Mes: agosto 2019

Senate Democrats plan to slow down work in the upper chamber in an effort aimed at drawing attention to Republicans’ secret negotiations to craft legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. A senior aide told CBS News’ Steven Portnoy that Democrats will begin a series of parliamentary moves at 4 p.m. ET Monday in an effort to slow the Senate agenda. Democrats plan to object to all requests for unanimous consent and they plan to make their own consent requests to move the health care negotiations into committee where the conversation can take place publicly. Democrats intend to hold the floor until late into the evening Monday, making a series of speeches condemning the closed-door GOP talks. “Republicans are drafting this bill in secret because they’re ashamed of it, plain and simple,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said through an aide, calling the actions tonight “merely the first steps we’re prepared to take in order to shine a light on this shameful Trumpcare bill.” “If Republicans won’t relent and debate their health care bill in the open for the American people to see, then they shouldn’t expect business as usual in the Senate,” Schumer added. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 고스톱사이트 R-Kentucky, has said he’d like a vote on health care by Congress’s July 4 recess, but Senate Republicans have yet to release language. On Monday, Schumer,...

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says President Donald Trump will chair a Security Council meeting on Iran during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York this month. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday that the meeting will address “violations of international law and general instability Iran sows throughout the entire Middle East region.” She accused Iran of supporting terrorism and destabilizing activities in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. She says Iran’s leader could speak at the council meeting if he chooses to. Haley was speaking to reporters at U.N. headquarters. She outlined the agenda for the United States’ monthlong presidency of the council during September. The council is the top decision-making body at the U.N. Haley also said that Mr. Trump will chair a high level event for world leaders on September 24 on counter-narcotics.  In response to a question by CBS News, 바카라 동호회 Haley confirmed that Mr. Trump will meet with South Korea’s President Moon at the sidelines of the General Assembly meetings: “I can tell you that obviously the U.S. and South Korea continue to have a strong relationship, a strong working relationship, as we continue with Japan on this issue,” Haley said the North Korea sanctions were important because, “unfortunately, it was the only way we could get the attention of North Korea,” CBS News’ Pamela Falk reports, and she said that the...