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Washington mdash; A $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific could be on its way to the House early next week after months of setbacks in the Senate.The Senate voted 64 to 19 on Friday night to officially begin debate on the foreign aid supplemental and is expected to work through the weekend after some Republicans demanded that the legislation include border security provisions, while others objected to it outright.The procedural vote sets up several days of debate and additional votes that are likely to bleed into the start of the Senate s two-week recess, which is supposed to begin Monday. The Senate will keep working on this bill until the job is stanley romania done, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Friday.On Thursday, the Senate crossed its first hurdle in getting the supplemental across the finish line after Republicans blocked a bipartisan border security deal that included the foreign aid. The foreign aid portion was stanley cup then separated from the larger bill, but the Senate delayed a procedural vote to advance the stripped-down version that was expected to happen Wednesday night amid disagreements about how to proceed. Yesterday the Senate cleared the first major procedural hurdle to passing the national security su stanley thermos mug pplemental. It was a good and very important first step, Schumer said.But Democrats and Republicans did not yet have an agreement on amendments, which would speed up final Dyqn Can Georgia s dedicated liberal women turn red state blue
Sen. George Allen s use the word macaca for a young man of Indian descent forced him to spend the past six weeks disputing claims that his past is littered with racist language and a fondness for Confederate symbols.On Thursday, the furor came full circle when the Sons of Confederate Veterans turned on Allen.The organization criticized the Republican for saying he had been slow to grasp the pain that Old South symbols like the Confederate flag cause black people. stanley cup The denunciation of the flag to score political points is anathema to our organization, Brag Bowling, immediate past state commander of the SCV, told reporters near the state Capitol, once the Confederacy s seat of government.Allen campaign manager Dick Wadhams said Allen stands by his comments. What had been a warm-up race for a 2008 presidential bid has become the fight of All stanley mug en s political life. He had been a strong favorite over Democrat Jim Webb, a decorated combat veteran who once served as President Reagan s Navy secretary. Before the Macaca incident, this race was over. George Allen had a 16-point lead in the polls and had a huge financial advantage over his opponent, who had no money. In one moment, he took a race that was essentially won and turned it competitive overnight, said Robert D. Holsworth, a political science professor at Virginia Com stanley becher monwealth University.Since Aug. 11, when Allen singled out Webb campaign volunteer S.R. Sidarth at a mostly white r |
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