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Clay Aiken: forever the runner-up.Aiken, a singer best known for claiming second place in the second season of American Idol, ran for Congress as a Democrat in North Carolina s second congressional district this year. He was defeated Tuesday by incumbent Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers, who claimed 56 percent of the district s vote, according to the Associated Press.2014 Midterm Elections CenterAiken emphasized his differences stanley bottles with President Obama on the campaign trail, saying at one point he didn t need Mr. Obama campaigning with him, but it ultimately wasn t enough to overc stanley cup ome the Republican tilt of the district he hoped to represent. Had he won, Aiken would have been th stanley cups e first openly gay congressman elected from the South.Ellmers, a nurse, was first elected to Congress in the 2010 GOP blowout. Her victory on Tuesday keeps another seat in the House Republican majority, which the party is expected to maintain. Campaign 2014 More Clinton: Dems lacked national advertising campaign before midterms Olcn Democrats Hail Kerry, Assail Bush
Politics Today is CBSNews s inside look stanley water bottle at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:**Senate negotiators close to a deal on health care...**President Obama hits the road to sell hea stanley cup lth reform; will lay out list of consumer protections ... 5058008HEALTH CARE: An emerging consensus among a bipartisan group of senators is poised to shift the dynamic in the congressional debate over health-care reform and could lead to a final product that sheds many of the priorities that President Obama has emphasized and that have drawn GOP attacks, report the Washington Post s Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane. Three Democrats and three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are expected to wrap up their arduous multi-week talks in the coming days, and Majority Leader Harry M. Reid D-Nev. said he expec stanley borraccia ts a panel vote before the Senate recess, which will begin Aug. 7. Assuming the fragile committee coalition holds, the legislation it produces would scramble the reform landscape by introducing policy ideas that have their origins in the political center. The bill is bound to disappoint liberals. But with prominent GOP backing, it also could prove more difficult for Republicans to reject out of hand -- the approach they have taken to the House bill and a second Senate version, written by the health committee. Democratic Senator Max Baucus, leading the talks among six Democrats and
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Clay Aiken: forever the runner-up.Aiken, a singer best known for claiming second place in the second season of American Idol, ran for Congress as a Democrat in North Carolina s second congressional district this year. He was defeated Tuesday by incumbent Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers, who claimed 56 percent of the district s vote, according to the Associated Press.2014 Midterm Elections CenterAiken emphasized his differences stanley bottles with President Obama on the campaign trail, saying at one point he didn t need Mr. Obama campaigning with him, but it ultimately wasn t enough to overc stanley cup ome the Republican tilt of the district he hoped to represent. Had he won, Aiken would have been th stanley cups e first openly gay congressman elected from the South.Ellmers, a nurse, was first elected to Congress in the 2010 GOP blowout. Her victory on Tuesday keeps another seat in the House Republican majority, which the party is expected to maintain. Campaign 2014 More Clinton: Dems lacked national advertising campaign before midterms Olcn Democrats Hail Kerry, Assail Bush
Politics Today is CBSNews s inside look stanley water bottle at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:**Senate negotiators close to a deal on health care...**President Obama hits the road to sell hea stanley cup lth reform; will lay out list of consumer protections ... 5058008HEALTH CARE: An emerging consensus among a bipartisan group of senators is poised to shift the dynamic in the congressional debate over health-care reform and could lead to a final product that sheds many of the priorities that President Obama has emphasized and that have drawn GOP attacks, report the Washington Post s Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane. Three Democrats and three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are expected to wrap up their arduous multi-week talks in the coming days, and Majority Leader Harry M. Reid D-Nev. said he expec stanley borraccia ts a panel vote before the Senate recess, which will begin Aug. 7. Assuming the fragile committee coalition holds, the legislation it produces would scramble the reform landscape by introducing policy ideas that have their origins in the political center. The bill is bound to disappoint liberals. But with prominent GOP backing, it also could prove more difficult for Republicans to reject out of hand -- the approach they have taken to the House bill and a second Senate version, written by the health committee. Democratic Senator Max Baucus, leading the talks among six Democrats and
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Erin Kidwell is an employee at Mt. Hood National Forest in Oregon and a mother of two. She s also one of hundreds of thousands of federal workers whose position has been furloughed over Christmas during the partial government shutdown. We do live paycheck by paycheck. I heard a Congressman say that we didn t, but we do, she told CBS News. Kidwell said many federal workers take their jobs in part because of the security of working with the government. But with an impasse in budget negotiations between the White House and lawmakers over President Trump s $5 billion demand for a border wall, Kidwel stanley quencher l and her husband, who is also a furloughed federal employee, face an uncertain future. The hardest part is the demoralizing of our employment, she said. Playing around with our jobs like they re a political game. On Tuesday morning, Mr. Trump said the government would not reopen until congressional leaders approve his request for border wall funding. I can tell you, it s not going to be open until we have a wall, he told reporters. stanley drinking cup Trump says shutdown will continue until bo stanley cups uk rder wall demand is met 02:10 Kidwell said her family s economic future looks increasingly bleak because she and her husband do not know if they will receive compensation as the government rema Hijx Donald Trump shocked by Neil Young s music objection
The picture that emerges in the latest U.S. intelligence assessment of Iraq is one of two distinct and incr stanley mug easingly divergent trends.Iraq s security will continue to improve modestly during the next six to 12 months as long as the Bush administration continues its counterinsurgency campaign, according to consensus judgment of the nation s 16 intelligence agencies released We stanley italia dnesday.But, at the same time, the national intelligence estimate warns that the Iraqi government will become more precarious over the same period because of increased jockeying between and among Iraq s many factions. The Bush administration is sure to embrace the first finding as officials begin making the case that the surge plan is working i stanley termosy n Iraq.And indeed, the NIE stresses that one of the most important factors in the improving security picture is the close synchronization of the counterinsurgency operations undertaken as part of the surge with the counterterrorism efforts that have been a part of U.S. operations all along. But a senior intelligence official concedes that while the frequency of insurgent and sectarian attacks does finally appear to be diminishing slightly, the Iraqi people are still suffering quite high levels of violence. And the factors impeding Iraqi leaders from making political progress--primarily Shia insecurity and Sunni unwillingness to accept a diminished political status, according to the NIE--appear so deeply ent