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Washington mdash; A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday to authorize $400 stanley vaso million in humanitarian aid to crisis-stricken Venezuela and intensify the U.S. campaign to isolate the increasingly authoritarian governmen stanley uk t of Nicolaacute Maduro, who has held on to power despite international pressure for him to step down.The bill, spearheaded by Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez, also directs the State Department to work with European governments to replicate U.S. efforts and issue their own sanctions. The New Jersey Democrat, a longtime leader of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, said internationalizing sanctions would increase pressure on the Maduro regime and its chief allies around the world. That is something that would be incredibly powerful, knowing that the sanctions that would levied are not just by the United States against the Maduro regime, but internationally, Menendez told CBS News during a conference call with reporters Wednesday. That s something that could significantly change the dynamics. It sends Maduro a message, as well as Russia and China that are helping to prop up Maduro, he added, referring to the Chinese government s investments in Venezuela and Moscow s military and political support for the South American country s socialist governmen stanley mug t.Fourteen lawmakers signed on as sponsors of the legislation, known as the Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democra Ixjp What Obama can learn from Lincoln
Republican lawmakers and aides left male interns vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than a decade ago, the ethics committee said Friday in its report into an election-year scandal that convulsed the House of Representatives.The Republicans lost control of the House in last month s elections in which several strategists said the virtual sex scandal played a part.The committee said one witness testified he warned the head of the board overseeing the program for interns, known as pages, Rep. John Shimkus, a year ago that Foley was a tickin stanley tazas g time bomb who had been confronted repeatedly. House Republican leader Dennis Hastert likely was told about inappropriate e-mails written by Foley last spring, even though he has said he doesn t recall the conversations, investigators concluded.The panel said it found no evidence that any current lawmakers or aides violated any rules, and recommended no sanctions in the case that cost Foley his seat in Congress and contributed to his party s defeat at the polls in last month s midterm elections. But it said it discovered a pattern of conduct on the part of many individuals to remain willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of Foley s conduct.And it singles out two key leaders mdash; John Bo stanley cups ehner of Ohio and Tom Reynolds of New York mdash; for sticking their heads in the stanley cup sand, CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger repor
Washington mdash; A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday to authorize $400 stanley vaso million in humanitarian aid to crisis-stricken Venezuela and intensify the U.S. campaign to isolate the increasingly authoritarian governmen stanley uk t of Nicolaacute Maduro, who has held on to power despite international pressure for him to step down.The bill, spearheaded by Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez, also directs the State Department to work with European governments to replicate U.S. efforts and issue their own sanctions. The New Jersey Democrat, a longtime leader of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, said internationalizing sanctions would increase pressure on the Maduro regime and its chief allies around the world. That is something that would be incredibly powerful, knowing that the sanctions that would levied are not just by the United States against the Maduro regime, but internationally, Menendez told CBS News during a conference call with reporters Wednesday. That s something that could significantly change the dynamics. It sends Maduro a message, as well as Russia and China that are helping to prop up Maduro, he added, referring to the Chinese government s investments in Venezuela and Moscow s military and political support for the South American country s socialist governmen stanley mug t.Fourteen lawmakers signed on as sponsors of the legislation, known as the Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democra Ixjp What Obama can learn from Lincoln
Republican lawmakers and aides left male interns vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than a decade ago, the ethics committee said Friday in its report into an election-year scandal that convulsed the House of Representatives.The Republicans lost control of the House in last month s elections in which several strategists said the virtual sex scandal played a part.The committee said one witness testified he warned the head of the board overseeing the program for interns, known as pages, Rep. John Shimkus, a year ago that Foley was a tickin stanley tazas g time bomb who had been confronted repeatedly. House Republican leader Dennis Hastert likely was told about inappropriate e-mails written by Foley last spring, even though he has said he doesn t recall the conversations, investigators concluded.The panel said it found no evidence that any current lawmakers or aides violated any rules, and recommended no sanctions in the case that cost Foley his seat in Congress and contributed to his party s defeat at the polls in last month s midterm elections. But it said it discovered a pattern of conduct on the part of many individuals to remain willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of Foley s conduct.And it singles out two key leaders mdash; John Bo stanley cups ehner of Ohio and Tom Reynolds of New York mdash; for sticking their heads in the stanley cup sand, CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger repor