CLOSE
Tags Posts tagged with "Congress"

Congress

1

The White House warned Congress today that delaying ratifying a vast trans-Pacific commerce deal will cost the US economy.

The deal between 12 Pacific Rim countries is scheduled to be signed at 11:30 am in Auckland , New Zealand.

The challenging pact — consented after marathon negotiations in Atlanta, Georgia in October — aims to break down investment and trade barriers between nations comprising about 40 percent of the global economy.

But the signing many, and will come with barely a year left in the term President Barack Obama, of its main proponent suppose that members of Congress will not need to risk alienating voters by approving it national elections. Froman, though, said that putting ratification off will come with costs.

“After five years of dialogue, signing the TPP is a significant landmark in our efforts to set high-conventional rules of the road in the Asia Pacific area and more generally, and to deliver an arrangement which will help American workers, farmers and businesses.” Saying that the deal stands to add USD 100 billion a year to US economic growth, “There are costs to delay, real economic costs,” he said. “It is vital to move forward.”

Froman noted that the deal will keep the US in standing as a leader in “21st century standards” for global trade and protection of intellectual property, an open Internet, and labor and environmental protections. “It also offers significant geopolitical benefits. The US is and has long been a Pacific power.

Yesterday, Obama discussed his urge to get the treaty ratified with top Congressional Republican leaders, who said they had difficulties with the complicated deal. “I ‘ve some issues with all the arrangement,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “It’s my advice that we not pursue that, certainly before the election.

0

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kailash Vijayvargiya leader now retracted his controversial ‘Bharat Virodhi’ remark for Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, saying it wasn’t intended to ‘damage the opinions of anyone’.

“If India was ‘intolerant’ then Shah Rukh Khan wouldn’t function as the hottest actor in the nation after Amitabh Bachchan. My tweet was taken from context. Yet, I take back what I said since I’d no intention to damage anyone’s opinion,” Vijayvargiya tweeted.

Vijayvargiya had earlier called Shah Rukh Khan an “anti-nationalist” and condemned him over his “extreme intolerance” remark, saying his “soul” was in Pakistan though he lives in India.

His movies make crores here but he believes India to be intolerant,” Shah said in a number of tweets amid mounting concerns over the “growing intolerance” in the nation.

“If this is not anti-nationalist, then what is it? India is making a play to be a permanent person in the United Nations and all of the anti-Indian forces, including Pakistan, are developing a conspiracy,” he said.

The BJP leader had earlier come under sharp criticism from the Opposition for his opinions.

“Shah Rukh Khan comes from a household of freedom fighters. How can he become a ‘Pakistani’ when his family fought for this country’s freedom? On the other hand, none of your loved ones members have fought for the freedom of this nation and also you call yourself patriot?” Congress leader Rashid Alvi said.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should personally apologise to Shah Rukh Khan.

Shah Rukh Khan had openly stated that there was an “extreme intolerance” in the nation, and included that intolerance towards ingenuity and religion will hurt the united states.

“There is intolerance, there’s extreme intolerance… there’s I think… there’s growing intolerance,” he said.

0

The House of Representatives relied greatly on Democrats to ensure passage in a 277-151 vote. A big majority of Republicans voted against the measure, which failed to satisfy with conservatives’ demands to cut off money to women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood.

A companion bill aimed at restoring the Planned Parenthood funds supply was also passed by the House, but the Senate isn’t likely to act on it, effectively killing it.

The spending expansion was signed by President Barack Obama into law the White House said in a statement.

The news was welcomed by Obama having a tinge of sarcasm in comments to several progressive state legislators in Washington.

“The good news is the fact that it appears that the Republicans will only hardly avoid shutting down the authorities for the 2nd time in a couple of years.

“The terrible news is the fact that it seems like Republicans will only hardly avoid shutting down the government again for the 2nd time in a couple of years,” he added.

Earlier in the day, by a vote of 78-20, the Senate approved the legislation which was needed to maintain the government running using the start of brand new fiscal year on Thursday at present levels.

House conservatives, cheered on by some Senate associates, had insisted that Planned Parenthood be penalized for allegedly selling fetal tissue picked from abortions. The claims have been denied by the corporation.

The discussion changed radically last week when House Speaker John Boehner declared his resignation and said he’d set the Senate’s “clean” funds bill into a vote.

The funds expansion intends to allow Obama and congressional negotiators to work out a longer-term budget deal and still automatic spending constraints on national and military spending.

0

Tens of thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements were received by Aaron Schock for his personal vehicle, after less than 12 hours of POLITICO questions about that, Aaron Schock
resigned Tuesday.

From January 2010 through July 2014, Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car. According to public records obtained by POLITICO under Illinois open records laws, he sold that Chevrolet Tahoe in July 2014, it had roughly 80,000 miles on the odometer. There were a documents indicate that he was reimbursed for 90,000 miles more than his car was driven.

“In an effort to remove any questions and out of an abundance of caution, Congressman Schock has reimbursed all monies received for official mileage since his election to Congress.” Spokesman for Schock said on later Tuesday

It is considered a swift downfall of one of the GOP’s most promising young stars and prolific fundraisers after Schock’s resignation. He was elected to Congress in 2008 and shot through the ranks of the House GOP, and gracing the cover of Men’s Health magazine while he was a fresh face in a party eager to update its image.

The lawmaker bought the 2010 Tahoe from Green Chevrolet in Peoria in November 2009, less than a year after Schock took his seat in Congress. He will remain in Congress until March 31.

© Copyright 2023 - Tribune Reporter