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The special Senate election to replace longtime Sen. Frank Lauten stanley website berg, D-N.J., who died on Monday at the age of 89, will be held in October, Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., announced on Tuesday.At a press conference in New Jersey, Christie said the primary race would be held on August 13 and that the special election would be 64 days after that, on October 16. State statute, he said, provides for the governor of New Jersey to make this decision if the governor deems it advisable to have a special election. I deem it necessary, he said. We have to move swiftly to fill this seat. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., dies at age 89Gov. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 1924-2013Ch stanley website ristie said the state will pick up the costs of the special election, which will take place just weeks before his own gubernatori stanley cup al re-election in November. Christie, who is expected to win re-election easily, dismissed the notion that he could defray costs to the government by having both elections on one day, or that he is driven by political motivations to hold them on separate dates. In fact, he argued, the option to have [the special election] on the general election is not an option under state law. According to the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, the costs of a special primary election and a special general election would be approximately $11.9 million per election. In the end, the cost associated with having this special election... cannot be measured agains Tzre WikiLeaks emails show Clinton camp chatter on foreign lobbying
CBS As Congress continues to negotiate the federal government s budget for this fiscal year, conservatives aren t letting up their campaign against earmarks. Lawmakers and conservative political activists alike are wailing that the regionally-specific federal spending projects are the hallmark of government waste. Conservativ stanley en mexico e Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma released his annual Wastebook today, which purports to highlight some of the most wasteful government spending of 2010, including earmarks. The report gives examples of over $11.5 billion in government spending considered wasteful, including a $60,500 earmark for a parachute museum in Dayton, Ohio, and a $350,000 earmark to refurbish a functional, historic clock tower in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, after Rep stanley mug ublican opposition to earmarks managed to kill an omnibus government-spending bill last week, the conservative group FreedomWorks stanley cup credited the Tea Party for compelling the Senate to drop the pork-stuffed legislation. The bill, which would have funded the federal government through Sept. 30 of next year, included $8 billion worth of earmarks that both Democrats and Republicans had requested. Some of the very same Republicans who requested earmarks in the bill decided to vote against it in the name of fiscal responsibility.FreedomWorks highlighted some of the wasteful spending in the omnibus, such as $413,000 for peanut res

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President Obama on Friday signed a $1.1 trillion spending pa stanley mugs ckage to fund the government through next September, averting the risk of a government shutdown for a while.Earlier in the day, the House passed the 2,009-page measure 316-113 despite some uncertainty about its fate stanley bottles a day earlier. Some Democrats expressed opposition to the bill, as did a number of conservatives because of various policy provisions tucked inside.The Senate also voted 65-33 in favor of the package, which included a bill to extend expired tax breaks that the House passed on Thursday. The measure removes the threat of a government shutdown until Sept. 30, about a month before the 2016 elections.Congressional leaders reached the deal late Tuesday, posting the bill in the wee hours on Wednesday, after weeks of negotiations over contentious policy riders. Hours after its release, House Democrats began to raise concerns with the deal because they said its lifting of the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports could send American jobs overseas. They also questioned why the spending package didn t address Puerto Rico s debt crisis. Some conservatives in both chambers, meanwhile, had complained that the bill would significantly increase H-2B visas to foreign workers and would infringe on Americans privacy due to the cybersecurity pr stanley cup quencher ovisions. On Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said she would vote in favor of the bill, but said she wasn t co Zbbb Report: Anti-IED Fight Still Needs Work
Utah s junior Senator Mike Lee knew the wheels in Washington turned slow, but this slow I ve been in office for over a month and still don t have a permanent office, Lee, 39, tells CBS News in a Unplugged Under 40 interview.Lee s c stanley cup urrent workspace on the top floor of the Dirksen Senate Building may not be permanent -- he ll have to wait until April for that -- but it is operational and the deacute;cor is clearly inspired - jelly beans on the front counter are the first giveaway. A conference room covered in framed black and white photos of the Ronald Reagan, in Utah of course, is the second. To Lee, Ronald Reagan isn t just the godfather of the Republican party, he was his father s boss. Rex Lee was Reagan s Solicitor General. A young Mike Lee first began his life-long study of the Constitution as he watched his father argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. The workday s arguments before the court often ended up at the Lee dinner table. I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause stanley thermosflasche on a regular basis, Lee jokes. Lee s fascination with the Constitution carried on beyond the family dinner table - on to law school and full stanley isolierkanne circle to the U.S. Supreme Court as a clerk for Justice Alito.He is an uncompromising constitutional conservative and proud of it. This ideology lined-up quite well with the Tea Party movement that just happened to gain momentum as Lee decided to leave his pri

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When Africa s leaders get together at the dinner table Tuesday night, there will likely be plenty of things they don t agree on. White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford s job is to make sure food isn t one of them. She s heading up the kitchen as President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama host nearly 50 African leaders and their delegations for a state dinner-style event in celebration of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Under a tent on the White House South Lawn, to the tunes of Lionel Richie, Comerford is responsible for pleasing the palates of 400 expected guests. Something she says is no easy task. We do a lot of intense research, she said, you don t want to exclude different areas [of Africa]. Preparing for President Obama s African Summit Dinner, Aug. 4, 2014. CBS News/Jillian Hughe stanley mugs s And it s not just about taking into account different tastes, but also accommodating a vast array of African customs. stanley cup It s one of the bigger undertakings that we have done because you have to know that it s all 50 different leaderships with all kinds of different dietary restrictions and religious persuasions, she said.So the kitchen strategy for four different courses and a total of 1600 pla stanley tumbler tes, is going to be to stick with American traditions, but flavor dishes with African influence. We want to give it nuances of different Dffs Washington Wrap
Barack Obama s campaign on Wednesday weighed ways to bring the drawn-out Democratic nominating process to a close while mapping out a strategy that will involve campaigning in battleground states where primaries have already been held.Obama s drive to nail down the party nod was buoyed with a double-digit win in North Carolina and a stronger-than-expected run in Indiana, where he almost overcame rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary Clinton may have gotten what she needed to keep her uphill quest for the Democratic nomination alive - but by the barest of margins, said CBSNews senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. Click here to read Ververs full analysis. Obama was expected to compete for the six remaining Democratic contests but to also turn attention to general election states, aides said.Likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain has run free for some time now because of Democratic preoccupation with the ongoing primary fight, said Obama strategist David Axelrod. I don stanley us t think we re going to spend time solely in primary states, he said. We have multiple tasks here. The Ill stanley cups uk inois senator was enjoy botella stanley ing a rare down day in his hometown before returning to Washington, D.C., late WednesdayHe was expected to travel later in the week to Oregon, where he appears to hold the advantage, and then head to the Appalachian coal-states of West Virginia and Kentucky, where Clinton seems to have the edge. Click here for the ful

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In Daytona Beach, Florida on Wednesday, stanley romania Donald Trump spoke in detail about seeing video of money pouring off of a plane in Iran, referring to the $400 million cash payment the U.S. sent to Tehran. The video, he said, was shot in Iran by the Iranian government and released as a ploy to embarrass the U.S. He described it as shot at a perfect angle, nice and steady, and that it could only be the work of Iranian state media.Iran frees detained Americans in prisoner swap I ll never forget the scene this morning and remember this, Iran -- I don t think you ve heard this anywhere but here -- Iran provided all of that footage, the tape of taking that money off that airplane, right, $400 million in cash. How does a president do that How do you do that Trump said.Donald Trump claims stanley uk credit for Iran s release of AmericansThen, he went on to describe the video itself, that he said showed the arrival of the money. Now here s the amazing thing. Over there where that plane landed, top secret, they don t have a lot of paparazzi, you know the paparazzi doesn t do so well over there, right, and they have a perfect tape done by obviously a government camera, and the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane, right, Trump continued. That means in order to embarrass us further Iran sent us the tapes, right. It s a military tape. It s a tape that was a perfect stanley cup usa angle, nice and steady. Nobody getting nervous because they are going to be sh Qjwy Mitch McConnell says he and Trump are in regular contact and working together
A Senate aide who handled Sen. Ted Stevens personal bills did not report any payments from his personal funds, raising questions about whether the two violated gift restrictions or federal law.Barbara Flanders, a financial clerk at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is cooperating in a corruption investigation of the lawmaker. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Flanders is cooperating in the probe of Stevens dealings with a wealthy Alaska contractor.In her stanley cups uk public financial disclosure form for 2006, Flanders checked the No box when asked whether she or her spouse had earned income of more than $200 beyond her Senate salary. Income received from Stevens, R-Alaska, would be reportable under Senate rules.If she was not paid for the personal work, it could be considered a gift that Stevens would have to report on his annual disclosure forms. He has not reported gifts from Flanders, a longtime aide who also has worked in the senator s personal office. Flanders did not return calls seeking her comment.Stevens spokesman, Aaron Saunders, said in an e-mailed statement: As the former chairman of the Senate Ethics and Rules Committees, Senator Stevens has vast knowledge and experience with the Senate rules. He has long-standing office policies that are consistent with these rules, including personally compensat stanley trinkflaschen ing staff members for performing tasks that are outside th stanley borraccia eir official duties. Saunders said Fla

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Vice President Joe Biden says he thinks he would have been the best commander in chief. I planned on running. It s an awful thing to say...I think I would have been the best president, but it was the right thing, not just for my family, for me, Biden said in an interview that aired Wednesday on ABC News Good Morning America. No one should ever seek the presidency unless they re able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion and to just doing that, and Beau was my soul, Biden added about stanley cup usa his late son Beau Biden, who died of a long battle with brain cancer last year at the age of 46. stanley quencher Biden said his one regret is that Beau is no longer here, adding, I don t have any other regrets. In the same interview, he said he s confident that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. And I feel confident she ll be the next president, Biden said. Though Clinton lost the West Virginia primary o stanley bottles n Tuesday, she s still leading Bernie Sanders in terms of delegates. According to CBS News latest count, she has 2,239 delegates, including superdelegates while Sanders trails with 1,458. The vice president said Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been underestimated from the beginning of the 2016 race, but he said the constant attack coming from the Republican side, the sort of vitriol that s pouring out won t wear well over the next several months. Biden opted out of the presidential race last October, saying in a spe Baxn Cantor Hedges On Whether House GOP Will Accept Deal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico Gov. Susa stanley mugs na Martinez is forced to research and clarify her late grandfather s immigration status. Marco Rubio, Florida s GOP Senator, is accused of embellishing his family s immigrant story. A Republican congressional candidate in California puts on his website that he is the great-grandson of an illegal immigrant.As more Latino Republicans seek and win elected offi botella stanley ce, their families backgrounds are becoming subject to increased scrutiny from some Latino activists, a reaction experts say is a result of Latino Republicans conservative views on immigration. It s a new phenomenon that experts say Latino Democrats rarely faced, and could be a recurring feature in elections as the Republican Party seeks to recruit more Latino candidates. It s a trend and we are seeing more of it, said Alfonso Aguil stanley cup ar, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. For years, most Latino elected officials were largely Democrats, except in Florida, where Cuban Americans tended to vote Republican. But recently, a new generation of Latino Republicans has won seats in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California and even Idaho. Those politicians have come under fire from some Latino activists for pushing for laws targeting illegal immigrants and for opposing efforts for comprehensive immigration reform 151; views that are in line with most Republicans.And the immigrant advocates are po

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California Senator Dianne Feinstein announced her intentions to seek re-election in a Monday morning tweet, telling followers, I m all in! I am running for reelection to the Senate. Lots more to do: ending gun violence, combating climate change, access to healthcare. Irsquo;m all in!mdash; Dianne Feinstein @DianneFeinstein October 9, 2017 I am running for reelection to the Senate. Lots more to do: ending gun violence, combating climate change, access to healthcare, the Democrat wrote.Just last week, in the wake of the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting, Feinstein introduced a bill that would ban the sale, transfer, importation, manufacture or possession of bump stocks, trigger cranks and similar accessories that allow a semi stanley cup automatic rifle s rate of fire to mimic f stanley deutschland ully automatic fire. A dozen of these devices werefound in the hotel room of the Las Vegas shooter.The measure has 26 Democratic co-sponsors. The nation s largest gun lobby, the N stanley cups ational Rifle Association,suggested in a statementthat it would support regulations that would allow policymakers to ban bump stocks.But Feinstein told CBS Face the Nation that regulation alone will not enable policymakers to ban bump stock devices. We need a law. It can t be changed by another president, Feinstein told CBS John Dickerson. Sen. Feinstein says there was no law that Hfcl Trump says gun control negotiations are going very slowly
The Treasury Department says its bank bailouts are over, but the spending continues.In a Sept. 22 speech, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the bailouts are completely behind us. That s not quite correct. In the final six months in which it could spend money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Treasury set aside $243 million for new contracts for law firms, accountants and stanley quencher money managers to help run what s left of the bailouts - on top of the $529 million already spent on work by staff, private companies and other agencies. Many of the contracts last until 2019, and there s nothing to stop the government from hiring even more help if it s needed stanley botella to chase down the remaining bailout money. Treasury s authority to spend more from the $700 billion fund expired on Oct. 3. The law requires officials to recoup as much as possible of the $185 billion still in the hands of shaky private companies. After all collections are made, the government expects to be out about $51 billion, mostly from housing programs.Rising voter anger ahead of next week s elections has made Obama administration officials reluctant to speak candidly about the ongoing cost of ma stanley cup naging TARP. Politicians who voted for the TARP law now face tough re-election fights. By downplaying their efforts, officials sidestep criticism of bailouts that helped Wall Street without easing lending or keeping many people in their homes. GOP Optimistic in Days Before Electio

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George W. Bush fears that the end of the Republican party as he knows it is near. I m worried that I will be the las stanley becher t Republican president, Bush reportedly told stanley cup a reunion of former staff and advi stanley becher sers in April, according to a story by Politico. The former president was speaking with a smaller clutch of former aides and advisors during the event.At that time there were two candidates left in the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and Bush didn t like either of them, although his displeasure with Cruz was at least in part reportedly related to Cruz s overtures toward Trump early in the race for the nomination.In May, once Trump had secured enough delegates for the nomination, a spokesman said that neither he nor the elder Bush planned to endorse Trump for the presidency. This was unusual, given that both had endorsed prior nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain.While Trump has the support of many top GOP leaders, like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, many have expressed concerns with his divisive style and his temperament, as well has his policy proposals -- like building wall at the southern border with Mexico and a Muslim entry ban. Bush seemed to be hinting at something darker, however, the idea that he might be looking at the end of the Republican party.George W. Bush has largely stayed away from the political fray surrounding the presidency since his brother Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary in February.Neither he nor George H.W. Bus Xoam Fox Blocker Is Yours For $8.95
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaks to the crowd during the kickoff of the nationwide Tea Party Express bus tour in Reno, Nev., Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. AP RENO, Nev. -- When Sarah Palin strode across the makeshift stage in a parking lot in Reno, the crowd got exactly what they came for. Palin attached Pelosi, Reid, Obama Politics stanley tazas and used the words freedom a stanley tumbler nd liberty more than a dozen times. In the Tea Party there is no one that excites a crowd more than Palin who in her folksy way still comes across as a regular person even though she is now clearly a multi-millionaire and plausible presidential candidate. In talking to the people that came to the first stop on the Tea Party Express cross-country tour, one thing stood out. They are tired of being labeled extreme and radical and take great offense to an insinuation that they are racist for opposing President Obama Although it should be noted that one of the speakers referred to the president as President Hussein. Tea Partiers vie stanley thermoskannen w their calls for a drastically smaller federal government, including phasing out social security and Medicare, as simply common sense. While most of them are Republicans, many are just as suspect of that party as they are of the Democrats. They think both parties are big-spenders who don t take the growing national debt seriously. As on

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Legendary singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen says Americans are living in a frightening time because of the country s leadership. In an interviewwith CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, Springsteen responded to President Trump s comments at a Minneapolis rallyearlier this month on how he didn t need little Bruce Springsteen and other celebrities like Beyonceacute; and Jay Z, who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.King asked, So he s going back to 2016. And this is now 2019. You surprised that he s trash-talking you after all this time Springsteen laughed. Not really. Anything s possible, he said. I know. I mean, a lot of people are very concerned about the direction of the country, King said. It s just frightening, you know We re living in a frightening time, Springsteen replied. The stewardship of the nation is mdash; has been thrown away to somebody who doesn t have a clue as to what that means ... And unfortunately, we have somebody who I feel doesn t have a grasp of the deep mean stanley flask ing of what it means to be an American. Springsteen is out with a new film, Western Stars, which hits theaters nationwide this weekend. It features his first c stanley website ollection of new music since 2012.Watch the extended conversation with Springsteen on our streaming network, CBSN, at 8 p.m. on Friday. stanley cup Bruce Springsteen o Oluq GOP-Obama Love Affair Fizzles
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Bernie Sanders slammed his rival s 1996 use of the term super predators Thursday evening, calling it racist on stage at the Democratic debate in Brooklyn.Asked why Sanders had criticized Bill Clinton s defense of his wife use of the phrase super predators, Sanders responded: Because it was a racist term and everybody knew it was a racist term. In the 1990s, while President Bill Clinton was promoting a tough-on-crime agenda, his wife -- then-First Lady Hillary stanley cup becher Clinton -- was gathering support for the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act. In one speech, given in 1996, the first lady warned against the rise of super predators, touting the 94 bill as one line of defense against such at-risk youth. They are often the kinds of kids that are called super predato stanley thermos mug rs, she said at the time, going on to describe them thus: No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel. Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton was confronted by Black Lives Matter activists on the campaign trail protesting both the term and her husband s landmark criminal justice legislation. Clinton later apologized for using the controversial phrase, saying in February, I shouldn t have used those words, and I wouldn t use them today. But the term -- and the lasting effects of the Violent Criminal Control Act -- continue to haunt Clin stanley puodelis ton s bid for the presidency.Of the crime bill, Sanders admitted that he Rcyo McCain on Clark to Obama: Cut Him Loose
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader had some scathing, racially-tinged words for Barack Obama in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News. Nader said that Obama is trying to talk white and appeal to white guilt, while downplaying poverty issues. There s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidat stanley quencher e. He s half African-American, Nader told the newspaper. Whether that will make any difference, I don t know. I haven t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What s keeping him from doing that Is it because he wants to talk white He doesn t want to appear like Jesse Jackson We ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. Asked by the reporter whether he thought Obama does try to talk white, Nader responded, Of course. I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black Am stanley taza erican politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very stanley cup detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law, Nader said. Haven t heard a thing. Update: Sen. Obama responded to Nader s comments at a press conference in Chicago: You know, look, uh first of all,