Republican presidential hopeful Buddy Roemer, the former congressman and governor of Louisiana, has not exactly been focused on foreign policy during his dark-horse bid for the GOP nomination -- but he ripped into Egypts leadership late on Monday. Roemer, who is also running for the Americans Elect nomination, weighed in on 19 Americans who might be facing trial in Egypt.
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Republican presidential hopeful former House Speaker Newt Gingrich released his draft of an executive order that he vows to enact, if elected, on the first day of his presidency, allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. President Barack Obama opposes the pipeline which would send oil into the U.S. from Canada. Gingrichs draft of the order is below:
By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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While their fire has been directed against Rick Santorum in recent days, the team behind Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has not forgotten about GOP rival Newt Gingrich. On Tuesday, the Romney camp ripped into Gingrich, reminding voters about the former House speakers career after stepping down from Congress.
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Sierra Club president Michael Brune said last week that he stopped his organization's acceptance of donations from a gas-drilling company when he found out about them.
Turns out that his chronology might be off.
"In 2010, soon after I became the organization's executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than $26 million from individuals or subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy, one of the country's largest natural gas companies," Brune wrote in his "Coming Clean" blog.
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A bill that would let school districts put cameras on school buses with the hope of getting pictures of drivers who don't observe the school bus stop signs when children are boarding will be heard by the Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday, the News Service of Florida reports.
Senate Bill 250 is sponsored by Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens.
The committee also hears a combined version of two bills -- SB 590 and SB 568 -- dealing with red light cameras.
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Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs late on Monday.
The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.
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Scott D. Makar, Floridas solicitor general, has been named by Gov. Rick Scott to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of 1st District Court of Appeal Judge Paul Hawkes.
Scotts extensive knowledge of the law and experience in appellate courts is widely known and respected, Gov. Scott stated in a release. I am confident he will consider every case presented to the appellate court in a thorough and fair manner.
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Gary Johnson and other presidential hopefuls will participate in a Libertarian Party debate Saturday afternoon in Orlando.
Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, who dropped his bid for the Republican nomination last month, will be joined on the debate stage by party activist Lee Wrights, Kiowa Nation member and Afghan war veteran R.J. Harris, author and documentary filmmaker Bill Still, former Texas Libertarian Party chair Roger Gary, entrepreneur Leroy Saunders and Carl Person.
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From time to time some state agency, or some person at an agency, doesn't seem to take seriously what someone in the Legislature, maybe a chairman of a committee, wants the agency to do.
Agency officials blow off the concerns of some committee chairmen at their peril.
Gov. Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP's nominee for president -- with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen -- have been trying to sweep his statement under the rug.
