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Jerry Brown: All Mexicans, legal or not, are welcome in California
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Daily News Briefing: Jerry Brown: All Mexicans, legal or not, are welcome in California
Image Credit: SLD Digital via Flickr Published by: Clark Barrow
Follow the warm and inviting Moonbeam.
- OVERWHELMED - California Governor Jerry Brown said on Monday that all Mexicans — whether in the United States legally or not — are "all welcome in California."
- DEPENDENCE - According to the Department of Agriculture's most recently released data, the number of individuals enrolled in the food stamp program has remained above 45 million every single month for three years straight.
- BOYCOTT - A United States Senator called for a boycott of the fast food chain Burger King after news broke on Monday that the company was in talks to purchase Tim Hortons, a Canadian food chain.
- RACE RELATIONS - The public perception that race relations have not improved during the course of Barack Obama’s presidency appears to be on the rise. Some data indicate, in fact, that the Obama-era has seen racial tensions worsen.
- CONGRESS - Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) plans to introduce a bill that would require the House and Senate to work five days a week.
- OBAMACARE - Another federal government-run website created under ObamaCare is suffering the same symptoms as the troubled federal health care exchange -- grappling with delays, data problems and other hiccups as the deadline to take it public nears.
- CRISIS - President Obama vowed to punish the Islamic State killers of American journalist James Foley on Tuesday but said rooting out the militant group in Iraq and Syria will not be fast or easy.
ECONOMIC NEWS
- DEPENDENCE - According to the Department of Agriculture's most recently released data, the number of individuals enrolled in the food stamp program (known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) has remained above 45 million every single month for three years straight.
- Roughly 32 million Americans were receiving assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program in January 2009.
- Still, despite historic levels of Americans now dependent on welfare, and with the middle class poorer now than it was in 1984, Obama continues to claim that his economic policies have made things better.
- According to Gallup, just 39 percent of Americans believe the U.S. economy is "getting better" versus 56 percent who say it is "getting worse."
- BOYCOTT - U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called for a boycott of the fast food chain Burger King after news broke on Monday that the company was in talks to purchase Tim Hortons, a Canadian food chain.
- The newly merged company would become the world's third-biggest "quick service restaurant company," with more than 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries, said Burger King and Hortons in a statement Monday.
- The effective corporate tax rate in the U.S., which combines national, state, and city-level tax rates, is nearly 40 percent—the highest across all 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries. Canada's, by comparison, is just over 26 percent.
- Burger King would hardly be the first large American corporation to move its headquarters—more than 70 U.S. companies have reincorporated overseas since the early 1980s. The practice has been especially popular lately—more than half of those inversions have come since 2003, or almost double the amount that did in the twenty years prior, according to data from Congressional Research Service (CRS).
- Meanwhile, one of the White House’s top economic priorities this fall is to deter companies from pursuing inversions, and Treasury Department officials are designing plans that would remove some of the incentives for these deals.
- Mr. Obama and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew have spoken disparagingly about companies that use inversions. Mr. Obama in July called inversions an “unpatriotic tax loophole” and said “my attitude is I don’t care if it’s legal, it’s wrong.”
IN THE DISTRICT
- RACE RELATIONS - President Obama has put the My Brother’s Keeper initiative at the center of his response to racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
- Meanwhile, the Harvard Law professor who mentored President Obama and the first lady during their time in Cambridge has compared the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Meanwhile, the public perception that race relations have not improved during the course of Barack Obama’s presidency appears to be on the rise. Some data indicate, in fact, that the Obama-era has seen racial tensions worsen.
- The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake noted that a recent Pew Research Center poll indicates that faith among African-Americans in law enforcement to act fairly has plummeted. In 2007, only 31 percent of black respondents had “very little” faith in local police. Today, 46 percent said the same.
- The survey also shows that 64 percent of African-Americans believe blacks and whites “get along very well” or “pretty well” today. In 2007, that figure was 69 percent rising to 76 percent in 2009. Pew’s latest results represent a 12 point shift backwards.
- OVERWHELMED - California Governor Jerry Brown said on Monday that all Mexicans — whether in the United States legally or not — are "all welcome in California."
- Mexico's president spoke of the need for U.S. immigration reform on a two-day visit to immigrant-friendly California, saying those who reject diversity and inclusion will ultimately be proven wrong.
- TARGETED - Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was intentionally destroyed after Congress had begun its probe into IRS targeting of conservative groups, a senior IRS lawyer acknowledged in a sworn declaration.
- Thomas Kane, Deputy Assistant Chief Counsel for the IRS, wrote in the declaration, part of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the IRS, that the Blackberry was "removed or wiped clean of any sensitive or proprietary information and removed as scrap for disposal in June 2012."
- That date - June 2012 - is significant because by that time, ex-IRS official Lerner had already been summoned before congressional staffers who interviewed her about reports of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.
- Meanwhile, congressional investigators made another call for the appointment of an IRS scandal special prosecutor after discovering that key lawyers for the scandal-plagued agency have a “conflict of interest” in the case.
- NATIONAL DISGRACE - The Veterans Affairs Department says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any deaths at a VA hospital in Phoenix, deflating an explosive allegation that helped expose a troubled health care system in which veterans waited months for appointments while employees falsified records to cover up the delays.
- Revelations that as many as 40 veterans died while awaiting care at the Phoenix VA hospital rocked the agency last spring, bringing to light scheduling problems and allegations of misconduct at other hospitals as well. The scandal led to the resignation of former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. In July, Congress approved spending an additional $16 billion to help shore up the system.
- CONGRESS - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has worked to reassure fellow Democrats during the August recess that his party would not lose control of the Senate if the election were held now.
- However, the election is still 10 weeks from Tuesday, and Democrats who once felt the party would retain their majority are now worried the GOP's momentum could cost them even more than the six seats necessary for Republicans to retake control.
- In several races, Republicans are pulling away from their Democratic rivals.
- There are currently 53 Democrats, 45 Republicans and 2 Independents in the U.S. Senate. Republicans need to gain just six seats to take control of the Senate for the last two years of Obama's term
- CONGRESS - Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) plans to introduce a bill that would require the House and Senate to work five days a week.
- OBAMACARE - The federal government issued sixty contracts from 2009 to 2014 in efforts to build Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace. According to a report issued by the inspector general (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the government is already under obligation for another $300 million, and the estimated value of the sixty contracts totals $1.7 billion.
- Another federal government-run website created under ObamaCare is suffering the same symptoms as the troubled federal health care exchange -- grappling with delays, data problems and other hiccups as the deadline to take it public nears.
- At issue is a database known as the Open Payments website. It was created under the Affordable Care Act to shed light on the financial ties between doctors and pharmaceutical companies as well as device manufacturers.
- The transparency initiative is supposed to include detailed information about drug payments made by doctors as well as the value of gifts and services given by drug makers. Such items can include everything from meals to swanky retreats.
- CRISIS - President Obama vowed to punish the Islamic State killers of American journalist James Foley on Tuesday but said rooting out the militant group in Iraq and Syria will not be fast or easy.
- As Obama spoke, the United States was moving ahead with surveillance flights over Syria to identify targets for a potential presidential order to launch air strikes against Islamic State targets in what would be a direct U.S. military intervention into a country embroiled in a three-year civil war.
- The Obama administration is undecided about the threat level to Americans by the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS) and how they should handle it, The Hill reported.
- Meanwhile, a third American hostage held by ISIS has been identified as a 26-year-old American woman who was kidnapped a year ago while doing humanitarian relief work in Syria. The terror group is demanding $6.6 million and the release of U.S. prisoners for the life of the young woman, who the family requested not be identified.
- Some European countries have spent millions rescuing their citizens from terrorists' hands. Over the past five years, terrorist groups in the Middle East have raked in about $125 million in the kidnapping plots.
- Meanwhile, a California man has reportedly died while fighting for Islamic State militants in Syria.
- Meanwhile, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have sent out a bulletin to law enforcement officials warning that U.S. airstrikes in Iraq could provoke retaliation by Islamic State sympathizers in the U.S., Fox News has learned.
- ISRAEL - Israel has agreed to an open-ended cease-fire in its seven-week military confrontation with Hamas, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday.
- WHITE HOUSE - On Tuesday, President Obama spoke to the American Legion’s national convention, facing a crowd of veterans deeply concerned about widespread corruption at the Veterans Administration and the resultant deaths of some veterans awaiting health care.
- So when Obama began by lecturing the veterans about cynicism and explaining his most recent foreign policy choices — instead of addressing the VA crisis — the audience clearly wasn’t pleased.
- Fox News cameras captured a sea of blank or frowning faces looking silently back at the president as he paused for failed applause line after failed applause line.
- WHITE HOUSE - The White House is bristling at suggestions President Obama is disconnected, checked out or out of touch. White House allies maintain that the storyline of a checked-out president is a myth drummed up by the news media during the summer doldrums.
- “It’s bull****,” said one former senior administration official. “This is a guy who reads 10 letters a day simply to keep in touch with the American people. He spends all his time thinking about the economy and improving lives of the American people. He’s constantly in touch.”
- Meanwhile, President Obama has already played nearly eight times as many rounds of golf during his presidency as President George W. Bush did throughout his eight years in office, according to CBS News' Mark Knoller.
STATE ISSUES
- UNCONSTITUTIONAL - The District of Columbia asked a federal judge Monday to reconsider his July ruling that overturned D.C.’s ban on possessing handguns in public.
- The U.S. Supreme Court struck down D.C.’s complete ban on handguns in 2008. Since then, the city has installed a rigorous licensing and registration system for handgun ownership, and it remains illegal to carry a handgun outside of one’s home.
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