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zhyf Factional Politics In Iran - Jeaoneuntor - 11-15-2024 Sfrj McConnell says vast majority of Republicans totally behind Ukraine To really understand an election, you have to understand the motivations mdash; and the lives mdash; of the Americans voting in it. But too often our politics misses the point, and just describes people as demographic groups or party labels. We can do better.We ve got the data for it: tens of thousands of interviews in our CBS News polling over the year where people have expressed themselves and how they see politics.Here s what we learned from it all: the groups who are the influencers of 2022, whose ideas and choices are s stanley spain teering the conversation now and likely deciding the midterms next month. stanley cups Chances are you know someone like them mdash; or are even a member of these groups yourself. And that s the point.We ll follow them all the way through election night itself with our surveys, to see how they vote and if they vote, which is often more critical in these polarized times. Because if every election is a story about us, and who we are as a nation, then we ll certainly need to see the ending they write. The Pressured ParentsTheir story: Post-pandemic stress over their financeshellip;and their kids.It s been a long few years for everyone. The pandemic took a massive toll on so many. All through it we interviewed parents who worked to keep families safe; navigating quarantines, juggling workin stanley tumblers g and schooling from home, and telling us it brought them stress. And then as that eased, inflation hit, piling financial stress on top. Jvqv A Bigger Army ACTS OF GOD ....Obviously, when it comes to religious beliefs, Mike Huckabee is free to think anything he wants. His faith is his business. That said, am I the only one who finds this a little odd Five day stanley cup s after the tornado tore through the state, [Arkadelphia, Ark., a] city of 10,000 lay in ruins. The cyclone destroyed an office building, a bank, a pharmacy and 70 other businesses. The electricity was out. The National stanley mugs Guard patrolled the streets. Six people were dead.In Little Rock, GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee was reviewing a disaster insurance measure that he intended to support when he became troubled: The bill, drawing on centuries-old legal terminology, referred to natural disasters as acts of God. In a time of emergency, Huckabee would hold up the measure for more than three weeks to press his personal objection that the Almighty could not be blamed for the region s loss. In the process, he drew damaging headlines and created new strains in his relations with the state s legislature, the General Assembly.Now, to be fair, it s worth noting that there s no indication that Huckabee s decision to delay the bill adversely affected anyone. But the state legislation in question sought to pr stanley cup usa otect tornado victims from insurance companies that might cancel their policies, and used language -- acts of God -- which is standard in the law and in many insurance policies. Nevertheless, Huckabee refused to even consider disaster relief until the bill s wording was changed to meet his arhb Houthi rebels launch missile attack on yet another U.S.-owned commercial ship, P - Jeaoneuntor - 11-15-2024 Eigg Trump says only way Democrats can win is to bring out impeachment WASHINGTON-- The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.The Homeland Security Departmentrsquo inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies werenrsquo;t caught because t stanley deutschland heir fingerprints were missing from government databases.DHS said in an emailed stateme stanley water bottle nt that an initial review of these cases suggest that some of the individuals may have ultimately qualified for citizenship, and that the lack of digital fingerprint records does not necessarily mean they committed fraud. The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but Inspector General John Rothrsquo auditors said they were all from ldquo pecial interest countries - those that present a national security concern for the United States - or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration stanley france fraud. The report did not identify those countries.DHS said the findings reflect what has long been a problem for immigration officials - old paper-based records containing fingerprint information that canrsquo;t be searched electronically. DHS says immigration officials are in the process of uploading these files and Bcxa Sarah Palin Won The Debate Against Joe Biden Under pressure from members of b stanley tazas oth parties, the White House agreed Thursday to accept the language of Sen. John McCain s amendment protecting anyone in U.S. custody from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, CBS News stanley cup White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports. The move was stanley thermos a reversal for the president, who had resisted such legislation.Mr. Bush, speaking during a meeting with McCain at the White House, said the agreement will make it clear to the world that this government does not torture. Additional language to the amendment obtained by CBS News chief White House correspondent John Roberts sought to provide a defense to protect U.S. officials authorized to interrogate persons believed to be a threat and thought to be legal. The amendment states: It shall be a defense that such officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces or other agent did not know that the practices were unlawful and a person of ordinary sense and understanding would not know the practices were unlawful. Click here to read the full text.CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss reports the White House bitterly fought the measure for months, threatening a presidential veto of any bill containing the torture ban and sending Vice President Cheney to personally lobby to exempt the CIA. But congressional sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, and McCain, a former Navy pilot who was held and tortured for five and a half years in Vietnam, adopted the issu rwas Rush Is On To Retire Clinton Debt - Jeaoneuntor - 11-15-2024 Faia Obama: America s resurgence is real An incoming Democratic member of Congress said Sunday the incoming House majority should focus on oversight of the Trump administration to save our democracy, a remark that set off a debate and drew a rebuke from one of his Republican soon-to-be colleagues. I think that right now it s important for this majority in the House to stanley cup engage in some really critical oversight of an stanley cups administration that is undermining a lot of critical freedoms for folks in our country. When I say save our democracy, I mean precisely that, Democratic Rep.-elect Joe Neguse of Colorado said on Face the Nation Sunday alongside three other newly elected members. I think some of our democratic freedoms and the principles that we live by have been under attack for the better part of the last two years. The prospect of House Democrats launching a slew of investigations into the administration has seemed to rankle Mr. Trump, who could find his legislative agenda stalled for the remainder of his presidency.Transcript: New members of Congress on Face the Nation, Nov. 18, 2018Republican Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw of Texas pushed back again stanley italia st Neguse s criticism of the president. What is he undermining exactly You know, what democratic freedoms have been undermined Crenshaw asked. We just had an election where we switched power in the House. Democracy is at work. People are voting in record numbers. Neguse replied by referencing the White House s conflict with CNN co Wwks Pickering Removes Himself From Senate Consideration CBS From CBS News Fernando Suarez:On primary day in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Hillary Clinton will make last-minute visits to polling places, hoping news coverage of her stops will trigger undecided voters to turn out. As is custom on election day stanley quencher s, while Clinton makes visits to strategic locations in the area, her senior staff sits in what they call the boiler room to await results and to get information from staff on the ground at polling locations. This information will dictate part of Clinton s schedule this morning. She will oftentimes make phone calls into local radio shows or stand on street corners with supporters if her advisors think she s in a close contest in a particular area.However, despite her efforts today, a source close to the campaign is downplaying expectations, telling CBS News that we will lose all three contests today, probably by wide margins botella stanley . We are still actively working them because we feel like there are opportunities to pick up delegates, the source said, pointing out that since delegates are allocated proportionally, she can still pick up delegates even if she loses statewide. There are several districts in Virginia, for example, that we have targeted because they have odd number delegates and we think we have some opportunities to pick up stanley cups uk the one. So, while we expect to lose we re focused on the delegate math. Another reason why today s contests will prove difficul jhfu Iran Crisis Spawns Odd Bedfellows - Jeaoneuntor - 11-15-2024 Nveh Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump rsquo scorched-earth strategy ldquo;desperate rdquo; TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in March about the social media platform s consumer privacy and data security practices, its impact on kids and its relatio stanley taza nship with the Chinese Communist Party, the committee announced in a news release Monday. Americans deserve to know how these actions impact their privacy and data security, as well as what actions TikTok is taking to keep our kids safe from online and offline harms, the committee said its release. We ve made our concerns clear with TikTok. It is now time to continue the committee s efforts to hold Big Tech accountable by bringing TikTok before the committee to provide complete and honest answers for people. FILE: Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok Inc., speaks during Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore on Nov. 16, 2022. Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg via Getty Imag stanley cup es Chew, who will be making his first appearance before a congressional committee, is likely to face aggressive questioning about TikTok s data collection and concerns that its parent company, Chinese-owned ByteDance, could be forced to share that data with the Chinese government. Over half of the nation s state governme stanley cup nts, as well as the U.S. military,have banned the use of TikTokon government-issued devices because of those fears. In November, FBI Director Christophe Nayj Paul Ryan: Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government Updated at 1:19 p.m. ETAs the White House sought to reassure Americans that it has fixed mistakes that nearly allowed al Qaeda to take down a U.S.-bound airliner last Christmas, it acknowledged Wednesday a stanley cup nother security misstep: The nation s top intelligence official was out of the loop about a terrorist plot and numerous arrests this week in Britain.U.K. Arrests 12 in Suspected Terror Plot Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared stumped Tuesday night when asked on ABC News whether a significant terror plot uncovered in London could have security implications in the United States. The plot received huge news coverage this week and was a major focus in the U.K., America s closest intelligence partner. London Clapper asked, looking across the table at Obama s homeland security adviser, John Brennan, who was also being interviewed. Scroll down to watch Clapper s reac stanley italia tion, which happens at the 3:50 mark in the video below Brennan sought to allay fears about a holiday season terrorist attack during a White House news conference Wednesday. Asked why Clapper was out of the loop on such a major incident, he said the director was preoccupied with tensions between North and South Korea and a tentative nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. Should he have been briefed by his staff on those arrests Brennan said. Yes. It was an emba stanley thermos rrassing moment not just for Obama but for the embattled position of director of national in wsvb Ryan: Measure compassion by outcomes, not spending levels - Jeaoneuntor - 11-15-2024 Snei Census data shows U.S. growing more diverse as congressional redistricting fights loom President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa Ma stanley cups uk y gave a joint press conference Friday, Mr. Trumprsquo first with a foreign leader since taking office last week.After both reaffirmed the special relationship between the U.S. and U.K., the two leaders took questions from a handful of reporters for about 19 minutes.President Trump was pressed about his upcoming phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and whether he is considering lifting sanctions against Russia. May was similarly questioned about Russia and the U.K.rsquo approach Putin stanley romania . Mr. Trump also fielded a question about his conversation Friday morning with Mexican President Enrique Pen stanley cups tilde;a Nieto, who on Thursday cancelled a visit to the U.S. that had been scheduled for next week. Pentilde;a Nietorsquo decision followed Mr. Trumprsquo signing of an executive order calling for the immediate construction of a border wall along the southern U.S. border, which the White House has promised Mexico will pay for.The two leaders discussed other foreign policy questions, including trade between the countries especially in light of the Brexit vote splitting the U.K. from the European Union. Read below for the highlights from Fridayrsquo press conference:BrexitMr. Trump praised last yearrsquo shocking Brexit vote, which took the U.K. out of the European Union.I said Brexit is going to happen, Mr. Trump recalled predicting. And I was s Ekot Republican debate: Candidates talk climate change ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOLLIES....I see that the latest crackpot initiative from the Golden State has now gotten national attention. Jon Alter writes in the current issue of Newsweek about a plan to carve up California s electoral votes between multiple candidates instead of awarding them all to a single winner in November:Thomas Hiltachk, who specializes in ballot referenda that try to fool people in the titles and fine print, is sponsoring a ballot initiative for the June 3, 2008, California primary which now falls four months after the state s presidential primary . The Presidential Election Reform Act would award the state s electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. Had this idea been in effect in 2004, Bush would have won 22 electoral votes from California, about the same number awarded the winners of states like Illinois or stanley cups uk Pennsylvania.This is obviously something to be concerned about, since reliably-blue California would normally award all 55 of its electoral votes to the Democratic candidate. Under the Hiltachk plan the Democrat would stanley termoska probably get only 30-35 or so.But I wouldn t panic over this yet. If the powers-that-be decide to fund the signature gathering, they can probably get this thing on the ballot stanley kubek . But Californians have a pretty serious case of initiative fatigue these days, and not many initiatives pass. What s worse for Republicans, that is , it s nearly impossible to pass a blatantly partisan initiative. It s hard to think of the l mtaw Biden picks up New Hampshire endorsements ahead of campaign stop - Jeaoneuntor - 11-16-2024 Ifqd David McCormick files lawsuit over counting mail ballots in Pennsylvania Senate race KalamazooBernie Sanders spent the day campaigning in Michigan, pus stanley us hing back against Hillary Clinton s assertion that he did not support the auto bailout and trying to encourage supporters to vote in Tuesday s primary. Secretary Clinton went out of her way to mischaracterize my history as it relates to the 2008 auto industry bailout, he said to a crowd of 3,200 in Kalamazoo. He was referring to the debate in Flint, Michigan Sunday night when Clinton said that Sanders voted to oppose saving the auto industry and she voted for it. He voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. I think that is a pretty big difference, Clinton said during the debate. Sanders did vote against the $700 billion federal bailout program, which included money sent directly to the auto industry as well as the big banks, but he had been on the record in supporting funds that would help prop up the auto industry as a separate measure. He did support a $14 billion aid package which passed the House in December of 2008, but it was not able to pass in the Senate. Sanders referenced that vote.Democratic debate: Background on the auto bailout There was one vote in the Unit stanley cup ed States Senate to support the automobile industry and, of course, I voted for it. To say oth stanley thermos erwise is simply not telling the truth, he said. The crowd responded positively when Sanders pressed his support of the auto bailout, but not everyone thought that he Mstq Rumor Watch President Bush on Wednesday called ex-Rep. Mark Foley s approaches to House male pages disgusting and backed Speaker Dennis Hastert s efforts to learn how officials handled the problem.Mr. Bush s remarks at a White House news conference came as Peggy Sampson, supervisor of the page program, was questioned before the House ethics committee. The panel is not only investigating Foley s inappropriate and sometimes salacious electronic messages to former pages, but whether House officials covered up Foley s come-ons.Sampson would not comment to reporters after the more than two-hour closed session. The unique page program allows high schoolers, sponsored by their congressman, to attend classes in the congressional page school and work for legislators as errand-runners. Asked about the scandal, Mr. Bush said, This is disgusting behavior when a member of Congress betrays the trust of the Congress a stanley flask nd the family that sent a young page to serve. And he defended Hastert, who said he first learned of the approaches in late September. I think the speaker s strong statements have made it clear to not only the party ... but to the country that he wants to find out the facts, Mr. Bush said. Denny is very credible as far as I m vaso stanley concerned stanley thermoskannen . He s done a fine job as speaker. Foley sent e-mails and instant messages, some of them sexually explicit, to male pages after they left the program.A four-member investigative panel of the evenly divided hwex Trump indicates he may sign a new travel ban - Jeaoneuntor - 11-16-2024 Mnmr Federal court to hear argument in Aaron Schock appeal Washington mdash;Tributes continue to pour in from former presidents, congressional leaders and other elected officials for civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who died Friday at the age of 80. Lewis, who served in Congress for more than t stanley bottles hree decades, had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He said in December when announcing his diagnosis he had never faced a fight quite like the one I have now. Former President Obama praised Lewis for his gentleness and humility and said the Georgia congressman lived to see his legacy play stanley mugs out before him in a meaningful, remarkable way. He loved this country so much that he risked his life and his blood so that it might live up to its promise, Mr. Obama said in a statement. And through the decades, he not only gave all of himself to the cause of freedom and justice, but inspired gene stanley cup rations that followed to try to live up to his example. Lewis, Mr. Obama said, believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity for great courage, a longing to do what s right, a willingness to love all people, and to extend to them their God-given rights to dignity and respect. And it s because he saw the best in all of us that he will continue, even in his passing, to serve as a beacon in that long journey towards a more perfect union, Mr. Obama said.Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that with Lewis passing th Xiff Sen. Tim Scott says he s confident tax plan will pass by Thanksgiving ATLANTA - The Justice Department has stanley cup appealed a judge s ruling that struck down the federal overhaul of the health care system, the Obama administration s signature legislation.In its appeal, the Justice Department said the federal health care overhaul s core requirement to make virtually all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties is constitutional because Congress has the authority to regulate interstate business.The government s 62-page motion filed Friday to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals argued that Congress had the power to enact the overhaul s minimum coverage requirements because it is a rational means of regulating the way participants in the health care market pay for their services. The motion also warned that other pieces of the overhaul, including a law that blocks insurers from denying coverage to people because of pre-existing conditions, would be unworkable without a minimum coverage provision.Twenty-six states filed a stanley thermobecher lawsuit that said Congress had exceeded its authority by mandating tha stanley water jug t all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Florida, a Republican appointee, agreed in a Jan. 31 ruling that said President Barack Obama s entire health care overhaul is unconstitutional. It is considered the most sweeping ruling against the health care law. Vinson ruled against the overhaul on grounds that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring nearly all nzgp Would A 2007 Recession Clinch 2008 For The Democrats - Jeaoneuntor - 11-16-2024 Kwjw No Love For California Supreme Court Decision The warnings around Nikolas Cruz seemed to flash like neon signs: expelled from school, fighting with classmates, a fascination with weapons and hurting animals, disturbing images and comments posted to social media, previous mental health treatment.In Florida, that wasn t enough for relatives, authorities or his schools to request a judicial order barring him from possessing guns.Only five states have laws enabling family members, guardians or police to ask judges to temporarily strip gun rights from people who show warning signs of violence. Supporters of these measures, deemed red flag la stanley uk ws or gun-violence restraini stanley shop ng orders, say they can save lives by stopping some shootings and suicides. Florida, where Cruz is accused of using an AR-15 assault weapon to kill 17 people at his former high school, lacks such a law. He was able to legally own the semi-automatic rifle, even though his mot stanley cup her, classmates and teachers had at times described him as dangerous and threatening, and despite repeated police visits to his home.Red flag legislation has been introduced by Democratic state lawmakers, but it hasn t been heard during this year s session, and its fate is uncertain in a state Legislature controlled by Republicans who generally favor expanding gun rights. After Wednesday s shooting, Republican Gov. Rick Scott said he will work to make sure people with mental illnesses don t have access to guns, but offered no specifics. Florida Hert President Trump s infrastructure plans: off the charts Just leave. That s the unmistakable message that s been delivered to Hillary Clinton by the media and even some Democrats since Barack Obama sealed enough delegates to become the pre stanley trinkflaschen sumptive nominee. Clinton s failure to use her Tuesday night victory sp stanley cup eech she did win South Dakota, after all to flat out end her campaign rankled many who seemed to desperately want to hear two words from her: I quit. It s a measure of the complex relationship America and the Democratic Party has with the Clintons that her inability to do so sparked a flurry of speculation that she might still keep her quest up.Would she really fight the decision on Michigan with the DNC s credentials committee Would she take it all the way to the convention without conceding an inch, try stanley cup nz ing to strip Obama of support one superdelegate at a time Did she have something up her sleeve or know something that nobody else did How much more time does she need to be able to say the person she wants to help is Barack Obama Rep. Charles Rangel, a staunch Clinton supporter, told the Washington Post. I don t know what this intrigue is all about. Of course Clinton didn t help matters when she told a group of supporters Tuesday that she would be open to accepting a spot on the ticket if asked. Before Obama had even reached the delegate threshold, she appeared to be stealing the stage, spurring speculation that she would take her half of the party and use it as l ttgi Congress: File Sharing Leaks Sensitive Government Data - Jeaoneuntor - 11-16-2024 Ngwa Cher compares Donald Trump to Hitler, Stalin at fundraiser The U.S. is preparing for a potential spike in migrant children crossing the southern border without their parents, stanley cup and has identified up to 19,000 beds at shelters and housing sites to prevent these minors from languishing in Border Patrol detention facilities, top Biden administration officials told CBS News.In interviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Cindy Huang, the recently departed director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said officials are working to avoid repeating what occurred in 2021, when a shortage of shelter beds stranded thousands of migrant children in ill-suited Border Patrol and makeshift housing facilities. We have some less stanley mug than 8,700 children in our care. That s down from a high of over 22,000 about a year ago. We ended up finding shelter for those children over the course of a year. And we believe that it has been provided in a safe and humane way, and we understand that there is a constant fluctuation of the number of children we may see transferred to us, Becerra told CBS News Friday. Huang said the refugee office, an HHS agency that cares for unaccompanied minors, has nearly doubled shelter bed space since the start of the Biden administration, expanding it to 11,500 beds. Th stanley cups e office is also operating two makeshift housing sites at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base and a work camp in Pecos, Texas, that can accommodate 4,000 migrant teens and thousands of additional back-up beds.The r Rqys Foreign Buyers Court Congress White House Counsel Al Gonzales has asked more than 100 staff members to complete a questionnaire on communications between the administration and Enron Corp. in the m stanley spain onths leading up to the company s collapse.The White House undertook the survey at the request of Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., chairman of the stanley thermos Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But his spokeswoman said the survey was unacceptable. Lieberman wrote to White House chief of staff Andrew Card on March 27, The rapid collapse of what was once ranked as the nation s seventh largest company demands public scrutiny. His committee plans to probe how regulators acted in the days leading up to the implosion of Enron Corp., the largest U.S. bankruptcy ever, and what might have been done to avert it. Before its spectacular failure, the company spent heavily on lobbying efforts to deregulate electricity markets, to limit efforts to regulate financial derivatives trading and to seek government funds and logistics help for various overseas projects.Lieberman sought information on White House and certain Cabinet agency action regarding Enron dating from just before the end of the first Bush administration in 1992. Lieberman sent similar letters to two Cabinet secretaries and chiefs of agencies dealing with ener vaso stanley gy and shares trading. Gonzales questionnaire fell far short of what Lieberman sought.Lieberman wanted identities of people who initiated meetings with Enron officials, Garj Obama Launches Fundraising Blitz The House stanley cup Oversight Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to subpoena Carl Kline, the former director of personnel security at the White House, as part of its investigation into the White House security clearance process. And the committee also voted in favor of subpoenas for documents and records from Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, said after the vote that he wants to talk to Kline about the decisions to overrule career officials who had rejected dozens of White House security clearances. Cummings said he wants to determine whether this was a decision on this part mdash; a decision on the president s part mdash; but more significantly, why that decision was made. I just don t know. The committee vote came after a whistleblower and longtime White House security advisertold members of Congressthat she and her colleagues had denied dozens of security clearance applications that were then issued an stanley cup yway. Whistleblower says White House security clearances given despite rejections 02:48 Tricia Newbold, who adj stanley flasche udicated security clearances for the office, told the House Oversight Committee that decisions on clearance applications for White House of Iwah Did Hillary Clinton s private email servers jeopardize Obama By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blogPresident Obama s profligate spending habits are starting to look an awful lot like his predecessor s, and that s not good. Here, for example, are three things the president did yesterday. These are three things that simply cannot be done simultaneously with a straight face:First, the President expressed outrage over the horrendous abuse of government bailo kubki stanley ut money by insuran stanley cup price ce giant AIG--the same issue that has the rest of official Washington zooming off into outer space: President Obama vowed to pursue every legal avenue to block these bonuses. But that pledge might have came too stanley cup becher late. About $165 million in retention payments went out Friday to employees at Financial Products, after numerous discussions with the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve. Problem with his outrage is, the government funds were used as bonuses on Mr. Obama s watch. President Obama could legitimately object to $165 million in wasteful government spending if he weren t simultaneously in the process of committing waste on a much grander scale.Obama s budget proposes a $1.75 trillion deficit to lift the country out of recession and lay the groundwork for healthcare reform and other big initiatives. Republicans and some conservative Democrats are concerned about the record spending...And the President cannot be all things to all people, expanding funding for a wide variety of programs at the same time. dvxc U.S. Seeks to Ban Texting for Some Drivers - Jeaoneuntor - 11-16-2024 Gbwm Colorado Supreme Court weighs 14th Amendment challenge to Trump s eligibility for GOP primary ballot Republicans suddenly find themselves defending two seats in Mississippi this year as they try to maintain their slim majority in the U.S. Senate.Republican Sen. Roger Wicker is already up for re-election in the deeply conservative state. And 80-year-old Republican Sen. Thad Cochran announced Monday that he is resigning April 1 because of poor health.Cochran is just over halfway through a six-year term. Repub stanley termoska lican Gov. Phil Bryant will appoint someone to temporarily succeed Cochran, and a special election will be in November mdash; the same day as the regular election for the stanley italia seat Wicker now holds. The winner of the special election will serve until January 2021. Democrats are running for the Wicker seat, and the open seat is expected to attract several candidates from both parties. Democrat Mike Espy, President Bill Clinton s first agriculture secretary, says he has a strong intention to run. In 1986 he became the first African-American in modern times to win a congressional seat in Mississippi.Cochran s departure s stanley cup et off a scramble within a state Republican Party already struggling to manage a disaffected conservative faction. Chris McDaniel, the outspoken, tea party-backed state senator who came close to defeating Cochran in a bitter 2014 Republican primary, qualified last week to challenge Wicker but said he might jump to the special election if the Cochran seat is open. McDaniel said Monday it is premature to say what he will do Ocsf Trump can be sued for role in January 6 attack on Capitol, federal judge rules AP Photo/Jae C. Hong AnalysisEven as Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead in the delegate count in the race for the Republican nomination, another win in the South for Rick Santorum - this time in Louisiana - highlig stanley cup hts the problems Romney is having appealing to more religious and socially conservative val stanley thermos ues voters below the Mason-Dixon line.In spite of a large win for Romney just a few days ago in Illinois, Rick Santorum won a decisive victory in Louisiana with the support of both men and women of all age groups, conservatives - including those who consider themselves only somewhat conservative - Tea Party supporters, white evangelicals, and nearly half of voters who see the economy as the most important issue in their vote. Full Louisiana GOP primary exit pollAs was the case in his recent wins in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Oklahoma, much of Rick Santorum s support comes from white evangelicals - a group that helped give Mike Huckabee a victory over then-frontrunner John McCain in Louisiana in 2008. This year, evangelicals voted for Rick Santorum over Mitt Romney by more than two to one, 56 percent to 22 percent. Fifty-six percent of Republican voters in Louisiana were white evangelicals, and Mitt Romney has yet to win a primary where they made up more than half of the vote. In addition, 65 percent of voters in Louisiana said they attend religious services at least once a week stanley mug , a |