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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday that itmay be time for the International Olympic Committee IOC to limit a countryrsquo spend stanley water bottle ing on the Olympic games, given the astronomical cost of the competitioncurrently under way in Sochi, Russia.Romney, whose leadership was credited with rescuing the 2002Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from the brink of financial ruin, saiditrsquo difficult to justify Sochirsquo $50 billion price tag with so much poverty inthe world.You don t need to spend $50 billion, asRussia has or as China did, to p stanley website ut [on] an Olympic sport, Romney said on NBCrsquo Meet the Press. Olympic sport can be demonstrated at $2 billion or $3billion, and all that extra money could be used to do some very importantthings in terms of fighting poverty and fighting disease around the world. stanley cup Sochi Olympics 2014: Most expensive ever due to corruption 02:46 Corruption drives up cost of Sochi Olympics 02:24 That s what we really ought to beusing those resources for as opposed to wasting them in many cases to show offa country, or I think more cynically, to sh Ghuv Obama on Health Reform: I Don t Quit
Republican Rep. Bill Thomas, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announced Monday he will retire from Congress after serving for more than a quarter century.Thomas, 64, made the announcement in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif.His resignation was widely expected b stanley mug ecause, under House Republicans self-imposed term limits for committee chairmen, Thomas can no longer serve after this year as head of the influential Ways and Means Committee. Today I am announcing that I will not seek reelection to the United States Congress, he said.For the past five years, Thomas has played a key role in shepherding President Bush s tax cuts and writing legislation on Medicare, Social Security and pensions. His knowledge of such complicated issues made him indispensable to party leaders, despite complaints that he was difficult to work with and not conservative enough because of s stanley tazas ome votes for abortion rights and gun control.Some colleagues believe Thomas rescued Mr. Bush s tax cut proposal in 2003 after the Senate refused to go along with its initial cost. He was instrumental in securing congressional passage of Mr. Bush s Medicare prescription drug bill and of fast track trade promotion authority.At the same time, his clashes with other lawmakers, usually Democrats, became famous on Capitol Hill. He called out the Capitol police three years ago to break up a meeting of Democrats on his committee, then expressed r stanley cup egret
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday that itmay be time for the International Olympic Committee IOC to limit a countryrsquo spend stanley water bottle ing on the Olympic games, given the astronomical cost of the competitioncurrently under way in Sochi, Russia.Romney, whose leadership was credited with rescuing the 2002Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from the brink of financial ruin, saiditrsquo difficult to justify Sochirsquo $50 billion price tag with so much poverty inthe world.You don t need to spend $50 billion, asRussia has or as China did, to p stanley website ut [on] an Olympic sport, Romney said on NBCrsquo Meet the Press. Olympic sport can be demonstrated at $2 billion or $3billion, and all that extra money could be used to do some very importantthings in terms of fighting poverty and fighting disease around the world. stanley cup Sochi Olympics 2014: Most expensive ever due to corruption 02:46 Corruption drives up cost of Sochi Olympics 02:24 That s what we really ought to beusing those resources for as opposed to wasting them in many cases to show offa country, or I think more cynically, to sh Ghuv Obama on Health Reform: I Don t Quit
Republican Rep. Bill Thomas, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announced Monday he will retire from Congress after serving for more than a quarter century.Thomas, 64, made the announcement in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif.His resignation was widely expected b stanley mug ecause, under House Republicans self-imposed term limits for committee chairmen, Thomas can no longer serve after this year as head of the influential Ways and Means Committee. Today I am announcing that I will not seek reelection to the United States Congress, he said.For the past five years, Thomas has played a key role in shepherding President Bush s tax cuts and writing legislation on Medicare, Social Security and pensions. His knowledge of such complicated issues made him indispensable to party leaders, despite complaints that he was difficult to work with and not conservative enough because of s stanley tazas ome votes for abortion rights and gun control.Some colleagues believe Thomas rescued Mr. Bush s tax cut proposal in 2003 after the Senate refused to go along with its initial cost. He was instrumental in securing congressional passage of Mr. Bush s Medicare prescription drug bill and of fast track trade promotion authority.At the same time, his clashes with other lawmakers, usually Democrats, became famous on Capitol Hill. He called out the Capitol police three years ago to break up a meeting of Democrats on his committee, then expressed r stanley cup egret
