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Democrats and Republicans are vying for control of the Senate in next month s midterm elections, but they may not know which party prevails until December or January.Two key Senate races, in Georgia and Louisiana, could come down to runoff elections should no candidate garner more than 50 percent of the vote on Election Day on Nov. 4. Anticipating that scenario, partisan groups trying to influence the races are already reserving airtime for ads in those states in the months to come, the Wall Street Journal reports. The National Republican Senatorial Committee NRSC , for instance, has purchased $3.4 million worth of airtime in Louisiana ahead of the state s potential December runoff. The NRA, meanwhile, has already reserved more than $1 million to support Republic stanley polska an Rep. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana after Nov. 4. Other groups preparing for runoffs include the conservative group Freedom Partners, the conservative group FreedomWorks, the pro-Democratic Senate Majority PAC, and the Service Employees Internation stanley cupe al Union. Republicans keep edge in latest Senate midterm estimate Democratic senator on beer keg spigot duty at LSU tailgate In Louisiana, should no candidate win at least half the vote, there would be a runoff on December 6. Rather than holding primary elections, the state puts ev stanley quencher ery candidate on the ballot on Election Day. A recent CNN/ Opinion Research Corporation poll suggests a runoff is likely. Democratic Sen. Qkbe Judge in Trump s 2020 election case pauses proceedings amid dispute over immunity
The selection of Sen. Joe Biden Del. as the Democratic vice presidential nominee is the latest sign that a quiet, slow-moving changing of the guard is underway among Senate Democrats.If Barack Obama wins the White House, and Biden becomes president stanley travel mug of the Senate - a duty of the vice presidency - it would remove a 35-year veteran from Senate Democratic ranks and put the gavel of the Foreign Relations Committee in less experienced hands.Biden sexpectedVP nominationcomes as Sen. Ted Kennedy D-Mass. , chairman of the Health, Education,Labor and Pensions Committee,is battling a deadly brain tumor and has undergone radiation and chemotherapy treatments after surgery to remove the tumor in June. Sen. Barbara Mikulski D-Md. has taken over as temporary chairwoman of the panel in Kennedy s absence, but there is no telling what the next Congress will bring on this front. Some Democrats have quietly campaigned to remove the 90-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va. as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. While Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. refused to sanction any effort to oust Byrd, who mentored Reid on Appropriations when the Nevada Democrat first came to the Senate, Reid may find it hard to resist calls for change atop the panel next year. Several Democratic senators expect the battle over the Appropriations Committee to be renewed in the 111th Congress, particularly if Presid gourde stanley ent Obama ne stanley cups uk eds strong help in pushing through his own

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Washington -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York says her relationship with Hillary Clinton is strong and Clinton has given her advice about her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.Gillibrand, app stanley cup earing in a town hall televised by CNN Tuesday night, fielded questions about her record, including policy shifts she s made on immigration and gun control, and offered an update on her long-standing relationship with Hillary and Bill Clinton.In 2017, Gillibrand said Bill Clinton should have resigned from the presidency after his inappropriate relationship with White House intern Monica Lewsinsky came to light two decades ago. Gillibrand said Tuesday her fondness and respect for Hillary Clinton are very strong and she continues to admire and look up to her. Gillibrand supported Clinton s 2016 Democratic presidential bid and took Clinton s U.S. Senate seat when Clinton was appointed secretary of state in 2009. Sen. Kirsten stanley tumbler Gillibrand of New York, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, during We The People Summit at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 1 botella stanley , 2019 Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images Secretary Clinton is a role model for all of us, Gillibrand said. My views on her husband are very different. And I ve said all I m going to say about that. In a February interview with The Associated Pr Aaht GOP debate: Some candidates stretch truth
For an election all about change, it s looking a lot like business as usual in this presidential campaign. Way back in the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire and in the thaws springtime, we had expectations of two very different kinds of candidates running very different types of campaigns.There was the hint, at least, of possible joint appearances between the two presidential candidates in the way that John Kennedy and Barry Goldwater once talked about. There was one candidate promising to change politics forever and another pledging to stay away from the ki stanley sverige nd of tactics he himself had been burned on in the past.Just as important, virtually the entire nation appeared to be engaged and in play for both candidates, making this a truly national election. Real and major history is going to stanley mug be made in November but it s not going to happen as a result of a serious discussion of real issues, it appears. Instead of those Lincoln-Douglass style debates, we r stanley quencher e suddenly talking about lipstick and pigs, stuck right back in the kind of base-driven politics we ve become so accustomed to. Why Because it is what campaign operatives knows. And because it works. Both candidates have based their appeal, to a great extent, on being different kinds of candidates. Obama has talked in transformational terms about healing political divides and bringing opposing interests together. Yet on almost major issue, he s hewed to the Democratic Party line in t

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President Trump told stanley bottles reporters the markets are gonna be just fine as he welcomed Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to the White House Thursday to celebrate ties between the U.S. and Ireland. Stocks plunged 7% after the opening bell Thursday morning, halting trading for 15 minutes as fears and fallout over coronavirus.The visit comes in the wake of Mr. Trump s Wednesday night announcement to impose travel restrictions on Europe due to the global spread of the deadly coronavirus. The new travel restrictions Mr. Trump announced Wednesday night don t apply to Ireland, or to the United Kingdom.In the Oval Office Thursday, Mr. Trump addressed criticism that he decided to restrict travel from Europe without consulting European leaders. Mr. Trump explained it takes a long time to make individual calls to world leaders, and claimed Europe doesn t alert the U.S. when it raises taxes on the U.S. Mr. Trump insisted his announcement was clear, even though his own White House had to clarify the announcement. Well, we get along very well with the European leaders, but we had to make a decision, and I didn t want to take time and -- you know, it takes a long time to make the individual calls, Mr. Trump told reporters Thursday. And we are calling, and we have spoke stanley cup becher n to some of them prior to -- some of the majors, prior to. But we had to move quickly. Mr. Trump said his team hasn t discussed travel restrictions within the United States, but he did stanley uk n Znpq Renzi Pledges To Stay In Congress
Risking personal prestige and political capital, President Barack Obama took a high-prof stanley mugs ile plunge Thursday into the race for his former Senate seat, on behalf of a candidate who could embarrass Democrats -- and the president himself -- if he los stanley spain es.Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias trails Republican Rep. Mark Kirk in the race for campaign cash. He s also found himself embroiled in a controversy surrounding the failure of his family s Chicago bank.With a thin grip on the Senate, Democrats can t afford to lose the seat. Neither can Obama afford the blow of seeing the seat from which he catapulted to the White House turn to Republican hands on his watch as effective chief of the Democratic Party. Knowing he will own the outcome whether he engages directly or not, Obama waded in fully on Thursday, seeking to boost Giannoulias fortunes by helping him rake in $1 million at a fundraiser and speaking warmly of his sterling values and trustworthiness.CBSNews Special Report: Campaign 2010 Alexi is my friend. I know his character. I know how much he loves this country. I know how committed he is to public service for all the right reasons, Obama said, after Giannoulias introduced him and the two posed for pictures, arm in arm. Giannoulis remained seated on sta copo stanley ge as Obama spoke.Campaigning for a single candidate isn t something Obama has done often in this election season.He s only done so where the result could be pivotal to Demo

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WASHINGTON --States would continue to receive highway and transit aid for another two months under a bill the House passed Tuesday, the 12th such temporary patch in six years and a reflection stanley flasche of lawmakers lack of consensus on how to solve the nation s infrastructure financing woes.The bill was approved by a vote of 387 to 35. Th stanley cup e current authorization to spend money from the federal Highway Trust Fund, which finances most aid to states, expires May 31. A Senate vote is expected later this week.The fund relies on revenue from the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal gasoline tax, but the tax hasn t been increased since 1993 and the money it brings in isn t enough to cover transportation spending. But most lawmakers are reluctant to raise it, seeing that as unpopular with voters. Unable to find a politically acceptable solution, Congress has kept the trust fund teetering on the edge of insolvency since 2008. The extension passed by the House would expire July 31, when many lawmakers say they expect to go through the same exercise again.Several top House and Senate Republicans have indicated they hope to find enough money to put an end to the temporary patches as part of a larger effort to rewrite tax laws. But broad tax legislation is notoriously difficult to pass even without the stanley deutschland complication of finding a transportation spending solution. If we don t change something, we ll be right back here in July talking to each other about another e Tzbg Iraqi Politics
The Bush campaign charges that Democratic dirty tricks are responsible for the disclosure of information about George W. Bush s 1976 drunk driving arrest. I think the American people are tired of this kind of gotcha politics, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughe stanley becher s said Friday. They re tired of this kind of last minute dirty tri cups stanley cks and I think the Democrats owe the America stanley cup n people an explanation. Campaigning in Grand Rapids, Mich., Bush told a large, enthusiastic crowd, It s become clear to America in the course of this campaign that I have made mistakes in my life, but I m proud to tell you that I ve learned from those mistakes. The GOP nominee, who has made character a central plank of his campaign, spoke a day after he was forced to admit that at age 30 he had been arrested for drunk driving in Kennebunkport, Maine, pleaded guilty, paid a $150 fine and had his permission to drive suspended for 30 days.The acknowledgement came after a local TV reporter, Erin Fehlau, obtained a copy of the court docket of Bush s arrest. Tom Connolly, a Portland lawyer and Democratic activist who ran unsuccesfully for governor two years ago, says he passed the docket along to Fehlau after being alerted to the case by a public figure, whom he would not name. It s not a dirty trick to tell the truth, Connolly said, maintaining that Bush should have made the case known a long time ago.The Bush campaign s Hughes seized on Connolly s political affili

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Washington mdash; Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Friday that she s registered as an independent but doesn t plan to caucus with Republicans, ensuring Democrats will stanley cup retain their narrow majority in the Senate.Sinema, who has modeled her political approach on the renegade style of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and has frustrated Democratic colleagues at times with her overtures to Republicans and opposition to Democratic priorities, said she was declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington. I know some people might be a little stanley tumbler bit surprised by this, but actually, I think it makes a lot of sense, Sinema told CNN on Thursday. I ve never fit neatly into any party box. I ve never really tried. I don t want to. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affai stanley website rs Committee hearing on Feb. 1, 2022. Al Drago / Pool via Reuters A Democratic aide told CBS News Sinema told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of her decision Thursday. The first-term senator wrote in the Arizona Republic that she came into office pledging to be independent and work with anyone to achieve lasting results. I committed I would not demonize people I disagreed with, engage in name-calling, or get distracted by political drama. I promised I would n Hbfl With dug-in heels, Obama negotiates fiscal cliff details with Boehner
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama urged the government Monday to cut middle stanley cup class taxes this year to ease the spreading economic crisis, as he and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized President Bush for failing to take the lead in addressing the nation s economic woes. Our economy is in a shambles, Obama said at a town hall meeting at a community college near Pittsburgh. This economy is contracting, it is heading toward recession. We probably already are in one. He later said the economic stimulus package signed by Mr. Bush needs to be supplemented by enacting this year the tax cuts f stanley termosy or middle-income Americans that he had earlier proposed for the first year of the next administration. And he hinted that, if market conditions continue to deteriorate, he might even reconsider his call to roll back Mr. Bush tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. I want to monitor the situation. I never want to project a year from now and say, no matter what happens, I m determined to do what I said a year or a year and a half ago, the Illinois senator told reporters.But, Obama added, The problem we have right now is not that the wealthy don t have enough tax breaks. The problem is ordinary Americans don t have spending power. Clinton, meanwhile, told rep stanley cups uk orters in Washington it was a time of economic stress and uncertainty and said there was urgency to continue the action that was started yesterday. The comments from the presidential can

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At the start of the 2016 election cycle, Republicans hopingto retain control of the Senate already had their work cut out for them. TheGOP is defending 24 seats, while the Democrats are only defending 10, and mostof the competitive races are for Republican-held seats ndash; a consequence of GOPgains six years ago in the 2010 midterms.Then, in a twist few expected, Donald Trump won the GOP nomination. With that, most GOP strategists wi stanley cup ll acknowledge, the task of keeping the Senate became even more difficult,asRepublican candidates have been forced to dance aroundthe chaos and controversy at the top of the ticket.Democrats currently control 46 seats- if you include the two independents who caucus with their party - while Republicans control 54. There are two possible routes toa Democratic take-overof the Senate: either Democratsmust win four seats and win the White House to allow a Democratic vice president to break a 50-50tie in the upper chamber , or they can losethe White House and win at least five seats in the Senate. With fewer thanthree months left before the ElectionDay, Democrats are within striking distance of theirgoal, but a handful of contests remain competitive enough to swing in eitherdirection by November, so itrsquo likely neither party is counting their chickens.Herersquo a look at where the battle for con stanley flasche trol of the Senatestands: Likely Democratic gainsDemocratic candid stanley cup ates are considered the favorites in Fqtz Live: White House briefing December 12, 2017
GOOD JOB, NOW GET TO WORK.... I congratulate Barack Obama on his primary win. Last night was historic and felt particularly hopeful. I think he has the opportunity to bring forward meaningful change in America. In fact, he can start today. He can go to the well of the Senate and demand that the party he now leads not authorize new powers to spy on Americans and immunize corporations who broke the law with their illegal spying in the first plac stanley cups uk e.The House Intelligence Committee s top Democrat disclosed late Tuesday that he is ready to accept a Republican-brokered deal to rewrite the nation s electronic surveillance laws, signaling that a long-running congres stanley thermosflasche sional impasse could soon be coming to an end. House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes told CongressDaily that h stanley kubek e is fine with language offered by Senate Intelligence ranking member Christopher Kit Bond and other Republicans to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Notably, the GOP language, which was offered a day before the recent congressional recess, would leave it up to the secret FISA court to grant retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have helped the Bush administration conduct electronic surveillance on the communications of U.S. citizens without warrants [...] It s about finding middle ground and we have middle ground, Reyes said of the compromise offered by Republicans. It s not going to please everyone but let s get on with it. Reyes said he believes enou

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Washington mdash;A total of 10 jou stanley france rnalists working for the Voice of America, the nation s largest international broadcaster, were informed this week that they will not have their visas renewed and dozens of others who work at networks under the U.S. Agency for Global Media umbrella may not have their visas extended once they expire in the months ahead, according to people familiar with the planning.The move is due to a decision by newly-installedUSAGM CEO Michael Packnot to sign off on visa renewals. He has sparked increasing concerns by members of Congress and t stanley cup he inte stanley cup rnational community alike over the potential of diminished editorial independence of the VOA news outlet under his leadership. NPR first reported the Visa decisions Thursday.The number of visas being stalled may grow in the coming months after CBS News first reported last month that possible cuts to J-1 visas were feared as the result of Pack assuming control of the agency. The Trump administrationannouncedit would suspend certain visas that allow foreigners to live in the U.S. temporarily to work, saying the broad restrictions will ease the economic impact of thecoronavirusand improve the prospects of Americans looking for employment during the pandemic.According to aproclamationsigned by President Trump, the move adds another layer of sweeping restrictions to an immigration system the administration has worked to overhaul both during and before the pandemic. Thes Dgyx Political Battle Over Homeland Security
A key Senate vote Monday put Congress in sight of fulfilling a decade-old quest to put the content and marketing of tobacco products under t stanley canada he control of the federal government.The legislation would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products. The 61-30 Senate vote to move forward o stanley cup n the bill sets up possible passage of the measure this week. Sixty votes were needed to keep the bill on track.The House has already passed a similar bill and resolution of minor differences would send it to President Barack Obama, who supports it. The Senate action was critical because, under Senate rules, it ended the possibility of senators offering amendments, some highly controversial, that are not relevant to the FDA regulation issue.Among the proposals senators had hoped to attach to the bill were a North Korea sanctions bill, a cash for clunkers bill providing government vouchers for people trading in old cars for more fuel-efficient models and a prescription drug importation bill. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., made a strong bu stanley us t unsuccessful pitch for the importation bill, arguing that Canadians pay some 50 percent less than Americans for identical brand-name drugs and American consumers could save $50 billion over 10 years if allowed to buy imports declared safe by the FDA.Similar measures have passed the House in recent years, but did not survive the strong oppositi

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Mthj Obama: Elections Will Set Direction of Nation
Washington mdash; To build parts of President Trump s long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the administration is planning on diverting billions of dollars in military funds originally allocated to build, maintain and renovate shooting ranges, roads, missile launch pads, hangars and even schools for children at military bases and facilities in the U.S. and abroad stanley cup usa .After authorizing the transfer of $3.6 billion in military construction funds to erect approximately 175 miles of border barriers, the Pentagon on Wednesday revealed more information about the projects that will be affected by the move. The planned multi-billion-dollar transfer mdash; which has been strongly denounced by Democrats mdash; is expected to defund more than 120 construction projects that the military was hoping to conduct over the next years.Documents obtained by CBS News show the reprogramming request by the White House vaso stanley will divert funds that the Pentagon had previously d stanley deutschland esignated for a diverse set of projects in the U.S. and around the world, from a missile facility in Alaska and an engineering center at the U.S. Army Academy at West Point, to a hangar at a U.S. Air Force Base in Japan and a veterinary facility for working dogs at the U.S. Navy Base in Guantaacute;namo Bay, Cuba. Funds for the construction of schools at military bases and facilities will be transferred to finance the construction of border barriers, including a $62,634,000 grant for Uvsr Hillary Clinton has officially started transition planning
President Bush has threatened to veto the massive housing bill that should pass the House on Wednesday, casting doubt on wide ranging legislation that had been craf stanley taza ted with the help of a number of Republicans in Congress and in the administration.As the House prepares for its vote on a bill aimed at helping slow the mortgage meltdown, the key thing to watch is how close Democrats come to a veto proof margin. It s clear that a few dozen Republicans from areas hard hit by the mortgage crisis will vote for the bill, but it would take two-thirds of the House, or about 290 votes, to achieve the super majority that would override the veto.In his veto threat issued Tuesday evening, President Bush said the legislation, which would include $300 billion in mortgage insurance guarantees backed by the Federal Housing Administratio stanley cup n, would be overly burdensome and prescriptive. It would force FHA and taxpayers to take on excessive risk, and jeopardize FHA s financial s stanley becher olvency. Democrats, as well as an increasing number of moderate Republicans, say the federal government needs to get more involved in the cratering housing market. Furthermore, Democrats point out that the $300 billion in loan guarantees is not an actual cost of the bill _ it s just the estimate for how much the government would be insuring in troubled mortgages. The actual cost estimate by the Congressional Budget Office is $2.7 billion over five years. ponent--type-re