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The Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees called for a robust U.S. response to the terror attacks in Paris last week and faulted President Obama for not having a strategy
stanley taza to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . We don t have a strategy in Syria as it relates to ISIL, said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, said on CBS Face the Nation Sunday, using an alternate acronym for the group. The president talked the other morning about ISIL was contained. America learned within 24 hours it s not contained. It s rampant everywhere in the world that they intend to carry out these horrific acts. It just so happens
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Vice President Al Gore continued his offe
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stanley quencher ounting people for the census provided an opportunity to woo away Hispanic voters from the Texas governor.Gore was campaigning in New York City, at a neighborhood house in Manhattan. On the wall behind him were signs reading Viva Gore. The event was an inherently political one, for Democrats and Republicans split last year over how best to conduct the census. Democrats urged a new counting system, a statistical sampling that they argued would give better representation of minorities. Instead of relying on a hard count of every person, estimates of population would be used in areas like inner cities, where people are believed to be less likely to fill out and return census forms. But Republicans bitterly opposed the plan, saying the only fair way to run a census was the old-fashioned way of counting each and every individual. They won; this year s census is being done in the usual manner. There are unquestionably political implications to the census, which, among other things, determines how congressional districts are drawn and how representatives are apportioned. And if the sampling method really uncovered more minorities - traditionally Democratic voters - that could hurt Republicans. The GOP posi
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