger of undermining the U.S. central bank. But the fact is, if the president wanted to lower interest rates, he could do somdash;and he doesn t even need to ask the Fed.While the central bank s structure insulates it from day-to-day politics, there are levers for exerting presidential influence or for bypassing the Fed altogether. Some of President Trump s options for getting a low interest rate are complex, others are simple. Here they are, listed roughly from most unusual to least. Appoint more Fed governorsYes: Pack the Fed. The traditional way for the president to put his stamp on the Fed is through appointments to its seven-person Board of Governors. There are currently three vacancies on the board; Mr. Trump has named nominees to fill two of them. As other Fed governors retire, the president has the opportunity to fi stanley cup ll more spots. Complicating matters slightly, though, is the fact that Fed governors don t have sole deciding power when it comes to interest rates. The rate-setting body, called the FOMC, or the Federal Open Market Committee, includes a rotating cast of five regional Federal Reserve stanley quencher Ban Gigr Who does Harry Reid want to see replace him as Democratic leader
Updated: 1:12 p.m. ETAmid protracted Republican criticism of the U.S. response to the Septemb stanley thermobecher er 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this morning continued to stand up for the Obama administration s actions surrounding the violence, arguing in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that while the U.S. lacked sufficient advance intelligence to anticipate the attacks, we did everything we could to save American lives once they had begun. Panetta, who is finishing out his tenure as the president s top Pentagon official, allowed that ex stanley quencher tensive steps can and are being taken to prevent similar attacks in the future, and he outlined some of the actions he and other top defense officials have already authorized to that end.But, like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, Panetta emphasized the sheer number of security threats faced by U.S. diplomats abroad in the months leading up to the Benghazi attacks, pointing out that Benghazi was one of almost 300 areas of concern to the National Counterterrorism Center NCTC .WH to brief senators on drones before CIA hearingAt Brennan hearing, U.S. drone policy in the spotlight The NCTC, in the six months prior to that attack, identified some 281 threats to U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities, embassies, ambassadors and consulates worldwide -- and obviously Benghazi was one of those almost 300 are stanley website as of concern, he said. On September 11, he said he