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With Hillary Clinton set to declare her presidential candidacy on Sunday, the man who thwarted her last bid, President Obama, said Saturday that she d make an excellent commander in chief. She was a formidable candidate in 2008, she was a great supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of state, she is stanley cup my friend, I think she would be an excellent president, the president said during a press conference in Panama at the Summit of the Americas. Hillary Clinton to announce her bid for the presidency 01:48 vaso stanley Asked whether he hopes she campaigns on his record, Mr. Obama said, I m not on the ballot. So I m not going to step on her lines. When she makes a decision to announce, I m confident that she will be very clear about her vision for the country, he added.The president praised Clinton s stewardship of his administration s foreign policy in his first term and said she has a similarly strong track record on domestic policy issues. She s going to have some strong messages to deliver, he predicted. Campaign 2016 More stanley cup Dmsu Republicans Boycott Climate Bill Debate
Apparently three days of debate was enough for what many senators called the most important issue facing the planet. With little chance of winning passage of a sweeping 500-page global warming bill, the Senate Democratic leadership is planning to yank the legislation after failing to achieve the 60 vote threshold needed to move the bill to th stanley quencher e next stage. After a48-36 vote on the climate change bill, the Senate is likely to move on to an energy debate next week.The legislation collapsed for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the poor tim stanley thermobecher ing of debating a bill predicted to increase energy costs while much of the country is focused on $4 a gallon gas. On top of that, a number of industrial state Democrats like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio were uncomfortable with the s stanley thermos trong emissions caps that would have created a new regime of regulations for coal, auto and other manufacturing industries. Republicans, for the most part, held firm against a bill they said would cost billions in regulations while pushing the cost of gas higher. Seven Republicans, mostly moderates, voted for the procedural motion on the legislation while four Democrats voted against it. Democrats did not go into the debate expecting passage of the legislation, but they did celebrate a marginal increase in support for the cap and trade system for emissions that was the centerpiece of the bill. Similar legislation in previous years did not even come close to gettin
With Hillary Clinton set to declare her presidential candidacy on Sunday, the man who thwarted her last bid, President Obama, said Saturday that she d make an excellent commander in chief. She was a formidable candidate in 2008, she was a great supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of state, she is stanley cup my friend, I think she would be an excellent president, the president said during a press conference in Panama at the Summit of the Americas. Hillary Clinton to announce her bid for the presidency 01:48 vaso stanley Asked whether he hopes she campaigns on his record, Mr. Obama said, I m not on the ballot. So I m not going to step on her lines. When she makes a decision to announce, I m confident that she will be very clear about her vision for the country, he added.The president praised Clinton s stewardship of his administration s foreign policy in his first term and said she has a similarly strong track record on domestic policy issues. She s going to have some strong messages to deliver, he predicted. Campaign 2016 More stanley cup Dmsu Republicans Boycott Climate Bill Debate
Apparently three days of debate was enough for what many senators called the most important issue facing the planet. With little chance of winning passage of a sweeping 500-page global warming bill, the Senate Democratic leadership is planning to yank the legislation after failing to achieve the 60 vote threshold needed to move the bill to th stanley quencher e next stage. After a48-36 vote on the climate change bill, the Senate is likely to move on to an energy debate next week.The legislation collapsed for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the poor tim stanley thermobecher ing of debating a bill predicted to increase energy costs while much of the country is focused on $4 a gallon gas. On top of that, a number of industrial state Democrats like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio were uncomfortable with the s stanley thermos trong emissions caps that would have created a new regime of regulations for coal, auto and other manufacturing industries. Republicans, for the most part, held firm against a bill they said would cost billions in regulations while pushing the cost of gas higher. Seven Republicans, mostly moderates, voted for the procedural motion on the legislation while four Democrats voted against it. Democrats did not go into the debate expecting passage of the legislation, but they did celebrate a marginal increase in support for the cap and trade system for emissions that was the centerpiece of the bill. Similar legislation in previous years did not even come close to gettin
