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The President has Waived the Refi Requirement. Save Thousands
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in 41 states, explaining that since the payments were issued in the
2013 budget year, the money would be subject to sequestration.Infuriated,
Republicans and Democrats from Capitol Hill to the governor's offices banded
together to fight back, arguing the money was paid to the states
well before the spending reductions went into effect. The governors of Alaska
and Wyoming have flat out refused to send the money back."The frustration
level is off the charts on this," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
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and stands to lose nearly $3.6 million.Wyden, chairman of the Senate Energy
and Natural Resources Committee, said he and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
the panel's top Republican, are working together to "turn this around" so
their states and others are not forced to return any money to
the federal government."This is slap-your-forehead-in-disbelief kind of
stuff," Wyden said.At issue are so-called county payments, a revenue sharing
plan that's existed since President Teddy Roosevelt created the national
forests to protect timber reserves from the cut-and-run logging going on
at the time. For nearly a century, hundreds of counties received a
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Benghazi, Libya. This posed huge dangers to President Obama's re-election
effort.Obama's greatest political asset was his success in preventing a
large-scale attack on the U.S. by Islamists. Obama had authorized the raid
that killed 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden and shown a willingness to
kill other terrorists with the kind of enthusiasm not associated with a
man who campaigned in opposition to the Iraq war.If there were any
thought that Obama were not sound on national security, his re-election,
then looking likely, would be in big trouble. It was especially troublesome
that the attack occurred in a country that was the centerpiece of
Obama's Middle East policy, where he had helped depose a secular government
and install an Islamist one in its place.Republican candidate Mitt Romney
tried to jump on the topic and managed to be overeager and
equivocating all at once. Romney ended up discussing the contents of Twitter
messages surrounding the attack and defending himself against charges of
politicizing the deaths of Americans.While Democratic operatives had Team
Romney pinned down on his Tweet talk, Obama and his advisers formulated
a response. Power Play was in Chicago the day after the attack
for meetings with the Obama campaign, but word came mid-morning that no
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">May 2, 2013: President Barack Obama, left, and Mexicos President Enrique
Pena Nieto, right, arrive for a news conference at the Palacio Nacional
in Mexico City.APMEXICO CITY President Barack Obama sought on Thursday
to tamp down a potential rift with Mexico over a dramatic shift
in the cross-border fight against drug trafficking and organized crime,
acceding that Mexicans had the right to determine how best to tackle
the violence that has plagued their country.Since taking office in December,
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has moved to end the widespread access
that U.S. security agencies have had in Mexico to tackle the violence
that affects both sides of the border. It's a departure from the
strategy employed by his predecessor, Felipe Calderon, which was praised
by the U.S. but reviled by many Mexicans.Obama said the shifting security
relationship would not hurt cooperation between the neighboring nations."I
agreed to continue our close cooperation on security, even as the nature
of that cooperation will evolve," Obama said during a joint news conference
at Mexico's grand National Palace. "It is obviously up to the Mexican
people to determine their security structures and how it engages with the
other nations -- including the United States."Pena Nieto as well downplayed
the notion that the new, more centralized arrangement would damage its security
partnership with the United States. He said Obama agreed during their private
m
ts offered an amendment that declared climate
change to be caused by humans.The amendment said: "Congress accepts the
scientific findings of the Environmental Protection Agency that climate
changes is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant
risks for public health and welfare."That amendment failed, on a 184-240
vote -- which is where the 240 number came from in the
OFA ad.But three of those no votes were Democrats. And not all
of the Republicans who voted against the amendment are on record saying
climate change is a sham. Republicans, rather, complained at the time that
the amendment was not pertinent to the underlying bill.So where does the
word "hoax" come from?There appear to be a couple instances. One, according
to the Post, was from a Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman, who said
at the time that the Republican bill's premise was "that climate change
is a hoax."The other was a quote from Republican Georgia Rep. Paul
Broun, nestled into the Obama group's video right after the vote factoid.
Broun said: "The idea of human-induced global climate change is one of
the greatest hoaxes perpetrated out of the scientific community. It is a
hoax."But as FactCheck.org pointed out, that quote was from 2009, two years
earlier.FactCheck.org also said that Broun and other Republicans who completely
deny a link to human activity are "off base." But the group
noted there is a diversity of opinion among the GOP caucus on
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