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President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a stanley cup $1.7 trillion government spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The bill includes more aid to Ukraine and funding for his domestic priorities.The White House said Thursday that the bill caps off a year of historic bipartisan progress for the American people. The bill will advance cutting-edge research on cancer and other diseases, make communities safer, deliver for our veterans, prioritize mental health care, improve access to stanley cup high quality health care for Indian country, and strengthen worker protections for pregnant women, the White House said. It also provides the resources needed to support Ukraine, provides the highest funding level for the Violence Against Women Act in history, and takes long overdue action to shore up our democracy a stanley tumbler nd preserve the will of the people by reforming the Electoral Count Act. Mr. Biden is vacationing in St. Croix after spending Christmas at the White House. The White House said Thursday that the bill was delivered to Mr. Biden for his signature on late Wednesday afternoon on a regularly scheduled commercial flight. President Joe Biden arrives at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, late Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The bill was approved last week by the Senate and House of Representatives after a flur Buab The January 6 trial for Guy Reffitt that will set the standard for hundreds to follow
CBS From CBS News Maria Gavrilovic:CHICAGO, IL --Barack Obama delivered a passionate speech on fatherhood today at a south side African American churc stanley cup h, where he called on men to take greater responsibility for their families. He spoke from the pulpit at the Apostolic Church of God, while his wife and two daughters sat with parishioners. We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn t just end at conception. That doesn t make you a father, Obama said to applause and hoots from the parishioners, What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child- any fool can have a child. That s doesn t make you father. It s the co stanley termoska urage to raise a child that makes you a father. Obama, whose father abandoned him when he was two years old, said he understands the difficulties of growing up in a single parent home. He added that his father s absence has taught him how to be a better parent to his two daughters, Sasha and Malia. I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle, that if I could be anything in life, I would stanley cups uk be a good father to my children; that if I could give them anything, I would give them that rock, that foundation, on which to build their lives. He called on parents to instill an ethic of excellence in their children, expecting them to strive for the high goals. While recalling a brief speech that he had given to a graduating class of eighth grade girls, Obama said he was surprised by all t
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As the Senate begins debate on a controversial package of new gun laws, one Democratic political organization is out with a new stanley cups television ad targeting Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for his pro-gun positions, likening his beliefs with an al Qaeda recruitment video.The group, Americans United for Change, is airing a 30-second spot on broadcast television in Lexington, Ky., starting today. The ad buy, which clocks in at stanley cup a modest $5,000, will air on local news Friday evening as well as on a slew of political talk shows this weekend, including CBS Face the Nation and 60 Minutes, as well as Meet the Press and This Week. Most Kentucky residents want background checks for gun sales, but Republican leader Mitch McConnell, is against them, says a narrator in the ad. So who does agree with Mitch stanley thermos mug The ad then features a 2011 al Qaeda recruitment video starring Adam Gadahn, an American-born spokesman for the terrorist organization. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card, Gadahn says in the video. So what are you waiting for The ad then lists a Kentucky phone number for McConnell, and urges them to ask him why he s in such bad company. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 Sqpo Edwards Looks to the Future
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved thenomination of Leon Panetta to be the next Pentagon chief, handinghim a crowded agenda of overseeing the drawdown of U.S. troops inIraq and Afghanistan, tamping down congressional unrest over theLibyan conflict and cutting the budget.Panetta will replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who isretiring June 30 after 4frac12; years on the job through theadministrations of Republican George W. Bush and Democrat BarackObama.Panetta, the CIA director during the successful operation tokill terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, received strong bipartisanpraise as well as a 100-0 vote. Just a home-run choice. The pre stanley cup sident made a very wisedecision, said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.In a statement, Panetta than stanley becher ked the Senate for its strong voteof confidence and promised to ensure that the U.S. maintains thestrongest military in the world. Panetta, 72, a former congressman, chairman of the House BudgetCommittee, one-time director of the Office of Management and Budgetand Bill Clinton s White House chief of staff, faces severalhigh-stakes assignments, starting with Obama s initial withdrawalof U.S. for termo stanley ces from Afghanistan this summer.American troops also are slated to leave Iraq by year s end. AndGates has indicated that he s likely to certify that gays can serveopenly in the military, implementing the new policy.Obama has called for some $400 billion in cuts over the next 12years amid intense bud
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Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., scalded the Obama administrationfor a breach of faith with Americarsquo senior citizens on Saturday, saying the storiesof seniors losing access to their longtime doctors belie the presidentrsquo pledgethat people could keep their doctors un stanley cups uk der his health care reform law.To help pay for his health care law,the president made deep cuts to the successful Medicare Advantage program,which serves nearly 30 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries, Rooney said inthe weekly Republican address on Saturday. Itrsquo a win-win program that givesseniors more control over their care and delivers better value for both themand the taxpayer. But now, because of the presidentrsquo health care law, I mhearing from seniors in my district who have already lost their doctors.In Floridarsquo heartland, seniors are nowforced to drive an hour or more just to see a primary care doctor, let alone aspecialist, a stanley cup nd across the country, millions of seniors are now paying moremoney for fewer choices, less access and far less peace of mind, the FloridaRepublican explained. This goes well beyond a glitch or a pocketbook issue -this is a breach of faith. Rooney, who hails from a South Florida district with a large contingent ofolder Americans, called on the president to develop a plan to address theconcerns of seniors whose regular doct stanley cup ors are no longe Wuhy Hakeem Jeffries launches bid to replace Pelosi as top House Democrat
Dotty Lynch, Beth Lester, Allison Davis, and Allen Alter from the CBS News Political and Campaign 04 Units have the latest political news from Washington and from the trail.Thursday s Headlines*Poll Watch *Campaign Costs Set New Rec stanley cup ord *Candidates in the Battleground: Bush, Kerry, Edwards and Cheney Trail Bytes *Quote of the DayPoll Watch: State by state, poll by poll.National PollsMaristBush-Cheney48Kerry-Edwards47Nader-Camejo1Undecided4Poll conducted October 17 through 19 among 772 likely voters, margin of error plus or minus 3.5 percent. Zogby Bush-Cheney46Kerry-Edwards45Nader-Camejo1Undecided6Poll conducted October 18 through 20 among 1,212 likely voters, margin of error plus or minus 2.9 pe stanley quencher rcent.Washington Post/ABCBush-Cheney50Kerry-Edwards47N stanley botella ader-Camejo1Undecidednot reportedPoll conducted from October 17 through 19 among 1,248 likely voters, margin of error is plus or minus 3 percent.Pew Research CenterBush-Cheney47Kerry-Edwards47Nader-Camejo1Undecidednot reportedPoll conducted from October 15 through 19 among 1,070 likely voters, margin of error plus or minus 3.5 percent. State PollsCaliforniaLos Angeles TimesBush-Cheney40Kerry-Edwards58Nader-Camejonot on the ballotUndecided2Poll conducted October 14 through 18 among 925 likely voters, margin of error plus or minus 3 percent. ColoradoMason-DixonBush-Cheney49Kerry-Edwards43Nader-Camejo1Undecided7Poll conducted October 14 through 16 among 625 likely voters, mar
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LOS ANGELES -- John V. Tunney, whose successful campaign for a California seat in the U.S. Senate became the basis for the 1972 Robert Redford film The Candidate, has died. He was 83. Tunney died of prostate cancer Friday at a home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, his brother, Jay Tunney, told The Associated Press. Tunney was among the youngest people elected to the U.S. Senate in the past century when he won his seat in 1970 at age 36. He then became one of the youngest in recent history to lose a Senate seat when he was defeated after just one term. The charismatic young Democrat, who was often compared to the Kennedy broth stanley tumbler ers, had to quiet some of his idealism and swing to the center to beat the 68-year-old Republican incumbent George Murphy in 1970.Director Michael Ritchie worked on Tunney s campaign, and the stanley tumblers story of competing generations and the machinations of elections was perfect fodder for the political-minded Hollywood of the day. Redford took on the role of Bill McKay, based on Tunney. The film was a commer stanley water bottle cial and critical success, winning an Academy Award for screenwriter Jeremy Larner. Tunney was born in New York the son of Connecticut socialite Polly Lauder Tunney and boxer Gene Tunney, the 1920s heavyweight champion whose two victories over Jack Dempsey were among the most renowned fights of the 20th century. Gene Tunney was insistent that his sons pursue professions other than boxing. He was very str Ckdn Reid Gets New Five-year Term For his Guy On The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Rick Perry is no legal scholar, and he ll be the first one to tell you. I wish I could tell you I knew every Supreme Court case. I don t. I m not a lawyer, Perry said on Thursday in response to an audience question about Lawrence v. Texas, a landmark 2003 Supreme Court case cheered by gay rights advocates because it struck down sodomy laws in Texas and invalidated them in other states across the country. The case began shortly before Perry became Texas lieutenant governor and was heard and decided by the Supreme Court after he had become governor.He clarified to a reporter after the event that he didn t know what the case was. I m not taking the bar exam, he said. In his book, Fed Up!, Perry slamm stanley cup ed the decision, citing it among a handful of big cases in which Texans have a different view of the world than do the nine oligarchs in robes. stanley cup After being asked about the case, Perry pivoted to talking about government spending. We can set here and you know, play `I gotcha questions on what about this Supreme Court case or whatever, but let me tell you, you know and I know the p stanley cup roblem in this country is spending in Washington, D.C., it s not some court case. He called for the people to elect a president who would appoint strict constructionist
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Sowing further discord in the Republican Party, GOP nomin stanley tumblers ee Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won t endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain in their respective upcoming primaries. I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country, Trump told the Washington Post in an interview. We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I m just not quite there yet. I m not quite there yet. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell condemn Trump s f stanley cups uk eud with Khan family 07:39 stanley cup Trump s wording with regards to Ryan is very similar to the way Ryan reacted to Trump winning the nomination back in May: asked in an interview with CNN the week Trump had effectively wrapped up the GOP primary, Ryan said he was not ready to endorse Trump. I m not there yet, he said. Ryan ultimately endorsed Trump a few weeks later, in early June. Ryan is facing a primary challenge from fellow Republican Paul Nehlen, whom Trump thanked and praised on Twitter Monday. That primary is Aug. 9. As for McCain, Trump insisted in the interview that he s never endorsed the longtime Arizona senator. McCain is facing a three-way race in his Aug. 30 Senate primary, including from state Sen. Kelli Ward. I ve never been there with John McCain because I ve always felt th Gqvc U.S. prepared to restart Remain in Mexico border policy in November
The tea party movement has seemingly been at odds with the Republican Party since the party s elect stanley canada oral losses last November, as the GOP seeks to broaden its appeal with voters, but that apparent schism was hardly noticeable in the two conservative responses to President Obama s State of the Union address.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaking for the tea party, delivered essentially the same message that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did in his official Republican response: They charged that Mr. Obama is interested in growing government and increasing taxes, to the detriment of the struggling economy. President Obama believes that government is the solution, Paul said in his response, sponsored by the Tea Party Express. What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith. stanley quencher Rubio similarly said Mr. Obama s solution to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more... [but] more government isn t going to create more opportunities. It s going to limit them. Rubio: More government breeds more problemsIs the Republican Party headed toward civil war Complete coverage: The State of the Union 2013Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, said in a statement, It should be no surprise that the GOP response mirrored so closely to the Tea Party response. Like Senator Paul, Senat stanley water jug or Marco Rubio has proven to be a bold Tea Partier that s leading the Republican Party back to its conservative principles. Tonight
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HOUSTON -- A federal judge in Texas late Tuesday kept a temporary hold on President Obama s executive action that sought to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, rejecting a U.S. Department of Justice request that he allow the action to stanley cups go ahead.U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville refused to lift the preliminary injunction he granted on Feb. 16 at the request of 26 states that oppo stanley tumblers se Mr. Obama s action.Hanen s latest ruling confirms the status stanley cups quo - that the Obama administration is temporarily barred from implementing the policies that would allow as many as 5 million people in the U.S. illegally to remain. The Justice Department had already appealed to a higher court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, to lift Hanen s injunction. The appeals court was scheduled to hear arguments on whether the injunction should be lifted on April 17.In his order Tuesday denying the government s request, Hanen said the government hasn t shown any credible reason for why this Directive necessitates immediate implementation. There was no immediate comment from the White House.The coalition of 26 states, led by Texas, filed the lawsuit to overturn Mr. Obama s executive action, arguing that it is unconstitutional and would force them to invest more in law enforcement, health care and education.Justice Department attorneys have argued that keeping the temporary hold harms the interests of the public and of th Ybai Labor Unions Denounce Senate Health Bill
CBS From CBS News Fernando Suarez: LOUISVILLE, KY. ndash; Even though he threw his support behind her Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton said today that Ted Kennedy is probably the most effective single Senator that our country has ever seen. Clinton s comments came just hours after news that Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Originally, the Clinton campaign had issued a simple paper statement: Ted Kennedy s courage and resolve are unmatched, and they have made him one of the greatest legislators in Senate hi garrafa stanley story. Our thoughts are with him and Vicki and we are praying for a quick and full cups stanley recovery. But perhaps prompted by the on-camera reactions from Barack Obama and John McCain, the campaign quickly e-mailed the five major networks, alerting them that Clinton would give an on-camera statement regarding Kennedy. In her televised statement, Clinton was impassioned about her feelings toward her Senate colleague. He s a fighter. There isn t anybody like him. He gets up and goes out and does battle on behalf of all of us every single day. And I know he s a fighter when it comes to the chall stanley canada enges he s facing right now. There s never been anybody like him in the Senate, Clinton said. And just as he has fought year after year to try to make the changes that will benefit our nation and the world, I know that he s going to fight with all of his might, supported by his wonderful wife Vicki and his entire family,
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This article origi stanley becher nally appeared on Slate.At the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on Monday, President Obama and other world leaders participated in a hypothetical exercise playing out what they would do if stanley cup terrorists gained nuclear weapons. The event was secret because the leaders were developing actual protocols for this eventuality, but none of the leaders refused to participate on the grounds that it was a hypothetical. We are in the middle of a renewed conversation about American foreign policy. Whether a president s perceived strength or weakness invites aggression from other countries is open for debate again in a way that it hasn t been since the Iraq invasion. As we evaluate the candidates hoping to succeed the president in 2017, the NSS exercise offers an excellent model for actually learning about how a candidate thinks and stanley cup acts. In fact, American politics would be much better off if hypothetical, role-playing scenarios replaced rhetorical claims about strength and weakness. Candidates hate hypothetical questions, which is why we know that more hypotheticals would improve politics. As Michael Kinsley wrote, by labeling a question as hypothetical, politicians and government officials feel they are entitled to duck it without looking like they have something to hide. They even seem to want credit for maintaining high standards by keeping this virus from corrupting the political discussion. But you can t duck hypothet Sqvf Feinstein s health issues were more extensive than previously known
Pete Souza Following yesterday s inaugural festivities, President Obama arrived in the Oval Office at 8:35 AM this morning. He spent 10 minutes alone in the office, according to White House Pre stanley cup ss Secretary Robert Gibbs.Mr. Obama read the note left to him by his predecessor, former President Bush. The note was contained in an envelope marked To: 44, From: 43. Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff, entered the Oval Office at 8:45 to discuss the day s events. Roughly 25 minutes later, first lady Michelle Obama entered the room.At 10:00, Mr. Obama attended the National Prayer Service, which lasted an hour and a half. Pete Souza Also this morning, Mr. Obama placed phone calls to four Middle Eastern leaders: President Mubarak of Egy stanley cups uk pt, Prime Minister Olmert of Israel, King Abdullah of Jordan, and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. The White House press office says the president used this opportunity on his first day in office to communicate his commitment to active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace from the beginning of his term, and to express his hope for their continued cooperation and leadership. In the aftermath of the Gaza conflict, he emphasized his determinat stanley cup ion to work to help consolidate the ceasefire by establishing an effective anti-smuggling regime to prevent Hamas from rearming, and facilitating in partnership with the Palestinian Authority a major reconstruction effort for Palestinians in Gaz
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Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams said Tuesday that she felt chastised and insulted in the summer of 2020 while enduring questions about her capacity to handle the job of the Vice Pres stanley cup ident of the United States when then-candidate Joe Biden was considering choosing her as his running mate. Abrams spoke to author N.K. Jemison on the first day of the South by Southwest festival, which is being held virtually this year. I was chastised for refusing to demur and pretend that I didn t have the capacity to do the job because I didn t have the title and the positions that people were used to seeing have, Abrams said, adding that she was asked a question very few people must contend with. There were all these insults as opposed to looking at the fundam stanley uk ental question. I was asked the question white men don t get asked, are you qualified Abrams said. The former Georgia House minority leader said there is absolutely a discomfiture in society with the audacity of people of color thinking we belong in spaces and declaring we deserve to have access. In 2018, Abrams lost the race for Georgia s governor t botella stanley o Republican Brain Kemp by less than 55,000 votes. She said the blockage of so many thousands of voters certainly had an impact on the outcome and jokingly referred to the trajectory of her career as an asymptote of success. I get really, really close to crossing the line, but never quite getting over it, Abrams said. She noted t Fhso Feds Deny Reports Of Hastert Probe
Congressional Democrats have returned to Washington vowing to battle President Bush on Iraq, Social Security, the federal budget deficit and other important issues.The Republican election sweep again gave them th stanley mugg e White House and strengthened the GOP hold on Congress, but members of the minority party do not appear to hav stanley cup price e lost their taste for combat with the GOP.The party s defeated presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, appeared to be saying that the glass was just a little less than half full. Fifty-four-plus-million Americans voted for health care, they voted for energy independence, they voted for unity in America, they voted for stem cell research, they voted for protecting Social Security, Kerry said.President Bush received 59.5 million votes to Kerry s 55.9 milli stanley cup on in claiming a second term. House Democratic leaders said they want to hold Republicans more accountable, starting with a vote on raising the $7.4 trillion ceiling.Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said her party wants to highlight, when Congress reconvenes next week, how the legal limit on the national debt has risen $2.1 trillion under the Bush administration. The president won t be able to blame anybody for this and other problems, the California Democrat said. Because the Republicans have full control. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders said they would cooperate with the administration when possible, but would strongly oppose such White House proposals as
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CBS News Live Video Live Embattled National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is the keynote speaker for a Holocaust Memorial event on violence in Syria Thursday, as his job is in jeopardy.McMaster said Russia is complicit in the atrocities the U.S. believes have been committed by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.Sources have told CBS News chief White House correspondent earlier this stanley cup month that McMaster is in real jeopardy of losing his job. On Thursday, in an Oval Office meeting with the Irish prime minister, Mr. Trump called st stanley cup ories of upcoming staff changes very false, but also said there will always be change. The last month has already seen the departures or announced departures of communications director Hope Hicks, Secretary of State Rex Till stanley drinking cup erson and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn. The story was very false, Mr. Trump said Thursday. They wrote a story about staff changes and it was very false. hellip; Mike Pompeo is going to be an incredibly secretary of state. We have some wonderful ideas. There will always be change, but very little, the president added. It was a very false story. A very exaggerated and false story. But there will always be change. And I think you want to see change. I want to also see different ideas. More from CBS News Tiay Ted Cruz: Super Tuesday is best opportunity to beat Donald Trump
Updated at 11:55 a.m. Eastern.The House Democratic Caucus has voted to reject President Barack Obama s tax deal with Republicans in its current form.By voice vote, the rank and file Democrats passed a resolution Thursday that said the tax package should not come to the floor of the House for consideration. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., introduced stanley thermos mug the resolution. Said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas: If it s take it or leave it, we ll leave it. Earlier in the day, it appeared congressional Democrats were slogging their way toward acceptance of President Obama s tax cut compromise, which would let rich and poor Americans keep Bush-era tax cuts that were scheduled to expire this month. After Obama publicly defended the plan for a third day Wednesday, and Vice President Joe Biden met with Democratic lawmakers in the Capitol for a second day, several Democrats predicted the measure will pass, mainly because of extensive Republican support.Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., predicted the tax cut compromise will be passed by virtually all the R stanley cup epublicans and a minority of Democrats. He said he would vote against it. Dems Still Resisting Obama Tax Deal Obama Defends Tax Cut Deal with RepublicansEven a stanley cup mong Democrats, there s more support in the caucus than there appears, Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia told reporters after he and fellow Democrats met with Biden. I think some people felt they had to vent. Obama said more congressional
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