Learn about Kids: Secret service prostitution scandal

Senate Homeland Security Committee investigating the United States Secret Service, with director Mark Sullivan to testify

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not supposed to pay much attention to the polls in each state at this point in the campaign - but one Florida poll opens our eyes because of the immense advantage that gives

Mitt Romney

Quinnipiac poll earlier this month showed a link between Obama and Romney. Well, it does now:

Governor Mitt Romney has an advantage of 47% -41% on President Barack Obama in Florida, where 63% of voters say the president's support of same-sex marriage will not affect their right to vote, according to Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 25% -11% of voters, including 23% and 9% among independent voters say Obama's support of gay marriage makes them less likely to support his candidacy.

Adds Florida, USA The candidacy of Senator Marco Rubio in the Republican Party would give the Republican Romney / Rubio team a 49% -41% on President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

1:22 p.m.:

The bowels of

Mitt Romney speech on education TODAY 'Today seems to be: bonds, in one form or another:

First, I will expand parental choice in a manner unprecedented. Too many of our children are trapped in failing schools or simply do not meet your needs. And for too long, we have only spoken of the virtues of school choice.

As president, I will give parents of each student in need of special income and the opportunity to choose where their child goes to school. For the first time, federal funding for education will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their children to any public or charter school or private school, where permitted. And I will make this decision significantly to ensure that there are enough options to exercise.

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The main subject of Mitt Romney's speech this morning was education, which Romney called "the question of civil rights our time "- repeating a line used by George Bush in the discussion for No Child Left Behind.

Today I want to talk about our education crisis. With all our economic problems, there is a temptation to postpone the task of repairing our nation's schools for another time. However, jobs and housing failures in recent years that make the task more important.

We should not kid ourselves - we are in the midst of an emergency education. The only reason I have not heard more about it is that our economic problems have brought to our attention at the national level, outside the classroom. But if unemployment was the place to be and home values ??were rising, there is no doubt that the crisis of American education is the great cause of this campaign.

sidenote

: five of the son of Mitt Romney went to private school, as Romney himself, who attended the prestigious school of Cranbrook in Michigan

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Meanwhile, Mitt Romney spoke at the National Latino Economic Summit in Washington DC, and, of course, is a election speech:

When the President took office, he faces a jobs crisis. There has been little improvement. He faces a spending crisis. It only got worse. And a crisis in education.

Well, it's something: Romney admits that things have "little improvement" on the job

24:50: The Guardian Ewen MacAskill

is updated with Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins after the National Security Committee of the Senate of the grid Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan:

After the hearing was over, Lieberman and Collins, told a group of journalists, said they were concerned about Sullivan's insistence that this was an isolated incident. However, Lieberman said he was not asked to resign.

Collins, damning good summing up, said: "I think [Sullivan] has a hard time coming to grips with the fact that it has a larger issue that this incident."

Lieberman said he has yet to get to the bottom of what happened in Cartagena and I thought it was important that the Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards announced that he conducting a separate investigation, and talk to everyone involved, starting with two in the afternoon.

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President Obama

recites a series of past recoveries in the United Kingdom United States was released, only to recover, and post-Vietnam.

After that, you think people understand a fundamental truth. Never bet against the United States of America

In this case, President Obama, who takes on the Paris World Cup Soccer is coming.

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Obama

tries to deliver a message of up-beat improvements:

For a decade, we worked in the dark cloud of war. Now we can see the light of another day on the horizon. The purpose of these wars will shape your service and make our military stronger. Ten years of the continuing military operations have spread our forces and their families strained. In the future, you will face fewer deployments. You will have more time to train and be ready. You'll be better prepared for the full range of missions you'll face.

And it is largely a post with an eye to November:

There is a new sense of the United States. I see it everywhere I go, London and Prague, Tokyo and Seoul, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta. There is a new confidence in our leadership. And when people around the world are wondering: Which country do you most admire? A nation is on the head. The United States of America

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Obama said the Air Force Academy graduates also fly Air Force One, Air Force One, including the current pilot Colonel Scott Turner. "I was telling a joke about Scott, but that's my way back," Obama jokes

But Obama is worsening rapidly:

Today, a step in a different world. You're the type for the first time in nine years to graduate into a world where no American is fighting in Iraq. For the first time in their lives, through the Air Force who have done their part - Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to our country. We have Al Qaeda on the road to defeat. And you are the first graduates of the 9/11 you can see clearly how we will end the war in Afghanistan.

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national security The hearing ended just in time for President Obama

starts talking directly to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where he gave the commencement address.

24:24: as short,

Susan Collins

says it's because Mark Sullivan himself is so impressive that you can not keep the idea of ??other agents that are bad.

on C-Span, in the eyes of Sullivan is wandering around as if searching for a sniper hiding under a desk.

Sullivan concludes that hope he did not give the impression that he is not concerned about what happened. But he closes:

This is a great institution with great people. If there are problems that need solving, we will solve them.

What

goes with the "non-apology apology" - "If anyone was offended by my words", etc.

That's it then, Lieberman hammer the hearing closed.

24:22:

In short, Joe Lieberman said he was "broken" and "angry" about events in Cartagena. Then Homer:

It's like a wound in the body. We need to clean it and let it heal. We must ensure that this great body - if you can extend the metaphor -. Is it lawful to heal

24:20: Basically

Mark Sullivan

online 's is: Cartagena was one-off, and nothing like this happened before or after and never will, because agents are so impressive.

Now where have we heard that before?

24:09:
Susan Collins is back, and she asked whether the hotel rooms in Cartagena, received a security operation after incidents. No, Sullivan said, although he says they received a "scanning" which is the Secret Service speak for "look around"

"It is ironic that can be relieved that the women were prostitutes," says Collins, shortly after Sullivan said here that none of the women who were gang members or drug FARC.

Collins also concerned that an investigation of the officers said that only 60% of ethical misconduct report. "This is a number that should rise," says Sullivan. This speels a larger problem within the agency, "and I say with great respect," says Collins.

She has a point -. And bitterly saying "if finally convince him that there is a larger problem here ... how to change the culture of the agency"
"Senator, I am trying to convince you that there is no cultural problem," says Sullivan. "I know," Collins said, sounding like Howard Cosell tight.
"I have 100% confidence in our men and women," Sullivan finally answers. But if it was a systemic problem, ask Firebrand Maine. "Well, I, uh ... training, I think more training, "Sullivan wibbles.

a fight here.

Collins now wants to know why Sullivan believes that the incident would be made public if the market had not. "I just think I have great faith in men and women" that the complaint had been filed, said Sullivan.

24:04:.
News
this morning - Hawaii checked the birth records of President Obama to Secretary of State of Arizona

AP reports:

Joshua Wisch, special assistant to the Attorney General of Hawaii David Louis, told the AP in an afternoon e-mail Tuesday that the matter be settled after verification of Hawaii gave the Arizona was looking for.

Hawaii - who attended the birth of Obama in several states already time in October 2008 - has not yielded to the request with ease. The Aloha State has said Secretary of State Ken Bennett Arizona had to demonstrate that the registration is required as part of their normal activities.

Wisch said Hawaii has what it takes, so he gave Bennett's office for verification. It is unclear whether the information will meet Bennett. Bennett spokesman Matthew Roberts said the office received the check and provided for comment Wednesday.

Roberts did not specify whether the information would end the flap with Obama's name on the ballot.

11:58: Chairman of the Committee

Joe Lieberman

is back, and now referred a 2002 incident in which three Secret Service agents found partying with underage girls at the 2002 Olympics. That would be Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .... Olympics by

Mitt Romney
! This is bigger than we thought *.

* No, this is not the case.

11:51:

Sen Tom Carper

of Delaware begins his examination with a Parable of long . "An indiscretion, he is too. Eleven or 12 11 or 12 years are many," said Carper, who must be trying to win some kind of reward truism bloody.

Carper lead long, even in strains of witnesses, and Carlos Edwards was asked to repeat the question, but thankfully Carper simply repeats a portion of the real issue, which ends up being, "What"

Sullivan said that "believing in us." Well. Now Carper gave a homily on the theme of "doing the right thing" and concludes: "We all make mistakes, God knows I have ... that being said, some of the best advice I ever had was my father ... "zzz, what?

people of Delaware, what did you do?

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"What do you recommend, Director Sullivan ... in terms of ensuring such incidents never happen again," asks M . Rob Portman.

Talk Here is a similar example.

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the prospect is now vice-president Rob Portman