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House members can't accept anything worth $50 or above unless one of the specific exceptions in the ethics rules allows for it, when a member receives benefits or items free of charge based upon their position it raises red flags.

Civic Trust President Kendra Arnold

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Excessive and unnecessary force can happen when situations could have been handled in cooler manner but is unnecessarily and unduly escalated. One way it happens, someone shows up and the way they present is in a way that raises the temperature, this situation could've involved no force but ends up involving significant force. That's unnecessary, excessive. Lots of situations weren't criminal, just problematic policing.

Phil Weiser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because of the very real concerns about apparent failures to disseminate and act on intelligence in the leadup to the January 6 insurrection, this memo raises important questions about the intent behind the change, the origins of it, and the effect this policy change had on intelligence dissemination, the January 6 select committee should consider these questions.

Noah Bookbinder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to talk to congressmen and have a law made that someone who rapes a child should not be allowed to get a bond because if he raises the money, he’ll be able to go home. My daughter can’t come home, there’s an emergency room 100, maybe 200 feet away and this is where you put her? It’s the hardest part of the situation. He drugged her, he raped her and he dropped her dead body right here, 200 feet from the emergency room.

Jeffrey Carrillo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Consumers are price conscious. They will notice if an orange juice manufacturer, for example, raises the shelf price from $ 2.99 to $ 3.19.

Edgar Dworsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our police chief said he would forgo his pay raise and also my city manager and our city maintenance officer manager donated their… pay raises also, it was unanimously passed, the budget, and we’re very happy to say that our police officers will be getting their raises.

Mayor Morrow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These figures and labor market tightness and the behavior of housing markets and asset prices are all rising in a more concerning way than I worried about a few months ago, this raises my degree of concern about an economic overheating scenario. There are huge uncertainties in the outlook, but I do believe the focus of concern right now should be on overheating.

Larry Summers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

PFOF raises serious investor protection concerns, pFOF causes a clear conflict of interest between the firm and its clients, because it incentivises the firm to choose the third party offering the highest payment, rather than the best possible outcome for its clients when executing their orders.

European Securities and Markets Authority

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

To have the building continue to be closed raises the question about how open is our democracy and how accessible are our lawmakers, it's very difficult to say we want to build trust in government when there's a fence between the governmental building that is our symbol of democracy and the American people.

Jane Campbell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This buildup is concerning. It raises questions about the PRC’s intent. And for us, it reinforces the importance of pursuing practical measures to reduce nuclear risks, we encourage Beijing to engage with us on practical measures to reduce the risks of destabilizing arms races - potentially destabilizing tensions.

Ned Price

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Here, the person that raises their voice gets marked or singled out as a traitor to the country.

Juan Sebastián

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It may be a simple matter of a healthy lifestyle change or a more complex issue, right now, we do not know, but it raises enough serious questions that we must pay attention to events over the next couple of months to find out.

Mike Brodka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gretchen Whitmer’s wanton disregard for the rules and transparency surrounding her secret vacation to Florida raises serious ethical concerns for Michiganders and ensure that the turbulence is not far behind her, whitmer’s abuse of a slush fund and possible benefit at taxpayers’ expense will not fly with Michigan voters when they vote to fire the damn governor next fall.

Governors Association spokesman Chris Gustafson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The interaction of ascending magma and the icy substrate of this region could have provided favorable conditions for microbial life fairly recently and raises the possibility of extant life in this region.

David Horvath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The young age of this deposit absolutely raises the possibility that there could still be volcanic activity on Mars, and it is intriguing that recent Marsquakes detected by the InSight mission are sourced from Cerberus Fossae.

David Horvath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since that time, there hasn't been any kind of wide scale raises or wide scale fixing of pay disparities by the company, we feel like the overall trends represented in this study are very much the same as now, as they were nine months ago. The reason that it's nine months old is because we wanted to put in the work necessary to do this data justice and make sure everything was accurate.

Rebekah Sanders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After years of vehement denial, Governor Lujan Grisham's now revealed sexual harassment settlement certainly raises questions of why Michelle Lujan Grisham tried to discredit Michelle Lujan Grisham alleged victim, where there is smoke there is usually fire, and Michelle Lujan Grisham just wrote a check for $ 62,500 worth of kindling.

Will Reinert

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sadly, Trump is not going to be doing that, but he will be defended by the lawyers who refused to prosecute Bill Cosby and who agreed to represent Jeffrey Epstein before his death, which raises the question, what does Trump think he is being impeached for?

Colin Jost

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The emergence of this variant raises concerns of a potential increase in transmissibility or propensity for SARS-CoV-2 re-infection of individuals.

The CDC

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When we see officers killing a person of color, it doesn't just raise the anger of a potentially unjustified killing. It raises the anger of another potentially unjustified killing involving this troubling, repetitive racial dynamic.

Seth Stoughton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This attack continues for approximately 16 seconds until Foy is knocked down by another rioter. ... Foy raises his hockey stick above his head in celebration.

The FBI

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The breach today at the U.S. Capitol raises grave security concerns, i intend to have the Committee on House Administration work with the bipartisan House and Senate leadership to address these concerns and review the response in coming days.

Zoe Lofgren

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Bolsonaro appears to be visibly upset at what has happened in United States because United States raises the specter of Jair Bolsonaro own potential electoral failing in Jair Bolsonaro bid for reelection in two years.

Mark Langevin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Every dollar paid here is one dollar less for states like Connecticut trying to maximize money from Purdue and the Sacklers to abate the opioid epidemic, preserving Purdue's ability to continue selling opioids as a public benefit corporation is simply unacceptable. The timing of this agreement mere weeks before the election raises serious questions about whether DOJ political leadership was negotiating in the best interest of the American public.

William Tong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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