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Washington mdash; Paul Dans, the director of the Project 2025 presidential transition initiative overseen by the Heritage Foundation, is leaving his post at the think tank, the group s president confirmed Tuesday.Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, said in a statement that Dans, who previously served in the Trump administration, will be departing after having led the transition initiative for the past two years. He thanked Dans for his work on Project 2025.Roberts indicated that when the project was launched in April 2022, Heritage set a timeline for it to finish policy-drafting after the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions, and said it is stanley cup sticking to that timeline. The Republican National Convention was held in Milwaukee earlier this month, and the Democratic National Convention will kick off in Chicago on Aug. 19. Under Paul Dans leadership, Project 2025 has completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conserv stanley website ative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it to the people, Roberts said. This too stanley mug l was built for any future administration to use. Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention on Feb. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. Ozuh Frist: No More Bolton Votes
CBS CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.A majority of Americans say they know people who have negative feelin stanley cup gs toward Muslims because of the September 11 t stanley thermos errorist attacks, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Fifty-five percent say they know someone who has negative feelings toward Muslims tied to the attacks, while roughly one in five say they themselves have such feelings. Forty percent say they don t know anyone with such feelings, and three in four say they don t personally harbor them. stanley cup Seventy-one percent, meanwhile, say that it is at least somewhat likely that Arab Americans, Muslims, and immigrants from the Middle East are being discriminated against in America. Thirty-four percent say it is very likely such discrimination is occurring, while 37 percent call it somewhat likely; one in four say it is not very or not at all likely. Perceptions are actually improved from 2006, when 85 percent said such discrimination was at least somewhat likely, and from just after the terrorist attacks, when 90 percent saw it as likely. Men, people who live in the South and those between 45 and 64 are slightly more likely to say they have anti-Muslim sentiments than other Americans. Republicans are four times as likely as Democrats and twice as likely as independents to report such feelings. More from the poll: P

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President Trump said Thursday that he has recommended former pizza executive Herman Cain for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. I ve recommended Herman Cain, he said, adding that Cain is currently undergoing a background check. Mr. Trump also called Cain an outstanding person. He s truly an outstanding individual. I would think he would do very well there, Mr. Trump said. Cain, who sought the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, is the former CEO of Godfather s Pizza and was on the board Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City as a director from 1992 to 1996, e stanley cups uk ventually becoming chairman. He served as a Class C director -- representing the public. By design, this position cannot be affiliated with the banking industry.Former Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig described the role of fed directors like Cain as representatives of Main Street business, community development, organized labor and financial services sectors who help the Federal Reserve better understand the economy and oversee operations. During his 2012 presidential campaign, Cain famously touted an economic plan, the 9-9-9 Plan, which would have replaced the U.S. tax system with a flat 9 percent business, income stanley cup and natio stanley quencher nal sales tax. But his candidacy imploded after he wasaccused of sexual harassmentduring his time at the helm of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, and an Atlanta woman alleged they had an affair for 13 years.Mr. Trump also ann Lbqd GOP State Parties Are In Dire Straits
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Newt Gingrich is standing by comments he made earlier this week when he called the Palestinians an invented people. Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire, the former House speaker told the Jewish Channel this week. And I think that we ve have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and are historically part of the Arab community, and they had the chance to go many places. Gingrich s comments immediately caused a stir in the Middle East and elsewhere. A Palestinian legislator said Gingrich had lost touch with reality, while another official described called him ignorant, according to the Associated Press. Gingrich was then asked about stanley kubek the comments during Saturday night s Republican presidential debate from Iowa, which was sponsored by ABC News. Is what I said factually correct Yes. Is it historically true Yes, he answered. Are we in a situation where every day rockets are fired into Israel while the United States The current administration tries to pressure the Israelis into a peace process... Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools. They have textboo stanley water bottle ks that say, if there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left We pay for those textbooks through our aid money. It s stanley cup fundamentally time for somebody to h

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The U.S. government has said it could take two years to reunite immigrant children separated from their families, but the ACLU yesterday called for a much shorter timeline: Just three months.On April 5, the government said in papers filed in federal court that it would need three months just to create a statistical model to establish how the government would review its files on separated families, and up to 21 months to reconnect them.The ACLU filed a response Monday: Attorney Lee Gelernt wrote that the timetable shows a stanley taza callous disregard for these families and s stanley cup hould be rejected. These children were separated at least 10 months ago....for some of these children, that may be nearly a lifetime. He cited specific documents that federal agencies, including ICE, could review to begin reuniting families immediately. Gelernt said every person apprehended is assigned an Event ID number, which notes who they were arrested with. In addition, he wrote that when people are arrested by ICE agents, a form called an I-213 is filed that may often contain a notation that the child was separated. On Monday, CBS News reported on a father and son who spent nearly 11 months apart. Jose Alvizures arrived in Calexico, Cali stanley cup fornia, on Friday, 324 days after being separated from 10-year-old Ervin. Alvizures had crossed the border with Ervin toseek asylumafter getting death threats from gangs that control his town. He was deported last May. His son was k Mndj Obama Offers Deepest Condolences to Victims of West Virginia Mine Explosion
Mayor Richard Daley speaks at a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. The six-term mayor announced today he will not seek re-election next year. AP Photo/John Smierciak Updated at 5:25 p.m. ETChicago Mayor Richard Daley announced today he will not run for re-election in 2011. After six terms in office, it s time for me, it s time for Chicago to move on, Daley said at a news conference, the Chicago Tribune reports. Daley, whose wife Maggie has been battling breast cancer since 2002, said he was making a personal decision to begin the new phase of his life with his family. Daley s decision leaves the door open for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to run for the seat. Emanuel, a former congressman, has signaled interest in the job in the past. I hope Mayor Daley seeks re-election, Emanuel, stanley kaffeebecher a Chicag stanley cup o native, said earlier this year. I will work and support him if he seeks re-election. But if Mayor Daley doesn t stanley cup usa , one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. Emanuel has said he has always aspired to be mayor, even when he was in the House of Representatives. He was seen as a rising star in the Democratic caucus and a possible candidate for speaker of the House before he left to work in the White House.Daley has served as mayor since 1989 but has recently faced declining public approval ratings, the

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Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush have adopted a puppy from an animal shelter. They adopted the puppy, named Freddy, last Tuesday -- Election Day. The former president shared the news on his Instagram account, saying the familyrsquo cats, Bob and Bernadette, are already getting along with the newest member of their family. @laurawbush and I are thrilled to introduce the newest member of our family, Freddy Bush. We visited the @spcatexas Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center last Tuesday to thank them for their great work ndash; and came home with a puppy. We already love him, and even our cats Bob and Bernadette are f stanley cup inding Freddyrsquo charm futile to resist. If you could use a little extra joy in your life, consider adopting a pet from an animal shelter or rescue group. A photo posted by George W. Bush @georgewbush on Nov 14, 2016 at 5:28pm PST Presidential Pets 25 photos In the White House, the Bushes had three dogs -- Spot, an English Springer Spaniel and two Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley. Spo stanley cup t died in 2004, Barney died in 2013 and Miss Beazley died in 2014. stanley cups Besides a new puppy, Bush is keeping himself busy by painting. Over the past several months, Gqys Top Israeli cabinet official meets with U.S. leaders in Washington despite Netanyahu s opposition
A day after a mostly cordial debate with his Democratic rivals, John Kerry took the gloves off Friday to issue a fresh challenge to President Bush on what could be the key issue of the general election campaign: national security. I am convinced that we can prove to the American people that we know how to make them safer and more secure with a stronger, more comprehensive and more effective strategy for winning the war on terror than the Bush administration has ever envisioned, Kerry said as he outlined his plan to combat terrorism in a speech at the University of California at Los Angeles.Kerry said Mr. Bush has no comprehensive strategy for victory in the war on terror. We cannot win the war on terror through military power alone, said the four-term Massachusetts lawmaker, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Kerry also accused the president and his armchair hawks of weakening the U.S. military by failing to provide proper equipm stanley thermobecher ent. He lambasted Mr. Bush for stonewalling the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. The Bush campaign has criticized Kerry in recent days of voting vaso stanley against some increases in defense spending and military weapons programs during his 19-year congressional career. Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot stanley us said Kerry s policies would weaken the country s ability to win the war on terror. If John Kerry s wrong ideas had been implemented during the last 30 years, the world to

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Former President Obama is urging Americans and local leaders to seiz stanley cup e the urgency of the moment mdash; the killing of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis and the ensuing nationwide protests mdash; and change the nation. In some ways as tragic as these past few weeks have been, as difficult and scary and uncertain as they ve been, they ve also been an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened to some of these underlying trends, Mr. Obama said. And they offer an opportunity for us to all work together to tackle, to take them on, to change America and make it live up to its highest ideals. CBS News political unit stanley cups associate producer Sarah Ewall-Wicesays his remarks were part of a broader conversation hosted by My Brother s Keeper Alliance about proposed reforms to the nation s law enforcement agencies and how to improve trust between police and the communities they protect.During his remarks, the former president had a direct message for young people of color who have witnessed too much violence and too much deat stanley cup h, and too often some of that violence has come from folks who were supposed to be serving and protecting them. I want you to know that you matter, I want you to know that your lives matter, that your dreams matter, he said. As protests continue across the U.S., Mr. Obama encouraged local leaders to take immediate action. Today, I m urging every mayor in this country to review your use of force policies with members Ytnc O Bama President s Irish relatives revealed
Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Beth Lester, Clothilde Ewing and Jessica Shyu of the CBS News Political Unit have the latest from the nation s capital.Monday s Headlines* Big Week for Bush and Cheney * McCain Just Says No Again * Kerry Takes the Misery Index on Tour * Dean Tells Supporters Not to Vote For NaderBush Gets Back to Work: President Bush kicks off a busy week with a press conference Monday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Crawford, Texas. Bush returns to Washington on Monday night after almost a week at his Prairie Chapel ranch ndash; an Easter sojourn that has caused some grumbling from Republicans and Democrat stanley thermos mug s alike in several none-too-flattering newspaper articles about whet starbucks stanley cup her the president s sending the right signals while the situation in Iraq filled the front pages. A new Newsweek poll shows Bush losing to John Kerry in a general election match-up, 50 percent to 43 percent. Even with Ralph Nader thrown into the mix Kerry beats Bush, 46 percent to 42 percent, with Nader getting four percent. While Bush s job approval remains s stanley quencher teady at 49 percent, Newsweek found that just 36 percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in this country. Bush is down on Tuesday so he ll have time to watch Attorney General John Ashcroft, former Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director Robert Mueller and former FBI Director Louis Freeh testify before the 9/11 commission. On Wednesday, when C

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WASHINGTON mdash;Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who says she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, is now willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. But she stanley cup won t do it on Monday mdash; the chairman s take-it-or-leave-it date mdash; and she has certain conditions.As supporters of Blasey rallied on Capitol Hill and in her California hometown, Ford s lawyers issued their latest salvo, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that she wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety. It also says: Her preference continues to be however a full investigation prior to her testimony. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stanley mugs has been accused of sexual misconduct by Christine Blasey Ford while the two were in high stanley termoska school. CBS News Republicans have rejected her request to bring in the FBI, saying the Judiciary Committee can do its own investigation. But Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee chairman made it clear who he believes, informing Democrats in a letter that Kavanaugh sat for a transcribed interview on Monday and we have no reason to doubt the truthfulness of judge Kavanaugh s testimony. Kavanaugh has been prepping all week for the possibility of a public hearing and denies Ford s claim that he groped he Mfyb Obama: Americans Aren t Sultans Who Can Afford Great Health Coverage
When it comes to the African-Am stanley cup website erican vote, former President Bill Clinton says that the GOP has done a 180, switching from a pro-black party to one that leans, well, racist. In a taped session for public broadcasting s Tavis Smiley during events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Little Rock s Central High integration,Clinton said that the G stanley cup OP has evolved away from the days of Lincoln.Smiley got Clinton on the subject when he contrasted Republican Ike s use of troops in 1957 to force integration with the current refusal by many Republican presidential candidates to attend his All-American Presidential Forum, designed to address issues of concern to African-Americans. Most cited scheduling problems. But Clinton, in the interview to air this weekend, had stanley botella a different view, reports our Suzi Parker, who sat in on the session. First of all, that says more about the evolution of the Republican Party, Clinton said. While Lincoln was the Great Emancipator, Bubba said that the party has switched sides. He found irony in Ronald Reagan s first political speech of the 1980 campaign taking place in Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s nastiest cases of racist violence. That captured the switching of the party, Clinton said, Parker reports. The Republican Party, populated with prominent black politicians, would argue that it has done a good job reaching out to African-Americans, however.Still, C

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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

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So stanley cup what s going on with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau On Friday, Richard Cordray resigned as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB following a November 15 announcement that he would leave by the end of the month. Cordray, who is expected to run for governor of Ohio next year as a Democrat, said that he was entitled to appoint his successor, and picked his deputy Leandra English to lead th vaso stanley e agency. President Trump argues that Cordray doesn t have the authority to select his own successor, and has appointed Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as the agency s interim chief. But English filed suit in federal court on Sunday, insisting that she is the legitimate director of the agency. So now we have a situation where an exceptionally powerful federal bureaucracy has two different people claiming that they run it. It all sounds pretty absurd on the surface, but it s a fight with high stakes. What does the CFPB do again It was created in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis to protect consumers from predator stanley polska y banks, lenders, and other financial bodies that could defraud people. The brainchild of now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was then an Obama White House aide, the CFPB is a product of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was passed by Congress in the wake of the crisis. The bureau overhauled the mortgage practices that were a factor in the financial crisis. It wrote simpler mortgage rules aiming to he Smep Ben Carson focuses on biography in new ad
By CBSNews s Amy Sara Clark.Who s running for president Just about everyone, it seems. With no incumbent, vice president or other presumed front-runner on either side, the 2008 election is the stanley cup most open since the 1920s, drawing in a plethora of strong hopefuls.Most of the attention has focused on possible frontrunners such as former Democratic Sen. John Edwards, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and, on the Republican side, Sen. John McCain, Govs. Mitt Romney and George Pataki, and America s Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani. Former NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark, Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, Sen. Joe Biden, and Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Duncan Hunter are also all either running or considering runs. But lower on the radar are a swirl of other candidates, declared and still deciding, who could give the top- stanley spain tier a run for its money. And one of them could even win. Just think Bill Clinton in 1992 or Jimmy Carter in 1976. Both began the race polling in the single digits. Here s a look at other candidates worth watching. And you never know, says Democratic pollster Chuck Rund, one of them could find the right mix of politics and organizational structure and money and a uniqueness and clarity of ideas, that would allow him to climb all the way to the top.The Republicans: Mike Huckabee:Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas comes to the race wi vaso stanley th three winning assets: he s a gove

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If you want to fix your broken smartphone without voiding its warranty, you could have a problem if you take it to an unauthorized repair shop. But that could change: Twenty states are now considering so-called Right to Repair bills.The Federal Trade Commission is asking for public comments on whether people should be able to get their electronics fixed by a third party.Last year, Apple included the ability to monitor battery health for certain iPhone models. However, the monitoring would become disabled for consumers who swap out the battery themselves or go to a non-au stanley cup thorized vendor. Apple acknowledged it added a notification that tells customers if an iPhone battery was put in by a third party. The company said this is to protect our customers from damaged, poor quality or used batteries which can lead to safety or performance issues. Apple defends controversial battery certification warning message Take your iPhone screen: I know plenty of people who would not got to an Apple store to fix it, they would take it to just some local screen repair place or a friend who does that kind of thing, said C stanley cups uk NET senior managing editor Dan Ackerman. But they re not getting the official Apple screen part. The same thing with batteries. Batteries are much tougher because you cannot get that official Apple battery stanley cups uk . So, if your Apple machinery breaks down and you take it to a repair shop, Apple will nor send that repair shop the parts Jhri Log Cabin Republicans rip Rick Perry ad
Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed a juror Sunday in the corruption trial of in Sen. Ted Stevens R-Alaska and appointed an alternate juror, ordering deliberations to begin again on Monday morning.The dismissed juror was allowed to leave Wa stanley termosar shington after her father s death, but court officials have not been able to get in touch with her since she left town. In an unusual Sunday night session, Sullivan said there was no choice but to appoint an alternate juror, which means deliberations on Stevens fate will restart from the beginning. I think we ve been more than reasonable, said Sullivan, who said court officials had not spoken with the juror since Friday despite repeated attempts to contact her, the Associated Press reported. Stevens lawyers asked Sullivan to delay his ruling on whether to dismiss the juror until Monday, but Sullivan, stanley cup nz who has kept the high-profile trial moving at a brisk pace, refused to do so.The alternate juror had already been interviewed by prosecutors and defense attorneys on Friday, when the trial was suspended, and was cleared to serve on the jury. Four alternate jurors sat in on the monthlong trial to be preparedto substitute for any jurors if needed. Last week, there were complaints from the jury foreman about an stanley cup other juror who had been unruly, and Sullivan called the entire group in to lecture them on civility and the proper decorum for the proceedings. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5

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Washington -- The Treasury Department announced Sunday it was lifting sanctions on three companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The move comes despite an effort in Congress to block the action with many lawmakers concerned that the Trump administration isn t being tough enough on Russian President stanley cup Vladimir Putin and his allies.Treasury said it was removing Russian aluminum giant Rusal and two other companies from its sanctions list on the grounds that the companies have r stanley mug educed Derapaska s direct and indirect shareholding stake in the three companies.Congress voted earlier this month to try to block the administration s efforts to remove the sanctions. In the House, 136 Republicans joined Democrats to disapprove of the deal while in the Senate, 11 Republicans supported the move but fell short of the 60 votes needed. The votes represented a major break in the solid GOP backing Mr. Trump has enjoyed in his first two years as president and sent a strong signal that congressional Republicans are willing to split with the White House on national security matters. Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska in January 2015 stanley cup REUTERS Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who introduced the resolution against the lifting of the sanctions, said removing them would be deeply flawed and wrong. He called on senators to consider that Doxx Transcript: Robert Costa on Face the Nation, June 11, 2023
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government.Rumsfeld, asked during a National Press Club appearance Thursday about indications of a deteriorating general relationship between Washington and parts of Latin America, said he believes such a characterization misses the mark. We saw dictatorships there. And then we saw most of those countries, with the exception of Cuba, for the most part move towards democracies, he said. We also saw corruption in that part of the world. And corruption is something that is corrosive of democracy. The secretary acknowledged that we ve seen some populist leadership stanley cup appealing to masses of people in those countries. And elections like Evo Morales in Bolivia take place that clearly are worrisome. I mean, we ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money, Rumsfeld added. He s a person who was elected legally mdash; just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally mdash; and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others. There have been increasing signs of hostility between Washington and Caracas. On Monday Chavez said Venezuela stanley mug s intelligence agencies have infiltrated a group of military officials from the U.S. E stanley kaffeebecher mbassy who were allegedly involved in espionage.Venezuelan authorities, inc