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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, will run for the U.S. Senate in 2016, saying in a video posted to her website on Monday that she would "fight...
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Rand Paul sparks abortion uproar with democrat
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Each year in conjunction with Childrens Week, the Tallahassee Democrat holds its annual Civics Essay contest. The premise is simple, get middle-school students to not only understand the importance of volunteerism and civic engagement, but to incorporate those concepts into their lives.
This year the contest was open to all seventh-graders in Leon County. Their writing prompt was the following quote by former Sen. Bob Graham made when discussing the importance of getting involved in ones community: Citizenship is not just a spectator sport!
What does it mean to a 13- or 14-year-old to be an active citizen? It seems to vary from picking up trash on the ground to volunteering at the Alzheimers Project. Its safe to say that each student who entered the contest understands that service learning and active participation in our community is something everyone, regardless of their age, should be doing.
The three winners of the 2015 Tallahassee Democrat Civics Essay contest are: First Place, Devan Meyer; Second Place, Timothy Perry OConnor; Third Place, Maya Barrios.
Each of the winners will read their essays at the Storybook Village on Tuesday at the Capitol. All of the activities taking place during Childrens Week can be found at http://childrensweek.org./
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Sen. Ben Cardin leads a news conference to highlight the impact of the federal government partial shutdown on government workers in the National Capital Region and across the country in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 2, 2013 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
For nearly a half-century, Sen. Ben Cardin has been a state legislator, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, a member of the U.S. House and for the last eight years, a senator. Now, he's an ambassador of sorts, representing diverse constituencies in a tense and complex standoff over the threat a nuclear Iran could pose to Israel and the United States.
"I am trying to bridge the differences here," Cardin said in a telephone interview Wednesday from a Florida vacation a little while after receiving a call from President Obama.
There are many difficult disputes between powerful groups and across continents over how to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. On one track, Mr. Obama is in the final stages of negotiations with Iran over a deal that would curb Tehran's nuclear program and ease sanctions. He has issued a veto threat and personally pushed against the second track - a bill in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would give Congress a say over the provisions of any such deal.
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DEMOCRAT Party member Atavit Suwannapakdee has threatened to take legal action against the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) chief for accusing his mother of embezzlement when she was serving as a senior bank executive in charge of lending.
AMLO is seeking a court order to seize 22 assets worth more than Bt300 million from Pakinee Suwanna-pakdee, a former executive vice president of the now-defunct First Bangkok City Bank.
In 2004, the Bank of Thailand accused her and some other bank executives of money-laundering, AMLO secretary-general Seehanat Prayoon-rat told the press yesterday, adding that the accused had escaped arrest and that the statute of limitations for the case had expired in October 2012.
In February, AMLO's board of executives resolved to have public prosecutors seek a court order for the seizure of the Bt300-million plus in assets believed to have been earned from the alleged crime.
Atavit, a former Bangkok MP, told Isra News yesterday that he would sue Seehanat and other people for wrongly accusing his mother. However, he refused to identify other possible defendants.
The politician said he was "100 per cent certain" of his mother's innocence, adding that she had approved loans to clients who had later failed to pay them back after the 1997 financial crisis.
"She was not able to get the loans repaid, but this was not cheating," he said, adding that AMLO was being unfair by using the anti-money-laundering law against his mother.
Atavit also claimed that AMLO had revived the case against his mother after his party launched a censure debate against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Meanwhile, Seehanat said AMLO had resolved to confiscate some Bt31.7 million in assets in relation to the embezzlement scandal involving the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative. He said this decision was made on Wednesday.
Among the assets to be confiscated are land title deeds, bank passbooks, cash, safes, buildings and cars.
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