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Hsqa Is Obama Setting Health Care Trap for GOP
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday defended himself amid allegations that he had a third undisclosed meeting with a Russian official during the 2016 campaign, his role in the firing of James Comey as FBI director and the reason for his recusal from the Russian investigation.Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee for several hours in which he seemed to waver on whethe stanley cup spain r he met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. following a Trump foreign policy speech. Initially, Sessions said he did not have private meetings or recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the hotel. He later admitted that he may have had an encounter with Kislyak.The attorney general said he recused himself from the Russia probe because of a Department of Justice regulation, which he said states, that Department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign advisor. He also said that his decision to write a letter accompanying Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein s memo 8203; recommending Comey s dismissal did not vio stanley uk late his recusal. Sessions also said he discussed the idea of Comey s firing before he was confirmed as attorney general in February and that he has never bee stanley cup n briefed on Russian cyberattacks against the 2016 election.Discussing Russian effort to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, Sessions said it s a serious matter and Dzvz Day 30: Obama Unveils Mortgage Relief Plan
Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Beth Lester, Clothilde Ewing and Dan Furman of the CBS News Political Unit have the latest from the nation s capital.Wednesday s Headlines* Veep Watch * Kerry: Down in PA, Up in NM* Greens Strategy * Cheney in Disclosed Locations* Cash Crunch * Complaining Conservatives Fan Fahrenheit 9/11 s Fires.Veep Watch: Edwards, stanley thermos mug Gephardt Score High on Satisfaction Meter: A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released on Tuesday stanley cup showed North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt the Democratic veep choices Americans were most enthusiastic about. Seventy-two percent picked Edwards and 64 percent picked Gephardt as choices about whom they are enthusiastic or satisfied. Following them were retired General Wesley Clark with 59 percent, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh with 58 percent and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack at 54 percent. On the flipside, an Edwards pick would disappoint only 14 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of Republicans. Gephardt s and Clark s disappoint score among Republicans is 36 percent and Vilsack would disappoint 34 percent. Re botella stanley publicans would be most satisfied with Edwards 62 percent and Even Bayh 57 percent. the survey found. As for timing, Kerry is spending quite a bit of time in Pittsburgh over the next weekmdash;planning for his convention the staff says. On Monday night Newsweek s Howard Fineman reported that There was a conference call late last week in which John Kerry

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Kzur New members of Congress spar over Trump s treatment of the press
Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill on Monday that would have restricted health care procedures for transgender minors. Transgender rights have becomea new flashpointfor Republican lawmakers nationwide. I was told this week that the nation is looking at Arkansas, because I have on my desk another bill passed by the General Assembly that is a product of the cultural war in America, Hutchinson told reporters while announcing his veto.He said the bill while well-intended, is off-course, calling it an example of vast government overreach that would create legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters involving young people. The bill, called the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, would have banned gender transition treatments, including surgery and hormone therapy, for people under 18. Arkansas would have become the first state in the nation to outlaw these practices if Hutchinson signed it.The governor further crit stanley cup icized the bill for not continuing care for transgender youth who are already received these treatments. We want to send a message of tolerance and diversity, he said.Arkansas GOP-led House and Senate passed the bill la stanley canada st month, mostly on party lines. Republicans have enough votes to override Hutchinson s veto with a simple majority vote mdash; something the governor said he already antici stanley cup pates. I am hopeful, th Bcae Tax Cut Deal a Conundrum for Tea Partiers
At least some Senate Republicans still hope to negotiate a deal to end the fight ove stanley thermobecher r filibusters of judicial nominees. My goodness, you ve got 100 United States senators. Some of us might be moderately intelligent enough to figure stanley vattenflaska this out, said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. We need to work through this. Hagel remains publicly undecided about whether to endorse the GOP threat to use their Senate majority to ban such filibusters. But he noted Sunday that private talks were continuing between Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in an effort to work out a compromise. We would, I think, debase our system and fail our country if we don t do this, Hagel told ABC s This Week. But you can t give up a minority rights tool in stanley cup the interest of the country, like the filibuster, he said. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said, It s that kind of statement that gives us hope. Republicans are considering a parliamentary ruling to ban filibusters against judicial nominees. Any such ruling would be subject to a full Senate vote, with a simple majority required to prevail.During President Bush s first term, Democrats filibustered 10 nominees to federal appeals courts and have said they will do so again this year for the seven that Mr. Bush renominated. As of late March, the Senate had confirmed 204 judges chosen by Mr. Bush, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee. I know that Senator Frist and S

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Ihji Wisconsin College Student To Help Seat Dem. Delegates
The Trump administration is heralding the use of anobscure law from 1996to eliminate Obama-era regulations as a huge accomplishment of President Donald Trumprsquo first months in office.The White House told reporters on Wednesday that through the Congressional Review Act, they have rescinded 11 regulations implemented by President Obama, amounting to $10 billion in savings. Steve Bannon removed from National Security Council role 04:41 Mr. Trump is set to eliminate two more rules before the window to utilize the Congressional Review Act expires at the end of April. After a series of legislative misfi stanley cup res that have thwarted what was su stanley puodelis pposed to be an ambitious stanley mug first 100 days in office, Marc Short, White House director of legislative affairs, was bullish on the significance of Trumprsquo regulatory rollbacks.Most recently, Mr. Trump nullified a rule issued by the Federal Communications Commission that required internet service providers from tracking and marketing customerrsquo online information without their approval. Short said that not every nullification would necessarily be a job creator but this rule was cited as being duplicative of regulations that are already in place. Short sought to tamp down c Elqm Kucinich s Brother Found Dead In Home
AP President Obama at a recent town hall meeting picked on the U.S. Postal Service for not being able to keep up with its private competitors -- and representatives of the post office are not too thrilled at becoming the target of the president s mockery.A union representing postal supervisors, managers and postmasters sent a letter to the White House late last week, the Washington Post reports, asking Mr. Obama to reconsider some recent comments he made comparing the Postal Service with UPS and FedEx.The president has invoked the Postal Service to prove that a government-run program will not necessarily drive private competito stanley termosar rs out of business -- a common argument against a government-run health insurance plan. I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right No, they are, Mr. Obama said at a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire. It s the post office that s always having problems. In the letter, National Association of Postal Supervisors President Ted Keating reportedly said there was collective disappointment that you chose the Postal Service as a scapegoat and an example of inefficiency. Your nega stanley cups uk tive references to the Postal Service without knowledge of the facts was a disservice not only to the members of our organization, but to all postal employees, he stanley mug wrote. A recent government report showed that the postal service could face a nearly $7 billion loss this fiscal year, even after a recen

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Wzry Dems Force Closed Senate Session
The Trump campaign is disavowing its association with attorney Sidney Powell after the far-fetched Trump campaign Thursday press conference when she claimed without evidence that the deceased Hugo Chaacute;vez, among others, was responsible for rigging the election. The campaign claimed that she is not a member of the Trump legal team, even t stanley website hough the president and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani had previou water bottle stanley sly identified her as being on the team.In the days since the press conference, Powell has made additional unfounded claims to conservative networks, and her claims have even been questioned by Fox News Tucker Carlson, after she refused to produce her evidence on the show. Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity, said a statement from Giuliani and Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis. During Thursday s press conference, G stanley flask iuliani identified Powell as a member of the team defending Mr. Trump, and the president himself identified Powell as someone working for him in a November 14 tweet. I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives! Mr. Trump tweeted at the time. Powell issued this Usmd Health Care Reform: No Good Options for Dems
A week to go, and Campaign 2006 has a new major battleground: Did Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., insult the troops in Iraq stanley cup The war of words started when Kerry was talk caneca stanley ing to a group of students about education, reports CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante. If you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don t you get stuck in Iraq, Kerry said. Kerry says he was talking about the president, but that he botched the joke. No way, said Mr. Bush at a campaign rally in Georgia. He accused the senator of a snide slam at the troops. The senator s suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and shameful, the president said. The members of the U.S. military are plenty smart and plenty brave and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology. Public Eye: How Much Press For Kerry s Gaffe I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy, replied Kerry.A few Democratic candidates joined Republicans Wednesday in pressing Kerry to apologize. Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said, said Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr., running for Senate in Tennessee. Sen. Kerry s remarks were poorly worded and just plain stupid, said Montana Senate President Jon Tester, a Democrat trying to unseat stanley trinkflaschen GOP Sen. Conrad Burns. He owes our troops and their families

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Flgg Column: Call To Improve Foreign Language Study Funding
The director of the Secret Service told lawmakers Thursday that the agency needs more money to fund coverage of high-profile functions that are designated as National Special Security Events NSSEs mdash; there were five events that were specially designated and federally coordinated in the past year.An NSSE-designated event prompts the federal government mdash; led by th stanley botella e Secret Service in coordination with the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA mdash; to work together to secure large venues that may be targeted by violent actors.The current annual funding for these events is $45 million. Secret Service Director James Murray told lawmakers, Ca stanley cup ndidly, it s not enough. And we do need more to be able to do four or five of these a year. One function that was not designated an NSSE by the federal government was the January 6 certification of election results, targeted by a violent mob aiming to overturn the results of the election. In the agency s first public hearing since the January 6 riot, Murray called the siege of the U.S. Capitol abhorrent and an attack on democracy. We in law enforcement and public safety can t let it happen again, Murray told the House Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee. The director said he stanley cup anticipates ongoing discussions about the potential need to pre-designate Congress election certification as an NSSE. I do think there are opportunities for other events to be c Qucu Texas House passes election bill after Democrats delayed it by fleeing state
AP Photo/Alex Brandon The coming week may represent a tipping point for the Obama administration s moving forward its health care agenda on its own terms. As the president prepares fo stanley cup r a major address to Congress Wednesday in support of his reform plans, President Obama has faced stiff challenges, from the raucous public debates at town hall meetings to Republican and some Democratic legislators critical of government control over health care coverage. When asked on CBS The Early Show about the president s prospects, CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said that the administration has to reclaim the issue of health care from its opponents. This has been some summer for this president: His polls are down, unemployment is up, Schieffer told Early Show anchor Harry Smith. He really has got to get everybody together and regroup. And I think the way he has to do that, the way at least he has to start it, is to make a speech to the Congress that gets this whole debate on health care off the dime. I think you ll see him give more sp stanley cup ecifics on exactly what he wants in this plan, but he s also on a real high wire here. . . . Polls show that most Americans still don t know what is in the plan that Congress is working on. If he stanley thermobecher makes a speech and a couple days down the line they run another poll and they still don t know, it s going to show there s real problems with the substance of the plan itself and not with the

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Rdbx Kerry Calls Up Student Voters For 2008 Election
FILE - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate seat, speaks during a video interview from his home in Braddock, Pa., July 20, 2022. Julian Routh / AP Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman will return to in-person campaigning next week after recovering from a stroke in May. The Democratic Senate candidate will be holding a rally in Erie, Penn., next Friday.The rally w stanley thermos ill mark his first appearance at a major public campaign ev stanley cup usa ent since his stroke, which occurred just before the state s primary. Since then, Fetterman has mostly been engaging with voters through social media and advertising while he recovers, apart from a series of in-person fundraisers he attended last month.Erie County is an important bellwether for the Keystone State. President Donald Trump won it in 2016 by barely 1 point over Hillary Clinton. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden flipped it back to blue, also by just 1 point. In May, Fetterman won Erie County in the Democratic primary with 23,200 votes, nearly 80% of the primary vote. In the Republican primary, his opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz, who visited Erie on Wednesday, came in second in the county, recei stanley cup ving 7,500 votes. Before the 2020 election, I said that if I could know one single fact about the results, I could tell you who was going to win Pennsylvania. Whoever wins Erie Co Hybc Virginia delegate backs down on calls to impeach Justin Fairfax
Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are intensifying their attacks on Sarah Palin, as her sustained and surprising central role in this race is upending Obamarsquo strategy and often overshadowing McCain. Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan on Tuesday ndash; introducing Joe Biden at a campaign event ndash; ripped into Palinrsquo record and punctuated it with this snarky jab. Therersquo no way you can dress up tha stanley mugg t record, stanley website even with a lot of lipstick, he said. Later in the day, Obama used a variation of the lipstick line, though he was clearly talking about the McCain-Palin reform rhetoric. You c stanley cup an put lipstick on a pig, he said. It s still a pig. Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, as part of his endorsement of Obama, said Palin ldquo cares the hell out of me. And Obama hit Palin in nearly a dozen different press releases ndash; one day after drawing laughs at a campaign stop by calling her a moose shooter. It isnrsquo;t just Democratic officials who are fixated on Palin. Media outlets on the left ndash; from Talking Points Memo to Huffington Post ndash; are loaded with hard-hitting stories about Palin. McCain often seems like hersquo playing second fiddle. On the stump, not a single word that comes out of her mouth ndash; or not a single word that the McCain folks put in her mouth ndash; is anything but a lie, wrote TPMrsquo Josh Marshall. I know that so

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Team Pelosi a Finalist for Time Person of the Year
With her three-state recount effort effectively over, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Tuesday announced her plans for whatrsquo next: to ask donors which organizations should receive the campaignrsquo leftover money.At stanley mugs latest count, Stein had raised $7.33 million for the recount in just 2.5 weeks, and from more than 161,000 donors. The campaignrsquo latest estimate of costs puts the total recount-related expenses at about $7.4 million -- meaning as of now, there would not necessarily be money left over. However, the campaign noted that some costs, such as compliance costs and legal fees for ongoing litigation, could be reduced from their estimates today. In addition, Steinrsquo campaign expects to receive some of the filing fee back from Michigan, where arecount was startedbut not completed. Jill Stein pushing for election recount in 3 states 01:58 stanley thermos Included in that $7.4 million estimate is just under $4.5 million for state filing fees, $1.6 million for legal fees, $212,500 for staff salaries, $364,000 for consultants and $353,618 for administrative expenses. Steinrsquo campaign is planning to reach out to each of its 161,000 donors and ask them to vote on which non-partisan election reform and voting rights org stanley becher anizations Fmaz More states say no to Syrian refugees after Paris attacks
AP Supreme Court Justic stanley thermobecher e Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had surgery early this month for pancreatic cancer, returned to work today. She entered the courtroom on her own smiling broadly and appears to be doing well ndash; one would never know she recently went through a major surgery, reports CBS News producer Deidre Hester. The 75-year old justice is hearing oral arguments this morning. On Feb. 5, doctors discharged Ginsburg from stanley quencher Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center after removing a small malignant tumor and concluding that the malignancy had not spread. AP Ginsburg entered the courtroom this morning wearing the black robe and white collar combination familiar to Supreme Court watchers. As attorneys were sworn into the Supreme Court Bar, she looked directly at each individual and offered a nod and a smile to welcome them, Hester reports. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1701636-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d1701636-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--i stanley italia d-d1701636-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Brian Montopoli Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.

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Jndg Pat Trashes Columbus Day Protest
In 2007, U.S. commandos watched as a convoy carrying a powerful Iranian military leader made its way to northern Iraq. It was a prime opportunity to take out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who had been accused of aiding Shiite forces that killed thousands of American troops in Iraq.But ultimately, military leaders passed on a strike, deferring to deep concerns about the potential fallout of such a provocative attack. To avoid a firefigh stanley tumbler t, and the contentious politics that would follow, I decided that we should monitor the caravan, not strike immediately, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal wrote last year in Foreign Policy. Fears about the repercussions and reverberations of a targeted killing of Soleimani persisted throughout the administrations of President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama according to officials who served under both. Soleimani, they calculated, was just as dangerous dead and martyred as he was alive and plotting against Americans. That approach came to an end this week when President Donald Trump authorized an airstrike that killed Soleimani. stanley cup A burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday, January 3, 2020. Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP stanley cup But some former administration officials argued that despite Soleimani s role in orchestrating deadly atta Dlpt Alexander Wins Senate GOP Conference Chairmanship
AP Photo/Steven Senne stanley italia Analysis; Updated 1:15 p.m. ETIt goes without saying, but if Mitt Romney is going to close the door on this contest, he s going to need help from people like Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels. There aren t many wise men left in either party, but tho stanley cup se three are the closest thing we have to modern day wise men who can weigh in and generate a few news cycles of coverage. Sarah Palin generates coverage, but of a different sort. Bush s endorsement is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the man Mitt Romney -- it s time to c stanley quencher lose ranks is less powerful than we love Mitt -- but it comes at just the right time. Why might it help Romney doesn t lack for establishment support so you could argue that it won t help much. If it does, it won t be because Jeb Bush convinces people to suddenly start liking Mitt Romney. But it will help people accept the idea that the ugly fight has gone on long enough, and it s only hurting the inevitable nominee to keep calling him a liar and a person without a core....Plus we should see a reduction of at least 15 percent in stories about how Jeb Bush is going to be the white knight at the 2012 convention who will swoop in and take the nomination. Full CBS News coverage: Mitt Romney Mitt Romney on the trail

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Xzcx Obama Unveils Rural Agenda
Is the presidency just too big to handle John Dickerson, co-host of CBS This Morning penned a lengthy cover story for The Atlantic on how the magnitude of the office itself might be its own greatest impediment. He sat down with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg for an interview in the new Face the Nation studio to dive deep into the scale of the presidency.JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Hello, and welcome to the first and possibly last edition of Face the Atlantic. I m Jeffrey Goldberg, th stanley cups uk e editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and my guest is John Dickerson, Atlantic contributing writer who also has a day job at CBS, co-host of CBS This Morning, former moderator of Face the Nation and aut stanley cup hor of The Atlantic magazine s cover story, How the Presidency Became Impossible. And we re going to talk today about the presidency. John, you know more about the presidency than many people including presidents. It s disconcerting how much you know about the presidency. So let s just jump right into this. The idea behind this, this cover story for The Atlantic, is, is that the presidency is becoming unmanageable. We all know that the presidency is completely unmanageable. The question at the moment of course is, is this the fault of the current president, which is to say his idiosyncratic approach to ruling America has brought into sharp relief some of the problems of the presidency. Or is this just a sort of a stanley cups structural problem Is the presidency as, as it s practiced now just an impos Brbq Alex Jones and Infowars test the limit of free speech on the internet
CBS/IStockphoto Oklahoma s Republican governor announced Thursday that her state is rejecting a $54.6 million grant to set up its state-based health care exchange system. Gov. Mary Fallin said the move accomplishes my goal from the very beginning: stopping the implementation of the president s federal health care exchange in Oklahoma, Politico reports. Just two months ago, however, Fallin had said the federal assistance was consistent with our [health care] mission cups stanley and a step in the right direction. Other states have stanley cups uk turned down federal grants of $1 million to build a health care exchange -- an online marketplace that consumers co stanley vattenflaska uld use to compare and purchase insurance plans -- but the Oklahoma grant is the largest that has been rejected by far. Under President Obama s health care reforms, each state is expected to have a health care exchange set up by 2014. If a state chooses not to set up its own state-based exchange, the federal Health and Human Services Department is obligated to set one up for the state. However, lawmakers in Oklahoma aren t letting that happen, either. Fallin said Thursday Oklahoma will use state and private money to establish its own exchange, the Oklahoman reports, even though the state faces a $500 million budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year. State legislators are currently drafting a bill to set up an exchange that would explicitly prevent the imp

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Zlzl Donald Trump: OPEC is doing little to help with gas prices
FBI Director Christopher Wray reaffirmed in public remarks what his peers in the intelligence community have been saying over the past three days about Russia s interference in the 2016 election and ongoing efforts. The intelligence community s assessment has not changed, my view h stanley cups uk as not changed -- which is that Russia attempted to interfere [in the past election] and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day, he said, during a conversation with NBC s Lester Holt at the Aspen Security Forum Wednesday.Trump says he believes U.S. intelligence on Russian meddling, but declines to say Putin liedWray also covered a variet stanley botella y of topics ndash; candidly and with a number of laugh lines thrown in ndash; whose highlights are as follows: He dismissed the idea that the FBI stanley quencher would consider Russian President Vladimir Putin s offer to allow U.S. agents to travel to Russia to interrogate indicted individuals Not high on our list of investigative techniques, he quipped.White House entertaining Russian proposal to interrogate U.S. citizensOn the topic of the special counsel s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election and whether associates of Donald Trump s presidential campaign colluded with Russia, Wray said, I do not believe special counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt. Asked about the president s criticism of the FBI, Wray had a pointed response: Would we prefer not to be criticized Of course. But at end Fhxj Recall Vote Is Back On For Oct. 7
President Bush made his initial foray into tricky Northern Ireland politics Friday with a bowl of shamrocks and a general offer of help in maintaining peace. America is proud to call Ireland a friend, he said.Mr. Bush met with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to receive a crystal bowl of shamrocks, a a St. Patrick s Day tradition, and to discuss assisting with implementing the 1998 power-sharing arrangement that made Northern Ireland more peaceful after decades of sectarian violence.Mr. Bush told Ahern the U.S. stands ready to help the Nort stanley mugs hern Ireland peace process in any way that the governments involved need. There s an Irish expression: the work praises the man, he said. The peace that holds today in Northern Ireland is in no small measure a tribute to the prime minister and his courageous leadership. The Irish prime minister said he was glad to hear Mr. Bush utter warm words of encourag stanley thermosflasche ement, saying ongoing support from the United States is vital for a lasting and comprehensive political settlement to take hold in the British p stanley termosy rovince. It is good to be able to count on true friends, Ahern said.Afterward, Mr. Bush was hosting a reception with VIPs from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain, including John Reid, Britain s minister responsible for the province; John Hume, leader of the political party that represents moderate Catholic opinion; Gerry Adams, head of the Irish Republican Army-affiliated Sinn Fein par