Notatnik Pascala IV: Fwd: Obama's handling of Manning, Russian leaks raises questions

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Subject: Obama's handling of Manning, Russian leaks raises questions
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Highlights

Kiss the ring! GOP Senate candidates told to make nice with Trump

Republicans considering a 2018 Senate bid are being advised to meet with President-elect Trump to ensure they have his seal of approval. Fears he could blow up their candidacies with a single tweet.

Zito: Mayors think they may have a partner in populist Trump

More than 300 mayors from across the country who descended on Washington this week to attend the United States Conference of Mayors. And many of them, including Democrats, think the Trump administration's plans for infrastructure could work out to their cities' benefit. 'A good relationship or direct line to a White House can make all of the difference.'

GOP circles wagons around Price as confirmation hearings begin

Republican senators say they have not lost confidence in Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, despite questions and accusations about his stock trading. Price hearings today before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.

Trump transition team asks CNN to retract story on Tom Price's stocks

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team asked CNN on Tuesday to retract a story the outlet had published one day earlier about past financial transactions involving Rep. Tom Price, Trump's pick for secretary of health and human services. Release states that Price's broker made decision to rebalance his portfolio.

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Cut a bureaucrat's pay to $1? Top Dem fears GOP to target federal workers

The top Democrat on the House Rules Committee is hopping mad that Republicans revived a 19th-century rule allowing lawmakers to essentially fire individual civil servants and eliminate entire federal programs when they approved the rules package governing the 115th Congress on a party-line vote earlier this month. 'Yet another effort by the Republican majority to scapegoat federal employees.'

Carney: Obama's corporatist legacy

President Obama will leave behind plenty of populist rhetoric, but his record on economic policy is eight years of corporatism. A legacy of government subsidizing and steering industry.

Arguments to begin in case touching on the fate of Redskins' name

The Washington Redskins' season has ended, but the fate of the football team's nickname could change greatly during the offseason depending on how the Supreme Court rules in Lee v. Tam, a separate trademark case whose arguments begin Wednesday. Case revolves around an Asian-American rock band that calls itself 'The Slants.'

Editorial: Trump's NATO blunder

A debate over NATO's mission, or how to update the organization, would normally be welcome. But President-elect Trump's suggestion that the alliance is obsolete is clumsy and reckless, especially given the roiling post-election debate over his fondness for Russia's dictatorial president, Vladimir Putin. NATO can and should be reformed; it shouldn't be destroyed.

Kristen Soltis Anderson: Reducing unplanned pregnancy should be a key pro-life priority

The abortion rate in America has hit its lowest level since 1973, the year that the Roe v. Wade decision offered constitutional protection to abortion. In an ideal world, elective abortion would fall to zero for lack of demand, not simply because it is denied to those who want it. And reducing that demand, preventing those unplanned pregnancies in the first place, ought to be a critical piece of the pro-life puzzle. Don't just look at the supply side.

Senator Enzi op-ed: The time to act on Obamacare is now

Senate Budget Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wy., promises "a stable transition" from Obamacare "in which those with insurance will not lose access to healthcare coverage. This will allow Congress to move step-by-step on a new set of reforms, listening carefully to the advice of the millions of Americans affected." An argument for the strategy of repealing now, replacing later.

After Manning commutation, will Julian Assange turn himself in?

WikiLeaks seemed to indicate Tuesday evening that founder Julian Assange intends to make good on a pledge last year to agree to U.S. prison time if President Obama granted Chelsea Manning clemency. 'Everything that he has said he's standing by,' lawyer says.

Judiciary Committee will vote on Sessions nomination Jan. 24

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced it will vote on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general on Jan. 24. Expected to pass committee easily.

'Shark Tank' celeb looks to pull a Trump in Canada

Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary, star of the ABC show "Shark Tank," is expected to run for leader of Canada's Conservative Party on Wednesday, according to multiple reports Tuesday evening. Is reality TV the future of government?

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