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The Republican National Committee voted Friday to exert stronger control over the 2016 presidential primary debate process, acting on concerns that the lengthy and fractious 2012 debate process dama stanley website ged eventual presidential nominee Mitt Romney.On Thursday, the RNC rules panel approved the creation of a committee, comprised of 13 people, that would limit the total number of debates and determine who would serve as debate moderators. And on Friday, during a spring meeting in Memphis, Tenn., th stanley cup e full committee endorsed that proposal by a vote of 152 to 7. Spending too muc stanley kubek h time fighting with each other distracts the party from its ultimate goal, which is winning the presidency, said rules committee chairman Bruce Ash, according to the Associated Press. In addition to limiting the number of debates, the new rules would also penalize candidates who agree to participate in forums that aren t sanctioned by the RNC by denying them the opportunity to participate in later committee-endorsed events.Though the new rules do not specifically pick debate moderators, they do propose to give conservative journalists a bigger role in the process.For some Republicans, concerns about debate referees in 2012 were crystallized in the second general election debate between President Obama and Romney, which was moderated by CNN s Candy Crowley. During that face-off, Crowley at one point corrected Romney s erroneous charge that the president did not label the S Znpz Visitors Flock to Say Goodbye to Kennedy
Republicans in Congress reached agreement Tuesday on a $70 billion measure to extend tax breaks for investors and prevent more middle-income families from being hit by a tax aimed at the wealthy.The bill, H.R. 4297 S. 2020, would hand President Bush one of his top tax priorities, a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends, currently set to expire at the end of 2008. Republicans credit the tax cuts, enacted in 2003, with boosting economic growth and creating many stanley mug jobs.The measure also would keep 15 million families from being hit this year with the alternative minimum tax, which was designed to make sure the wealthy paid taxes but is ensnaring more and more middle-income families because it is not indexed for inflation. The accord paves the way for House approval stanley thermos of the measure as early as Wednesday. The Senate could clear the bill for Bush s desk by week s end. This is a responsible bill that pro stanley cup tects families and small business owners from tax increases, while also providing investors with a bigger window of certainty mdash; critical to continued economic growth, said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif. Critics, including many Democrats, have attacked the tax rate reductions on dividends and corporate profits as being largely tilted to the wealthy and have argued that the provisions should not be extended at a time of large budget deficits and massive spending for

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In the final days of the 113th Congress, lawmakers are squarely focused on a massive spending bill necessary to keep the government running. Congress managed to cram quite a few issues into the spending bill, including some controversial items like changes to campaign finance rules.Even so, the 113th Congress is likely to adjourn for the year with several significant issues left on the table. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, have promised that next year s Congress will be more productive, since Republicans will control both chambers. Some issues like tax reform may indeed fare better in the GOP-led Congress, but others like immigration reform may simply be left on the backburner. Here s a look at some of the major business Congress failed to complete this year: Vote on the stanley taza war against ISIS The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday voted to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS .Thursday s development marked the first time any members of Congress have had a chance to vote on the war, even though the Obama administration has been fighting it for months. ISIS emerged as a threat nearly half a year ago, and the United States assembled a large international coalition against the group three months ago. Some members of Congress, like stanley mugs Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, are skeptical President Obama has th stanley cup e authority to be waging Urko Cuccinelli, McAuliffe spar in Va. governor debate
Democratic challenger Adam Schiff defeated California incumbent Rep. James Rogan, who gained national prominence as a House stanley water jug prosecutor during President Bill Clinton s impeachment trial.CBS News projected at about 5 a.m. ET Wednesday that the California state senator would beat the two-term lawmaker Republican in the nation s costliest-ever congressional race.Schiff, a state senator, had 52 percent to 44 percent for Rogan with 92 percent of 27th District precincts reporting. The nearly $10 million race was considered key to Democrats battle to regain control of the House. He had lost step with the district that he represented and you can only do that for so long without it catching up on you, said Schiff, 40, a state senator since 1996. I think people in our district really wanted to get away from the bitter and strident partisanship which was caneca stanley characterized this congress. Rogan, 43, said before Election Day that if he lost the Los Angeles-area seat he d held s stanley cup website ince 1996, impeachment would be to blame, but he had no regrets. I don t think Congressman Rogan will ever regret impeachment, campaign spokesman Jeff Solsby said early Wednesday. I think he knew from the moment he cast his vote for the articles of impeachment that he was looking into his political grave. Solsby refused to concede defeat, however, and Rogan went to bed at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday without knowing Schiff had declared victory. Solsby said he had no plans t

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The Biden Bounce is making the stock market s Trump Bump look pretty flat. The benchmark SP 500-stock index rose just over 14%from the election on November 3 to We stanley cup dnesday s inauguration. That s more than double the 6% rise that shares saw four years ago in the same time period mdash; from election to inauguration mdash; for Donald Trump.During the presidential campaign, Trump predicted that the market would crash if Joe Biden were elected. Instead, the opposite has happened. Shares have risen more between election and inauguration for Presiden stanley mugs t Biden than under any other president going back to Herbert Hoover. Biden sets tone for new administration with call for unity 01:40 Some of that rise in the market is no doubt a response to the fact that we now have an approved vaccine against the coronavirus. In mid-December, Pfizer received emergency federal approval for its vaccine and beg stanley mugs an shipping it to hospitals around the country. But at least some of the stock bounce is seen as a vote of confidence by Wall Street in Mr. Biden s leadership and plans. The president has said that he would like to push through another $2 trillion dollars in stimulus from Washington.It also creates a risk. The stock market is once again at all-time highs, and shares look expe Wkfj Obama: Constraining Health Care Costs A Must
This story was written by Taylor Dungjen, The News RecordThe bodies were everywhere. As kubki stanley the sun set, thousands of people lined the University of C stanley water bottle incinnatis MainStreet, from Tangeman University Center, past the Campus Recreation Center to University Garage, and split toward Fifth-Third Arena and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The line snaked back from the street, around the fountain near Morgens and Scioto Residence stanley cup usa Halls and back in front of the College of Business. Everyoneall 27,000 of the attendeeswas waiting for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to speak at a Change We Need rally on UCs Main Campus, Sunday, Nov. 2, at Nippert Stadium. The Obama supporters in attendance came from all walks of life to witness the historical event. Diversity is what Obama brings to the tableand he knew it, as he said Look at this crowd, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Democrat, Republican, young, old, rich, poor, gay, straight, disabled, not disabled. Thats what America is about. Thats what were fighting for. While the youth voter turnout this year is expected to be the largest turnout of young voters in history, voters of all ages have come to see Obama and hear his message of change. His supporters are ready to turn the page on President George Bushs legacy of failed wars and failed economic policies, according to Obama. While everyone gathered at UC was ther

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Vice President Joe Biden implored Americans on Monday to find the resources to invest in its ports, warning the U.S. will fall behind its competitors unless it spends now to bolster its infrastructure.Addressing a crowd of about 300 on a wind-swept dock in Charleston, S.C., Biden said the United States is behind the rest of the world. He cast infrastructure projects as key to a broader strategy of growing the middle class, calling them a big win not just for local communities, but the entire nation. Every time we invest in infrastructure as Democrats or as Republicans - every time we have done it - the economy grows and it grows good, decent-paying jobs, Bid stanley cup spain en said. The Charleston swing by Biden and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was the latest stop in an ongoing effort by the vice president to shine a light on the nation s ailing roads, bridges and ports in hopes of encouraging more investment despite opposition by many Republicans to more government spending.The stanley romania two visited the Port of Baltimore last week, and after visiting Charleston on Monday, Biden headed to Savannah, Ga., whose port is a keen rival with South Carolina. Obama warns Republicans against letting economy tank Lehman is gone but new financial crises may await At both locations Monday, Biden updated the crowds on the shooting earlier in stanley cup the day inside the Washington Navy Yard in D.C. that left at least 13 people dead, calling the tragedy a God-awful reminder Ymcx Colorado independents will be able to vote in party primaries
Sen. Ben Cardin D-Md. has already drawn a lesson from the water main break that is stanley quencher still sending frigid water gushing down Montgomery County s River Road. The takeaway stanley cup nz : Montgomery County needs more federal money for infrastructure.After complimenting first responders for pulling trapped drivers out of harm s way, he noted during an interview with MSNBC stanley cup website that this water main wasn t that old, but added that these are the types of projects we want to see addressed in President-elect Barack Obama s upcoming economic stimulus package. These are exactly the types of programs we want to get started, he said, suggesting that the scale of the accident willmean special attention to Montgomery County will be paid by the next Congress. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8b1ba22-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8b1ba22-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8b1ba22-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Former President Barack Obama congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday, af stanley water bottle ter multiple news outlets projected Biden s electoral victory over President Donald Trump. I could not be prouder to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden, the statement began.Mr. Obama also praised Harris groundbreaking election as our next Vice President. Harris, elected as a senator from California in 2016, has now made history as the first woman and first person of color to be chosen to serve as vice president. Mr. Obama continued: We re fortunate that Joe s got what it takes to be President and already carries himself in that way. He said Biden would face a series of extraordinary challenges no incoming President ever has, including the coronavirus pandemic and a global shift stanley cup toward authoritarian rule. Congratulations to my friends, @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris mdash; our next President and Vice President of the United States. pic.twitter/febgqxUi1ymdash; Barack Obama @BarackObama November 7, 2020 A spokesperson for Mr. Obama confirmed that the former president spoke separately with both Biden and Harris Saturday afternoon to offer his congratulations, and told them how proud he was of the campaign they ran in unprecedented times. CBS News projected on Saturday that Biden will win Pennsylva stanley shop nia, with 20 electoral vo Lstm Judge bars Wis. from carrying out new union law
His big brother helped drag the GOP to two consecutive thrashings at the polls, but former Gov. Jeb Bushrsquo prospective Senate candidacy is nevertheless getting a herorsquo welcome from Florida Republicans. To them, President George W. Bushcopo stanley rsquo record-low approval ratings are irrelevant, and the idea of Bush fatigue is immaterial. In the wake of the announcement by Sen. Mel Martinez R that he will not seek a second term, GOP sentiment is coalescing around the counterintuitive idea that the best way to keep the seat in Republican hands is to place a Bush atop Floridarsquo GOP ballot in 2010. While Bush hasnrsquo;t yet committed to running for the open Senate seatmdash;in an email Tuesday botella stanley he told Politico, I am considering itmdash;Florida Republicans, including other potential aspirants for the seat, were effusive about a potential Bush bid. Jeb Bush is a complete rock star in Florida and thatrsquo just a fact, said Joe Negron, a former Republican state legislator and congressional candidate who has campaigned with Bush in the past. Irsquo;ve seen it personally. I strongly hope that Jeb runs. He would be an extraordinary senator and leader, added GOP Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. You are not going to find a Republican in the nation whorsquo more popular with Hispanics. Diaz-Balart notes the high level of support Jeb Bush enjoyed upon leav stanley cup i

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President Obama marked the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a vide stanley cups o seeking to honor the lives lost in the tragedy and commend its first responders. Nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost, the president said in the video released Saturday. Sons and daughters, husbands and wives, neighbors and colleagues and frie stanley cup nds. They were from all walks of life, all races and religions, all colors and creeds, from across America and around the world. We stand with the survivors who still bear the scars of that day, he continued. We thank the first responders who risked everything to save others. And we salute a generation of Americans --our men and women in uniform, diplomats and our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement professionals -- who serve, and have given their lives, to help keep us safe. The president also celebrated the resilience of Americans 15 years later, saying that the core values that define us as Americans has not changed since the Sept. 11 attacks. Terrorists will never be able to defeat the United States, Mr. Obama said. Their only hope is to terrorize us into changing who we are or our way of life. Thatrsquo why we Americans stanley taza will never give in to fear. And itrsquo why this weekend we remember the true spirit of 9/11. In the face of new terror threats like the Islamic State Kwzi Tidbits
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Gadl What Iran s moderate new President Masoud Pezeshkian might try to change mdash; and what he definitely won t
The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to circ stanley cup umvent a longstanding court agreement that governs how children are treated in immigration custody, in part to detain families longer as a way to deter migrants from crossing the Southwestern border illegally.The Department of Homeland Security announced proposed regulations that would terminate the so-called Flores agreement that requires the government to keep children in the least-restricted setting and required their release gen stanley cup erally after 20 days in detention.The 1997 case that spawned the agreement will almost certainly land back in court. U.S. District Court Judge Dolly M. Gee rejected a request by administration lawyers this summer to allow for longer family detention. The agreement became an issue during a zero-tolerance policy enforced at the border to criminally prosecute anyone caught crossing illegally.More than 2,900 children were separated from their parents, prompting international outrage and scathing criticism over what many said was inhumane treatment of migrants. Officials said children couldn t be in stanley cup criminal custody with their parents, and were limited in how long they could detain families because of the agreement. The DOJ has attempted to petition the courts to remove the 20-day limit on detaining immigrant families together, but has, as of yet, been unsuccessful.The government currently has three operational family detention centers, but most are at Zjnq WH: $7M AIG Exec Salary Not a Problem
The once-daunting Republican money machine has suffered yet another blow with the stunning retirement announcement by Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana.McCrery, the ranking Republican on the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has become a pre-emin stanley mug ent fundraiser during his two decades in Congress. And his decision to step down at the end of this term is all but tacit acknowledgment that the GOP has little hope of regaining the House next fall.Ambitious lawmakers spend years developing extensive fundraising networks to boost their prospects for key committee slots and leadership posts. And Republicans were particularly aggressive du stanley quencher ring their run in the majority, with party leaders pressuring members to create individual stanley cups uk fundraising committees to help the GOP preserve power. McCrery epitomized that aggressiveness, raising millions for Republicans everywhere in his quietly commanding way through his reelection account and his political action committee, the Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism.But his retirement effectively ends all that. McCrery becomes the latest high-profile Republican fundraiser to announce his retirement this year, joining former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois, who traveled to more than 200 congressional districts in each of the past two election cycles to raise money for his GOP colleagues, and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott R-Miss. , who had nearly $1.9 million in campaign cas

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Washington mdash; The FBI and Department of Justice said a Saudi gunman who killed three U.S. service members in an attack at a Navy air station in Florida last December had significant ties to al Qaeda, citing new evidence gleaned from iPhones the FBI was able to unlock after months of trying.The gunman was i stanley quencher dentified as 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a Saud stanley deutschland i national who was stanley tumbler training at Naval Air Station Pensacola. He opened fire inside a classroom on December 6, 2019, killing three and wounding eight others before being shot and killed.At a press conference Monday, Attorney General William Barr said the FBI was able to gain access to Alshamrani s iPhones, which the gunman had tried to destroy during the attack. The FBI finally succeeded in unlocking Alshamrani s phones. The phones contain information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes Alshamrani s significant ties to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mdash; not only before the attack, but before he even arrived in the United States, Barr said, referring to the terrorist group s affiliate in Yemen, known as AQAP. The group claimed responsibility for the attack in February. Barr says Saudi shooter in Florida attack had significant ties to al Qaeda 16:43 Data on iPhones is e Sdel VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigns
Sen. Barack Obama predicted Wednesday that Republicans will have a dump truck full of dirt to unload on Hillary Rodham Clinton if the former first lady wins the Democratic presidential nomination, and said he offers the party its best hope of winning the White House this fall. Clinton countered that she did.At a news conference on the morning after Super Tuesday, Obama offered some pointed advice to members of Congress and other party leaders who will attend the national convention this summer as delegates not chosen in primaries or caucuses.He said if he winds up winning more delegates in voting than Clinton, they would have to think long and hard about how they approach the nomination when the people they claim to represent have said, Obama s our guy, he said. Clinton, in a later news conference at her campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., said, I stanley drink bottle f voters start to think about who would be the best president, to be commander in chief on Day One, to turn the economy around and who would be the best Democratic nominee to win in November, I am very comfortable with the answers to those questions. Obama won primaries and caucus stanley cups uk es in 13 states on Tuesday, including his home state of Illinois. Clinton won eight states, including her adopted home state of New York. Obama and Clinton were in a tig stanley cup ht race in New Mexico Read more . Obama won 803 delegates and Clinton won 799 delegates of the 1,681 delegates at stake Tuesday, accor

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is testifying at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET.Pai may be asked about the com stanley cup mission s actions regarding the issue known as net neutrality, an Obama-era policy the FCC scrapped under President Trump. The issue gained widespread attention in May 2017, when John Oliver asked his viewers to comment on the FCC website about repealing the policy during his Last Week Tonight show.Shortly after, the FCC s online commenting system experienced an outage. The FCC immediately said a cyberattack was the cause, blaming a former FCC official left over from the Obama administration. But last week, the stanley cups FCC s Office of Inspector General concluded the agency was not victim of a distributed denial of service ndash; or DDoS ndash; attack in May 2017.Senators may ask Pai to answer for the conflicting messages during Thursday s hearing. More from CBS News Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno projected to defeat Sen. Sherrod Brown How much money does the President of th stanley uk e United States make Txxm Obama Wants a Health Care Bill This Week
AP Photo/Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw For the last few months, the federal government s stimulus-tracking Web site has been assailed by critics who argued that a private sector effort called Recovery.org has been doing a better job with fewer errors.With a relaunch this week of the official Recovery.gov site, the Feds are now competitive again. The new Web site features an easy-to-use map that lets you zoom in and c stanley cup becher lick on gre stanley vattenflaska en, blue, and pink dots that represent respectively where contracts, grants, and loans from the $787 billion stimulus legislation are ending up.One of the most laudable aspects of the new Recovery.gov is the ability to download at least some of the data in Excel and XML format -- meaning researchers and data-crazed citizens can analyze it themselves. Next month, reports from recipients of stimulus funds are scheduled to become available.The revamped Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board Web site comes thanks to a company called ESRI, which is located near San Bernardino, Calif. and specializes in translating complex data into computer maps. In April, ESRI proposed using the Web to enable people to see, unders stanley canada tand, evaluate, and give feedback on government decisions. Still, even the relaunched site isn t perfect. It doesn t seem to show a roughly $35 million bid from the town of Millbrae, Calif. for water pollution control, which Recovery.org does. It also doesn t appear to allow comments -- again, somethin

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HONOLULU -- When stanley cup it comes to Affordable Care Act enrollment,there s trouble in paradise. The Hawaii Health Connector, the state s sign-upportal, has been bedeviled by some of the same types of technicalissues that affected Healthcare.gov. While Obama administrationofficials say the online problems have been resolved at the federal level,Hawaii is among some states still facing stubborn challenges. Hawaii is among14 states with their own online enrollment web sites. Residents of the state where President Obama was bornmust use the Connector to sign up for coverage under the Affordable CareAct. It is estimated that up to 100,000 Hawaiians could benefit from thelaw also known as Obamacare. Followi stanley uk ng ayear-end enrollment surge, the Connector system reported botella stanley 2,015 people signed upfor the plan in time to for coverage beginning January 1. Hawaii has received$203.4 million in federal funds to operate the Connector. So far, that works out to nearly $100,745 infederal grant money per enrollee. The Connector insists enrollment numbers are projected toincrease. The exchange issued a statement reminiscent of comments made by Obamaadministration officials at the peak of Healthcare.gov s problems. We realize the Connector has experienced varioustechnical challenges and while we continue to make ongoing upgrades to improvethe experiences of our customers we re also working hard to explain theenrollment process, Connector interim executi Hhuu Rand Paul Jumps Into Senate Race
A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the Bush administration s bid to stop a lawsuit that seeks to delve into the energy industry s ties to Vice Pre stanley canada sident Dick Cheney s energy task force.In a 2-1 ruling, the court said administration officials must turn over some information about the task force or list specific documents that they intend to withhold from the proceedings.The administration argues that the lawsuit by the Sierra Club and a conservative group, Judicial Watch, is an unwarranted intrusion into the internal deliberations of the executive branch of government. stanley isolierkanne But Cheney and administration officials have not satisfied the heavy burden required for the appeals court to get involved in the case, wrote Appeals Court Judge David Tatel.Bush administration officials have not even produced a log of documents they want to keep confidential, stanley cup becher the appeals court said. Appeals judges David Tatel and Harry Edwards rejected the administration s effort to stop the case. Judge A. Raymond Randolph dissented, declaring that for the judiciary to permit this sort of discovery into the actions of the executive branch strikes me as a violation of the separation of powers. Tatel said that if the administration is so concerned about unwarranted intrusion, it can invoke executive or any other privilege in an attempt to keep the material out of the public domain.Federal agencies have disclosed 39,000 pages of internal documents related