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Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas said Thursday that mistakes were made when he sent a fundraising mailer that called on supporters to defend Texas from illegal immigration. The letter was dated just one day before a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in El Paso.The letter was condemned as racist and anti-Latino by the Texas Democratic Party after it surfaced last week. Abbott came under more criticism the following day from El Paso lawmakers fortweetingthat liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court had required stanley website Texas to pay for schooling for students who are not in the U.S. legally.The lawmakers called the tweet dangerous in the wa stanley cup usa ke of the August 3 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, which authorities say was carried out by a gunman who posted a racist screed online railing against an influx of immigrants to the U.S. Taken together, the mailer and tweet have put a spotlight on Abbott s hardline rhet stanley mugs oric at a time when he has urged unity in the aftermath of the mass shooting.He spoke about the letter publicly for the first time Thursday before leading a meeting in El Paso with lawmakers, gun activists and family members of those killed at the Walmart. Texas Governor Greg Abbott Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images I did have the opportunity to visit with the El Paso delegation and help them understand that mistakes wer Syek Biden Calls Affordable College A Priority
Congress inclusion of a stringent pay cap for executives of companies receiving government aid in the stimulus legislation passed Friday was a major topic on CBS News Face The Nation Sunday. CBS Alabama Republican Richard Shelby, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, admitted for probably the first time that he supports this provis stanley cup ion in the stimulus bill, even though he voted against the legislation. I believe this provision in the stimulus bill is going in the right direction, as far as protecting the taxpay stanley cup er, Shelby told host Bob Schieffer. I am totally against us being involved in private companies hellip; but where taxpayers money is involved, Bob, we better make sure that this money is spent wisely. CBS Rep. Barney Frank D-MA , chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, also said he supports the cap on executive pay mdash; inserted into the bill at the insistence of House Democrats mdash; and that the White House has no choice but to support the provision.Frank differed with Shelby, who said he believed the government should interfere with private companies executive compensation only when taxpayer money such as the billions in TARP funds that have gone to teetering banks is at stake. Frank said that such unstable situations where private companies come for handouts of public money should be prevented from happening by changing the ethos of no-risk rewards, stanley cup which Frank said provide perverse incentives.

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What are you guys doing in my yard President Obama asked as he strolled out onto the White House South Lawn wearing blue jeans and wide grin. Fifty fourth-grade Girl Scouts gathered around a make-shift campfire made of battery-powered lanterns and surrounded by large white and blue tents.The Girl Scouts were invited to take part in the first ever White House campout by First Lady Michelle Obama, who is also the organizat stanley website ion s honorary president. The campout was part of her Let s Move Outside Initiative, which encourages children and their families to be active and experience the great outdoors.They spent the afternoon on the White House South Lawn rock climbing, knot-tying, orienteering and pitching tents. In the evenin stanley quencher g, the president and Mrs. Obama stopped by to sit with them around the lantern-light and to join their singing circle. Mr. and Mrs. Obama sang Make New Friends and Brave New Girl with the scouts. Obamas join Girl Scouts for campout at the White House, June 30, 2015. stanley cup CBS News / Nana Agyemang I thought he was just going to do all his work and not come, said Hannah Holmes, a 10-year old Girl Scout from the DC area, and then all of a sudden, I hear people saying, oh my gosh, it s the president! After singing, dancing and chatting with the girls and their chaperons, the Mr. Obama took his leave. Unfortunately, I ve got to go to work, he said, I m Rshr Meet Washington s geeky fiscal referees: The CBO
Former Repubican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island,who lost his seat in last yearrsquo Democratic congressional wave, announced that he has left the Republican Party, according to the Providence Journal.Itrsquo not my party any more, he said. In his seven-year tenure in the Senate, Chafee frequently split from his party on key legislation. He opposed the war in Iraq, voted with Democrats on estate tax and HMO regulation legislation and refused to support the confirmation of U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. In the past, Chafee had insisted that he would remain in the Republican Party. But he did not endorse President Bush for re-election in 2004, and faced a fierce primary challenge from his right in last yearrsquo Senate race.Chafee and his father, former Sen. John Chafee, held Rhode Islandrsquo Senate seat in Republican hands for 30 years. National Republicans poured money into the state last year to aid Chafeersquo re-election, bu stanley quencher t he lost to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse D-R.I. . ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: no stanley trinkflaschen ne; stanley fr inline-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84e5a0e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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By Jennifer De PintoPresident Trump is likely to deliver his State of the Union address to a friendly audience composed largely of his supporters. Historically, those in the president s own party have been more inclined to watch the address. In keeping with this trend, most of the potential viewers favor many of the pre stanley thermos sident s policies, including his plans for immigration. Most want to hear him talk about building a border wall, although most indicate they want the president to strike a more unifying tone. Americans who plan to tune in to the speech are more likely to be Republicans than Democrats or independents, and most consider themselves supporters of the president 56 percent rather than opponents 25 percent . One in five say they are something in between. State of the Union address: How to stream online or watch on TVTrump delivers 2019 State of the Union stanley france address mdash; live updatesForty-two percent of those who plan to watch the speech identify as R stanley cup epublicans, compared to 25 percent of Americans overall. Most of those planning to watch Tuesday s State of the Union address consider themselves Trump supporters. CBS News While most who say they ll watch are supporters of Mr. Trump and his policies, 65 percent say the president should try to appeal to all Americans in Tuesday s address, even those who disagree with him. Only 35 percent think he should mostly stan Xwqo GOP Senator John Ensign Admits Affair
4818723This story was updated at 1 PM ET with new information about the lack of Senate support for the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.In his first several days in office, President Obama announced that he would close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility in Cuba. He did not indicate where the prisoners living there would be relocated. For their part, U.S. lawmakers know where they don t want them to go: Anywhere near their distric stanley vaso ts.The president is reaching out to countries around the world to take in former Guantanamo detainees, but as the Associated Press points out, he is facing strong opposition very close to home. Last week, the House of Representatives passed a war spending bill which fobids releasing Guantanamo detainees in the U.S. The bill is now before the Senate. Meanwhile, several northern Virginia lawmakers are speaking out against the possible local stanley cups uk relocation of the 17 Uighurs who had been held at the facility. Uighurs are Turkic Muslims from western China. They say the Chinese government has oppressed them; China calls them in stanley mug surgents and wants them extradited. On Sunday, Virginia Democrat Senator Jim Webb said he would not support a reloation of the Uighurs prisoners in Northern Virginia. They accepted training from Al Qaeda and as a result they have taken part in terrorism, the senator said on ABC s This Week Sunday. I don t believe they should come to the United States. In a Washington Post e

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Ba stanley tumblers ghdad -- The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country.Most of the new troops will be devoted to the build-up of the Qayara air base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, and include engineers, logistics personnel and other forces, Carter said in Baghdad. They will help Iraqi security forces planning to encircle and eventu stanley cupe ally retake the key city. These additional U.S. forces will bring unique capabilities to the campaign and provide critical enabler support to Iraqi forces at a key moment in the fight, Carter said, according to prepared remarks. He revealed President Barack Obama s stanley mug decision during a talk to troops at the airport in Baghdad. The increase brings the total U.S. force authorization in Iraq to 4,647, and comes just three months after Obama s last announcement of additional troops.Carter told reporters earlier that U.S. advisers are prepared to accompany Iraqi battalions if needed, as those units begin the siege of the key northern city. It s not clear when exactly that will happen. U.S. officials said a team of American troops went into Qayara for a quick site assessment Sunday and left. One potential job is helping Iraqi troops use highly technical bridging capabilities to get across the river into Mo Elan Clinton To Campaign For Obama In Nevada, Florida
AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s top flu specialist has privately informed health care officials that the H1N1 virus is becoming a more serious threat, CBSNews has learned. We re now certainly starting to pick up more serious cases, Dr. Joe Bresee, chief of CDC s epidemiology and prevention branch of the influenza division, told health care providers on Thursday.Bresee said on a private conference call that the situation is now changing a bit, add stanley cup ing that H1N1 s incubation period is between one and four days, and its infectious period is similar to seasonal flu at two to seven days. CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner told CBSNews that we re still learning about the H1N1 virus -- also known as swine flu -- and declined to comment further on his colleague s remarks.Bresee s comments come as more evidence of the new influenza strain popped up around the country, with a dozen states reporting case stanley cup s and nearly 300 schools closing. Meanwhile, the CDC is racing to develop a vaccine. One puzzling question, of course, is why the H1N1 cases stanley cups uk in Mexico seem to be resulting in more deaths than the ones in the United States.Even though the CDC has confirmed 109 cases domestically, plus a few more reported by state health officials, there has been only a single known death -- a toddler visiting from Mexico. The World Health Organization reports 97 confirmed cases of infection in Mexico and seven death