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In a funding spat that could effectively shut down the Department of Homeland Security DHS , House Republicans don t appear to be backing down from a fight. House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday he s even readying himself for it. The House has acted, the speaker said on FOX News Sunday. We ve done our job. Senate Democrats are the ones putting us in this precarious position. It s up to Senate Democrats to get their act together. When asked if the Speaker was prepared for the DHS to run out of financing, Boehner responded: Certainly. The House has acted. We ve done our job. W stanley italia hite House presses Congress on homeland security funding 01:08 The bill, which would provide the Department of Homeland Security with necessary operating funds, is contingent on obstructing President Obama s recent executive actions on immigration. While a bill has passed the house, Senate Democrats have blocked it several times. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded with a scath stanley cups ing statement to Boehner s press appearance. With only four legislative days left until the Republican Homela stanley cup nd Security Shutdown, Speaker Boehner made it clear that he has no plan to avoid a government shutdown that would threaten the safety of the American people, Pelosi s office said in a state Yfjq Condoleezza Rice: Russian asylum for Snowden is a slap in the face to U.S.
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ETAs Democrats continue to deliberate their approach to energy and climate change policy, Republicans are pushing their own proposals for a different, more incremental course -- including a plan to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.The Senate is debating today a resolution from GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska that would stop the Obama administration s EPA from regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA was obligated to decide whether carbon gas an stanley website d other greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and that the EPA has authority to regulate emissions. Murkowski and many other lawmakers, however, argue regulating emissions is the u stanley mugs nder the purview of Congress.President Obama has said it would be preferable for Congress to pass climate change and energy legislation to regulate emissions but that the EPA should regulate emissions if Congress fails to act. The administration issued a statement of policy promising a veto of Murkowski s bill if it passes. The bill, the statement says, would undermine the administration s efforts to reduce the negative impacts of pollution and the risks associated with environmental catastrophes, like the ongoing stanley mug BP oil spill. However, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell charged that the administration opposes the bill because, now that it s clear Congress won t pass th
Blch Obama Very Confident In New Rescue Plan
Hillary Clinton narrowly leads Donald Trump in North Carolina, according to a Monmouth University survey released Wednesday. The poll found Clinton leads Trump by just2 percentage points -- 44 percent to 42 percent. Seven percent of likely voters in North Carolina said they support Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1 percent named another candidate. Six percent said they are undecided. Forty-four percent of North Carolinarsquo independent voters said they back Trump while only 30 percent said they support Clinton. Fifteen percent of independents said they support Johnson. Just over 90 percent of Democrats said they support Clinton for preside stanley cups nt while 86 percent of Republicans said they back the GOP presidential nominee.The survey found Trump leads Clinton among both white men and white women but is trailing Clinton among white voters with college degrees. As for the statersquo Senate race, GOP incumbent Sen. Richard Burr narrowly leads his Democratic challenger, Deborah Ross, by only 2 percentage points -- 45 percent to 4 stanley cup 3 percent. The poll found that a majority of voters, 55 percent, disa stanley website pprove of the statersquo controversial law that prohibits local governments from allowing for transgender public bathrooms. Thirty-six percent, by contrast, approve of the law.In June, a CBS News battleground tracker poll found that 44 percent of North Carolina voters supported Clinton and 42 percent backed Trump. An NBC News/Wall Street Jou Yoqt Barney Frank: Chance now for stronger bank rules
The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls without court orders than the Bush administration ha stanley fr s acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its Web site.The NSA, with help from American telecommunications companies, garrafa stanley obtained access to streams of domestic and international communications, said the Times in the report late Friday, citing unidentified current and former government officials.The story did not name the companies. Since the Times disclosed the domestic spying program last week, President Bush has stressed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al Qaeda.But the Times said that NSA technicians have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might lead to terrorists. The volume of information harvested from telecommunications data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the paper said, quoting an unnamed official.The story quoted a former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm as saying that companies have been storing information on calling patterns since the Sept. 11 attacks, and giving it to the federal government. Neither the manager nor the compan stanley quencher y he worked for was identified.Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said the use of warrantless wiretaps on American citizens was never di
In a funding spat that could effectively shut down the Department of Homeland Security DHS , House Republicans don t appear to be backing down from a fight. House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday he s even readying himself for it. The House has acted, the speaker said on FOX News Sunday. We ve done our job. Senate Democrats are the ones putting us in this precarious position. It s up to Senate Democrats to get their act together. When asked if the Speaker was prepared for the DHS to run out of financing, Boehner responded: Certainly. The House has acted. We ve done our job. W stanley italia hite House presses Congress on homeland security funding 01:08 The bill, which would provide the Department of Homeland Security with necessary operating funds, is contingent on obstructing President Obama s recent executive actions on immigration. While a bill has passed the house, Senate Democrats have blocked it several times. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded with a scath stanley cups ing statement to Boehner s press appearance. With only four legislative days left until the Republican Homela stanley cup nd Security Shutdown, Speaker Boehner made it clear that he has no plan to avoid a government shutdown that would threaten the safety of the American people, Pelosi s office said in a state Yfjq Condoleezza Rice: Russian asylum for Snowden is a slap in the face to U.S.
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ETAs Democrats continue to deliberate their approach to energy and climate change policy, Republicans are pushing their own proposals for a different, more incremental course -- including a plan to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.The Senate is debating today a resolution from GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska that would stop the Obama administration s EPA from regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA was obligated to decide whether carbon gas an stanley website d other greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and that the EPA has authority to regulate emissions. Murkowski and many other lawmakers, however, argue regulating emissions is the u stanley mugs nder the purview of Congress.President Obama has said it would be preferable for Congress to pass climate change and energy legislation to regulate emissions but that the EPA should regulate emissions if Congress fails to act. The administration issued a statement of policy promising a veto of Murkowski s bill if it passes. The bill, the statement says, would undermine the administration s efforts to reduce the negative impacts of pollution and the risks associated with environmental catastrophes, like the ongoing stanley mug BP oil spill. However, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell charged that the administration opposes the bill because, now that it s clear Congress won t pass th
Blch Obama Very Confident In New Rescue Plan
Hillary Clinton narrowly leads Donald Trump in North Carolina, according to a Monmouth University survey released Wednesday. The poll found Clinton leads Trump by just2 percentage points -- 44 percent to 42 percent. Seven percent of likely voters in North Carolina said they support Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1 percent named another candidate. Six percent said they are undecided. Forty-four percent of North Carolinarsquo independent voters said they back Trump while only 30 percent said they support Clinton. Fifteen percent of independents said they support Johnson. Just over 90 percent of Democrats said they support Clinton for preside stanley cups nt while 86 percent of Republicans said they back the GOP presidential nominee.The survey found Trump leads Clinton among both white men and white women but is trailing Clinton among white voters with college degrees. As for the statersquo Senate race, GOP incumbent Sen. Richard Burr narrowly leads his Democratic challenger, Deborah Ross, by only 2 percentage points -- 45 percent to 4 stanley cup 3 percent. The poll found that a majority of voters, 55 percent, disa stanley website pprove of the statersquo controversial law that prohibits local governments from allowing for transgender public bathrooms. Thirty-six percent, by contrast, approve of the law.In June, a CBS News battleground tracker poll found that 44 percent of North Carolina voters supported Clinton and 42 percent backed Trump. An NBC News/Wall Street Jou Yoqt Barney Frank: Chance now for stronger bank rules
The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls without court orders than the Bush administration ha stanley fr s acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its Web site.The NSA, with help from American telecommunications companies, garrafa stanley obtained access to streams of domestic and international communications, said the Times in the report late Friday, citing unidentified current and former government officials.The story did not name the companies. Since the Times disclosed the domestic spying program last week, President Bush has stressed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al Qaeda.But the Times said that NSA technicians have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might lead to terrorists. The volume of information harvested from telecommunications data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the paper said, quoting an unnamed official.The story quoted a former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm as saying that companies have been storing information on calling patterns since the Sept. 11 attacks, and giving it to the federal government. Neither the manager nor the compan stanley quencher y he worked for was identified.Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said the use of warrantless wiretaps on American citizens was never di
