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ATLANTA ndash; Making her first high-p stanley cup rofile foray into the Southern black church, California Sen. Kamala Harris told a Georgia congregation founded by former freed slaves that the United States remains wracked by racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination that flout the nati stanley bottles on s core values.But the rising Democratic Party star added that Americans aren t as split as forces of hate and division suggest. I believe it is time we replace the divide-and-conquer, she said from the pulpit of First Congregational Church in downtown Atlanta. I ve come up with an equation: diversity plus commonality equals unity. A 52-year-old, first-term senator widely mentioned as a potential national candidate, Harris did not mention President Donald Trump in her remarks. Yet her approach highlights a complex political task for Democrats as they try to counter Trump s economic appeals to working-class whites, while honoring their core supporters among nonwhites, to rebuild the electoral coalitions that twice elected President Barack Obama. And the choice of venue mdash; a congregation that includes business, civic and political stanley cup becher players in Atlanta s black community mdash; also nods to a Democratic constituency that helped sway the party s last two presidential nominating battles.Harris s future prospects dominated her appearance as the invited keynote for the 150th anniversary of First Congregational Church s founding. Introducing Harris, c Brht Sen. Kaine says Va. could probably do better on state s chosen statues in Capitol
South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is renewing his call for a ban on lobbying by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after the Bush administratio stanley quencher n announced a major bailout of the mortgage giants over the weekend. For years, these two mortgage giants have used taxpayer guarantees to gain enormous profits and lobby Congress to look the other way while they failed homeowners, said DeMint in a statement. Now that the stanley tazas federal government has taken control of them, the time has come to stop their lobbying practices and make sure American tax dollars are not being used to win more favors with politicians. DeMint proved to be a major thorn in the Democrats side in July, as he held up passage of major housing legislation in an attempt to get a vote on an amendment banning lobbying of members of Congress by Fannie and Freddie. Behind the scenes, many of DeMintrsquo colleagues were frustrated by hisone-man protest. stanley kaffeebecher Aides to the senator said he plans on introducing the measure as a stand alone bill in the near future. DeMint, an outspoken fiscal conservative, said he was disappointed that the federal government had to spend billions of dollars to intervene, but said he was happy to see a shakeup of top managers at the twomortagage guarantorsafter the chief executives of both institutions were replaced. Despite Secretary Paulson s insistence that their bailout authority would not be used, most of |
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