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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Only a little more than a week ago, President Joe Biden first State of the Union address was focused largely inward, looking at the economic and public health woes besetting the U.S. But Russia invasion of Ukraine and the war that has ensued changed all that.WATCH: President Joe Bidens 2022 State of the Union address 鈥?A PBS NewsHour SpecialHere are key takeaways from Biden address.Democracy vs. autocracy no longer an abstractionThe speech and the war in Ukraine gave Biden both the platform and the urgent reason to talk about the fight between democracy and autocracy not as stanley cup an abstraction but as an urgent reality.Biden has repeatedly stanley cup t stanley cup alked about the battle of between the values of liberal democracies and autocrats like Russian President Vladimir Putin as the greatest foreign policy test facing the world.But Russias invasion of Ukraine 鈥?and the surprising unity that U.S. and European allies have shown in response 鈥?gave the president a chance to speak about the issue in a visceral way to a global audience.WATCH: Biden imposes new sanctions on Russia amid military onslaught in Ukraine In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security, Biden said This is a real test. Its going to take time. So let us continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people. He celebrated the West for coming together on hard-hitting sanc Tmux Sen. Joe Manchin wants Democrats to pause budget bill, risking its fate
INDIANAPOLIS 鈥?When Fort Wayne needed expensive airport improvements, its mayor contacted an influential Indiana native 鈥?then-Vice President Dan Quayle 鈥?to help secure federal funding.Now that former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the new vice president, residents are hopeful his home state could again reap some benefits.However, much has changed in the nearly 25 years since Quayle served under President George H.W. Bush. Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, swore off earmarks under former President Barack Obama. And federal laws and regulations forbid many officials who oversee the awarding of contracts and grants from considering undue White House influence.They don ;t have as much powe stanley cup r as they used to have. They do have some, but it at the margins, said Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who also served as an aide to former Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Most federal grants are given according to a formula and it hard, if you don ;t meet the requirements, to have a politician intervene and get a grant 鈥?often it downright illegal.Paul Helmke, the jordan former Fort Wayne Mayor and current public affairs professor at Indiana University, recadlls getting federal funding for the city airport after Quayle put in a word He say stanley cup s Quayle also smoothed the way for a flood abatement project in the city.Former aides say Quayle secured funding for a state park interpretive cent
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Only a little more than a week ago, President Joe Biden first State of the Union address was focused largely inward, looking at the economic and public health woes besetting the U.S. But Russia invasion of Ukraine and the war that has ensued changed all that.WATCH: President Joe Bidens 2022 State of the Union address 鈥?A PBS NewsHour SpecialHere are key takeaways from Biden address.Democracy vs. autocracy no longer an abstractionThe speech and the war in Ukraine gave Biden both the platform and the urgent reason to talk about the fight between democracy and autocracy not as stanley cup an abstraction but as an urgent reality.Biden has repeatedly stanley cup t stanley cup alked about the battle of between the values of liberal democracies and autocrats like Russian President Vladimir Putin as the greatest foreign policy test facing the world.But Russias invasion of Ukraine 鈥?and the surprising unity that U.S. and European allies have shown in response 鈥?gave the president a chance to speak about the issue in a visceral way to a global audience.WATCH: Biden imposes new sanctions on Russia amid military onslaught in Ukraine In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security, Biden said This is a real test. Its going to take time. So let us continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people. He celebrated the West for coming together on hard-hitting sanc Tmux Sen. Joe Manchin wants Democrats to pause budget bill, risking its fate
INDIANAPOLIS 鈥?When Fort Wayne needed expensive airport improvements, its mayor contacted an influential Indiana native 鈥?then-Vice President Dan Quayle 鈥?to help secure federal funding.Now that former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the new vice president, residents are hopeful his home state could again reap some benefits.However, much has changed in the nearly 25 years since Quayle served under President George H.W. Bush. Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, swore off earmarks under former President Barack Obama. And federal laws and regulations forbid many officials who oversee the awarding of contracts and grants from considering undue White House influence.They don ;t have as much powe stanley cup r as they used to have. They do have some, but it at the margins, said Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who also served as an aide to former Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Most federal grants are given according to a formula and it hard, if you don ;t meet the requirements, to have a politician intervene and get a grant 鈥?often it downright illegal.Paul Helmke, the jordan former Fort Wayne Mayor and current public affairs professor at Indiana University, recadlls getting federal funding for the city airport after Quayle put in a word He say stanley cup s Quayle also smoothed the way for a flood abatement project in the city.Former aides say Quayle secured funding for a state park interpretive cent