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Washington mdash; House Democrats are requesting an investigation int stanley uk o whether Trump administration officials violated a federal law prohibiting certain political activities by government employees during the Republican National Convention last month by leveraging their positions to bolster President Trump s reelection campaign.In a letter to the Office of the Special Counsel OSC , the federal agency that investigates potential violations of the Hatch Act, the lawmakers also questioned the use of the Wh stanley website ite House as a backdrop during the convention. Throughout the Convention, Administration officials repeatedly used their official positions and the White House itself to bolster President Tru stanley cup mp s reelection campaign, the letter, spearheaded by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, said. They lawmakers said they are particularly concerned with the consequences of White House actions on career employees who may have felt pressured to help organize and put on these events, potentially subjecting them to legal jeopardy. President Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on August 27, 2020. CARLOS BARRIA / REUTERS The Hatch Act bars executive branch officials from engaging in certain partisan political Sfsi Leon Panetta talks Russia, Syria, and the red line in North Korea
CBS/AP LONDON - With the Olympics Games as a backdrop, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with former British Prime Min stanley cups uk ister Tony Blair, beginning a day of meetings with Britain s most powerful people. The likely GOP nominee sought to send a message that he recognizes the close bonds between the U.S. and its top ally 151; and to project an image of leadership. We have a very special relationship between the United States and Great Britain, Romney told NBC News in an interview in London on the first day of a weeklong overseas trip that will also take him to Israel and Poland. It goes back to our very beginnings 151; cultural and historical. Romney s first official appearance during a campaign swing intended to highlight longtime U.S. alliances was with Blair. He was slated to meet later in the day with current Prime stanley cups uk Minister David Cameron.CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford reports that, in a news conference earlier Thursday, Cameron called for stronger trade links between the U.S. and Europe, so that will likely be a theme discussed by the two men Thursday afternoon. Romney hopes trip abroad adds foreign policy credRomney s foreign trip: Low key and light on policyOn Israel, Romney sees opening against ObamaBlair hosted Romney at his stanley quencher private office few blocks off Hyde Park. The former Labour Party prime minister now serves as a special envoy to the Middle East for the British government. The two discussed

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Alumni and faculty at the alma mater of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are calling on university officials to rescind an honorary degree awarded to her as punishment for voting t stanley cup o confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month.More than 1,800 alumni and dozens of faculty at St. Lawrence University are sending letters to university officials on Tuesday demanding they take back an honorary degree stanley mug the senator received in 2017. Collins graduated from the tiny liberal arts college in northern New York in 1975, and she has received two honorary degrees from the school, mostly recently an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters.A letter co-signed by more than 1,300 alums states that they believe Collins s support for Kavanaugh is not in line with the core values of the university. While Collins was awarded her honorary degree in 2017 in recognition of the fact that she was not supporting GOP attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, her support for Kavanaugh shows a lack the integrity and commitment to justice that we expect from the St. Lawrence body, the alumni s letter says. They call on the university to revoke the degree in support of truth and for all of the victims of sexual assault and violence, of which many of her fellow alumni and students have suffered. A separate message co-signed by dozens of faculty members says that revoking Collins s honorary degree has nothing to do with partisan politics, but woul stanley quencher d help Tqbs Federal Grand Jury Issues Subpoena For Buckham Payroll Records
Former Wyoming governor and U.S. Sen Clifford Hansen, a rancher who rode his agricultural background to political success in Cheyenne and Washington, D.C., died Tuesday night. He was 97.Hansen, who suffered from ailments including respiratory problems and had returned home Monday after hospital treatment for a broken pelvis, died at his home in Jackson, his son, Peter Hansen stanley cup said.Clifford was the nation s oldest living former senator. I am sure there are many things that could be said, Peter Hansen said. He was a wonder stanley cups ful husband, father, and I m sure other people will say many other things. Hansen, a Republican, was elected governor in 1962. As governor, he supported lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, increasing retirement pay for state employees and repealing the state s ban on accepting federal aid for education. As his term as governor drew to a close in 1966, Hansen ran for the Senate, beating Democrat Teno Roncalio.In the Senate, Hansen served on the Veterans Affairs Committee, the Fi stanley cup nance Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. He backed reservoir projects in Wyoming, designating national recreation areas and wilderness areas in Wyoming, and placing a ceiling on federal expenditures.Hansen was re-elected in 1972 and stepped down in 1978.Hansen was born Oct. 16, 1912, to Peter and Sylvia Hansen, who homesteaded at Zenith in Jackson Hole. Hansen attended public schools in Jackson and graduated from the Universit

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Democrats wasted no time during Wednesday s debate before taking shots at Michael Bloomberg, the newest Democratic presidential candidate on the debate stage, taking aim within the event s opening minutes at his derogatory comments about women and his billionaire status.Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was first to slam Bloomberg, saying that Democrats are taking a huge risk if we just substitute one stanley cup arrogant billionaire for another. I d like to talk about who we re running against, Warren said. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. And no, I m not talking about Donald Trump. I m talking about Mayor Bloomberg. Democrats, Warren continued, will not defeat President Trump in November if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women and of sup stanley thermos porting racist policies like red-lining and stop-and-frisk. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar continued with the attack on Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, saying that Democrats need a candidate who is different from Mr. Trump. I don t think stanley water bottle you look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House, she said. Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, left, and Senator Elizabeth Warren talk before a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in Las Vegas. AP Mluc Bush, Troops Have Rehearsed Chat
Prime Minister Stephen Harper s chief of staff said someone in Hillary stanley cup Rodham Clinton s campaign gave Canada back-channel assurances that her harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, according to a report by the Canadian Press.The report comes just days after a Canadian government memo stated Barack Obama s senior eco stanley cup nomic adviser told Canadian officials that the Illinois senator s own comments about NAFTA were for political positioning. The release of that memo helped Clinton defeat Obama decisively in Tuesday s Democratic primary in Ohio, where the trade treaty is unpopular.On Wednesday, the Canadian Press quoted an unidentified source as saying that Ian Brodie, Harper s chief of staff, made the comment last week to a crew for Canada s CTV television network during a press gathering to discuss Canada s budget. According to a person with knowledge of the incident, the source was a CTV j garrafinhas stanley ournalist. The Canadian Press story said a CTV reporter asked Brodie about remarks by Clinton and Obama that they would seek to renegotiate NAFTA. He said someone from Clinton s campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. ... That someone called us and told us not to worry, the journalist quoted Brodie as saying, according to the report. On Thursday, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said the campaign flatly denied the suggestion that a Clinton adviser had told Canadian government offi

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Sen. Tim Scott, R- South Carolina, is calling on communities of color to give President- elect Donald Trump a chance when he takes office in January 2017. In an interview for Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson sat down with the South Carolinian senator in his office to discuss race relations after the election of Donald Trump and the announcement of a mistrial in the shooting death of Walter Scott by a police officer in South Carolina. During the interview Dickerson asked Sen. Scott how he believes Trump can bridge the gap with communities of color who believe the president- elect played on fears in the African- American community to get elected.Anyone who watched this election and did not see that fear was a part of both sides of the aisle, missed the election. Scott said. I think we would have this same conversation had Hillary won. Just perhaps a different perspective Scott, however, assured he would hold the incoming president accountable by what he doesrdqu stanley cup o; during his administration. Sen. Tim Scott discusses Ben Carson, Steve Bannon 04:39 Scott, currentl stanley quencher y the only African- American stanley cups Republican in the Senate, called on Trump to spend time in communities of color and listen to their needs. If D Joqw New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez under federal criminal investigation
This post was updated at 3:17 p.m. ET Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., spoke for over 12 hours on the Senate floor yesterday, staging a filibuster of John Brennan s nomination to be CIA director.Paul objected to the administration s recent assertion that it could legally use a drone strike against an American on U.S. soil in extraordinary circumstances that posed an imminent threat garrafinhas stanley to national security, and today, it appeared as though the White House had taken note, with Attorney General Eric Holder responding to a letter Paul sent to the administration regarding the use of drones on U.S. soil. White House press secretary Jay Carney read both Paul s question and Holder s response at today s briefing. Senator Paul has raised questions about the p stanley becher resident s authority to use leghal force within the United States, which John Brennan and the Attorney General have both answered, Carney said. Today, Sen. Paul raised an additional question and the Attorney General has answered it. According to Carney, Paul asked, Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in c stanley cup ombat on American soil In his response, also read by Carney, Holder replied succinctly: The answer to that question is no. Rand Paul amazed by support for filibuster Rand Paul ends filibuster against CIA director nominee after almost 13 hoursIn a statement, Paul called Holder s response a major victory for American civil libertie