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DUTERTE’S MOVE COMES AFTER THE U.S. CONGRESS APPROVED A 2020 BUDGET THAT CONTAINS A PROVISION INTRODUCED BY THE SENATORS AGAINST ANYONE INVOLVED IN HOLDING DE LIMA, WHO WAS CHARGED WITH DRUG OFFENCES IN EARLY 2017 AFTER SHE LED AN INVESTIGATION INTO MASS KILLINGS DURING DUTERTE’S NOTORIOUS ANTI-DRUGS CRACKDOWN.
DONALD TRUMP WILL BE ACQUITTED. HE WON"T BE FORCED FROM OFFICE. SO WHAT CHANGES? WELL, DONALD TRUMP WILL HAVE A PLACE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS - AND FOR A MAN WITH SUCH A HUGE SENSE OF SELF THAT WILL HURT. ACUTELY. BUT 2020? FAR FROM THIS BEING A KILLER BLOW AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, IT MIGHT TURBO CHARGE HIS BID FOR A SECOND TERM. THE HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY PELOSI, WAS ALWAYS WARY ABOUT GOING DOWN THE IMPEACHMENT ROUTE. WE"LL DISCOVER NEXT NOVEMBER WHETHER THAT CONCERN WAS WELL FOUNDED.
SENATOR RONALD "BATO" DELA ROSA EARLIER ADMITTED HE HAS NOT VISITED THE US IN A WHILE FOR FEAR OF BEING DENIED ENTRY AMID TALKS HIS US VISA HAD BEEN CANCELED OVER ALLEGED EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS UNDER HIS WATCH AS CHIEF OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE FROM 2016 TO 2018. DELA ROSA SAID HE HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY WORD FROM THE US GOVERNMENT THAT HE COULD NO LONGER VISIT THE COUNTRY.
"THE PRESIDENT IS IMMEDIATELY ORDERING THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION TO DENY US SENATORS DICK DURBIN AND PATRICK LEAHY, THE IMPERIOUS, UNINFORMED AND GULLIBLE AMERICAN LEGISLATORS WHO INTRODUCED THE SUBJECT PROVISION IN THE US 2020 BUDGET, ENTRY TO THE PHILIPPINES," DUTERTE'S SPOKESMAN SALVADOR PANELO SAID FRIDAY.
HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/NICKYWOOLF/STATUS/1177321438346452992?REF_SRC=TWSRC%5ETFW%7CTWCAMP%5ETWEETEMBED%7CTWTERM%5E1177321438346452992&REF_URL=HTTPS%3A%2F%2FWWW.MEDIAITE.COM%2FTRUMP%2FJEFF-FLAKE-AT-LEAST-35-REPUBLICAN-SENATORS-WOULD-SUPPORT-TRUMP-IMPEACHMENT-IN-SILENT-VOTE%2F
DOING JEWISH: LIKE HIS FATHER, LIEBERMAN IS SABBATH OBSERVANT. RELIGIOUSLY, HE CALLS HIMSELF “CONSERVADOX” — A PORTMANTEAU OF ORTHODOX AND CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM. LIEBERMAN SAID HE RECENTLY STARTED DRIVING TO SYNAGOGUE BECAUSE ATLANTA’S NOTORIOUS SPRAWL MITIGATES AGAINST LIVING WALKING DISTANCE FROM SYNAGOGUE, BUT HE WON’T BE CAMPAIGNING ON SHABBAT.
GERMANY'S FOREIGN MINISTER HEIKO MAAS HAS JOINED RUSSIAN CRITICISM OF THE SANCTIONS, SAYING LAST WEEK THAT "EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY MUST BE DECIDED IN EUROPE, NOT THE U.S." WHILE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV SAID LAST WEEK THAT "I ASSURE YOU THAT NEITHER NORD STREAM 2 NOR TURKSTREAM WILL STOP" BECAUSE OF U.S. SANCTIONS.
IN ADDITION TO SEARCHING FOR HIM, THE ARMY ALSO WAS LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF DRUG TRAFFICKING. WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO NORIEGA』S TWO-STORY HOUSE NEAR A U.S. OFFICERS』 CLUB AT FORT AMADOR, A MILITARY BASE USED JOINTLY BY U.S. AND PANAMANIAN FORCES. IT WAS THERE THAT SOLDIERS FOUND A FREEZER FULL OF BUNDLES OF BANANA LEAVES WRAPPED AROUND A WHITE POWDERY SUBSTANCE THAT THEY INITIALLY DECLARED WAS COCAINE.
BIPARTISAN BACKGROUND CHECKS ACT OF 2019, H.R. 8, 116TH CONG., 1ST SESS. (JANUARY 8, 2016), AVAILABLE AT HTTPS://WWW.CONGRESS.GOV/BILL/116TH-CONGRESS/HOUSE-BILL/8/ACTIONS?Q=%7B%22SEARCH%22%3A%5B%22H.R.8%22%5D%7D&R=1&S=1; ENHANCED BACKGROUND CHECKS ACT OF 2019, H.R. 1112, 116TH CONG., 1ST SESS. (FEBRUARY 8, 2019), AVAILABLE AT HTTPS://WWW.CONGRESS.GOV/BILL/116TH-CONGRESS/HOUSE-BILL/1112?Q=%7B%22SEARCH%22%3A%5B%22HR+1112%22%5D%7D&R=1&S=1.
THE WASHINGTON POST WRITES: 「FOR NOW, THERE IS NO CLARITY ON HOW LONG A TRIAL WILL LAST OR EVEN WHEN IT WILL BEGIN. IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT ON WITNESSES. WITH VERY LIMITED EXCEPTIONS, SENATORS ARE TAKING THEIR CUES FROM THEIR PARTY LEADERS, WITH SENATE REPUBLICANS INCREASINGLY COORDINATING WITH THE WHITE HOUSE ON A TRIAL STRATEGY THAT THEY INSIST WILL BE FAIRER THAN WHAT THE HOUSE AFFORDED TRUMP. ADDING TO THE UNCERTAINTY: SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI (D-CALIF.) LATE WEDNESDAY LEFT OPEN THE POSSIBILITY THE HOUSE MAY NOT IMMEDIATELY SEND THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT TO THE SENATE, SAYING SHE WANTS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW THE TRIAL WILL PROCEED.」
THE INTENSE FOCUS ON NOMINATIONS IS EVIDENT IN NEW FIGURES COMPILED BY SENATE DEMOCRATS, WHO SAID THAT IN 2019, THERE WERE 287 VOTES IN THE CHAMBER RELATED TO NOMINATIONS, COMPARED WITH 98 REGARDING LEGISLATION. (REPUBLICANS BLAME DEMOCRATS FOR FORCING EXCESSIVE PROCEDURAL VOTES ON NOMINEES.) DEMOCRATS ALSO COUNTED 70 DAYS WITH VOTES RELATED ONLY TO NOMINATIONS, 29 DAYS WITH VOTES STRICTLY ON LEGISLATION, AND 19 DAYS WITH VOTES ON BOTH LEGISLATION AND NOMINATIONS.
TARGETS OF DASKA SANCTIONS WOULD INCLUDE: RUSSIAN BANKS THAT SUPPORT EFFORTS TO INTERFERE IN FOREIGN ELECTIONS; THE COUNTRY"S CYBER SECTOR AND NEW SOVEREIGN DEBT. IT ALSO WOULD IMPOSE MEASURES ON RUSSIA"S OIL AND GAS SECTOR.
SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE OF RHODE ISLAND, AS WELL AS SENATORS ELIZABETH WARREN OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SHERROD BROWN OF OHIO, ON FRIDAY REQUESTED THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE INVESTIGATE THE TAX CREDIT PROGRAM FOR REFINED COAL, ACCORDING TO A LETTER VIEWED BY REUTERS.
“TODAY WE CAME TO AN AGREEMENT THAT WILL FINALLY SECURE PENSIONS AND HEALTHCARE FOR OUR COAL MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES,” SAID U.S. SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV). “WE HAVE HONORED THE PROMISE THIS COUNTRY MADE TO THEM BACK IN 1946. THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE UMWA AND THE THOUSANDS OF COAL MINERS WHO INVESTED THEIR TIME AND ENERGY, YEAR AFTER YEAR, COMING TO WASHINGTON, WALKING THE HALLS, AND FIGHTING FOR THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. IT HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO LEAD THIS FIGHT AND BRING TOGETHER THE COALITION THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, FOR MAKING THIS A TRULY BIPARTISAN EFFORT.”
REPRESENTATIVE ADAM B. SCHIFF OF CALIFORNIA, THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, ON SUNDAY CONDEMNED MR. MCCONNELL AND OTHERS FOR SEEKING TO CONDUCT A TRIAL WITHOUT DEMANDING TESTIMONY AND DOCUMENTS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE REFUSED TO PROVIDE TO HOUSE INVESTIGATORS.
IN THEIR RUSH TO HAVE THE WHOLE SCRAPPY AFFAIR OVER AND DONE BEFORE FEBRUARY, WHEN THE IOWA CAUCUS OPENS THE CURTAIN TO MONTHS OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES, THEY HAVE FALLEN SHORT OF GIVING IMPEACHMENT THE GRAVITAS IT DESERVES.
“AS AN ARMENIAN AMERICAN AND A PROUD U.S. CITIZEN I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF MY COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP AND MY HOME FOR STANDING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF JUSTICE AND PROPERLY RECOGNIZING THE ATROCITIES THAT HAPPENED IN 1915 DURING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE,” SAID PATATIAN.

 

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