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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was upbeat Thursday after he and other Republican senators met with President Obama at the White House to discuss the conditions under which Congress will vote on increasing the cou stanley cup ntry debt limit, but repeated his position shared by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio that any increase in the debt ceiling will include spending cuts and no tax increases.Candidly, I was a little skeptical as to whether this meeting was worth having. But I a stanley cup ctually think it was a very good meeting. It gave the president the opportunity to have Republican senators tell him directly how they see this. Everyone did it very respectfully, we didn ;t have a big food fight in there, McConnell said. stanley cup McConnell said he would only vote for a deal to raise the country borrowing limit, which will expire in early August, according to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if it cut discretionary spending in the short term, pushed discretionary and entitlement spending downward over time, and addressed long-term entitlement spending Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.We are talking here about spending reductions, there will be no tax increases in connection with raising the debt ceiling, he said. The only question remaining is what will we pick up and agree to on a bipartisan basis He added that the period of time in for which the limit will be extended is also under negoti Blum Senate Approves Two-Week Spending Measure
WASHINGTON 鈥?adidas og The Homeland Security Department is demanding that airlines around the world step up security measures for international flights bound for the United States or face the possibility of a total electronics ban for p stanley cup lanes.Compliance with the new rules could lead to the lifting of a ban on laptops and other large electronics already in place for airlines flying to the United States from 10 airports in the Middle East and Africa. It could also stave off a much-discussed expansion of the ban to flights from Europe.Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced the rollout of the new rules Wednesday. salomon The changes will be phased in over time and include enhanced passenger vetting, explosives detection and efforts to root out insider threats to airlines.Security is my No. 1 concern, Kelly said during a speech at the Center for a New American Security. Our enemies are adaptive and we have to adapt as well.Kelly said the changes will be 8220 een and unseen and will be phased in over the coming weeks and months.He said airlines that don ;t comply or are slow to enforce the new standards could be forced to bar large electronics in both carry-on and checked luggage. They could also lose permission to fly into the U.S. He said he confident that airlines will cooperate.The current ban, with affects only foreign carriers flying to the U.S. from 10 cities, allows passengers to travel with larger electronics packed in checked bagga
