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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is nearing a final decision about a possible 2020 presidential campaign, signaling Thursday that he has thought deeply about how the Democratic Party should approach President Trump in the coming years. Before, you know, I was thinking about it, but not as hard as I am now, he said, adding later that he expects to make a final decision in this first quarter of the coming year. Garcetti, 47, won reelection to a second term as Los Angeles mayor last year. He is among a handful of California Democrats, including Sen. Kamala Harris, Rep. Eric Swalwell and billionaire activist Tom Steyer, and big-city mayors, including New York s Bill de Blasio and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who are mulling potential campaigns. stanley cup The 2020 election is going to be about three things: It s going to be about national unity, it s going to be about winning the future, and it s going to be about getting s*** done, he said. People hunger for national unity and you have to give that offer, he added, citing Beto O Rourke s recent unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign as a movement that resonated by focusing on a broad message of unity even if the congressman ultimately lost. Speaking at a reporter breakfast hosted by Bloomberg News, Garcetti said that if Trump can win the presidency ndash; a billionaire from Manhattan -- from Queens originally -- but, like, you know, if he can do it, we can c stanley mug ertainly show tha stanley tumbler t peopl Cecp Romney ad gives more Day One promises
REVISIONS....The National Security Network has a good rundown today of all the book-cooking that may be surrounding reports of declining violence in Iraq. Note this in particular:There were significant revisions to the way the Pentagon s reports measure sectarian violence between its March 2007 report and its June 2007 report. The original data for the five months before the surge began September 2006 through January 2007 indicated approximately 5,500 sectarian killings. In the revised data in the Ju stanley en mexico ne 2007 report, those numbers had been adjusted to roughly 7,400 killings 151; a 25% increase. These discrepancies have the impact of making the sectarian violence appear significantly worse stanley cup during the fall and winter of 2006 before the President s surge began.Read the rest here. Congressional Democrats need to muster up the backbone and staff work to press Petraeus and Crocker really hard on this issue. They can t afford to get suckered by slippery numbers. Conversely, if the violence figures are genuinely solid, Petraeus and Crocker ought to be able to provide solid evidence for them. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8cdcfa0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8cdcfa0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024 stanley becher c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8cdcfa0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-ch

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Ilsz One month out, clock is already ticking for midterm voters
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar urged her Republican colleagues to look in their own souls and not consider a Supreme Court justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg until after the November election. Klobuchar, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Republicans do not need to go lockstep with President Donald Trump.Mr. Trump said he would announce a nominee to fill Ginsburg s seat this week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who in 2016, blocked then-President Barack Obama s nominee for the Supreme Court because it was an election year, s stanley water bottle aid the Senate will vote on Mr. Trump s nominee, despite it being another election year.Moving forward with the nominee prior to the election goes against Ginsburg s last wish, which she dictated to her granddaught stanley cups er. stanley cup My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed, Ginsburg said.Klobuchar called on Republicans to respect that wish and follow their own precedent. They made it very clear that if this happens in an election year that whoever wins the election should be able to decide who the Supreme Court justice is, she said on CBS This Morning Monday.Two Republican senators mdash; Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska mdash; have said they oppose filling the seat before the election. But others, including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, walked back what they said in 2016.Republicans currently have a Fwxm Obama blames GOP for Donald Trump s rise
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd D-Conn. has postponed a planned mark up of long-stalled legislation to revamp regulation of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because he and Sen. Richard Shelby R-Ala. have yet to reach agreement on the bill. Negotiations are ongoing, said a Democratic aide. Given the importance of the legislation, Sen. Dodd believes it s appropriate to allow more time to reach a bipartisan consensus, the aide said. The mark up had been planned for May 6. With only a one-seat Democratic majority on the panel, Dodd typically strives to reach agreement on legislation before convening the formal mark up so as to ensure bills come out of his committee with strong, bi-partisan support. The House long ago passed its own overhaul of Fannie, Freddie and the 12 Federal Home stanley cup Loan stanley cup Banks, legislation that received the White House s support. But Shelby is a staunch critic of Fannie and Freddie. While the White House has moved toward a more accepting attitude to the so-called government-sponsored enterprises given their role in helping alleviate the housing crunch, Shelby doesn t seem to be budging. The canceled mark up was also supposed to see a vote on Dodd s measure to expand the Federal Housing Administration s insurance program to help distressed homeowners refinance into affordable mortgages. D caneca stanley odd s bill is a companion to legislation sponsored by House Financial Service

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WASHINGTON-- Some lawmakers are accusing President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice after revelations that FBI Director James Comey wrote a private account of the president asking him to shut down an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.Congressional Democrats were already concerned that Trump was trying to stifle a probe into possible coordination between his campaign and Russia s elect stanley becher ion meddling by firing Comey last week. The latest development only heightened their outrage, renewing calls for a special prosecutor. And Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said in a statement that we are witnessing an obstruction of justice case unfolding in real time. But obstruction of justice is a tricky issue both criminally and politically. And legal experts say it could be difficult to prove the president crossed a line. Some questions and answers about obstruction of justice: stanley cups uk stanley cup Do latest Trump revelations qualify as obstruction of justice 01:59 WHAT IS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE Simply put, it s preventing authorities - such as police or prosecutors - from doing the work of investigating and applying the law.WHAT IS TRUMP ACCUSED OF DOING Comey wrote that Trump asked him to end an investigation into Flynn during a February meetin Xlse Romney on Obama: We ve had enough
CBS News At the very end of a wide-ranging interview on CBS This Morning, Cybill Shepherd spoke forcefully about what Demo stanley portugal cratic and progressive politicians have dubbed the Republican and conservative war on women. I just want to say one quick thing, she remarked, about the war on women and reproductive freedom, including the attack on Planned Parenthood that that not only -- abortion is our constitutional right. We should keep it legal. And also birth contr stanley cups uk ol should be available to everyone. Told by co-host Gayle King they were out of time, Shepherd added, Cut me off any time you want! I m going lead the next March on Washington and I m not gonna wear a bulletproof vest. My mother s scared for me. To see Shepherd s entire statement, click on the video in the player above. ponent--type-recirc stanley canada ulation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9f649e78-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9f649e78-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9f649e78-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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The House voted down a Republican proposal that would have prohibited the Pentagon from paying for gender transition surgeries for transgender service members, 209-214. Twenty-four Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the measure.GOP Rep. Vicky Hartzler, of Missouri, had introduced an amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act NDAA that would have rolled back an Obama directive requiring the Defense Department to pay for transgender surgeries. In a statement about the amendment, Hartzler argued that the government shouldn t be paying for very expensive gender change surgeries that even most private insurance plans don t cover. How lifting of military ban impacts transgender service membe stanley website rs 02:56 stanley vaso She also suggested that spending funds on the surgeries -- which she pointed out would cost about a billion dollars over the next decade -- would damage the country s military readiness, and she said that her proposal would ensure our defense resources are allocated in a way that is smart and good for our national defense. stanley quencher Rep. Duncan Hunter, of California, who supported the bill, doesn t believe American taxpayers shouldn t have to pay for the treatments. Figure out whether you re man or a woman before you join, Hunter said.House Democratic L Cmbj Pure Horserace: Is McCain Down And Out
AP Photo/Ma stanley botella ry Ann Chastian Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET.After a revealing interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is facing tougher criti stanley cups uk cs than ever. On Wednesday, word came that 12 of 27 state senators and six South Carolina newspapers are calling upon the governor to resign following his mysterious disappearance and revelations of adultery. Even the Greenville News revoked its statement supporting the governor after the interview. Gov. Mark Sanford should resign im stanley termosy mediately and allow South Carolina to begin picking up the pieces. The two-term governor has destroyed any shred of credibility with his lies unnecessarily added on top of other lies. His ability to govern this state has been compromised so severely that he cannot fulfill the duties required of this state s governor until a successor takes the oath of office in January 2011, the paper wrote.Seven U.S. senators, meanwile, issued a letter Tuesday demanding he leave office, The New York Daily News reports. The bottom line is that the Governor s private matters should remain private, they wrote. But his deception and negligence make it impossible for us to trust him, and for him to govern in the future. He s dropped the flag, Sen. Jim DeMint told Fox News, as the Washington Post reports. The rest of us have to get up and go on. . . . A lot of us are talking to him behind the scenes in hopes that he ll make the right decision about w

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The FBI has questioned Carter Page, President Trump s foreign policy adviser during the campaign, at length in the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, he stanley polska confirmed in a statement late Monday. Page seemed to indicate that the questioning took place before the fir stanley cup ing of James Comey as FBI director. During my extensive discussions with the FBI agents just weeks before Comey s departure, they acknowledged that I m a loyal American veteran but indicated that their management was concerned that I did not believe the conclusions of the fake January 6 intelligence report, Page said. Our frank and open conversations gave me confidence that there are still logical, honest individuals at the Bureau who respect civil rights and the Constitution, despite the recent devastating impact on our democracy by self-centered politicians at the top of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regime, he added.Earlier this month, he told CBS This Morning that he didn t have contact with Russian agents despite having spoken to Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak at an event on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention along with then-Senator Jeff Sessions. Page also visited stanley cup Moscow last July for a speech in which he criticized the U.S. In an interview in late May with CBS News Jeff Pegues, Page denied any wrongdoing and said that his involvement with Russia is going to be such an open and shut case. CBS New Hhor Former President George H. W. Bush feted with sock pictures for 89th birthday
This story was written by Ted Hamilton, Cornell Daily SunTheres been a great deal of self-congratulation going around since Barack Obama was elected president a month ago today. As the story goes, his election was a triumph for America and a sign that our country had turned over a new leaf, and we all deserve credit for this history-defying event my own column on Nov. 6 said as much . The sentiment is, to some extent, justified: Obama didnt win without us, and his ascension is surely a sign of a more open and fair society.But theres a caveat here: if we slap ourselves on the back for Obama, we have to take responsibility for the anti-Obama as well George Bush. As the sun sets on his most disastrous administration, the excitement of what happened a month ago has to be tempered with the reality of whats been happening for the past eight years. The crimes and foibles of the Bush years are well-documented and frequently recited, and we will no doubt hear plenty more about this most disastrous epoch of American history as it comes to a close in January. But every indictment of Bush is also an indictment of ourselves, and we have to remember that the Decider-in-Ch stanley quencher ief is a conse stanley trinkflaschen quence, not the cause, of some of the most despicable trends in American society. Until we recognize our complicity in his misrule well be at danger of stanley canada repeating the same mistakes. The soon-to-be former president of the United States was, in a sense, the

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DETROIT -- A former deputy chief of staff said Rep. John Conyers made an unwanted sexual advance toward her and touched her inappropriately twice in the late 1990s, the Detroit News reported Tuesday, in the latest sexual misconduct allegations against the veteran lawmaker.Deanna Maher, 77, who ran a Michigan office for Conyers from 1997 to 2005, told The Detroit News that there were three instances of inappropriate conduct. Pelosi response to Conyers allegations complicated Democrats position 04:08 She says the first was in 1997, when she rejected his offer to share a hotel room and have sex. The others involved unwanted touching in a car in 1998 and unwanted touchin stanley cup website g of her legs under her dress in 1999.Maher said the first instance of harassment happened shortly after Conyers hired her in 1997 during an event with the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington. I didn t have a room and he had me put in his hotel suite, said Maher, adding that she rejected his offer to share his room at the stanley us Grand Hyatt stanley mugs in Washington and have sex.Conyers attorney Arnold Reed told the newspaper that he questioned why Maher would work for Conyers for so many years after the alleged allegations. He said her allegations are uncorroborated and Conyers denies wrongdoing. He Aghc Biden says we ve had enough debates, signaling he doesn t want to face Sanders again
Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the light and killed the stanley hrnek microphones,but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.Minority Leader John Boehner R-Ohio and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the c stanley cup hamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg R-Ariz.. was speaking, the lights went back on, and the microphones have been turned on as well. stanley travel mug But C-SPAN has stopped broadcasting the House floor, meaning no one is witnessing this except the assembled Republicans, their aides, and one Democrat, Rep. Dennis Kucinich D-Ohio , who has now left.Only about a half-dozen Republicans were on the floor when thisbegan, but the crowd has grown to about 20 now, according to Patrick O Connor. This is the people s House, Rep, Thaddeus McCotter R-Mich. said. This is not Pelosi s politiburo. Democratic aides were furious at the GOP stunt, and reporters were kicked out of the Speaker s Lobby, the space next to the House floor where they normally interview lawma

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Less than a week stanley bottles after a killing spree left six people dead in a California college town, the House of Representatives voted Thursday to invest an additional $19.5 million in the federal system of background checks for gun purchases. The measure was passed on a broad bipartisan vote of 260 to 145 as an amendment to a larger criminal justice appropriations bill. It was t stanley cup he first step taken by the current Congress to address gun violence. Expert weighs in on gun control and mental health 01:29 stanley becher The measure will help strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System NICS , which checks prospective gun buyers against a database for felony convictions, certain mental illnesses, and other markers that are supposed to prevent people from owning firearms. Supporters said the bill would prevent people who shouldn t have guns from slipping through the cracks of the background system. Many states do not send the necessary paperwork to the federal system, and the measure would provide funding to states to ensure the records are transmitted. The background check system is only as good as the data you put in it, and right now, all the information isn t getting in, explained Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who co-sponsored the measure, on the House floor on We Qdrf Kansas State Student Seeks Seat In Kansas Legislature, Aims To Be Youngest State Senator Ever In Office
LONDON mdash; Barack Obama devoted much of his inaugural speech and first few days in office to repudiating his predecessor - and it was no different Wednesday when he set foot on the world stage for the first time. On a day of dizzy stanley website ing diplomacy with three world powers, Obama made one thing clear: the Bush era of foreign policy is over. In strokes of symbolism and on issues of substance, the presidentrsquo international debut was starkly different from the approach Americarsquo allies and adversaries grew to knowmdash; and often bitterly complain about- over the past eight years. Gone was diplomacy by towel-snapping, Bushrsquo effort to kindle bilateral relationships as much through chummy asides and the occasional shoulder-rub as by serious policy discussion. Instead, Obama officials emphasized just how sober their sessions had been. Cognizant of Bushrsquo much-mocked 2001 pronouncement that he had peered into Vladimir Putinrsquo soul upon first meeting the hard-line Russian premier, Obama officials went to great lengths to focus on just how impersonal the presidentrsquo visit with Russia stanley mug n President Dmitry Medvedev had been. It was a constant strategy on t kubki stanley he Bush administration s part, to develop this personal rapport, noted a senior Obama administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Our strategy is to develop an agenda based on interest hellip; not to make the goal of th

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In the Senate scramble for 51 votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, there s a new version of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill that s designed to win over the senators from Arizona, Alaska, and Maine. Sen. Collins says it s hard to envision voting yes on Graham-Cassidy 05:04 It has a new funding formula, CBS News Nancy Cordes reports, and in this version, those three states will actually end up with more funding than under the previous version. The original version botella stanley slashed funding for about 35 states. Critics are already critical of the mathematical assumptions in the new bill -- they say that those states won t stanley cup see the savings the authors claim.And Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Arizona Sen. John McCain have problems with Graham/Cassidy that go deeper than simply how much funding their particular state is getting. Therefore, it s hard to contemplate a mathematical tweak that convinces them to come around. This kind of last-minute change is also precisely what McCain railed against when he announced his no vote on Friday. stanley tumblers Another factor -- any increase in federal funding is likely to intensify opposition from Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Republicans can only afford to lose two Senate GOP votes. Sens. Paul and McCain have said they won t support it Yufa Schumer Calls Out GOP on Deficit: There They Go Again
Recent polls have shown President Bush gaining a bit and John Kerry losing a bit in their neck and neck race for the White House.Mr. Bush has a simple explanation for his Democratic rival s recent slide: Iraq.The New York Times reported that a senior Bush political adviser said Kerry s dip in the surveys stemmed from the Massachusetts senator s statement two weeks ago that he would have voted to give Mr. Bush authorization to go to war with Iraq even if he had known Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction. It felt like he Kerry had finally made his position clear, Mr. Bush told the newspaper in an interview on Thursday.Mr. Bush also acknowledged for the first time he had made a miscalculation of what the conditions would be in postwar Iraq. But Mr. Bush also told the newspaper that administration policy was flexible enough to adapt to t stanley tazas he changing conditions in Iraq. Mr. Bush is on a six-day tour of battleground states that will culminate in his appearance at the Republican convention in New York City.Kerry stanley termosy , meanwhile, is campaigning in California, where he is championing consumer causes with promises to curb credit card fees and protect homebuyers and military families from unfair lending practices. By putting in place strong co termo stanley nsumer protections that hold lenders accountable, we can put billions of dollars back into the pockets of middle-class families struggling to make ends meet, help families climb out of debt an

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There may be a silver lining for the candidates who come up short in next November s election. New research shows that elected heads of state face a greater risk of early death when compared to the runners-up they beat out.It s a common narrative we often see play out when a youthful-looking candidate seems to age dramatically in a short amount of time after getting elected. It s often theorized that the pressure and responsibility of le stanley canada ading a nation takes a toll on health and leads to rapid aging. But how does that notion hold up when looking at actual data Researchers from Harvard Medical School set out to answer this question. There s been longstanding speculation that the stress of politics leads to premature aging as anecdotally seen in photos of presidents like Obama and Clinton during their tenures as president, senior study author Anupam Jena stanley uk , associate professor of health care policy at stanley cup Harvard Medical School, told CBS News. One challenge with studying this issue is that one must pick the right comparator for presidents or other world leaders and look at enough countries to find something. The study was published in the BMJ s Christmas issue, which traditionally features peer-reviewed studies on more unconventional topics. Obama getting older 14 photos Wsyt Trump gets the most Facebook interactions
CBS News Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is one of several members of Congress angry about the leak of the disrupted terrorist bomb plot aimed at an American aircraft. King told CBS News on Thursday that the press reporting was extremely damaging to the intelligence operation, putting lives in danger. This was one of the most sophisticated intelligence operations that we ve ever run. We were having access to e stanley cup xtremely vital information, King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, told CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. This leak was extremely damaging. CBS News and other media outlets have reported that a double agent, working for Saudi intelligence and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, volunteered to smuggle a bomb onto an American plane, but instead turned it over to U.S. and Saudi intelligence. Lawmakers briefed said that the intelligence operation was leaked to the Associated Press before the entire operation was complete, and before House Speaker John Boehner, third in line to the presidency, knew ab stanley tumbler out it. Such a small universe of people knew about it. No one in Congress at all, King said. I ve been in Congress 20 years stanley mug . I m not aware of any other intelligence operation that was being carried out that was so closely held as this. Relevant lawmakers were briefed about the operation on Capitol Hill on Thursday by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center.King said t

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Itrsquo been an eventful presidentialcampaign so far with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, even without some of the other colorful characters who have apparently stated their intention to challenge the two:Darth Vader, God, Satanand Captain Crunch, among many, many others.F stanley cup ederal Election Commission filings show that it has received over 1,800ldquo tatement of candidacy forms from spoofcandidates, ranging from the Ghosts of Ronald Reagan to Satan to Deez Nuts. On Wednesday, the government agency, hoping to deter pranksters from filing fake paperwork, addressed separate letters to the suspicious candidates. Science can help explain why presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should be nicer to one another. Clinton photo by Reuters/Whitney Curtis; Trump photo by Reuters/Gary Cameron Dear Candidate, the letters read. It has come to the attention of the Federal Election Commission that you may hav stanley thermos mug e failed to include an accurate name of the candidate and an accurate principal campaign committee hellip; when you filed FEC Form 2.Itrsquo easy to submit Form 2statements of candidacy--required paperwork for those seeking office in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, stanley cup or the White House in any given election cycle. That accessibility, however, comes at a cost for the officials who have to weed through the hundreds Znvq Maryland Governor Larry Hogan says he will not run for Senate
John Boehner unveiled his own economic recovery package Tuesday, offering up a mix of old and newmdash; with a little drill, baby, drill. Boehnerrsquo proposal would double the size of the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child, reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent and temporarily suspend the capital gains tax. And of course, no House GOP proposal would be complete without a call for increased stanley cup domestic oil drilling, as Boehner rolled his energy plan into the p stanley mug ackage. Americans are overtaxed and wallets are stretched thin, Boehner said. Raising taxes, increasing government spending and redistributing wealth wonrsquo;t stabilize economy and wonrsquo;t create new jobs, he said, taking a shot at Barack Obama. While Democrats are expected to introduce a roughly $150 billion second economic stimulus package when Congress returns next month, Boehner dismissed the package, saying he didnrsquo;t think that type of spending will help us in the short or long term. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a4240c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, ri stanley mug ght-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a4240c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a4240c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;