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Aides to Secretary of State John Kerry have called his trip to the Middle East a listening tour, and i stanley puodelis t s not l stanley becher ikely to be much more than that. Rather than presenting any new grand plan for peace, he ll explore possible avenues that Israelis and Palestinians might take back to the table for the first time in two years. That s the correct play, according to one former American peace negotiator, who said it s critical not to rush into negotiations. If it crashes quickly, you ll be dramatically worse off. The right thing to do is to create more of a basis for a plan, so you have confidence from each side, and reason to believe it s going to lead somewhere. But gaining that confidence is going to be extremely difficult, especially on the Palestinian side. There are very low expectations here - people are perplexed at what he thinks he can do, said Palestinian Rami Khouri, the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University in Beirut.For Khouri, there is an obvious imbalance in any attempt to negotiate. The U.S. does not see them as equals. They see Israel s security as trumping everything else - they won t even talk to you unless you profess full commitment to Israelis security ... For the U.S. to be effective, it has to change its mediating approach to be mor stanley kubek e evenhanded. The jury is still out as to how serious the Obama administration is about actually restarting peace talks, and how real Eopt Election Finally Ends In Alabama
The Treasury Department on Wednesday selected nine investment managers, including BlackRock Inc. and TCW Group, to operate funds that will buy toxic securities from troubled financial institutions.Treasury officials said the program could buy up to $40 billion in distressed assets initially. That s far below the potential $1 trillion stanley hrnek in assets that the stanley cup government originally hoped to take off the banks books through purchases of soured securities and a separate program that would have dealt with bad loans.The program s goals have been scaled back partly because many banks financial situations have improved in recent weeks, reducing their need to sell the troubled securities. The Public-Private Investment Program, or PPIP, will leverage private capital with government subsidies so the investment firms can buy up the soured mortgage-related assets that have made banks reluctant to lend freely to businesses and consumers.Treasury said in a statement that it would invest up $30 billion in the program, matched by $10 billion from the private sector. The nine firms chosen Wednesday will be given up to three months to raise an initial $500 million each to begin participating in the program.The other seven investment firms chosen were: AllianceBernstein LP and its sub-advisers Greenfield Partners LLC and Rialto Capital Management LLC; Angelo, Gordon Co. LP and GE Capital Real Estate; Invesco Ltd.; Marathon stanley mug Asset Management LP; Oakt
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WA stanley cup SHINGTON -- Republicans now in charge of Congress offer their budget blueprint this week with the pledge to balance the nation s budget within a decade and rein in major programs such as food stamps and Medicare.More pressing for many Republicans, however, is easing automatic budget cuts set to slam the military.The chairmen of the House and Senate Budget panels plan to release their budget plans this week - the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday. The nonbinding measure called a budget resolution sets broad parameters on taxes and spending; it requires follow-up legislation later this year to implement its balanced-budget goals, and Republicans are unlikely to take on that task as long as President Barack Obama occupies the Oval Office.GOP pushes Obama on expanded college savings proposalHouse Budget stanley tumblers Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., plan to produce blueprints that would balance the budget within 10 years - without raising tax stanley cup spain es. Instead, they will propose major spending cuts to programs such as Medicare, health care subsidies, food stamps and the Medicaid program for the poor and elderly to produce a budget that s balanced. Such cuts, if actually implemented later, would likely slash spending by $5 trillion or so over the coming decade from budgets that are presently on track to spend almost $50 trillion over that timeframe. Lgos Obama: GOP position on debt limit not sustainable
WASHINGTON - A major donor to President Obama discussed with White House officials a solar energy company that received a half-billion dollar federal loan and later went bankr stanley termosky upt, newly released emails show.The emails released by a House committee appear to contradict repeated assurances by the Obama administrati stanley cups uk on that the donor, George Kaiser, never talked about Solyndra Inc. with the White House.Soly stanley cups uk ndra s name came up at a White House meeting with Kaiser last year at a time when the California company was seeking a second federal loan, after it had already received a $528 million loan in 2009, the emails show. The second loan was not approved. Instead, an investment venture controlled by Kaiser made a private loan that resulted in the firm and other investors moving ahead of taxpayers in line for repayment in case of a default by Solyndra.Video: White House subpoenaed over SolyndraSolyndra warnings came from within gov tFBI raids solar firm that got stimulus cash Solyndra, the first renewable energy company to receive a federal loan under the 2009 stimulus law, declared bankruptcy in September and laid off its 1,100 workers, leaving taxpayers on the hook for more than a half-billion dollars.The company s implosion and revelations that administration officials rushed to complete the loan in time for a September 2009 groundbreaking have become an embarrassment for Obama and a rallying cry for GOP critics of his green energy prog
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Donald Trump Jr. on Friday said that he used a poor choice of words when he said that the media would be warming up the gas chamber if the GOP acted like Hillary Clinton.It was a poor choice of words, but perhaps, but in no wa stanley bottles y, shape or form was I remotely talking about the Holocaust. I wouldnrsquo;t do it. I think thatrsquo disgusting, the GOP presidential nomineersquo son said in an interview on ABCrsquo Good Morning America. Trump Jr. added that the firestorm over his comments confirms there is a media bias against him. He made the original remark in an interview with 120 WPHT radio in Philadelphia on Wednesday, and it went viral Thursday. stanley bottles The Trump kids 16 photos The media has been her number one surrogate in this, he said in the interview. Without the media, this wouldnrsquo;t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. Theyrsquo;ve let her slide on every in-discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, theyrsquo;d be warming up the gas chamber right now. Nazi Germany used gas chambers durin stanley cup g the Holocaust to kill millions o Jbvm Rep. Martha Roby seeking redemption in Alabama runoff
Mitt Romney offered a partial snapshot of his vast personal fortune late Monday, disclosing income of $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million last year -- virtually all of it profits, dividends or interest from i stanley mug nvestments.None came from wages, the primary source of income for most Americans. Instead, Romney and his wife, Ann, collected millions in capital gains from a profusion of investments, as well as stock dividends and interest payments.The couple gave away $7 million in charitable contributions over the past two years, including at least $4.1 million to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Romney s family has for generations been among the Mormon Church s most prominent members. The Romneys sent somewhat less to Washington over that period, paying an es stanley tumbler timated $6.2 million in federal income taxes. According to his 2010 return, Romney paid about $3 million to the IRS, for an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent.See the tax returnsRomney camp seeks to preempt criticism on taxes For 2011, Ro stanley thermos mney estimates that he will pay about $3.2 million, for an effective rate of 15.4 percent. That s in line with his earlier estimates, but sharply lower than the rates paid by President Obama and Romney s closest Republican rival, Newt Gingrich. You ll see my income, how much taxes I ve paid, how much I ve paid to charity, Romney said at a debate Monday night in Tampa. I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dolla
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been having conve stanley mug rsations with the Justice Department about the phony elector scheme put forward by former President Donald Trump s allies, committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said Wednesday.Thompson confirmed a day earlier the committee had been having discussions with the Justice Department. He clarified on Wednesday that those conversations are about a scheme allegedly cooked up by Trump s allies to put forward alternate electors supporting him in seven battleground states that President Joe Biden won. The only issue that we ve engaged them on is stanley france the list of the fraudulent electors that were submitted, Thompson told reporters. That s the first tranche that we ve been talking to them about. stanley shop Thompson said Tuesday night that the committee had shared with the Justice Department information about who we interviewed and what kind of thing pursuant to what they requested. He said the Justice Department had only requested to come look at transcripts, not for transcripts themselves. In the June 21 public hearing, committee member Rep. Adam Schiff said those fake electors ultimately met on Dec. 14, 2020, in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin, signing documents claiming they were duly elected electors from their state.The committee said that GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wanted to hand deliver alternate, frau Nxin Kamala Harris calls teen who went viral for painting portrait of vice president-elect
AP Updated at 7:14 p.m. ET.Negotiations are under way in the Senate to end the stalemate caused by Sen. Jim Bunning R-Ky. over extending unemployment benefits, and the Associated Press reports that Bunning s spokesman now says the senator will permit a vote.Bunning last week blocked legislation that would have, among other things, extended benefits for thousands of unemployed workers, because it was not paid for. He told reporters today that he was willing to hold his ground until we get it settled, CBS News Capitol Hill Producer John Nolen reports. He said, however, a compromise could come as early as today. Bunning could get an opportunity to offer some amendments that would allow for the bill to be paid for, a Senate Republican told Nolen. He could possibly offer an amendment to use stimulus funds to pay for the $10 stanley cup billion bill or an amendment for an across-the-board cut in discretionary spending. Republicans sounded optimistic about the compromise. We re goin stanley quencher g to be able to work out the short-term extension in the very near future and we re in the process of working on that now, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said.Democrats have used Bunning s block to blast Republicans for using every Senate rule available to stall legislation.Senate Majority Leader Harry Rei garrafinhas stanley d said he has not yet received a compromise proposal from Republicans, but he has heard they want to vote on four amendments, Nolen reports. I ve said
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In a rare moment of agreement, both President Obama and House Speaker John stanley mugs Boehner, R-Ohio, believe it shouldn t take a federal law to increase rates of vaccination against the measles in the United States.The issue has been in the news lately as a decline in vaccination levels has led to a measles outbreak across the United States, resulting in more than 100 reported cases of the disease in 14 states. Yesterday, the debate entered the political sphere after New Jersey s Republican governor, Chris Christie, told reporters parents need some measure of choice on the issue depending on the type of disease and vaccination. Other potential presidential contenders have weighed in on both sides of the debate.Asked whether there should be a law requiring parents to vaccinate their children, Boehner told reporters Tuesday, I don t know that we need another law but I do believe that all children ought to be vaccinated. Chris Christie breaks with Obama on vaccinesVaccine politics for 2016Pr stanley cup esident Obama has already weighed in on his feeling about vaccinations, telling parents in an interview w stanley cup spain ith NBC on Sunday, You should get your kids vaccinated. But White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest went further in his briefing Tuesday, telling reporters that Mr. Obama doesn t see the need for legislation on the issue. CDC chief: Vaccines are the b Rqec Bradley To Give Gore A Hand
Vice President Dick Cheney says he s guessing that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still alive, and that capturing him is something the Bush administration clearly stanley tazas would love to do in their last few weeks in office.Bin Laden has escaped capture by the Bush administration since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. Cheney said he and President George W. Bush would have preferred to have gotten bin Laden right after the attacks more than seven years ago. But Cheney says the U.S. has made progress in undermining the al Qaeda network. Speaking in an interview broadcast on Fox News Sunday, the vice president also blamed Congress for failing to b stanley thermobecher ail out the auto industry, saying the White House was forced to step in to save U.S. car companies.Cheney said the economy is in such bad shape that the car companies might not have survived without the $17.4 billion in emergency loans that President Bush approved on Friday. The president decided specifically that he wanted to try to deal with it and not preside over the collapse of the automobile industry just as he goes out of office, Cheney said.Lawmakers had ample opportunity to deal with this issue and they failed, Cheney said. The president had no choice but to step in. Congress rejected an auto bailout package after many Republicans and some Democrats opposed it. Some said U.S. auto companies would be better off if they were required t stanley cup o reorganize through bank
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The following is a full transcript of an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, that aired on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: He has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for almost 40 years and has served seven presidents. Dr. Anthony Fauci is planning to step aside from his day job by the end of the year. He joins us here today. Great to have you here in person again, Dr. Fauci.DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: It s great to be here in person with you, Margaret. Thank you. MARGARET BRENNAN: There is a lot circulating these days and I want to get your medical advice off the top. We have this trifecta of RSV, flu, and COVID. So what are the risks for people congregating this season DR. FAUCI: Well, the risk depends on what your status of vaccination is. We have two of the three of the trifecta that you re talking about, we have vaccinations for clearly COVID, particularly with the updated boosters that are now available. We have vaccinations for influenza, we re already starting to see an early surge of both flu and RSV. We don t have a vaccine for RSV, this, particularly problemati stanley website c for ch stanley cup ildren, five years of age and younger and for the elderly. But there are things you can do with RSV, is avoid congregate settings. And particularly if you have stanley cup a cold or if you have sneezing and stay home, wear a mask, wash Xizp Obama Begins Whistle Stop Tour By Lowering Expectations
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to work for a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations starting from the minute I m sworn into office. In a news conference here before departing for Israel, he said any U.S. i stanley termosky nvolvement in peace talks must recognize not only Israel s security concerns but also the economic hardships facing Palestinians.He said he would continue to regard Israel as a valued ally. That policy is not going to change, he said. What I think can change is the ability of the United States government and a United States president to be actively engaged with the peace process and to be concerned and recognize the legitimate difficulties that the Palestinian people are experiencing right now. Arriving in Jerusalem later Tuesday, Obama said he hoped his administration would strengthen the historic special relationship between the United States and Israel and, citing a Palestinian attack in downtown Jerusalem earlier stanley cup in the day, pledged to work diligently, urgently and in a unified way to defeat terrorism. Obama, in the midst of a weeklong high visibility foreign trek, also acknowledged the long history of Middle East tensions that would confront him if he were to become president. It s unrealistic to expect that a U.S. president alone can suddenly snap his fingers and bring about peace in this region, he said.Obama was in Afghanistan and Iraq stanley cup before arriving in Jordan on Tu
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla that aired Sunday, September 13, 2020, on Face the Nation. Bourla also appeared on Face the Nation on March 13, 2022. Read the full transcript of that interviewhere.MARGARET BRENNAN: One of the companies hard at work on developing a vaccine for COVID-19 is Pfizer, and CEO Albert Bourla joins us now from Westchester, New York. Good morning to you. PFIZER CEO DOCTOR ALBERT BOURLA: Good morning, Margaret.MARGARET BRE stanley cup NNAN: Do you still expect to know by next month if your vaccine is effective DR. BOURLA: Yes, in our base case, we have quite the good- it s more than 60% that we will know if the product works or not by the end of October. But of course that doesn t mean that it works. It means that we will know if it works.MARGARET BRENNAN: And then the time clock starts on government approval, which is a key factor there. I want to ask you about a stanley termoska n announcement from P stanley cup spain fizer yesterday, which was that you re going to expand your vaccine trial to increase diversity. You re going to go from 30,000 people up to 44,000. What do you mean by diversity and what does it do for you DR. BOURLA: Yes, this study has recruited very quickly. So volunteers from all over the country raised their hands to participate. So we are al- almost done with 30,000 people. Now, we feel quite comfortable with the safety of the product. So we want to expand to more vulnerable populati Awwc Clinton Open To VP Nod
It s that time of the decade again. The 2010 U.S. Census will be soon be arriving at your home. In order to encourage participation, the Census Bureau has been undertaking an aggressive advertising campaign, which even included spending $2.5 million to create buzz during the Super Bowl. Now, President Obama is getting in on the act stanley quencher in a new public service announcement which will be distributed online and given to radio and TV stations. Past presidents have made similar calls.A new video on the Census website, aptly titled A 2010 Census Message from President Obama, highlights the importance of the Census and calls for mass participation. stanley cup Beginning with a little history, stanley cups Mr. Obama says, Every ten years, our Constitution requires the Federal Government to conduct a Census. More specifically, the Census has been taking place since 1790 and is mentioned in Article 1 of the Constitution. This helps determine your representation in Congress, as well as how federal funds are spent on things like schools, roads, and where businesses decide to put new stores and factories, he continues. So When you get your Census form in Mid-March, take about ten minutes to answer the ten questions, remembering to include everyone in your household, because we can t move forward until you mail it back, Mr. Obama concludes. While some have criticized the agency s $133 million ad budget, the Associated Press reports that Census Director Robert Gr
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Presidential candidates commonly trot out new tax proposals as part of their campaign platforms, often pledging to help ease the financial stanley uk burden on taxpayers. This year, the plans emerging from rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could affect voters paychecks in very different ways.Former President Donald Trump would seek to extend the tax cuts enacted through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, his signature 2017 legislation that reduced taxes for most Americans, although research has shown the top earners received the biggest stanley cup benefits. He s also proposing to eliminate taxes on tipsand onSocial Security income, while also lowering the corporate tax rate.Vice President Harris has proposed introducing more generous tax benefits for families, as well as hiking the corporate tax rate to help offset spending from bigger tax credits. The two proposals reflect different views of how best to support U.S. families and fuel economic growth. On the one hand, Trump s plan would provide tax cuts for all income groups, but the biggest winners would be higher-income Americans. The greatest benefits under Harris plan would go to the lowest-income Americans, while she would up the taxe stanley cups uk s of the top-earning households. It s true that Trump looks like he s winner for everybody, but he ll provide much bigger giveaways to the top 1% and top 0.1%, whereas Harris will be negative for these people, said Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Mo Ruqg GOP Dirty Tricks Dupe Media
CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. CBS In the aftermath of mass shootings in Tucson, Arizona this month, Americans remain split on the issue of gun control, according to a new CBS News/New York Tim stanley water bottle es poll. The survey finds that Americans have moved slightly in favor of stricter laws in light of the incident, in which six were killed and fourteen wounded when gunman Jared Loughner allegedly opened fire at a political event outside of an Arizona supermarket. The poll finds that 46 percent of Americans think gun laws should be made stricter, while 38 percent want them to stay the same. Thirteen pe cups stanley rcent said they thought gun control laws should be made less strict. In a similar poll conducted in April 2010, 40 percent of Americans thought gun laws should be made tougher, while 42 percent wanted them to stay the same. Sixteen percent wanted them to be made less strict. Public support for a nationwide ban on assault weapons has risen. Sixty-t starbucks stanley cup hree percent of voters said they would support such a ban, up from 54 percent in 2009. Obama Approval Rating Up to 49 PercentPoll: More Want to Keep Health Care Law Than Want to Repeal ItPoll: Most Say Deal With Deficit NowPoll: Americans Remain Split on Gun ControlPoll: Many Want Congress to Focus on Jobs, not Health CareEven those
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Turkey of possible sanctions during a news conference at the White House Friday.He said we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to. At this point, he stanley cup becher said that the U.S. is not activating the sanctions, but the president is providing very significant authorities to impose sanctions.Mnuchin said these are very powerful sanctions, and we hope we don t have to use them. His news conference comes amid an incursion by Turkey into Syria with airstrikes targeting U.S.-backed Kurdi stanley spain sh forces. The United Nations says that 70,000 people in northern Syria have been forced to flee because of the assault. stanley cups uk More from CBS News Why do we have the Electoral College Trump picks Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff Justice Dept., special counsel in talks about how to wind down Trump prosecutions See which states Trump won in the 2024 election that h Atkv It s Back... But Maybe Not For Long
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Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Monday that she intends to seek reelection for Indiana s 5th Congressional District, reversing an announ stanley cup cement a year ago that she would forgo another run. Last February, Spartz said she wanted to spend more time with her family and would not be running in 2024. But the two-term congresswoman now says she doesn t want her work in the Capitol to end in January. It s not particularly common for members to reverse their decisions to step away from Congress. Looking where we are today, and urged by many of my constituents, I do not believe I would be able to deliver this Congress, with the current failed leadership in Washington, D.C., on the important issues for our nation that I have worked very hard on, Spartz said Monday in a stat stanley cup ement. Ukrainian-born Spartz faced a tight and expensive race when she first won in 2020, but secured the suburban seat in 2022 with 61% of the vote following a Republican redistricting plan. As someone who grew up under tyranny, I understand the significance of these challenging times for our Republic, and if my fellow Hoosiers and God decide, I will be honored to continue fighting for them, Spartz said in her statement. The move shakes up the congressional race in which at least nine Republicans have already filed with the Secretary of State to run for Spartz s sea stanley flask t. As of Monday, no Democrats have filed, according to public postings from the Secretary of St Dhqq Arizona Republicans censure Cindy McCain and GOP governor
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his wife Ann. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images As the Romney campaign continues to court women voters, Ann Romney is defending her career as a stay-at-home mom and says she has struggled plenty, even if not financia stanley thermobecher lly. My career choice was to be a mother, she said Thursday in an interview on Fox News. We need to respect choices that women make. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee s wife is in the midst of a firestorm after Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen suggested in an interview with CNN Wednesday that Mitt Romney was unqualified to speak about the kinds of economic issues facing women in America because his knowledge of women s issues comes from his wife, who had not struggled financially the way many women do because she had never worked a day in her life. She should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble, Ann Romney laughed. botella stanley I know what it s like to struggle, and if maybe I haven t struggled as much financially as some people have, I can tell you and promise you, that I ve had struggles in my life, she added.Rosen s co stanley drink bottle mments have sparked an uproar among Republicans, who have called on Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to apologize on Rosen s behalf for the comments, which they re casting as an affront t
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boysrsquo; bathroom at his high school.The justices said Friday they will hear the appeal from the Gloucester County school board sometime next year. The high courtrsquo order means that student Gavin Grimm will not be able to use the boysrsquo; bathroom in the meantime.A lowe stanley cup r court had ordered the school board to accommodate Grimm, but the justices in August put that order on hold while they considered whether to hear the appeal. Grimm, a 17-year-old high school senior, was born female but identifies as male. He was allowed to use the boysrsquo; restroom at his high school for several weeks in 2014. But after some parents complained, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom. Grimm is backed by the Obama administration in his argument that the policy violates Title IX stanley cup , a federal law that bars sex discrimination in schools.I continue to suffer daily because of the school boardrsquo decision to make my bathroom use a matter of public debate, Grimm said in a column published in Fridayrsquo editions of the Washington Po stanley shop st. I feel the humiliation every time I need to use the restroom and every minute I try to l Toqa Congress Ignores WH Veto Challenge Over Fighter Jets
John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday, ordering the cancellation of all but essential opening-day activities as Hurricane Gustav churned toward New Orleans. This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as Americans, he said as fellow Republicans converged on their convention city to nominate him for the White House.President Bush and Vice President Cheney scrapped plans to address the convention on Monday, and McCain s campaign chartered a jet to fly delegates back to their hurricane-threatened states along the Gulf Coast. Campaign manager Rick Davis said the first-night program was being cut from seven hours to two and one half. cups stanley The hasty reordering of an event months in the making underscored not only the risk posed by Gustav, but also an intense desire by McCain and Republicans to avoid the political damage that Mr. Bush suffered from his widely criticized response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.The formal business of the convention includes nominating McCain for president and Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal stanley cup in as his vice presidential running mate on Wednesday. McCain s acceptance speech, set for prime time on Thursday evening, is among the most critical events of the campaign for his chances of winning the White House. If you go out on the convention floor and look around, the slogan of this convention, and the slogan of McCain s campaign, i stanley termosy s Country
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Byron Mallott, the lieutenant governor of Alaska, resigned Tuesday after admitting to making inappropriate comments to an unidentified person. In his resignation letter, Mallot said that the comments put someone I respect and revere in a position of vulnerability. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, an independent locked in a tough three-way reelection battle, accepted the resignation. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services co stanley quencher mmissioner Valerie Nurr araaluk Davidson was then sworn in to replace Mallott.It was not immediately clear what Mallott had said, but Walker likewise called the comments inappropriate. Byron recently made inappropriate comments that do not reflect the sterling level of behavior required in his role as Lieute stanley cup becher nant Governor, the governor said in a statement. I learned of the incident last night. stanley cup Byron has taken full responsibility for his actions and has resigned. In his statement, Mallott apologized to Walker for the comments, which he said have compromised your ability to lead this state. Walker will face Democratic former Sen. Mark Begich and Republican former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy on Election Day this November. 2018 Midterm Elections More Icwg Florida debate s fan controversy has roots in the 1960s
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, Friday, April 13, 2012. AP Photo/Michael Conroy ST. LOUIS, Mo. - In a speech at the National Rifle Association s annual meeting, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to reassure the crowd that he will be a strong defender of gun owners rights and ally concerns among NRA members that he is too moderate. We need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters and sportsmen, and those seeking to protect their homes and their families. President Obama has not. I will, Romney said. And if we are g stanley cup usa oing to safeguard our Second Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or mini stanley botella mizes. stanley cups uk Romney, who has had a rocky relationship with the NRA over the years, did not specifically address Florida s Stand Your Ground law, which is at the center of the Trayvon Martin shooting controversy. He chose to focus much of his speech not on gun ownership rights, but instead on restoring and protecting freedoms through fidelity to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. And he went on the attack against Obama for what he called an assault on freedoms. This president is moving us away from our Founders vision, Romney said
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