The issue figures to be a key one for Jolly, who in addition to filing legislation to expand veterans’ choices when it comes to where they receive their VA benefits penned an op-ed last week in the Washington Times in which he said VA negligence was as much a threat to US soldiers as those behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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“But that”, Maddow observed, “is where the Republican Party is”. Rather, they were types of “defensive action”, she told Rachel Maddow during a lengthy interview on Friday night.
Hillary Clinton said that President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to define marriage at the federal level as between a man and woman to prevent Republicans from seeking a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage outright.
“It perhaps is good politics with the – you know, the – the most intense, extreme part of their base”.
Hannity called the exchange between Jordan and Clinton “an awesome rebuke of what they had been telling you, the American people”.
“I’m not in any way excusing them”.
Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic primary for president, Bernie Sanders, was in Congress when the Clinton administration passed DOMA. I think that will bear out. “When talking about State Department employees, she stressed that they were not her staff. She surrounded herself with partisan loyalists to an extent that should trouble voters”. “And with the U.S. Supreme Court decision, it’s settled”, Clinton said. “He is liberated and I don’t think history is done with him”, Clinton said.
“I do think the Republicans on the committee were right yesterday when they highlighted as a policy matter that Libya is in a bad situation”, Maddow told the candidate, suggesting that the murder of dictator Muammar Khadaffi led to the sort of violent chaos that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, the same kind of unintended effect that could result from the toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
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“Well, I had my whole team come over to my house and we sat around eating Indian food and drinking wine and beer”. And she asked, “I know that you and President Clinton are different people, and I know that you’re not responsible for what he did as president”.
