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  • Tracking Kevin McCarthy’s promises to GOP critics as debt ceiling fight looms

    Tracking Kevin McCarthy’s promises to GOP critics as debt ceiling fight looms

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    It was one of House conservatives’ biggest demands: more representation on key committees and in senior roles. They got both, and they’re still bragging about it.

    At a House Freedom Caucus fundraiser in Tennessee last month, the conservative group’s chair Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) boasted to donors about what it extracted from McCarthy. That included gaining the Homeland Security Committee gavel for a group member after securing Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) eventual chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee (he first served as the top Republican on the House Oversight panel).

    Jordan’s position, Perry claimed at the event, was based on “leverage, too.” In reality, though, that position had long been expected given Jordan and McCarthy’s increasingly close relationship.

    Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), a member of the Freedom Caucus who was present at the event, now chairs the homeland security panel after the protracted speakership battle.

    “Now we knew we were going to have a dog in the fight … we also knew the competition,” Perry said of the homeland chairmanship race – apparently referring to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) — according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO.

    “And one of the conversations was: If that other person becomes the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, then you will not be speaker.”

    While the GOP Steering Committee mostly decides panel chairs, the process is heavily influenced by the speaker. (Green’s position, as well as other competitive chair positions, were decided by the Steering panel after McCarthy’s election on the floor.) Green’s allies have argued that his win was more than just a tradeoff, saying it was a win-win given his resume and vision for the panel. A Crenshaw aide, responding to Perry’s words, called the apparent deal the “worst kept secret in Washington.”

    Additionally, two of the GOP’s most conservative members — Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — were placed on the lower-profile but powerful Rules Committee. It was perhaps the most decentralizing move McCarthy made; the Rules panel decides exactly the way legislation comes to the House floor, empowering Roy and Massie to block certain bills or push for changes.

    Conservatives gained more representation on other key committees, too. Two of the 20 holdout members landed on the Financial Services panel and two others got seats on Appropriations. And even Freedom Caucus members who were supportive of McCarthy landed on other top panels, like Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), who received a spot on Energy and Commerce.

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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

  • NIA Attaches Property Under UAPA In Shopian

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    SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday attached an immovable property in Hermain village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district under UAPA.

    Quoting an official, KNO reported that two rooms that belong to one Ishaq Pala of Aloora village in a joint residential house were attached by NIA today.

    He said Pala was involved in NIA case no. RC- 07/2018/NIA/DLI registered under UAPA.

    The official said that the property was attached after the order of special NIA court Jammu.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • NIA attaches property under UAPA in Shopian

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    Srinagar, May 10: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday attached an immovable property in Hermain village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district under UAPA.

    An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that two rooms that belong to one Ishaq Pala of Aloora village in a joint residential house were attached by NIA today.

    He said Pala was involved in NIA case no. RC- 07/2018/NIA/DLI registered under UAPA.

    The official said that the property was attached after the order of special NIA court Jammu—(KNO)

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    ( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

  • NIA Attaches Property Under UAPA In Kashmir

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    SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday attached an immovable property in Manigah village of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district under UAPA.

    An official said that the land measuring 3.5 Marlas belonged to one Daulat Ali Mughal of Shilabhatu Mohalla in Manigah.

    He said Mughal was involved in NIA case no. RC-2018/NIA/DLI, registered under UAPA.

    The official said that property was attached after the order of special NIA court Jammu. (KNO)

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Driver Injured After Being Assaulted, Accused Arrested

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    SRINAGAR: A driver was injured after he was assaulted by a shopkeeper in Main Chowk Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday.

    An official said that a shopkeeper assaulted a driver identified as Jalal-u-Din Lone of Sopore.

    He said that soon after the incident the injured was shifted to sub district hospital Sopore.

    The official said that the accused has been arrested and a case has been registered, while further investigation is going on. (KNO)

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • In Lala Sheikh’s Demise, An Era Ended

    In Lala Sheikh’s Demise, An Era Ended

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    by Raashid Andrabi

    SRINAGAR: The historic Hotel Lala Sheikh on Residency Road in Srinagar may be small and unassuming, but it serves up more than just a fine cup of tea. Lala Sheikh, the face behind this historical tea shop on Wednesday lost his life to cardiac arrest.

    With a history that spans over 133 years, this quaint tea shop survived as a cultural icon that has stood the test of time. Despite the challenges of time and family divisions among its inheritors, Hotel Lala Sheikh remains the preferred choice for all seeking a taste of history and a delicious cup of tea.

    The shop has a huge history envisaging migration of a worker from city periphery and making it big within Srinagar at a time when situations and system were not supportive of a “start-up”.

    Lala Mohammad Sheikh, a young man from the Budgam village of Handjan, founded the shop and quickly gained a reputation for its bakery items. Presently, fourth generation of Lala Sheikh that include three brothers namely Sheikh Altaf, Sheikh Javeed and Sheikh Mehboob Ali are running the shop.

    The bakery was very popular for its pastries and chicken patties, with many people visiting the shop, especially during the time when an English Resident lived at the Residency – now the Emporium Garden. It was this residency that made the road Residency Road. Politicians and foreigners also used to visit the shop to taste the bakery items. Lala has been serving customers since 1890 and has become region’s iconic restaurant.

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    Besides, serving delicious patties and fine tea, the restaurant has witnessed some of the fiercest literary, political and journalistic discussions in Kashmir. The cafe’s history and popularity have made it a must-visit destination for those who want to learn about Kashmir’s oldest tea room.

    According to popular belief, the likes of Dina Nath Nadim, Bansi Nirdosh, Mirza Arif, Akhtar Mohiuddin, Amin Kamil, Pran Jalal, and other notable writers would congregate at Lala Sheikh in the evenings, engaging in discussions on poetry and politics while sipping endless cups of tea. Sometimes, these conversations would continue until past midnight.

    Additionally, due to its proximity to the Doordarshan TV station and Radio Kashmir, famous singers such as Raj Begum and Ghulam Ahmed Sofi, as well as prominent broadcasters like Makhan Lal Saraf and Prana Shunglu, would frequent the establishment in the evenings.

    Kashmir’s noted raconteur Zareef Ahmed Zareef attributes cafe’s success to the dedication and passion of its founder, Lala Sheikh. “This place always served pure food and that too with love. As I worked around that shop only, I used to regularly visit the shop. Lala never compromised on the quality of food” Zareef recalls. “They maintained their fame till today with its food filled with love.

    Zareef said he was particularly fond of the restaurant’s tea and butter toast, which he describes as unmatched in their flavour and texture.

    While the restaurant may have changed in some ways over the years, its commitment to serving delicious food with a side of history remains as strong as ever.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • H&ME Orders Inquiry Into Violation Of Norms By DHSK

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    SRINAGAR: The Health and Medical Education (H&ME) department on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the alleged violation of government rules and regulations by the Director of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK).

    The director has allegedly delegated financial powers to Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) in contradiction to the established protocols.

    As per an order, issued by Secretary Health, Director Medical Supplies corporation limited Pankaj Gupta has been appointed as inquiry officer and has been directed to submit a report within 20 days.

    As per the order, the inquiry officer has been asked to find reasons for delegating financial powers to Chief Medical Officers by the Director Health Services Kashmir in violation of rules and regulations and in spite of the fact that a Central Purchase Committee, duly constituted by the government, existed at the Directorate level.

    He further has been directed to find reasons for further delegation of financial powers by Chief Medical Officer, Anantnag to Block Medical Officer, Saller against extant rules, establish whether Block Medical Officer, Saller exercised authority in violation of instructions issued by Director Health Services Kashmir, and even procured items available with JKMSCL against the mandate of purchase committee or not. In case of later, compelling reasons thereof.

    Further, inquire how BMO Saller ascertained rates’ reasonability and establish whether the rates were reasonable or not and establish whether procured items bear the requisite technical specifications or not, the order reads.

    “The Inquiry Officer shall fix responsibility for failure in observing financial propriety at various levels. The inquiry shall also extend to procurements made for the Baltal axis of Sh. Amarnath ji Yatra during 2022. The Inquiry Officer shall submit the report within a period of 20 days from the issuance of this order,” reads the order—(KNO)

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • ‘Don’t talk to me’: A look at Trump’s previous clashes with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins

    ‘Don’t talk to me’: A look at Trump’s previous clashes with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins

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    Here are some of those more memorable moments:

    When Collins was banned from a Rose Garden press conference

    In 2018, Collins was barred from attending a press conference in the Rose Garden after asking questions about Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Russian President Vladimir Putin while she was on duty as the pool reporter.

    At a photo-op in the Oval Office, Collins called out several questions to Trump as White House staffers ushered the press out of the room. Later, Collins said White House communications director Bill Shine and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called her into Shine’s office and told her she could not attend the upcoming press conference because her questions had been inappropriate.

    The incident sparked outrage from Collins’ fellow White House reporters and her own network, which issued a statement calling the move “retaliatory in nature and not indicative of an open and free press.”

    ‘A very nice question so beautifully asked’

    Trump mocked Collins at a 2019 press conference when she pressed him on statements he had made about his administration’s plans for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border amid the partial government shutdown caused by a standoff between lawmakers and the White House over funding for the wall.

    “You ran your campaign promising supporters that Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” Collins began before Trump interrupted her. “Oh here we go again,” he said.

    “And that wall was going to be made of concrete,” Collins continued. “You just said earlier that the wall could be made of steel and right now our government is shut down over a demand from your administration that the American taxpayer pay for the wall. So how can you say that you are not failing on that promise to your supporters?”

    “A very nice question so beautifully asked, even though I just answered it,” Trump replied.

    “I just told you that we just made a trade deal. We will take in billions and billions of dollars, far more than the cost of the wall,” Trump said.

    Collins attempted to ask a follow-up question about that trade deal, but Trump had already moved on to a question from another reporter.

    ‘CNN is fake news. Don’t talk to me.’

    After CNN reported on North Korean President Kim Jong Un’s health in 2020, Trump attacked the network and Collins during a press conference for what he said he believed was incorrect reporting.

    Collins asked Trump if he had been in contact with North Korea, to which he replied, “I don’t want to say. I won’t say that. We have a good relationship with North Korea — as good as you can have. I mean, we have a good relationship with North Korea. I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un and I hope he’s OK.”

    But when Collins attempted to ask a follow up, he shot her down and called CNN “fake news.”

    “No, that’s enough,” Trump said. “The problem is, you don’t write the truth.”

    “No, not CNN please,” he added when Collins continued to press him. “I told you, CNN is fake news. Don’t talk to me.”

    When Trump’s administration tried to make Collins move to the back of the briefing room

    Shortly after clashing over questions on North Korea, Trump’s staff tried to order Collins to move from her front-row seat in the White House briefing room, defying the seating assignments managed by the White House Correspondents’ Association, which White House officials had agreed to.

    Collins refused and the press conference went ahead, but Trump kept the briefing short and took no questions.

    When Trump walked out of a press conference after a question from Collins

    Trump abruptly ended a press conference in July 2020 after Collins tried to ask him questions about a video he retweeted that included false information about Covid-19.

    “The woman that you said is a ‘great doctor’ in that video that you retweeted last night said that masks don’t work and there’s a cure for COVID-19, both of which experts say is not true,” Collins said during a press briefing with the president. “She’s also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens and that they’re trying to create a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious. So, what’s the logic in retweeting that?”

    “She was on air with many other doctors. And they were big fans of hydroxychloroquine,” Trump replied. “And I thought she was very impressive in the sense that where she came — I don’t know which country she comes from — but she’s said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. And I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”

    When Collins pressed Trump, he abruptly ended the press conference and quickly walked out.



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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

  • Debt ceiling fight heads to battleground NYC suburbs

    Debt ceiling fight heads to battleground NYC suburbs

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    As both parties gaze toward a tumultuous 2024 election cycle, the president’s visit is already putting the Hudson Valley’s moderate Republicans, who narrowly won a handful of toss-up seats six months ago, back on the defensive. The economic tremors associated with a busted debt ceiling could be felt quickly by their constituents.

    “It’s exactly the wrong message,” Rep. Marc Molinaro, a Republican who won New York’s 19th District, said in an interview.

    “I think most Americans see the highest rate of inflation in 40 years, the debt crisis, spending crisis and a border crisis. And the president’s hopping on Air Force One to go siphon campaign dollars out of New York City, and then deliver partisan speeches in the marginal congressional districts. Frankly, there’s plenty of time for that. Right now, he ought to be engaged in negotiation on any one of those fronts.”

    Biden and congressional leaders in both parties met late Tuesday to see if they could reach a compromise, but it appeared no progress was made.

    Both he and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler pointed to Biden’s focus on negotiations — rather than campaign rhetoric — for similar crises when he was senator and then vice president.

    “So it’s a little surprising to see the tact that he has taken, frankly, throughout this process,” Lawler, who flipped New York’s 17th District by fewer than 2,000 votes, said in an interview Tuesday.

    “My position is one that I think most Americans would agree with,” Lawler continued. “Americans elected a House Republican majority to serve as a check and balance on the Biden agenda. And so they expect that there’s going to be a give-and-take. We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. And, and there needs to be compromise. And both sides need to be willing to give.”

    But Biden’s visit is not surprising to New Yorkers watching the scramble that ensued after November’s bruising results, and it won’t be surprising to see the president and other top Democrats return to Hudson Valley again and again, said Democratic strategist Jon Reinish.

    “I think that both parties regard the Hudson Valley — of all places — as the sort of political epicenter,” Reinish said. “It’s where [House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy made his majority, with a series of unlikely wins, but it’s also where his majority is the most fragile, and if you’re the White House, and if you’re President Biden, you’re going to seek to exploit that.”

    The issue’s partisan nature may serve to push lawmakers like Molinaro and Lawler toward more centrist positions relatively early in the reelection campaign.

    “2024 is coming down the pike really, really fast,” Reinish said. “And Lawler certainly knows that whichever Democrat runs against him is going to be extremely well funded and is going to go after him for any out of the mainstream radicalization and try to tie the rest of a faraway Republican House around him. So if I’m Lawler, I’m going to try to disarm whoever is going to be my opponent from those talking points.”

    The two Hudson Valley Republicans will be targeted by Democrats next year, along with the four seats on Long Island that the GOP swept. Biden and his surrogates made a series of stops in the region last fall to help Democrats, including the then-troubled campaign of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who was able to pull out a narrow win.

    Molinaro shrugged off the idea that the spotlight on the region would alter his or his colleagues’ positions in the near or distant future.

    “At the end of the day, the public — your voters — will reelect you, if you’ve done an earnest and honest job,” he said. “I would say the president of the United States owes my voters, my constituents and every American the same honest earnest job of delivering on the compromise that’s necessary to ensure we do not default and that we don’t continue to spend and mortgage away our kids’ futures.”

    Lawler said he welcomes Biden to his district and looks “forward to being there to hear his remarks.” Molinaro will not.

    “I will be working on Wednesday, in Washington, D.C.,” Molinaro said, pointedly.

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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

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