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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is slamming members of his party for being hypocritical for passing both tax c stanley mug uts and spending increases. stanley cups Paul s comments on CBS News Face the Nation come just days after President Trump signed a $400 billion budget deal, ending a brief federal government shutdown on Friday that came after Paul held up a key vote in the Senate. I think if you re for tax cuts and for increasing spending that s hypocritical. But if you re for tax cuts and you re also for cutting spending a corresponding amount -- see, I would offset the tax cuts with spending cuts, and there are a few of us that would actually do that, said Paul on Sunday.Paul voted for the tax cut package last year that experts said would add $1.5 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years.Transcript: Sen. Rand Paul on stanley canada Face the Nation, Feb. 11, 2018 I voted for the tax cuts and I voted for spending cuts. The people who voted for tax cuts and spending increases -- I think there is some hypocrisy there and it shows they re not serious about the debt, he added. Paul, who was instrumental in derailing Senate leaders plan to drive the budget agreement quickly through the Senate by repeatedly blocking a Thursday vote, says he thinks lawmakers should draw attention to the fact that we re spending so much money. I m still against deficit spending just because Republicans are doing it doesn t make it any better. The budget agreement reach Bsyj Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann Rally Thousands in Minneapolis
Rep. Paul Broun R-Ga. easily dispatched a veteran Georgia state legislator in Tuesdayrsquo Republican primary, and now is near-guaranteed of returning to Congress for another term. Broun leads Barry Fleming, the Republican state House Majority Whip, by an overwhelming 40-point margin, 70 to 30 percent, and the AP has called the race for Broun. He even carried Flemingrsquo home county Columbia in the Augusta, Georgia suburbs. The degree of Brounrsquo victory was somewhat surprising. Fleming stanley cup raised more money than Broun during the campaign ndash; rare for a primary challenger ndash; and had a greater presence on television as well. Fleming launched a series of scathing attack advertisements against Broun, accusing the libertarian-minded incumbent of being a lone vote against popular legislation. And Broun did not go up on television to respond until the campaignrsquo final week. Brounrsquo resounding victory, though, indicates that Flemingrsquo tou stanley cup gh attacks against Broun failed to stick. His victory may also dissuade future Republican opponents from challenging him on in this heavily Republican northeast Georgia district.Broun scored an improbable upset stanley sverige in last Julyrsquo special election over state Sen. Jim Whitehead, the favorite of the GOP establishment to succeed the late Rep. Charlie Norwood. Just to the south of Brounrsquo district, Rep. John Barrow D-Ga. has defeated state senator Regi

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Top House Republicans hunting votes for their health care overhaul are proposing amendments aimed at providing more help for older people, curbing Medicaid and accelerating the repeal of some tax increases.The bill would let people deduct more medical costs from taxes. And it would move up the repeal of many of the 2010 Obamacare tax increases, eliminating them this year instead of in 2018.Older and disabled Medicaid recipients would get more generous benefits, but states would also be able to impose work requirements on the program. President Trump pushes for his healt stanley cup quencher h care bill 42:41 stanley cups Republican leaders also propose immediately prohibiting additional states from op stanley cup ting into the Obamacare Medicaid program, but they would allow states to opt into traditional Medicaid block grants. The bill would let the Senate approve tax credits more generous to people age 50 to 64. Congressional analysts say the current GOP legislation would hit many with big cost increases.GOP leaders released the changes late Monday, three days ahead of a planned House vote on the bill. More from CBS News Kennedy coul Ohyq Obama takes 2012 fundraising lead with $86M
CBS Updated: 1:19 a.m. ET CBS News As votes rolled in across America stanley tumbler on S caneca stanley uper Tuesday, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich split Republican support between themselves, with Romney and Santorum poised to win several contests each and Gingrich set to win in his home state in Georgia. Click here for Super Tuesday updates.CBS News projects Mitt Romney will w stanley canada in Republican presidential nominating contests in Ohio, Virginia, Idaho, Massachusetts and Vermont. CBS News projects Rick Santorum will win primaries in Tennessee and Oklahoma, as well as the North Dakota caucuses. In Georgia, CBS News projects Newt Gingrich will clinch his first primary victory since South Carolina s January 21 primary contest. In the battleground state of Ohio, where polls closed at 7:30 p.m. ET, the race was neck and neck, with CBS News projecting a slim victory for Romney. There are also caucuses in Alaska. Results are expected later this evening. With voters in ten states selecting their choice to be the Republican presidential nominee and 419 delegates up for grabs, Super Tuesday could be a make-or-break night for the remaining Republican presidential candidates. Complete Republican primary results CBS News estimated Republican delegate scorecardRomney stayed positive in remarks to supporters Tuesday night, saying the campaign was going to get more wins under its belt b

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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough defended theadministrationrsquo foreign policy in Syria and Iran and outlined the next stepsfor the Keystone XL pipeline in a wide-ranging interview Sunday morning.In Syria, justfour stanley bottles perce stanley website nt of the chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed,according to U.S. estimates, which drew condemnation from U.S. Ambassador Robert Mikulak.McDonough said the deal is not falling apart. The U.S. would like to see itproceed much more quickly than it is, he said, and pledged to keep pushingthe issue.But he said it was still important that the Syriangovernment had even acknowledged having a chemical weapons stockpile and agreedto have it dismantled. We re going to make surethat the Syrians live up to their obligations. They have an obligation tothe international community to do exactly what they said they d do,McDonough said, though he declined to say what the U.S. would do if the removalprocess is not sped up.He was also reticent aboutongoing ta stanley cup lks to end Iranrsquo nuclear program, even though the countryrsquo foreignminister, Javad Zarif, said Saturday that the Iranians wouldnot give up research on centrifuges that are used to purify uranium. We ll let ForeignMinister Zarif talk about what he wants to talk about publicly. We llmake clear what we expect from him privately, McDonough said. The presidentis committed to prevent Iran Yrau Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., stands by comment that pregnancy rate very low from rape
U.S. Secretary of Stat stanley cups uk e Hillary Rodham Clinton says a shift in congressional power won t greatly affect U.S. foreign policy goals because politics stops at the nation s borders.Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate for eight years, reminded reporters Wednesday that she was in the Senate minority for six of those years.The morning after elections that gave the GOP control of the House, Clinton said Republicans and Democrats can build coalitions and find allies on issues that are in America s interests. Clinton, who is in the middle of a two-week tour of Asian-Pacific nations, said she will be wo stanley nz rking very hard to get to know the new members of Congress and vowed to work with them. What s Next for Obama and Congress Full Senate ResultsFull House ResultsFull Governor ResultsElection 2010: Winners and LosersThe New House LeadersThe New Senators on the Block termo stanley ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a33f074a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-a33f074a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a33f074a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Donald Trump added a new riff to his campaign speech Tuesday: the lyrics of Al Whiston s song The Snake. In the song, a woman takes care of an injured snake and is then surprised when it bites her. Trump sees the song as a fitting comparison to the U.S. decision to take in Syrian refugees.Trump talks about Syrian refugees stanley vaso after Paris attacks We re the sucker, Trump said as he fixed his thick-rimmed black glasses onto his nose and began reading the song s lyrics aloud. He said he had recently read them on the way to work. A tender-heart stanley cups uk ed woman saw a poor half-frozen snake, Trump said. Take me in, oh tender woman, Trump said of the vicious snake. After the snake bites her, it tells her that she knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in. Hopefully that s not going stanley quencher to be the case, he told the room. But we have no idea what we re doing. No idea who we are taking in. Was Gov. Haley s State of the Union rebuttal a response to Trump 01:49 The song resonated with Kara Baker of Cedar Falls. She s a committed Trump supporter and mother of eight. It was very fitting, especially in the times that we are in, when you have...an influx of people that, you know, your heart goes out to them, Baker said after the rally. They Wgem Bob Schieffer explains how JFK s assassination shaped his career
PEEVES OF THE DAY....With over a century of product design experience behind them, why can t breakfast cereal companies create a box that opens and closes easily There are lots of places where it s natural to stop and ponder which direction you want to go next. These places include the immediate vicinities of doorways, escalators, airport jetways, elevators, etc. However, these are also the places where, if you stop to ponder your options, you re going to automatically be in everyone stanley canada else s way. So how about if we all learn to take a few steps first and then think about where we want to go next Deal How could Jack McDevitt possibly have gotten nominated for multiple! Nebulas Cauldron may be the worst piece of science fiction I ve ever read. Yeah, I m in a grouchy mood this morning. So sue me. No cats joined us in bed last night and I couldn t finish the NYT crossword this morning. Blah. Feel free to add your own peeves in comments. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8f7c198-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8f7c198-8c88-11e stanley mug 2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8f7c198-8c88-11e2-b06b-02 stanley mug 4c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a bid from the FBI involving the post-9/11 surveillance of three Muslim men from California who allege the federal government covertly gathered information about them based on their religion.The FBI appealed to the Supreme Court after a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A stanley flask ppeals that said claims brought by the men in 2011 can proceed. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court in its next term, which begins in October, and is the second involving the so-called state secrets privilege the justices will decide.The dispute arose from the FBI s use of a confidential informant from 2006 to 2007 to infiltrate the Muslim community in Orange County, Calif stanley quencher ornia, and secretly collect information about its members, including names, phone numbers and emails. The operation lasted for more than a year, but fell apart when the informant, Craig Monteilh, made statements about inciting violence, which led members of the Islamic community to report him to law enforcement, according to filings with the Supreme Court. Three of the men who met with and were surveilled by Monteilh mdash; Sheikh Yassir Fazaga, Ali Uddin Malik and Yasser AbdelRahim mdash; sued the federal government and FBI in federal court in 2011, alleging unl stanley cups uk awful searches and unlawful discrimination on the basis of religion. The bureau, they argued, secretly gathered information about them and other Muslims based so Osha Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for false election fraud claims, D.C. review panel says
Ron Paul, the Libertarian-leaning Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate who has attracted has a small but passionate following, today said he would not be endorsing John McCain for president. According to the Associated Press, Paul said today that former McCain advisor Phil Gramm called Paul and encouraged him to back the Arizona senator. Paul refused.Instead, Paul urged voters to back a third party candidate such as Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader or Chuck Baldwin, all of whom appeared with Paul today.* Paul supports these candidates because he bel stanley vattenflaska ieves they agree with him on what he considers to be four key issues: balancing budgets, bringing troops home, protecting personal liberties and investigating the Federal Reserve. The two parties and their candidates have no real disagreements on foreign policy, monetary policy, privacy issues, or the welfare state, Paul said, stanley mug according to his prepared remarks. He added that the time has come to recognize that the only way not to waste one s vote is to reject the two establishment candidates and join the majority, once called silent, and allow the voices of the people to be heard. At a time when 60% of the American people are dissatisfied with their presidential choices, this could be the year that third party option bring in a big chunk of the vote, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said in an email to CBS News. That would really be something! stanley travel mug *CORRECTION: This post o

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Democrat Phil Murphy was elected governor of New Jersey with strong support from his party s base, including women, younger voters, and by making inroads with some less traditionally Democratic groups, such as independents and white voters. Murphy defeated the state s lieutenant governor, Republican Kim Guadagno, who was hurt by her association with current Gover stanley shop nor Chris Christie, CBS News exit polling shows.The Christie factorGuadagno attacked Murphy during the campaign for his work at the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, but stanley cup it was, in fact, her connection to Chris Christie, which Murphy consistently reminded voters of, that resonate stanley cups d more negatively with voters. Christie gets into heated exchange with disgruntled voterHalf of New Jersey voters say Guadagno s ties to the now-unpopular Christie made them think worse of her. Roughly eight in 10 of voters who went to the polls today disapprove of the job Christie is doing as governor. Demographic groupsMurphy won the support of a majority of women, black and Hispanic voters, and younger voters. Self-identified Democrats and liberals overwhelmingly backed him. Murphy beat Guadango among independents, a group Christie won by 34 points four years ago. Murphy also get the support more than four in 10 white voters. Republican Guadagno got the backing of seniors and had an edge with white voters, but Christie won these grou Lkwi Actor Kal Penn Encourages Iowa State Students To Vote
President Bush headed to Philadelphia Thursday to kick off a monthlong, administration-wide effort to present the president as having acted aggressively to solve starbucks stanley cup the nation s continuing economic woes.He and other top administration officials plan to highlight what they argue will be the growth foster stanley mug ed by the $330 billion in tax cuts over 10 years that Congress passed in MayThe president is first stopping at a federal check-processing center in Philadelphia to draw attention to the new child tax-credit checks that were created by the tax-cut law. The first batch of more than 25 million checks mdash; totaling $12 billion mdash; is being mailed out on Friday and some of the checks are being printed at the federal Treasury Department service facility Mr. Bush was visiting.Progress in Congress has been elusive on Bush-backed efforts to expand the child tax credits to more low-income families. Later Thursday, Mr. Bush travels to Michigan, another critical Rust Belt swing state, for a second stanley mugg economic speech at a manufacturer of parts for the commercial aerospace and defense markets. Mr. Bush s visit to Beaver Aerospace and Defense in Livonia, Mich., was to focus on the tax cuts benefits to small businesses.The president was capping the day with a $2,000-a-plate evening campaign reception at a Ritz Carlton in nearby Dearborn, also a suburb of Detroit.Three members of the president s economic team mdash; Treasury Secretary John Snow,

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John Podesta, the Hillary Clinton campaign chairman whose personal email account was hacked earlier this year, commented Sunday on the possibility that Donald Trumprsquo campaign staffers were in touch with Russian officials involved in cyberattacks to influence the U.S. election -- an accusation that top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway denied Sunday on CBSrsquo; Face the Nation.Itrsquo very much unknown whether there was collusion, Podesta said on NBCrsquo Meet the Press. I think Russian diplomats have said post-election that they were talking to the Trump campaign. Conway discusses President O stanley website bama s response to Russian hacks 02:03 And, he added, Roger Stone in August foreshadowed the fact that the stanley cup y had hacked my e-mails and those would be forthcoming when he said that he w stanley france as in touch with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Carter Page, one of Trumprsquo foreign policy advisers, went to Russia before the Republican convention and met with a person in the Russian hierarchy, who was responsible for collecting intelligence. Podesta, whose personal emails were posted to the WikiLeaks document dumping site earlier this year, went on to question not what Mr. Trump knew, but what did T Auwl President Obama s Schedule Today (3/18/10)
This story was written by Editorial Boar stanley cup d, The Crimson WhiteMost everyone has seen the dizzying fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last few days. After falling 812 points to its lowest level in three years, many are beginning to panic at stanley thermobecher the state of the economy. The subprime mortgage crisis is breaking the back of the American stock markets. Investment banks, which were largely deregulated in the late 1990s, engaged in irrefutably dubious lending practices that became problematic with the downturn of the housing market. stanley cup To say that irresponsible decisions were made by financial institutions is an over-simplification. These financial institutions such as AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers enabled risky transactions that would not have been possible before the period of deregulation that preceded the Savings and Loan Crisis. For example, deregulation allowed banks to make loans and finance mortgages with extremely confusing and complicated terms for individuals who didnt qualify. Subprime mortgages and mortgages with rates that periodically changed were being offered to individuals who couldnt afford any kind of loan or mortgage, risking the debilitating debt for a pipe dream of home ownership. For the most part, banks that made these loans are being allowed to fail in record numbers. Its the institutions that guarantee these deals that are being bailed ou

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President Trump announced on Twitter Thursday that he ll give a full pardon to conservative author and documentary filmmaker Dinesh D Souza, who pleade stanley becher d guilty in 2014 to a campaign finance violation. Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D Souza today, Mr. Trump tweeted. He was treated very unfairly by our government! Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh Drsquo;Souza today. He was treated very unfairly by our government!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump May 31, 2018 In 2014, then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged D Souza with using straw donors to contribute funds to Wendy Long, a Republ stanley taza ican who ran for Senate in New York against Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012. D Souza then pleaded guilty to one count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids, D Souza, who had previously argued that he was a victim of selective prosecution, told the judge in the case. I deeply regret my conduct. D Souza was sentenced to eig stanley bottles ht months in a halfway house and five years of probation. He also received a $30,000 fine. D Souza made the 2012 anti-Obama documentary 2016: Obama s America, which was given poor reviews by many critics, but has become one of the most successful political documentaries ever released, grossing more than $32 million. In 2016, he released Hillary s Ameri Feud Libby Can t Use Memory Expert In Trial
CBS News Seizing on controversial remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden yesterday, Mitt Romney on Tuesday blasted President Obama for running a campaign he said was a disgrace to the presidency, and accused his rival of being intellectually exhausted, out of ideas, and out of energy. Romney, speaking in Chillicothe, Ohio at his final event of the day, jump stanley quencher ed into the debate over Biden s accusation that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would put you all back in chains by stanley taza unshackling Wall Street. His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the Presidency, Romney told a crowd of about 5,000 people. Another outrageous charge just came a few hours ago in Virginia. And the White House sinks a little bit lower. Joe Biden clarifies in chains remark Biden tells African-American audience GOP ticket would put them back in chains Romney: Obama running just to hang on to power Hours earlier, Biden told more than 800 supporters, many of whom were African-American, that Romney wants stanley vattenflaska to repeal the financial regulations enacted after the Wall Street crash of 2008, and that Republicans are going to put you all back in chains with their economic and regulatory policies. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul immediately decried the remarks as desperate, while Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager of the Obama campaign, called Saul s statement faux outrage. Biden later clar

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Washington mdash; In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russian labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats.H vaso stanley e was su stanley termohrnek mmoned to the prison warden s office and was hopeful that someone from the U.S. government was calling to tell him they had finally secured his freedom, Whelan told Face the Nation in his first interview since he was released in a complex prisoner swap in August. Instead, a U.S. official told him, it was women s basketball star Brittney Griner who w stanley cup as going home. Russia had agreed to release her in exchange for Viktor Bout, a convicted arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death. I asked him point blank, I said, so what else do you have to trade And he said, Nothing, Whelan recalled of the phone conversation. How do you now get me back And he said, Well, we re going to reconvene tomorrow to discuss that. You realize what you ve done here, Whelan said he told the official. You have no one to trade. They don t want anyone else. And he said, Yes, yes, we realize. Paul Whelan speaks to Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. CBS News The Marine veteran was two years into his 16-year prison sentence after Russia arrested him in 2018 on what the U.S. found to be fabricated espionage charges. By the Cukj In historic move, Oregon lawmakers expel legislator over state Capitol breach
Embattled Republican National Committee RNC Chairman Michael Steele has recently taken flak from Democrats and Republicans alike. But last night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took time to praise Steele, hailing him as an independent outsider. I support Michael Steele. I am glad he is the leader of the party, administratively, Palin told Fox News con stanley cup servative commentator Sean Hannity while at a Minnesota rally for Rep. Michele Bachmann R-Minn. . Michael Steele is an outsider, the machine is tough to penetrate, she continued. I think it s good to have an independent outsider trying to create some change in the Republican Party. The former 2008 vice presidential nominee s comments sharply contrast with some conservatives who have vocalized their disapproval with how Steele is handling the party committee.Could a New Report Spell More Trouble for the RNC Money Flows into RNC, but Steele Still HoundedGingrich Tells GOP: Back Off RNC s Michael SteeleSteele Stands Firm as RNC Chief of Staff Resigns Most recently, former Sen. Rick Santorum, a Republican from Pennsylvania and possible 2012 presidential candidate, chided Steele for the disarray of his organization. Speaking to Fox Business stanley fr network on Wednesday, Santorum said, I think he needs to get back to the RNC, go back to the headquarters, and manage this place. Palin s comments come as speculation broils that she is try stanley vattenflaska ing to distance herself from Steele and the RNC af

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President-elect Joe Biden will extend the nearly year-long pause on federal student loan payments on day one, the first concrete promise the incoming administration has made to tackle the $1.6 trillion debt crisis.Biden transition official David Kamin told reporters Friday that alleviating the crushing financial burden of student debt would be an immediate priority for the incoming administration as part of its commitment to get our economy moving and keep Americans afloat. That includes directing the Department of Education on day one to extend the popular student loan forbearance program, as well as expanding income based repayment programs, and fixing and expandi vaso stanley ng loan forgiveness programs for those with public service jobs. But how exactly the incoming administration will handle student loan forgiveness for other borrowers remains unclear. In the call with reporters, the transition official said Biden supports Congress immediately canceling $10,000 of federal student loan debt per person as a response to the COVID crisis but didn t offer details or a specific time frame. Student loan debt has been a stanley cup looming financial issue since before the pandemic, but widespread coronavirus-related job losses and pay cuts, especially among millennials, have exacerbated stanley cup the issue. Last year student loan debt reached an all-time high, nearing $1.6 trillion among more than 40 million Americans, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New Hkjz The GOP s Supreme Court Point Man
Congressional investigators say they were unable to determine h stanley cup ow much the White House s energy policy was influenced by the oil industry because they were denied documents by Vice President Dick Cheney about his energy task force.Investigators also came up short trying to find out how much money various agencies spent on creating the national energy policy, a General Accounting Office report released Monday said.The unwillingness of Cheney s office to turn over records and other information precluded us from fully achieving our objectives and limited its analysis, the GAO said. The GAO unsuccessfully sued the vice president last year to release information.The Energy and Interior departments and the Environmental Protection Agency reviewed the GAO s report before it was released and chose not to comment. The vice president s office declined to lo stanley mug ok at it, the GAO said. The National Energy Policy Development Group, chaired by Cheney, was formed by President Bush in January 2001 to develop a national energy policy.The task force submitted its final report in May 2001. Congress stanley en mexico is now considering the energy-related legislative proposals.The GAO said the task force s report was the product of a centralized, topdown, short-term, and labor-intensive process that involved the efforts of several hundred federal employees government wide. In the few months between the start of the energy task force and its presentation of the final rep