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If two people object, we are back on the basic rule … which says we have to wait four weeks. But, if we don’t get that many objections, then we can suspend the rules … and we can vote tonight, and my guess is, if we do that, the council will vote to send Rep. Justin Jones right back to the Tennessee State House. – Jim Shulman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One striking thing is that the fishing community – the commercial fleet and recreational fishing groups – have largely supported the closure of the salmon season, that has been apparent in the public comments at the council and elsewhere. They argue that they should not be fishing when the stocks have declined to this level. – Michael Milstein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The science shows that anyone who has gone through male puberty retains male anatomical differences that provide an athletic advantage, the World Athletics Council was unwilling to compromise the integrity of the female category without evidence that these male advantages can be ameliorated. – World Athletics	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was the lead negotiator with the [European] Council on the final text, it was adopted there by the ambassadors of the different member states, you have an agreement and now, all of a sudden, a couple of member states want to refrain from the agreement. That is not how you negotiate and how you make deals with each other. – Jan Huitema	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What needs to happen here is the Washington, DC, council and the mayor need to work together, the criminal code hasn’t been updated for 100 years. They didn’t get it entirely right when they went through the exercises over the last year. – Tom Carper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The people of the district should have the right to have their Council accountable to them and should not have to worry about what Congress is going to do in regards to local decisions. – Many Democrats	Found on CNN 1 year ago
How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
No member of this Council should call for peace while supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine and on the UN Charter. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That’s the world this body was created to end. And members of this Council have a unique responsibility to make sure we don’t return to it. – Alexander Hamilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was so full of life, it’s just unbelievable that he’s gone, the Milford Borough Council is deeply saddened by the loss and our hearts go out to his family. – Mayor Henri Schepens	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Milford Borough Council is deeply saddened by the loss and our hearts go out to his family. – Mayor Henri Schepens	Found on CNN 1 year ago
On behalf of the Dunwoody City Council, I want to assure everyone that hateful, divisive, and anti-Semitic rhetoric has no place here. – Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Australia Day tends to end up a very cliquey day where there’s not a lot of togetherness outside of free breakfast on the council. – Don Arnold/WireImage/Getty Images Hanshaw	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The arms transfers from [North Korea] are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolution. – Strategic Communications John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When Grenfell happened we spoke to our local council just to double-check all the buildings in the town. We asked the management agent and freeholder [ the owner of the apartment building and land ] if they have any concerns. At that point, everyone was saying no, all these buildings are good. – Sophie Bichener	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are gratified that Secretary Cardona's Potemkin village 'Parents Council' will be disbanded, because families should never be used merely as props to advance progressive policies, parental engagement is essential for students to succeed; accordingly, it is critical that ALL voices and perspectives be integrated into any feedback mechanism that the Biden Administration operates - and that the Department of Education respect the rule of law. – Education President Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Earlier today, while working in the protective custody unit at the Anna M. Kross Center, one of our Correction Officers was brutally stabbed in the back of his head approximately 15 times by an inmate, the Executive Board and I are with the officer at the hospital, who is conscious and undergoing tests. I want to thank Mayor Adams and Commissioner Molina for also visiting the officer tonight. This heinous attack demonstrates exactly why the Public Advocate and City Council must immediately pull the Bill to end punitive segregation before one of us gets killed. – Benny Boscio	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
More concerning than the debacle last night is his career track record of not showing up for work, well documented by the AP and the Washington Post, he simply disappeared in previous roles as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Braddock where he quit attending council meetings altogether. The only thing worse than being incapable of advocating for his constituents, is being uninterested in the job. – John Ashbrook	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Council of Europe treaty, also known as a prisoner of transfer treaty, is not an acceptable remedy here for the family, that would involve Ridge coming home in custody, going to federal prison, waiting some period of months for the sentencing commission to act, and affix a charge and a sentence to the foreign offense, which would leave him a felon in his own country, for something that would never have been charged in this country and that's unacceptable. – Jonathan Franks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After much consideration, it is in the best interest of the community to step down as a member of the City Council for District 3 to minimize further distractions, the Mayor, the City Council, and the City Staff must continue to move forward to unite our community, once again. – Pete Arredondo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I offer my deepest condolences to the family of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey served on Metro Council for 16 years and dedicated Oprah Winfrey life to entrepreneurship, barbering, and mentoring young men in the community, an Army veteran and deacon, he leaves behind a legacy of service. – Nashville Mayor John Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3, the mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde. – Pete Arredondo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
But you chose this job knowing you could be in the line of fire. These kids didn’t choose to be in the line of fire, remember my face. Because we will be at every city council meeting until something changes. – Jazmin Cazares	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Parents have spent years battling the government to take their hands off our children, their response, after accusing us of terrorism is to create a council to formally come between parents and children? That's how I see it. I do not trust that Secretary Cardona has suddenly had a change of heart.Parents don’t need the federal government (sic) or local government showing us how to engage on behalf of our children. If anything, the federal government should be instructing school boards and departments of education to honor the oath they took to listen to their constituents. – Quisha King	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

If two people object, we are back on the basic rule … which says we have to wait four weeks. But, if we don’t get that many objections, then we can suspend the rules … and we can vote tonight, and my guess is, if we do that, the council will vote to send Rep. Justin Jones right back to the Tennessee State House.

– Jim Shulman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One striking thing is that the fishing community – the commercial fleet and recreational fishing groups – have largely supported the closure of the salmon season, that has been apparent in the public comments at the council and elsewhere. They argue that they should not be fishing when the stocks have declined to this level.

– Michael Milstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The science shows that anyone who has gone through male puberty retains male anatomical differences that provide an athletic advantage, the World Athletics Council was unwilling to compromise the integrity of the female category without evidence that these male advantages can be ameliorated.

– World Athletics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was the lead negotiator with the [European] Council on the final text, it was adopted there by the ambassadors of the different member states, you have an agreement and now, all of a sudden, a couple of member states want to refrain from the agreement. That is not how you negotiate and how you make deals with each other.

– Jan Huitema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What needs to happen here is the Washington, DC, council and the mayor need to work together, the criminal code hasn’t been updated for 100 years. They didn’t get it entirely right when they went through the exercises over the last year.

– Tom Carper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The people of the district should have the right to have their Council accountable to them and should not have to worry about what Congress is going to do in regards to local decisions.

– Many Democrats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at the Pentagon? How many people want to talk about Afghanistan at State, or AID? Not many, and you know this report, with its companion report, is the only official US government report that’s public … on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan. To me, I’m very glad that we were able to do this, but I’m an inspector general. You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No member of this Council should call for peace while supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine and on the UN Charter.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s the world this body was created to end. And members of this Council have a unique responsibility to make sure we don’t return to it.

– Alexander Hamilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was so full of life, it’s just unbelievable that he’s gone, the Milford Borough Council is deeply saddened by the loss and our hearts go out to his family.

– Mayor Henri Schepens

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Milford Borough Council is deeply saddened by the loss and our hearts go out to his family.

– Mayor Henri Schepens

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On behalf of the Dunwoody City Council, I want to assure everyone that hateful, divisive, and anti-Semitic rhetoric has no place here.

– Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Australia Day tends to end up a very cliquey day where there’s not a lot of togetherness outside of free breakfast on the council.

– Don Arnold/WireImage/Getty Images Hanshaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The arms transfers from [North Korea] are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolution.

– Strategic Communications John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When Grenfell happened we spoke to our local council just to double-check all the buildings in the town. We asked the management agent and freeholder [ the owner of the apartment building and land ] if they have any concerns. At that point, everyone was saying no, all these buildings are good.

– Sophie Bichener

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are gratified that Secretary Cardona's Potemkin village 'Parents Council' will be disbanded, because families should never be used merely as props to advance progressive policies, parental engagement is essential for students to succeed; accordingly, it is critical that ALL voices and perspectives be integrated into any feedback mechanism that the Biden Administration operates - and that the Department of Education respect the rule of law.

– Education President Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Earlier today, while working in the protective custody unit at the Anna M. Kross Center, one of our Correction Officers was brutally stabbed in the back of his head approximately 15 times by an inmate, the Executive Board and I are with the officer at the hospital, who is conscious and undergoing tests. I want to thank Mayor Adams and Commissioner Molina for also visiting the officer tonight. This heinous attack demonstrates exactly why the Public Advocate and City Council must immediately pull the Bill to end punitive segregation before one of us gets killed.

– Benny Boscio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

More concerning than the debacle last night is his career track record of not showing up for work, well documented by the AP and the Washington Post, he simply disappeared in previous roles as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Braddock where he quit attending council meetings altogether. The only thing worse than being incapable of advocating for his constituents, is being uninterested in the job.

– John Ashbrook

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Council of Europe treaty, also known as a prisoner of transfer treaty, is not an acceptable remedy here for the family, that would involve Ridge coming home in custody, going to federal prison, waiting some period of months for the sentencing commission to act, and affix a charge and a sentence to the foreign offense, which would leave him a felon in his own country, for something that would never have been charged in this country and that's unacceptable.

– Jonathan Franks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After much consideration, it is in the best interest of the community to step down as a member of the City Council for District 3 to minimize further distractions, the Mayor, the City Council, and the City Staff must continue to move forward to unite our community, once again.

– Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I offer my deepest condolences to the family of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey served on Metro Council for 16 years and dedicated Oprah Winfrey life to entrepreneurship, barbering, and mentoring young men in the community, an Army veteran and deacon, he leaves behind a legacy of service.

– Nashville Mayor John Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3, the mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde.

– Pete Arredondo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But you chose this job knowing you could be in the line of fire. These kids didn’t choose to be in the line of fire, remember my face. Because we will be at every city council meeting until something changes.

– Jazmin Cazares

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Parents have spent years battling the government to take their hands off our children, their response, after accusing us of terrorism is to create a council to formally come between parents and children? That's how I see it. I do not trust that Secretary Cardona has suddenly had a change of heart.Parents don’t need the federal government (sic) or local government showing us how to engage on behalf of our children. If anything, the federal government should be instructing school boards and departments of education to honor the oath they took to listen to their constituents.

– Quisha King

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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