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Washington mdash; President Biden on Wednesday announced the nation is poised to meet his goal of administering 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses before his 100th day in office and urged U.S. employers to provide paid time off for workers to get their vaccines as part of efforts to boost demand for the shots.As the pace of vaccinations has accelerated over the past few weeks and with supply beginn stanley mug ing to outpace demand, Mr. Biden announced new tax incentives for small and medium-sized businesses to provide leave for their employees for when they receive their vaccinations and for recovery from any side effects. No working American should lose a single dollar from their paychec stanley cup k because they chose to fulfill their patriotic duty to get vaccinated, the president said in remarks from the White Hous stanley cup e. Mr. Biden also announced the nation is set to meet his goal of 200 million vaccine doses by his 92nd day in office, eight days ahead of his 100-day timeline. Biden calls on employers to offer paid leave for vaccinations 12:47 This is an American achievement, a powerful demonstration of unity and resolve, what unity will do for us, and a reminder of what we can accomplish when we pull together as one people for a common goal, he said. The tax credit anno Aszm States facing legal challenges over abortion bans amid coronavirus pandemic
New York Gov. David Paterson, who lit out of Albany to make a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan with Senatorial aspirant Rep. Steve Israel, just held a conference call with NY reporters in which he let slip a new nugget: He s already met with Israel in his office on Dec. 12 about the Hilla stanley termoska ry Clinton Senate seat. We missed the advisory and are getting the sound file, so we re relying on a third-party listener Then Paterson claimed he and the Long Island Dem made a pre-flight pact not to mutter a word about the Senate during their trip. We are told the Fred Dicker of the Post then pressed Paterson on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver s quip that Caroline Kennedy would be beholden to Mayor M stanley italia ichael Bloomberg, her pal, not Paterson, her presumed appointer.Paterson parried and pointed out, according to our source, that not every Senator appointed by a governor has, in fact, won when they ra stanley isolierkanne n for re-election on their own. More to come.Here s Silver s very provocative quote from the aforementioned Fred s radio show. If I were the governor, and I would look and say shersquo obviously a candidacy being promoted by the mayor, by his deputy mayor for political aspirations, who took her around only to mayors around the state, not to any other elected officials, because of his contacts as mayor, Silver said. And if I were the governor, I would look and question whether this is the appointment I would want to make, the speaker continued. Whether

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Spzp Bush To Speak On Iraq, 9/11
With negotiations on raising the debt ceiling still ongoing, the U.S. may be less than two weeks from defaulting on its debt, anunprecedented scenario that government officials have variously described as unthinkable and potentially catastrophic. A default would mean the U.S. government fails to pay some of its obligations because the Congress failed to raise the debt ceilin stanley cup g to authorize borrowing more money to fund spending it already passed. Its impact would be felt by anyone expecting funds from the government, whether a Social Security check, SNAP payment, a stanley kubek government bond payout or mdash; in the case of federal employees mdash; a paycheck. Most state economies will be hit hard if there is a debt limit breach, although the economic pain varies, economists at Moody s Analytics said in a report analyzing the possibility of a default. After talksbogged downon Friday, negotiations are set to resume on Monday at 5:30 Eastern time, when President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meetin the White Houseto dis vaso stanley cuss the debt limit.Public sector takes a hitWashington, D.C., where 1 in 4 jobs are tied to the federal government, would be hardest hit, becoming the poster child for a financial disaster, they said. States with large federal facilities, such as national laboratories or military bases, would be next in line. That includes Hawaii, which is home to the United States Pacific Command and to 11 military bases; Alaska, wi Hskz Sen. Joe Manchin discusses what he wants to hear from James Comey
Former GOP state Rep. Woody Jenkins will be facing Democratic state Rep. Don Cazayoux in a special election next month to fill the Baton Rouge-area seat formerly held by Rep. Richard B stanley cup aker R-La. .Jenkins handily defeated business consultant Laurinda Calongne in Saturdayrsquo Republican runoff, 62 to 38 percent. And Cazayoux, a highly-touted Democratic recruit, defeated state Rep. Michael Jackson, 57 to 43 percent. Despite the districtrsquo stanley thermos mug Republican tilt, Democrats believe they have a solid opportunity to pick up Bakerrsquo seat, which he held since 1986. Nearly 10,000 more Democrats than Republicans voted in Saturdayrsquo runoffs, suggesting a lack of enthusiasm for the Republican candidates. And Cazayouxrsquo socially moderate pedigree has raised party hopes that he can attract enough moderate Republicans and independents to prevail in the May 3 special election. In his campaign advertising, Cazayoux called himself a John Breaux Democrat, referring the former Democratic senator, a textbook Southern moderate who comfortably carri cups stanley ed the district in past statewide elections. Meanwhile, in the Republican runoff to fill the House seat of now-Gov. Bobby Jindal R-La. , state senator Steve Scalise prevailed over state Rep. Tim Burns, 58 to 42 percent. Scalise is overwhelmingly favored to win in the special election against college professor Gilda Reed next month. The anti-tax Club for Growth claimed

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Emgd Bloomberg blasts Trump s business record in convention speech
Washington mdash; Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, is willing to be interviewed by lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee in public as part of its impea stanley cup chment inquiry into the president, his lawyer said in a letter to the panel Tuesday.Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden s attorney, told Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, that the president s son will answer any pertinent and relevant questions lawmakers might have, but said his questioning must take place at a public committee heari botella stanley ng. A public proceeding would prevent selective leaks, manipulated transcripts, doctored exhibits, or one-sided press statements, Lowell said. Your empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end. Lowell said Hunter Biden is willing to testify on Dec. 13 or on another date next month that can be arranged. We have seen you use closed-door sessions to manipulate, even dis stanley mugs tort the facts and misinform the public, he wrote. We therefore propose opening the door. If, as you claim, your efforts are important and involve issues that Americans should know about, then let the light shine on these proceedings. The move by Hunter Biden to agree to answer questions from congressional investigators in public comes after House Republicans subpoenaed himand James Biden, the president s brother, to appear for depositions earlier this month. Congressional investigato Hioy Dems Raised Millions Each Since Tuesday
Politics Today is CBSNews s inside look at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:**Obama Meets with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan**Pay cuts coming for some bailed out financial execs **Medicare payment increase fails in Senate**Obama campaigns for Corzine in New Jersey TODAY: Among the notabl stanley cup e items on Presid stanley thermobecher ent Obama s agenda today: he will meet with Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, via videoconference in the Situation Room. stanley spain Later, he ll hold separate meetings with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.This afternoon, the president will sign the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act, which, according to the White House guarantees a timely and predictable flow of funding for Department of Veterans Affairs medical care. AP FINANCIAL INDUSTRY: The New York Times Stephen Labaton reports, Responding to the furor over executive pay at companies bailed out with taxpayer money, the Obama administration will order the firms that received the most aid to slash compensation to their highest-paid employees, an official involved in the decision said on Wednesday. The plan, for the 25 top earners at seven companies that received exceptional help, will on average cut total compensation this year by about 50 percent. The companies are Citigroup, Bank of America, American I

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A West Virginia journalist was arrested Tuesday after trying to ask Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price a question in the halls of the West Virginia state capitol building, The Washington Post reports.Dan Heyman, a veteran reporter for Public News Service, asked Secretary stanley water bottle Price repeatedly whether domestic violence would be considered a pre-existing conditi stanley cups uk on under the Republican-sponsored American Health Care Act.Price did not respond, and Heyman was reportedly hauled off by an officer and handcuffed. He was jailed for willful disruption of state government processes and later released on $5,000 bail. Secretary Price and Counselor to the President Kellywanne Conway had traveled to Charleston, West Vi botella stanley rginia for a conference on the opioid epidemic. West Virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths of any state in the country.According to a criminal complaint, Heyman was aggressively breaching the secret service agents to the point where the agents were forced to remove him a couple of times from the area walking up the hallway in the main building of the Capitol. It stated further that the reporter, was causing a disturbance by yelling questions at Ms. Conway and Secretary Price. Heyman and Tim DiPiero, his lawyer, disagree with that characterization. According to them, Heyman went through security in the capitol building and was wearing both a pass and a shirt identifying him as a member of the media, indicat Mmwa The Shopping List Battle
The Virginia Democratic Party filed complaints today with the Federal Election Commission and the Virginia State Board of Electio termo stanley ns alleging that Rep. Tom Davis R-Va. violated federal election law by paying for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of TV ads being run by his wi stanley canada fe, state Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, in her bid for re-election to the Virginia Senate.Devolites Davis is being opposed byJ. Chapman Chap Petersen in her bid for a second state Senate term.Tom Davis and his wife have both dismissed the allegation as a publicity stunt by Democrats, as well as an attempt to distract Virginia voters from the real issues of the campaign, such as gun control. In a letter today to the FEC and the Virginia Board of Elections,Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Richard Cranwell claimed that Mrs. Devolites Davis is currently airing television advertisements and mailing print advertisements in connection with her campaign, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, that have been paid for directly by the congressional campaign committee of her husband, Congressman Tom Davis. Cranwell added: The television ads and mailings not only fail to disclose the true source of the financing for these communications, but also falsely convey the impression that they were paid for entirely b garrafinhas stanley y Ms. Devolites Davis s campaign committee. This activity violates both State of Virginia and federal stand by your ad laws. Tom Davis r

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Gafd White House finalizing list of Trump Supreme Court picks
As displayed when paying homage at the funeral of President George H.W. Bush, former Senator Robert Dole of Kansas has always been known for his stanley cup fortitude. So, it comes as no surprise that he is taking his diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in stride.When asked how he is doing, Dole said, Oh, I m doing very well. But I have to keep in mind, I m also going to be 98 in July. So, I m getting to be a senior citizen. A citizen with a lifetime of public service behind him. Senator Dole, and his wife, Elizabeth herself a former Senator and Cabinet member recently talked with correspondent Rita Braver about his storied career. Former Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole. CBS News He has these values, Elizabeth said, that I think were forge stanley cup d in that little town, in Russell, Kansas, by a wonderful, caring, loving family. Dole was a high scho stanley cup ol athlete who wanted to be a doctor, but World War II intervened. He was a young Army Captain, advancing against German fortifications in Italy when, Elizabeth explained, he was hit by German gunfire: They crushed his right shoulder, his spinal cord was injured. And he actually, Rita, he lay on the battlefield for 10 hours. Bob Dole lost the use of his right arm, and would spend three years recuperating. But what he focuses on is the support from his hometown, symbolized by a cigar box: My friends in Da Sxum No House Votes Tonight
Ch stanley taza i stanley mug p Somodevilla/Getty Images This article originally appeared on RealClearPolitics. CBS News TAMPA - With swing-state denizens facing 10 more weeks of campaign ad bombardment, the conservative advocacy organization Americans for Prosperity may be cutting through the clutter most effectively with its relatively low-key attacks on President Obama. That, at least, was the clear verdict offered by 23 Florida voters on Sunday during a focus group convened by Republican pollster and strategist Frank Luntz.Almost everyone in the group said they voted for Obama in 2008, but they were about evenly split between Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 race, with several still undecided. Luntz showed the group more than a dozen negative TV ads funded by both presidential campaigns and outside groups and asked participants to rate on a scale of zero to 100 the impact of each ad, regardless of which candidate they are leaning toward.A garrafa stanley majority pointed to a 60-second AFP spot -- which has been running in swing states as part of a reported $27 million advertising blitz by the Koch brothers-backed group -- as the most effective ad of the current cycle.In the ad, voters who cast their ballots for Obama four years ago speak directly to the camera about why they would not make the same decision in 2012. He said he was going to cut the deficit in his first term; I ve seen zero interest in reducing spend

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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch joined others weighing in on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump botella stanley s controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants.Murdoch t stanley mugs ook to Twitter to criticize trump s anti-immigrant comments, essentially contradicting them and saying they were stanley shop not factual. Mexican immigrants, as with all immigrants, have much lower crime rates than native born. Eg El Paso safest city in U.S. Trump wrong.mdash; Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch July 12, 2015 He followed with another tweet comparing the number illegal immigrants who are incarcerated with the overall number of those behind bars. So FBI says 267000 illegal aliens incarcerated. Who are the other two million presently incarcerated Seems like social breakdown.mdash; Rupert Murdoch @rupertmurdoch July 12, 2015 Murdoch is one of several others who have been publicly critical of Trump s comments, which came during his presidential campaign announcement last month. In his remarks, Trump emphasized the need to curtail immigration from the southern border and criticized Mexican immigrants for bringing crime and being rapists. On Friday, recently retired Late Show host David Letterman appeared at a show in San Antonio and came up with one of his famous Top Ten lists to roast the mogul, which he called Interesting facts about Donald Trump. Donald Trump wants all Americans to know that that thing on his head is free range, he said on stage. O Hmny Wyoming: The GOP s wild west
CBS News Americans -- but conservative Republicans in particular -- are more likely to mistakenly think that President Obama is Muslim than they were in 2008, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. stanley thermoskannen Nearly half, 49 percent, of registered voters surveyed correctly identified Mr. Obama as Christian, while 17 percent thought he was Muslim. In October 2008, as Mr. Obama was in the final stretch of his first presidential campaign, 55 percent of registered voters identified him as Christian and 12 percent identified him as Muslim. The increase in voters who think the president is Muslim is more pr stanley borraccia onounced among registered Republicans, especially conservative Republicans. In 2008, among both conservative Republicans and Republicans overall, 16 percent said Mr. Obama was Muslim. Now, 30 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of conservative Republicans think he is Muslim. Among voters overall, 45 percent say they re comfortable with Mr. Obama s religion, while 19 percent are not. Among those who think he is Muslim, just 26 percen stanley cup t are comfortable with his beliefs. The survey also found that 60 percent of registered voters correctly identified Mr. Obama s competitor, Mitt Romney, as Mormon. Forty-one percent of voters overall and 60 percent of those who know he is Mormon said they were comfortable with his faith. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-

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President Trump said in a tweet Tuesday he is looking forward to watching sports stanley cups uk but suggested he would stop watching a game if he sees a player taking a knee during the national anthem. Looking forward to live sports, but any time I witness a player kneeling during the National Anthem, a sign of great disrespect stanley website for our Country and our Flag, the game is over for me! he tweeted. Looking forward to live sports, stanley cups uk but any time I witness a player kneeling during the National Anthem, a sign of great disrespect for our Country and our Flag, the game is over for me!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 21, 2020 His tweet came a day after San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler joined several playersin kneeling before their victory against the Oakland Athletics on Monday night. Kapler said he told the team he wanted to use his platform to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with the way we ve handled racism in our country, adding that he also wanted the players to feel safe speaking up, according to The Associated Press. San Francisco Giants players kneel during the national anthem before their exhibition game against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on July 20, 2020 in Oakland, California. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images Kneeling during the national anthem as a way to demonstrate against police brutality and Kfzh I am a real person, Hillary Clinton says
Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET CBS News Elizabeth Warren is directly combating allegations that she improperly identified as Native American to further her career, releasing a new 30-second-spot in which she addresses the issue head on. Let me be clear. I never asked for, never got any benefit because of my heritage. The people who hired me have all said they didn t even know about it, the Massachusetts Senate candida stanley cup te says in the spot. Scott Brown can continue attacki stanley portugal ng my family, but I m going to keep fighting for yours. stanley termosar The ad is a direct response to an ad released Monday by her rival, incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, which rehashed the allegations about Warren s heritage. Warren has said she is Native American, and listed herself as such in some professional forms in the past, but has not offered up documentation proving that she is an official member of the Native American community. Brown has hammered Warren over the allegations for months, and during a debate last week called on her to produce evidence that she did not benefit professionally from her claims to Native American lineage.In the spot, Warren says she doesn t have proof of her Native American roots because, as a kid, I never asked my mom for documentation when she talked about our Native American heritage. What kid would But I knew my father s family didn t like that she was part Cherokee and part Delaware. So my parents had to elope, she continued.

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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens admitted to an extramarital affair but defiantly refused to resign before the release of an investigative report by a House investigatory committee related to an extramarital affai stanley website r he engaged in befo stanley cup re his election. According to the report, the woman testified Greitens was physically aggressive during an unwanted sexual encounter and threatened to distribute a partially nude photo of her if she spoke about it. The graphic report details multiple instances in which the woman said Greitens spanked, slapped, grabbed, shoved and called her derogatory names during a series of sexual encounters as he was preparing to run for office in 2015. The testimony contradicts Greitens previous assertions that there was no violence and no threat of violence in what he has described as a consensual extramarital affair.Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens accused of unwanted sex in graphic reportThe report, signed by all five Republicans and two Democrats on the committee, describes the woman s testimony as credible and notes that Greitens has so far declined to testify or provide documents to the panel. It also outlines instances where the Republican governor s public comments appear to run counter to some of her allegations. stanley cup Greitens called the accusations against him a political witch hunt and called the affair a private mistake. Greitens said he fully expects more false accusations to come up, but he insisted that he wil Rvgo Column: McCain Slings socialist Charges At Obama To Spark Comeback
President Obama is expected to meet again with congressional leaders Sunday evening at the White House about hiking the nation s debt ceiling, with what most observers agree is an Aug. 2 deadline looming to get a deal done.White House and congressional staffers will work furiously through the weekend leading up to Sunday s meeting, reports CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson, adding, All sides are eager for progress ... but few are expecting a deal by then. Mr. Obama wants everyone to come armed with their bottom lines, says Joh stanley cup nson. Democrats and Republicans are still far apart, he points out, and any deal ... is sure to inflict pain on both parties. The President s pushing for stanley cup an accord that would reduce deficits by up to $4 trillion.But Democrats are growing increasingly uneasy over statements from Mr. Obama that changes to entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are on the table. Republicans welcomed the word, but so far, aren t budging over White House demands to increase taxes on the wealthy and end subsidies for companies. The entrenched positions mean both parties stand to lose political points should there be a compromise, Johnson says.All in all, Sen. David Vitter R, La. told Early Show on Saturday Morning co-anchor Russ Mitchell that after an update from House Speaker John Boehner Friday, the discussions did seem to be certainl stanley cups uk y more positive than a week or ten days before that. I

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In the wake of President Trump s new Syria policy which drew back a significant number of U.S. troops in northern Syria, Kurdish forces, top lawmakers and former U.S. officials have all warned Mr. Trump that a U.S. pullout from the region could give ISIS room to rebuild, and send a message that the U.S stanley cup . is willing to abandon close allies when the political winds change. On this week s Face the Nation , Defense Secretary Mark Esper provided new updates on that front.Here s the big takeaways from Sunday s episode of Face the Nation with Margaret BrennanDefense Secretary Mark Esper tells Face the Nation U.S. to evacuate Syria: U.S. preparing to evacuate remaining troops from northern Syria, defense secretary says 08:42 Secretary of Def stanley cup usa ense Mark Esper announced that the U.S. is preparing to evacuate about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria as safely and quickly as possible. The move follows the start of the Turkish offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF , the main U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS.What Esper said: We find ourselves, we have American forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies, a stanley cup nd it s a very untenable situation, Esper said. So I spoke with the president last night, after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he di Roqm Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describes astonishing primary upset against Rep. Joe Crowley
AP Vice President Joe Biden has landed in Iraq for an unannounced, two-day visit with U.S. troops and the Iraqi leadership.According to a pool report, Biden plans to try to reestablish contact with Iraqi leaders and try to help foster efforts at political reconciliation during the trip.Biden will meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad al-Samarrai.In a release, the White House said Biden will reiterate the United States commitment to fully implement the Security Agreement and the Strategic Framework Agreement and to carry out President Obama s plan to draw down U.S. forces. He will discuss with Iraq s leaders the importance of achieving the political progress that is necessary to ensure the nation s long-term stability, the White House added. This is Biden s first trip to Iraq as vice president, though he visited the country in January before being sworn in. His visit comes on the termo stanley heels of the U.S. military over security responsibilities in cities to the Iraqis. ponent--type-recircul stanley website ation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1967524-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d1967524-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d stanley tazas display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1967524-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .ite

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Fiiy Appeals court rejects Trump s motion to block Mark Meadows, former aides from testifying in special counsel probe
WASHINGTONmdash; It was huge.Big money from billionaires, corporations and a roster o stanley puodelis f NFL owners poured into Donald Trumprsquo inaugural committee in record-shattering amounts mdash; to pull off an event that was considerably lower-key than previous inaugural celebrations.That leaves a bit of a mystery: What the $107 million was spent for and ho stanley cup w much was left over mdash; the excess, if any, to go to charity. It also raises a new round of questions about the influence of money in politics, this time for a president who promised to drain the swamp of Washington. Contribution records from Trumprsquo inaugural committee, released Wednesday by the Federal Election Commission, show the president who railed as a candidate against the corrupting influence of big-money donors was only too willing to accept top-dollar checks for his swearing-in festivities.Trumprsquo total take was about double the previous record set by Barack Obama, who collected $53 million in contributions in 2009, and had money left over to spend on the annual Easter egg roll and other White House events. Trumprsquo top inaugural donor was Las Vegas gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who gave $5 million. He and his wife came away with prime seats stanley cups for Trumprsquo swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20 and gained access to a private lunch with the new president and lawmakers at the Capitol. Phil Ruffin, another casino mogul and close friend o Hmoc Richardson Decries Campaign s Negativity
The oil producers of OPEC have now take starbucks stanley cup n over the Public Enemy Number One slot in American political discourse, reports CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg. Anywhere there s a microphone and a pol, there s tough talk. What we want to do is take the shackles off the Justice Department and off the FTC, and let them go after OPEC, said Rep. Michael Dewine, R-Ohio.Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, said, We have not threatened to withhold weapons and other foreign aid. stanley thermos mug But in reality, striking stanley cup usa back at the cartel isn t quite so easy.Cutting off foreign aid to OPEC countries sounds tough, except that the grand total of U.S. aid going to Arab states in OPEC is zero, although the U.S. does have thousands of troops stationed in some of those countries. Filing antitrust cases against OPEC is an idea the chairman of the House International Relations Committee wants to try. I think it s time we had some accountability from the oil producing nations, said Rep. Ben Gilman, R-N.Y.The problem, as Bill Gates would tell you, is that antitrust cases take lots of time. And another problem is that OPEC companies don t operate in the U.S., under U.S. law.A very popular remedy is reminding Saudi Arabia and Kuwait what we did for them in the Gulf War. But sovereign states don 146;t operate on nostalgia. And Lee Hamilton, former head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said U.S. strategic interests are more important than gasoline prices. We c