Sen. Joni Ernst Delivers The Republican Response
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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has only been a U.S. senator for two weeks, but tonight she will be the face of the GOP when she delivers the Republican response to President Obamas State of the Union address.
In November, Iowans elected Ernst as the first woman to ever represent the state in Congress. She catapulted to political stardom with an ad about castrating hogs, making Lets make em squeal a hallmark of her campaign.
Ernst, 44, served as an Iowa state senator before running for the Senate last year. Throughout her campaign, Ernst touted herself as a Harley-riding Sunday school teacher, who also serves as a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in the Iowa Army National Guard.
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Ernst would deliver the official Republican response to the presidents State of the Union address during the Republican retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Ernst said she was humbled and honored to be chosen for the task.
It is a long way from Red Oak to Washington, D.C., and growing up on a southwest Iowa farm years ago I never, never would have imagined that I would have this opportunity, Ernst said.
Ernst is expected to hold major political influence in the 2016 presidential contest. Earlier this month, Ernst announced she would host an event called Hogs and Harleys for Republican presidential hopefuls in June.
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally with Republican candidate for the United States Senate Scott Brown at Gilchrist Metal Fabricating in Hudson, New Hampshire October 15, 2014.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's declaration that he is considering a third shot at the White House after being a two-time Republican presidential loser was widely greeted with disdain at a national gathering of Republican activists on Thursday.
Romney, the Republican U.S. presidential nominee in 2012, told a meeting of donors in New York last week that he is considering another White House run in 2016. Romney lost to incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama in 2012, and lost the Republican presidential nominating race in 2008 to Senator John McCain.
If Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, does enter the 2016 presidential race, opposition to a possible third White House attempt is already widespread and deeply felt, according to interviews with a gathering of grassroots Republican party members where Romney is scheduled to speak on Friday night.
At the Republican National Committee winter meeting in San Diego, many of the roughly 300 activists in attendance said Romney had his chance. A third bid would also buck historical trends. Only one presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, lost a presidential race, as he did in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, to go on to win the White House in a later race. Nixon won the 1968 presidential election.
"Mitt Romney. He didn't run his campaign right against Obama. He flubbed it. Another Romney candidacy would be a complete disaster, and I don't think he'll even get there," said Bill Eastland, a Republican party member from Texas.
Should he choose to run in 2016, Romney will still be a formidable candidate, having maintained a network of wealthy donors and having learned lessons from two national presidential campaigns.
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A Republican net neutrality proposal in the U.S. Congress would not fully protect broadband customers because it would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from enacting new rules against selectively blocking or throttling traffic, critics said Wednesday.
The Republican draft legislation would kill the FCCs ability to act on schemes that prioritize some traffic over others, witnesses told a congressional committee.
The proposal would strip the countys expert communications agency of authority to protect consumers on the communications platform of the 21st century, said Jessica Gonzalez, executive vice president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
It effectively freezes the FCC in time, only allowing it to confront a handful of harmful practices that we have contemplated based on market conditions and technology that exists today, she said.
The bill would also exempt certain specialized services, such as smart grid services and others that are separate from the public Internet, from the prohibitions on paid traffic prioritization. That would leave a giant loophole that could allow broadband providers to prioritize their own Web content, Gonzalez said, a hearing before the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committees communications subcommittee.
The draft bill also allows broadband providers to engage in reasonable network management but doesnt define that term, critics said.
The proposals prohibition on broadband providers selectively blocking or throttling Web content, and its general ban on paid prioritization deals, are encouraging, said Chad Dickerson, CEO of online marketplace Etsy. Dickerson also applauded the proposal for applying the same rules to mobile broadband as it does to wired broadband.
But Etsy is concerned that the proposal, with an exemption for specialized services, does not ban all types of discrimination online, leaving loopholes that could be easily exploited, he said.
Instead of the draft bill, Congress should let the FCC move ahead with its plan to pass net neutrality rules, Gonzalez said.
The FCC, likely to reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility at its Feb. 26 meeting, would provide broadband providers and customers with certainty moving forward, she said.
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