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, 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, along...

(CBS/AP) AKCAKALE, Turkey — Syrian rebels have seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey and pulled down the Syrian flag. An Associated Press reporter at the scene Wednesday says Syrians on the Turkish side of the border are celebrating and yelling, “I am a free Syrian!” People are moving freely across the border, crawling under barbed wire. There were fierce clashes Tuesday as rebels and regime forces fought for control of the Tal Abyad crossing. Syria’s rebels control several other border crossings into Turkey but it is believed to be the first time they have tried to take the border area in the northern province of Raqqa. More in After the Arab Spring Video: Safety, yet little hope for 카지노 쿠폰 Syrian refugeesReports: Syrian missiles hit LebanonU.N.:Foreigners making Syrian rebels radical Taking control of border crossings helps the opposition ferry supplies into Syria and carve out an area of control. As of early September, it was believed that at least 80,000 Syrians had fled the war in their country and become refugees in the sprawling camps in Turkey. U.N.:Record 100K fled Syria in August CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports that the Turkish government is having to build new camps and move refugees into them before they are even completed due to the huge influx of Syrians. Williams reports that of the roughly 8,000 Syrians...

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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, 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, along...