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Congressional Democrats have declined an offer by Attorney General William Barr to view a less redacted version of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as only 12 members of Congress would be able to read the stanley cup report and could not discuss it with other members of Congress.In a press conference Thursday morning, Barr made the offer to the House speaker, the Senate majority leader, the House and Senate minority leaders, the chairs and ranking members of the Hou stanley quencher se and Senate Judiciary Com stanley cups mittees, and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. These members of Congress, as well as one staffer for each member, could review a less redacted version of the report in a reading room, but could not take the report out of that room or discuss it with other members of Congress. Unfortunately, your proposed accommodationmdash;which among other things would prohibit discussion of the full report, even with other Committee Membersmdash;is not acceptable, congressional Democrats said in the letter to Barr. The letter was signed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, and the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Mark Warner. While the current proposal is not workable, we are open to discussing a reasonable accommodation wi Xdqw Capitol Bells app alerts Congress to votes, lets public chime in
MALIKI AND THE IRANIANS....So what s the story behind the elaborate negotiations that led to Muqtada al-Sadr issuing a statement in Najaf and asking his partisans to stand down in Baghdad and Basra Leila Fadel of McClatchy has the details:Iraqi lawmakers traveled to the Iranian holy city of Qom over the weekend to win the support of the commander of Iran s Qods brigades in persuading Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to order his followers to stop military operations, members of the Iraqi parliament said.....The Iraqi lawmakers held talks with Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Qods Jerusalem b stanley cups uk rigades of Ir stanley becher an s Revolutionary Guard Corps and signed an agreement with Sadr, which formed the basis of his statement Sunday, members of parliament said.Ali al Adeeb, a member of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki s Dawa party, and Hadi al Ameri, the head of the Badr Organization, the military wing of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, had two aims, lawmakers said: to ask Sadr to stand down his militia and to ask Iranian officials to stop supplying weapons to Shiite militants in Iraq.....The Qom discussions may or may not bring an end to the fighting but they almost certainly have undermined Maliki mdash; who made repeated declarations that there would be no negotiations and that he would treat as outlaws those who did not turn in their weapons for cash. The blow to his own credibility was worsened by the fact that members of his own party had stanley becher helped organize the Iran initi |
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