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Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone has been indicted by a federal grand juryon seven counts -- including false statement vaso stanley s obstruction and witness tampering -- the special counsel s office announced Friday morning. He was arrested before dawn on Friday andappeared in courtthe same day.Stone told Tucker Carlson Friday night that he did forget that I had text messages from an old cell phone that were entirely exculpatory which proved that everything I said was accurate. Stone told Carlson that he has not spoken President Trump about the indictment, and the president said in written answers we never discussed this and we never did. Stone suggested someone had beared false witness against me and alleged it could be Steve Bannon. Stone has been an eccentric stanley water bottle figure on the right for decades, as a longtime Republican operative who has referred to stanley us himself as a political provocateur and a dirty trickster. He helped elect Ronald Reagan, but unlike most Republicans, he is an acolyte of President Richard Nixon. Underneath his bespoke suits, he has a tattoo of Nixon s face on his back.Stone worked on Nixon s 1972 campaign, as well as Reagan s 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns. After helping to elect Reagan, Stone built a lobbying firm with his friend Paul Manafort, better known in the past couple of years as the former Trump campaign chairman who has also been entangled in the special counsel investigation, and was accused of violat Xcke House Authorizes Subpoena For Feith
This story was written by CBS News Joy Lin.Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson took aim at a rival yesterday, uttering a name he rarely mentions on the campaign trail. John Edwards would change the mission, said Richardson in a press release. I will end the war. Today, Richardson t stanley cup ook on more of his Democratic opponents in what his campaign called a major speech on Iraq and the military. Richardson began the speech by citing the number Americans and Iraqis who have lost their lives. In an effort to distinguish himself from the pack, Richardson said he s tired of waiting and seeing if there will be political progress. Senator Clinton has reportedly said that she might well have troops still in Iraq at the end of a second term -- 9 years from now, said Richardson. Senator Ob stanley cup ama and John Edwards are unwilling to commit to removing all of the troops by the end of their first term -- that s 5 years from now. I am opposed to 5 years or 9 years or any more years of our troops dying. My colleagues are wrong. That s changing the mission, not ending the war, said Richardson. Stating that he had expected much more from his Democratic opponents on the war, Richardson named Clinton five times and coupled Obama and Edwards names three times copo stanley in his speech.During the question and answer session that followed, a student pointed out how harshly Richardson was criticizing his opponents and asked whether he would consid
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Washington mdash; A rule proposedby the Trump administration is prompting immigrant families mdash; including U.S. citizens mdash; to avoid or drop food, medical and housing benefits provided by the government out of fear that enrollment would prevent family members from securing permanent residency, according to a new report.A study by the Urban Institute found that more than 13% of adults in immigrant families stanley termoska said they were not participating in public programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing due to concerns that the so-called public charge stanley canada rule being finalized by the government would hinder their ability to obtain green cards. The number of immigrants reporting this fear has risen to 20.7% among low-income families. Lawmakers, doctors say new Trump rule will punish immigrants for using bread and butter services The report, based on interviews with nearly 2,000 adult immigrants in December 2018, is the first national study to quantify the chilling effect immigrati stanley website on advocates and medical practitioners have denounced since a draft of the controversial rule surfaced in 2017. The proposal was published to the Federal Register last fall and the government is expected to roll out and implement a final rule this year. Rep. Nanette Barragaacute;n of California, the state with the largestforeign-born population in the U.S., said the report s findings demonstrate that the proposed rule change is having the intended effect Dawg Tom Price confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary
AN UNEXPECTED VETO....The president went nearly six years in office without vetoing a single bill, but has now had seven -- including funding the war in Iraq, stem-cell research twice , and healthcare for low-income kids twice . In each instance, lawmakers were well aware of the White House s opposition, but passed the bills anyway, hoping Bush would either change his mind or they could override the veto.Which is what makes veto 8 so odd.At the behest of the Iraqi government, President Bush will veto the annual defense stanley cups uk authorization b stanley mugs ill, saying an obscure provision in the legislation could make Iraqi assets held in U.S. banks vulnerable to lawsuits.The veto threat startled Democratic congressional leaders, who believe Bush is bowing to pressure from the Iraqi government over a technical provision in the bill. The veto is unexpected because there was no veto threat and the legislation passed both chambers of Congress overwhelmingly.Democratic leaders say the provision in question could easily be worked out, but in vetoing the massive defense policy bill, military pay raises may be on hold, as well as dozens of other programs.This is just bizarre. If the provision of the bill was so offensive, why didn t the White House, which was aware of the legislation s progress as it passed, say something sooner As the AP noted, sovereign nations a stanley canada re normally immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts. An exception is made for state sponsors of terrori
Washington mdash; A rule proposedby the Trump administration is prompting immigrant families mdash; including U.S. citizens mdash; to avoid or drop food, medical and housing benefits provided by the government out of fear that enrollment would prevent family members from securing permanent residency, according to a new report.A study by the Urban Institute found that more than 13% of adults in immigrant families stanley termoska said they were not participating in public programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing due to concerns that the so-called public charge stanley canada rule being finalized by the government would hinder their ability to obtain green cards. The number of immigrants reporting this fear has risen to 20.7% among low-income families. Lawmakers, doctors say new Trump rule will punish immigrants for using bread and butter services The report, based on interviews with nearly 2,000 adult immigrants in December 2018, is the first national study to quantify the chilling effect immigrati stanley website on advocates and medical practitioners have denounced since a draft of the controversial rule surfaced in 2017. The proposal was published to the Federal Register last fall and the government is expected to roll out and implement a final rule this year. Rep. Nanette Barragaacute;n of California, the state with the largestforeign-born population in the U.S., said the report s findings demonstrate that the proposed rule change is having the intended effect Dawg Tom Price confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary
AN UNEXPECTED VETO....The president went nearly six years in office without vetoing a single bill, but has now had seven -- including funding the war in Iraq, stem-cell research twice , and healthcare for low-income kids twice . In each instance, lawmakers were well aware of the White House s opposition, but passed the bills anyway, hoping Bush would either change his mind or they could override the veto.Which is what makes veto 8 so odd.At the behest of the Iraqi government, President Bush will veto the annual defense stanley cups uk authorization b stanley mugs ill, saying an obscure provision in the legislation could make Iraqi assets held in U.S. banks vulnerable to lawsuits.The veto threat startled Democratic congressional leaders, who believe Bush is bowing to pressure from the Iraqi government over a technical provision in the bill. The veto is unexpected because there was no veto threat and the legislation passed both chambers of Congress overwhelmingly.Democratic leaders say the provision in question could easily be worked out, but in vetoing the massive defense policy bill, military pay raises may be on hold, as well as dozens of other programs.This is just bizarre. If the provision of the bill was so offensive, why didn t the White House, which was aware of the legislation s progress as it passed, say something sooner As the AP noted, sovereign nations a stanley canada re normally immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts. An exception is made for state sponsors of terrori
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan national police and armed pro-government civilians laid siege to a symbolically important neighborhood that has recently become a center ofresistance to President Daniel Ortega s government. Government forces began advancing on the Monimbo neighborhood in the city of Masaya before dawn Tuesday.Speaking from the capital of Nicaragua, independent and investigative journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro said on CBSN Tuesday that a massive military attack was taking place in Masaya stanley website -- specifically against Monimbo -- and that there was a real concern about the possibility of a massacre.Monimbo was resisting with barricades and homemade weapons -- mostly defensive weapons, he said. One woman, who asked only to be identified as Silvia, said she treated victims in a makeshift field clinic. She said youth in the neighborhood were fighting with homemade mortars to defend roadblocks put up at Monimbo s perimeter, but government forces were heavily armed.In the late 1970s, Monimbo vaso stanley s residents rose up against strongman Anastasio Somoza as part of the Nicaraguan Revolution led in part by Ortega himself. Monimbo has again become a center of the opposition since protests against cuts to the social security system in mid-April became a broader call for Ortega to leave office. International community condemns dea stanley uk dly viol Uvtx GOP pushes Obama on expanded college savings proposal
President Barack Obama arrives at Hickam Air Force base in Honolulu, Hawaii, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, for the his holiday vacation. AP President Obama is starting off the new year with a clear-eyed assessment of the opposition he ll face from Congress this year. Fresh from a nearly two-week vacation in Hawaii, Mr. Obama told reporters aboard a Washington-bound Air Force One last night that he expects Republicans to play to their base for a certain period of time. Indeed, one of the first acts of the new GOP-led House next stanley cup usa week will be to vote to repeal Mr. Obama s signature accomplishment, the health care overhaul. stanley mug Asked specifically what he thought about that largely symbolic vote, Mr. Obama declined to say. I think that there s gonna be politics, that s what happens in Washington, the president said. But I m pretty confident that they re going to recognize that our job is to govern and make sure that we are delivering jobs for the American people and that we are creating a competitive economy for the 21st Century. Not just for this generation but for the next one. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will realize, Mr. Obama added, that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 i stanley water bottle n 2012. Our job this year is to make sure that we build on recovery, he said. We started making good
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President Barack Obama arrives at Hickam Air Force base in Honolulu, Hawaii, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, for the his holiday vacation. AP President Obama is starting off the new year with a clear-eyed assessment of the opposition he ll face from Congress this year. Fresh from a nearly two-week vacation in Hawaii, Mr. Obama told reporters aboard a Washington-bound Air Force One last night that he expects Republicans to play to their base for a certain period of time. Indeed, one of the first acts of the new GOP-led House next stanley cup usa week will be to vote to repeal Mr. Obama s signature accomplishment, the health care overhaul. stanley mug Asked specifically what he thought about that largely symbolic vote, Mr. Obama declined to say. I think that there s gonna be politics, that s what happens in Washington, the president said. But I m pretty confident that they re going to recognize that our job is to govern and make sure that we are delivering jobs for the American people and that we are creating a competitive economy for the 21st Century. Not just for this generation but for the next one. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will realize, Mr. Obama added, that there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 i stanley water bottle n 2012. Our job this year is to make sure that we build on recovery, he said. We started making good
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The violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, have prompted many Ameri stanley cups cans to question how we move forward as a nation. Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. once said, Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. Congressman John Lewis is o stanley cup ne American who embodies that message of unity. On Tuesday night, Lewis said the violence in Charlottesville troubles him a great deal. He encouraged people to speak up, speak out and participate in the democratic process. Decades before his service on Capitol Hill, he risked his life fighting for equal rights. Lewis reflects on his journey and his push to bring people together in our ongoing series, Note to Self. This piece originally aired June 29, 2017.Georgia Congressman John Lewis was born and raised on a cotton farm outside Troy, Alabama. He later became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement and was known as the godfather of the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture, fighting 15 years for its creation. In our ongoing series, Note to Self, he tells his younger self ndash; so full of passion ndash; about the 45 times he ll be arrested in his mission to help redeem the soul of America. In 1956, when you were only 16 years old, you and some of your brothers and sisters and first cousins went down to the public library trying to get library cards, trying to check out some books, and you were told by t stanley tumbler he librar Edmx On The Trail
Supporters of Energy and Commerce Chairman John D. Dingell D- stanley thermoskannen Mich. are invoking President-elect Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats to rally support for the Dean of the House. A quartet of top Dingell supporters sent colleagues a letter on Wednesday touting quotes from Obama, former President Bill Clinton, his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Georgia Rep. John Lewis and Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. praising the Energy and Commerce chairman. Nevermind, for the mome stanley vattenflaska nt, that Dingell and Pelosi have had a very public rivalry over the years. Dingell is trying to fend off a cha starbucks stanley cup llenge from California Rep. Henry A. Waxman whose fomer top aide now represents Obama on Capitol Hill . The full text of the letter follows the jump.Continue reading post... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
The violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, have prompted many Ameri stanley cups cans to question how we move forward as a nation. Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. once said, Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. Congressman John Lewis is o stanley cup ne American who embodies that message of unity. On Tuesday night, Lewis said the violence in Charlottesville troubles him a great deal. He encouraged people to speak up, speak out and participate in the democratic process. Decades before his service on Capitol Hill, he risked his life fighting for equal rights. Lewis reflects on his journey and his push to bring people together in our ongoing series, Note to Self. This piece originally aired June 29, 2017.Georgia Congressman John Lewis was born and raised on a cotton farm outside Troy, Alabama. He later became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement and was known as the godfather of the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture, fighting 15 years for its creation. In our ongoing series, Note to Self, he tells his younger self ndash; so full of passion ndash; about the 45 times he ll be arrested in his mission to help redeem the soul of America. In 1956, when you were only 16 years old, you and some of your brothers and sisters and first cousins went down to the public library trying to get library cards, trying to check out some books, and you were told by t stanley tumbler he librar Edmx On The Trail
Supporters of Energy and Commerce Chairman John D. Dingell D- stanley thermoskannen Mich. are invoking President-elect Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats to rally support for the Dean of the House. A quartet of top Dingell supporters sent colleagues a letter on Wednesday touting quotes from Obama, former President Bill Clinton, his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Georgia Rep. John Lewis and Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. praising the Energy and Commerce chairman. Nevermind, for the mome stanley vattenflaska nt, that Dingell and Pelosi have had a very public rivalry over the years. Dingell is trying to fend off a cha starbucks stanley cup llenge from California Rep. Henry A. Waxman whose fomer top aide now represents Obama on Capitol Hill . The full text of the letter follows the jump.Continue reading post... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a8ea96-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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It was a blunt comment that when taken out of context could seem fairly alarming: We don t have a strategy yet, President Obama said Thursday with respect to his plans to fight Islamic extremists in Syria.The White House quickly tried to explain Mr. Obama s remarks, clarifying that the president has a broader strategy for fighting groups that pose a threat to U.S. interests, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . However, he hasn t decided yet whether military action in Syria fits into that strategy. The president was candid about the fact that the Pentagon is reviewing options military options that may be available to him, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday. The U.S. decided weeks ago to use air strikes to fight ISIS in Iraq. When the president said there s no strategy yet to do the same in Syria, he was acknowledging that the political circumstances in Syria are very different.Obama on ISIS: We don t have a strategy yet How would airstrikes impact Syria s humanitarian crisis I think he was just using shorthand to basically say it s a little more c stanley cup spain o stanley quencher mplicated in Syria if we want to do it smartly and within the bounds of a legal framework, Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress told CBS News. It s spot on to say we re going to look before we leap, and that is in and of itself a strategy -- as opposed to the shock and awe i stanley cup n Iraq. As he articulated in a speech at West Pmwc Washington Wrap
A day after the White House announced it would join a court fight against racial preferences at the University of Michigan, the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff said she believes it is appropriate to consider race in college admissions. In a carefully worded statement, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she agreed with President Bush s decision to file a Supreme Court brief opposing the Michigan pla stanley fr n, which awards bonus points to minorities. But she also drew a distinction between her views on affirmative action and those of the president. While he came out forcefully against the use of racial preferences in college admissions, Rice said it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. She said, however, that race neutral means are preferable. Rice, the first African-American to hold her influential post, said she discussed the racial preference issue ndash; which falls outside her usual national security portfolio ndash; with the president before he announced his decision in the Michigan case. Other administration officials have stressed the filing was carefully worded stanley cups to cover just the Michigan plan, not the high court s l stanley cups uk andmark Bakke decision. That 1978 ruling outlawed strict quotas, but said admissions officers could take race into account.White House officials said Rice unsuccessfully urged Mr. Bush to concede that race could be used
It was a blunt comment that when taken out of context could seem fairly alarming: We don t have a strategy yet, President Obama said Thursday with respect to his plans to fight Islamic extremists in Syria.The White House quickly tried to explain Mr. Obama s remarks, clarifying that the president has a broader strategy for fighting groups that pose a threat to U.S. interests, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . However, he hasn t decided yet whether military action in Syria fits into that strategy. The president was candid about the fact that the Pentagon is reviewing options military options that may be available to him, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday. The U.S. decided weeks ago to use air strikes to fight ISIS in Iraq. When the president said there s no strategy yet to do the same in Syria, he was acknowledging that the political circumstances in Syria are very different.Obama on ISIS: We don t have a strategy yet How would airstrikes impact Syria s humanitarian crisis I think he was just using shorthand to basically say it s a little more c stanley cup spain o stanley quencher mplicated in Syria if we want to do it smartly and within the bounds of a legal framework, Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress told CBS News. It s spot on to say we re going to look before we leap, and that is in and of itself a strategy -- as opposed to the shock and awe i stanley cup n Iraq. As he articulated in a speech at West Pmwc Washington Wrap
A day after the White House announced it would join a court fight against racial preferences at the University of Michigan, the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff said she believes it is appropriate to consider race in college admissions. In a carefully worded statement, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she agreed with President Bush s decision to file a Supreme Court brief opposing the Michigan pla stanley fr n, which awards bonus points to minorities. But she also drew a distinction between her views on affirmative action and those of the president. While he came out forcefully against the use of racial preferences in college admissions, Rice said it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. She said, however, that race neutral means are preferable. Rice, the first African-American to hold her influential post, said she discussed the racial preference issue ndash; which falls outside her usual national security portfolio ndash; with the president before he announced his decision in the Michigan case. Other administration officials have stressed the filing was carefully worded stanley cups to cover just the Michigan plan, not the high court s l stanley cups uk andmark Bakke decision. That 1978 ruling outlawed strict quotas, but said admissions officers could take race into account.White House officials said Rice unsuccessfully urged Mr. Bush to concede that race could be used
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Below is a full transcript of the speech President John F. Kennedy delivered at his inauguration on January 20, 1961. --Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice president Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens: We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well a stanley cup s a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty stanley cup God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds i vaso stanley n his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. JFK at 100 66 photos We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter p Giya Report: Trump is considering rolling back Obama s new policies with Cuba
This is the worst nightmare of the White House coming true -- Rep. Henry Waxman D-Calif. , chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is all over them on several fronts, including going after Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice.Waxman is now seeking a deposition of Susan Ralston, former assistant to Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, as part of an investigation into White House dealings with imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ralston, who worked for Abramoff beforemoving over as Rove s assistant, resigned from the White House in October after it was publicly disclosed that she accepted gifts, including tickets to sporting evidence,from andprovided information to Abramoff. She was not charged with any wrongdoing, and there was no evidence at the time that Rove knew what she was up to, but Waxman wants to dig more deeply into the matter.Here s a letter th stanley cups at Waxman sent Ralston today: Dear Ms. Ralston,The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requests your appearance at a deposition on Thursday, April 5, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., in 2157 Rayburn House Office Building.This deposition is part of an investigatio vaso stanley n the Committee commenced last spring regarding lobbying contacts between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House. In September 2006, the Committee released a bipartisan staff report t stanley cup hat analyzed e-mail and billing records provided to the Committee by Mr. Abramoff s former lobbying firm. This r
Below is a full transcript of the speech President John F. Kennedy delivered at his inauguration on January 20, 1961. --Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice president Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens: We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well a stanley cup s a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty stanley cup God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds i vaso stanley n his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. JFK at 100 66 photos We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter p Giya Report: Trump is considering rolling back Obama s new policies with Cuba
This is the worst nightmare of the White House coming true -- Rep. Henry Waxman D-Calif. , chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is all over them on several fronts, including going after Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice.Waxman is now seeking a deposition of Susan Ralston, former assistant to Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff, as part of an investigation into White House dealings with imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ralston, who worked for Abramoff beforemoving over as Rove s assistant, resigned from the White House in October after it was publicly disclosed that she accepted gifts, including tickets to sporting evidence,from andprovided information to Abramoff. She was not charged with any wrongdoing, and there was no evidence at the time that Rove knew what she was up to, but Waxman wants to dig more deeply into the matter.Here s a letter th stanley cups at Waxman sent Ralston today: Dear Ms. Ralston,The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requests your appearance at a deposition on Thursday, April 5, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., in 2157 Rayburn House Office Building.This deposition is part of an investigatio vaso stanley n the Committee commenced last spring regarding lobbying contacts between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House. In September 2006, the Committee released a bipartisan staff report t stanley cup hat analyzed e-mail and billing records provided to the Committee by Mr. Abramoff s former lobbying firm. This r
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In anexclusive interviewwithCBS News Campaign Reporter Zak Hudak, Senator Elizabeth Warren doubled down on her position that she did not mislead the public with her campaign speec stanley drinking cup h about being shown the door by her first boss after she got pregnant with her first child. I was six months pregnant, 22 years old. The job was mine and it was taken away, she said. Warren s trail story about getting pregnant in 1971 came under scrutiny after a 2007 interview resurfaced in which she seemingly said she had left the teaching job to take additional courses.WarrentoldCBS News she was in fact rehired that spring and her certificate extended to the following year, and documents from the time confirm that story. But they also say Warren resigned that summer. Asked by CBS News whether she was asked to resign or fired when her j stanley cups ob was taken away, Warren said, It doesn t matter what the term is, but let s be clear. I was six months pregnant, it was my first job, I was 22-years-old and a job that was mine mdash; a job I was hired for for the next year mdash; was taken away when they knew I was pregnant. vaso stanley News outlets have pointed to the documents as proof Warren misrepresented the story. But she told CBS News that when she said the principal showed me the door, she was telling the full truth. Asked whether news outlets that reported earlier that she was in fact fired from the job were wrong, she said, I don t know what else you would call it. Warre Puwg Report: Office responsible for vetting Trump appointees plagued by personnel problems
This story was written by Michael Baumann, The Daily GamecockBarack Obama and I have five things incommon: gender, country of birth, religion, the fact that we have once played basketball and our position on the invasion of Iraq in 2003: we were both against it and neither of us was in a place to vote on it at the time. But that doesn t matter now; the fact of the matter is that five years later, the Congressional Budget Office estimates stanley website that the cost of the war will be in the trillions of dollars. More importantly, more than 4,000 coalition soldiers have lost their lives, including five Georgians. stanley cup Why should we care if Georgians have lost their lives in Iraq After all, these are guys with names like Vladimir from Tbilisi, not guys with names like stanley cup Jake from Atlanta. The reason is that after they put themselves in harm s way for American interests, Russian tanks have been rolling through the streets in Georgia, and the United States, because of its expenditures in terms of lives, money and material in Iraq, is in no position to return the favor. For a time, the cordial relationship that President Bush and former Russian President Vladimir Putin shared seemed to signal a sea change in Russo-American relations. This past month, Russia, in its eagerness to re-establish itself as a regional superpower, has thrown that goodwill away by invading Georgia and bringing the most democratic and pro-Western government i
In anexclusive interviewwithCBS News Campaign Reporter Zak Hudak, Senator Elizabeth Warren doubled down on her position that she did not mislead the public with her campaign speec stanley drinking cup h about being shown the door by her first boss after she got pregnant with her first child. I was six months pregnant, 22 years old. The job was mine and it was taken away, she said. Warren s trail story about getting pregnant in 1971 came under scrutiny after a 2007 interview resurfaced in which she seemingly said she had left the teaching job to take additional courses.WarrentoldCBS News she was in fact rehired that spring and her certificate extended to the following year, and documents from the time confirm that story. But they also say Warren resigned that summer. Asked by CBS News whether she was asked to resign or fired when her j stanley cups ob was taken away, Warren said, It doesn t matter what the term is, but let s be clear. I was six months pregnant, it was my first job, I was 22-years-old and a job that was mine mdash; a job I was hired for for the next year mdash; was taken away when they knew I was pregnant. vaso stanley News outlets have pointed to the documents as proof Warren misrepresented the story. But she told CBS News that when she said the principal showed me the door, she was telling the full truth. Asked whether news outlets that reported earlier that she was in fact fired from the job were wrong, she said, I don t know what else you would call it. Warre Puwg Report: Office responsible for vetting Trump appointees plagued by personnel problems
This story was written by Michael Baumann, The Daily GamecockBarack Obama and I have five things incommon: gender, country of birth, religion, the fact that we have once played basketball and our position on the invasion of Iraq in 2003: we were both against it and neither of us was in a place to vote on it at the time. But that doesn t matter now; the fact of the matter is that five years later, the Congressional Budget Office estimates stanley website that the cost of the war will be in the trillions of dollars. More importantly, more than 4,000 coalition soldiers have lost their lives, including five Georgians. stanley cup Why should we care if Georgians have lost their lives in Iraq After all, these are guys with names like Vladimir from Tbilisi, not guys with names like stanley cup Jake from Atlanta. The reason is that after they put themselves in harm s way for American interests, Russian tanks have been rolling through the streets in Georgia, and the United States, because of its expenditures in terms of lives, money and material in Iraq, is in no position to return the favor. For a time, the cordial relationship that President Bush and former Russian President Vladimir Putin shared seemed to signal a sea change in Russo-American relations. This past month, Russia, in its eagerness to re-establish itself as a regional superpower, has thrown that goodwill away by invading Georgia and bringing the most democratic and pro-Western government i
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Florida Congressman Allen West allenwestforcongress Tea Party-affiliated Republican Rep. Allen West of Florida is out with a statement in which he says he is disgusted at the percep stanley cup tion that Leaders in my own Party...are now using the men and women in uniform to pass a short-term budget bill. West s complaint is tied to the House GOP s passage of a billthat would fund the government for one week starting Friday, when funding would otherwise run out, prompting a government shutdown. The House GOP s bill included both the short-term budget extension and $516 billion to fund the Department of Defense for the rest of the fiscal year. West, a military veteran, writes that he voted for the bill because it funded U.S. troops. But he was clearly displeased that the funding was tied to the budget extension. The freshman lawmaker evoked former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose legacy is tied to appeasement of Germany ahead of World War 2, in discussing the budget debate. Winston Churchill, who saw the dark clouds approaching, was looked u stanley drink bottle pon as an alarmist at the time, even though he saw the true danger, wrote West. Churchill stated: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Mr. Speaker: I once again will not be feeding the crocodile. West then complained about stanley cup nz Democratic spending and politicking before
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The following is a transcript of an interview with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb by CBS News Margaret Brennan that aired Sunday, May 24, 2020, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Westport, Connecticut and former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Good to have you back with us.DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thanks. MARGARET BRENNAN: The president just tweeted that cases, numbers and deaths are down across the country. What are you seeing DR. GOTTLIEB: Well, look, this isn t contained yet. That doesn t mean we can t go out and start doing things, get back to some semblance of a normal life. But we need to do things differently. We need to define a new normal. So when we get back to work, we need to get back to work differently. When you look across the country, you see hospitalizations going up in many states: Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Arizona. You saw hospitalizations coming down about three weeks ago over a two week period. And then in the last week you re starting to see them tick up. Now, that shouldn t be surprising. We expected cases to go up and hospitalizations to bump up as we reopened. But we need to understand this isn t contained, and it s still continuing to spread. And we might not be able to fully contain this until we get to a vaccine or better therapeuti stanley uk cs. M stanley cup ARGARET BRENNAN: So you said stanley cup usa if people are careful, they can kind of take a little bit of a breather. W Fdrl WikiLeaks: U.S. secretly backed Syria opposition
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