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U. S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren does not have to announce anything.

All the Massachusetts Democrat freshman senator has to do is just stand there and wait for Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democrat Party nominee for president, to blow it.

And Hillary just might do that, just as she did in 2008, when Barack Obama came out of nowhere to humiliate her when he snatched the party nomination away. Back then, like now, Clinton was also the prohibitive favorite.

Warren, the darling of the progressives, has become a national figure "taking on" Wall street and the big banks, as well as for standing up to President Obama on issues dear to their hearts.

Apparently the days when Warren swooned over the president are over. That was back in 2011 when she was ushered into the Oval Office where Obama praised her for helping create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which she had proposed.

"He held both my hands in his and scrutinized my face," she later wrote.

"Then he flashed his ten-thousand kilowatt smile and maneuvered me over to the seating area," she said just before he would not appoint her to head the agency because she made the bankers "nervous." "After a perfunctory hug, I was back in the hallway."

While Warren has repeatedly insisted she is not a candidate for president, her remarks have fallen on deaf ears as far as the progressives of Moveon.org and other leftist Democrat Party groups are concerned.

MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, which launched a RunWarrenRun signature campaign, have opened a Warren campaign office in Des Moines, Iowa, and a campaign effort in New Hampshire. The organizations claim to have already gathered 200,000 signatures urging Warren to run.

She has also received unsolicited support from the Hollywood liberal elite, support that traditionally had gone to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Oscar nominated actor Mark Ruffalo recently co-hosted an Artist for Warren party in Manhattan at the home of Julie Pacino, actor Al Pacino's daughter.

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By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Dozens of New Democrat MPs, including Leader Tom Mulcair, have been ordered to reimburse taxpayers $2.75 million in salaries paid to aides who worked in satellite party offices.

The secretive, multi-party Board of Internal Economy, which polices House of Commons spending, has sent bills to 68 MPs, including several who no longer sit as New Democrats, ordering them to personally repay the money.

The board ruled last August that the MPs had inappropriately used their House of Commons budgets to pay for 28 employees in satellite party offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.

On average, sources say the MPs are being asked to pay back about $30,000.

But for some MPs the tab is more than $100,000; sources say the leader's office is being asked to reimburse about $400,000.

The NDP is challenging the board's ruling on the satellite offices in Federal Court, as well as an earlier ruling that found New Democrat MPs had wrongly used $1.17 million worth of free parliamentary mailing privileges to paper 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives.

In the case of the mailings, the board ordered the MPs to repay $36,000 to the Commons and urged Canada Post to recover the rest.

It emerged Tuesday that lawyers for the board and the NDP have been discussing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement of both matters and jointly asked the court last November to suspend proceedings pending further negotiations.

Those negotiations are still in progress.

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OTTAWA Dozens of New Democrat MPs, including Leader Tom Mulcair, have been ordered to reimburse taxpayers $2.75 million in salaries paid to aides who worked in satellite party offices.

The secretive, multi-party Board of Internal Economy, which polices House of Commons spending, has sent bills to 68 MPs, including several who no longer sit as New Democrats, ordering them to personally repay the money.

The board ruled last August that the MPs had inappropriately used their House of Commons budgets to pay for 28 employees in satellite party offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.

On average, sources say the MPs are being asked to pay back about $30,000.

But for some MPs the tab is more than $100,000; sources say the leaders office is being asked to reimburse about $400,000.

The NDP is challenging the boards ruling on the satellite offices in Federal Court, as well as an earlier ruling that found New Democrat MPs had wrongly used $1.17 million worth of free parliamentary mailing privileges to paper 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives.

In the case of the mailings, the board ordered the MPs to repay $36,000 to the Commons and urged Canada Post to recover the rest.

It emerged Tuesday that lawyers for the board and the NDP have been discussing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement of both matters and jointly asked the court last November to suspend proceedings pending further negotiations.

Those negotiations are still in progress.

The NDP maintains its MPs have done nothing wrong and that both decisions are the result of a partisan gang-up by Conservatives and Liberals on the board.

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The new leader of the New York state Assembly promised to focus on ethics and integrity after colleagues elected him Tuesday as the first African-American speaker, replacing a lawmaker whose two-decade reign ended with federal corruption charges.

Democrat Carl Heastie vowed to create a new office of ethics compliance and take other steps to clean up Albany's tradition of corruption and backroom dealing.

"We will change the cynicism into trust," Heastie said. "Our state deserves a government as good as its people."

Sheldon Silver, who held the speakership for 21 years, is charged with taking nearly $4 million in payoffs and kickbacks. The Manhattan Democrat has said he expects to be exonerated and intends to keep his seat in the Assembly. Silver attended Tuesday's session, casting a vote for Heastie from his new desk in the Assembly's back row.

Democrats hold a more than two-thirds majority in the chamber, and Heastie easily won the post over Republican Minority Leader Brian Kolb.

The Assembly's only other business Tuesday was passage of a resolution honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Heastie noted the coincidence.

"Thank you, Dr. King, for making this day possible," said Heastie, also the first speaker from the Bronx.

The speaker is one of the most important positions in state government. Heastie will direct the flow of legislation, set committee assignments and direct budget negotiations with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republican-controlled state Senate.

Four other lawmakers initially sought the speakership but quickly backed out as Heastie locked up support.

The 47-year-old Heastie was first elected in 2000 and has led the Assembly's Labor Committee for the past two years. He is a former budget analyst in the New York City Comptroller's Office. He also leads the Bronx Democratic County Committee, a post he has said he will leave now that he is speaker.

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