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President Trump met with congressional leaders Thursday from both parties in the House and Senate at the White House to discuss the issue of government fundi stanley deutschland ng ahead of the Friday deadline to fund the government. We re all here as a very friendly, well-unified group, Mr. Trump said ahead of the meeting, adding that it s a well-knit together group of people. Mr. Trump was joined at the White House by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California. We hope we can come to an agreement, said Schumer. Funding the government is extremely important. Pelosi identified the opioid epidemic, veterans issues, the Children s Health Insurance Program CHIP as issues Democrats would like addressed in the funding bill. McConnell said he s attending the meeting to reach a bipartisan agreement to finish out the year. Afterward, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told stanley quencher the pool that the meeting moved from the Oval Office to the Situation Room where they are all re stanley uk ceiving an update on the U.S. military from Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.Returning to Capitol Hill from the meeting, McConnell said, We had a good meeting and agreed to keep on talking, but stopped short of saying any deals were reached. I wouldn t say that but it was a good meeting everybody wants to get to an outcome. Pelosi and Schumer released a joint statement afterwa Dqus Rallying Around The Ted
INCOHERENCE....Tony Snow told reporters this morning that the president, in consultation with top White House aides, mulled over what to do about Scooter Libby for weeks and weeks. With all those smart people pondering the matter for so long, you d think they wouldn t sound so spectacularly dumb in explaining what happened yesterday.The president, for example, deigned to answer a couple of questions this m stanley cup orning. After Bush said he has ruled nothing in or nothing out regarding a future pardon, a reporter asked whether the president is worried that his decision sends a signal that you won t go to jail if you lie to the FBI. Bush responded: I took this decision very serious stanley thermos ly on Mr. Libby. I considered his background, his service to the country, as well as the jury verdict. I felt like the jury verdict ought to stand, and I felt like some of the punishments that the judge determined were adequate should stand. But I felt like the 30-month sentencing was severe; made a judgment, a considered judgment that I believe is the right decision to make in this case, and I stand by it. It wasn t a trick question: should Americans lie to the FBI during a criminal investigation Apparently, Bush doesn t have an opinion on the matter. stanley hrnek Shortly thereafter, a reporter asked Tony Snow during a press briefing, If there are more than 3,000 current petitions for commutation -- not pardons, but commutation -- in the federal system, under President Bush,
President Trump met with congressional leaders Thursday from both parties in the House and Senate at the White House to discuss the issue of government fundi stanley deutschland ng ahead of the Friday deadline to fund the government. We re all here as a very friendly, well-unified group, Mr. Trump said ahead of the meeting, adding that it s a well-knit together group of people. Mr. Trump was joined at the White House by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California. We hope we can come to an agreement, said Schumer. Funding the government is extremely important. Pelosi identified the opioid epidemic, veterans issues, the Children s Health Insurance Program CHIP as issues Democrats would like addressed in the funding bill. McConnell said he s attending the meeting to reach a bipartisan agreement to finish out the year. Afterward, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told stanley quencher the pool that the meeting moved from the Oval Office to the Situation Room where they are all re stanley uk ceiving an update on the U.S. military from Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.Returning to Capitol Hill from the meeting, McConnell said, We had a good meeting and agreed to keep on talking, but stopped short of saying any deals were reached. I wouldn t say that but it was a good meeting everybody wants to get to an outcome. Pelosi and Schumer released a joint statement afterwa Dqus Rallying Around The Ted
INCOHERENCE....Tony Snow told reporters this morning that the president, in consultation with top White House aides, mulled over what to do about Scooter Libby for weeks and weeks. With all those smart people pondering the matter for so long, you d think they wouldn t sound so spectacularly dumb in explaining what happened yesterday.The president, for example, deigned to answer a couple of questions this m stanley cup orning. After Bush said he has ruled nothing in or nothing out regarding a future pardon, a reporter asked whether the president is worried that his decision sends a signal that you won t go to jail if you lie to the FBI. Bush responded: I took this decision very serious stanley thermos ly on Mr. Libby. I considered his background, his service to the country, as well as the jury verdict. I felt like the jury verdict ought to stand, and I felt like some of the punishments that the judge determined were adequate should stand. But I felt like the 30-month sentencing was severe; made a judgment, a considered judgment that I believe is the right decision to make in this case, and I stand by it. It wasn t a trick question: should Americans lie to the FBI during a criminal investigation Apparently, Bush doesn t have an opinion on the matter. stanley hrnek Shortly thereafter, a reporter asked Tony Snow during a press briefing, If there are more than 3,000 current petitions for commutation -- not pardons, but commutation -- in the federal system, under President Bush,