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Updated 10:03 PM ETThe Senate easily confirmed President Barack Obama s selection for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, capping a month in which senators used a bipartisan truce on once-mired nominations to fill a cluster of vacancies in the president s second-term administration. Senators approved Samantha Power for the post b <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.com.de>stanley cup</a> y 87-10. The vote put the former Obama foreign policy adviser and outspoken human rights advocate into the job formerly held by Susan Rice, whom the president has made his national security adviser.Power: U.N. s failure to respond to Syria a disgrace With national security picks, Obama rounds out 2nd term dream team As a long-time champion of human rights and dignity, she will be a fierce advocate for universal rights, fundamental freedoms and U.S. national interests, Obama said in a written statement after the vote. The Irish-born Power, a one-time journalist who also has a Harvard Law School degree, has reported from many of the world s trouble spots and won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for a book on the meek U.S. response to many 20th century atrocities, including those in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s. <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.com.de>stanley cup becher</a> She has long backed intervention - including military force - to halt human rights violations.Powers has been a tireless defender of human rights, said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Mene <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.uk>stanley cup</a> ndez, a Democrat. She has seen the tragedy of human suffering from the front lin Wcdk Wasilla Is Abuzz Over Election
President Bush on Thursday signed legislation extending for 25 years the Voting Rights Act, the historic 1965 law which opened polls to millions of black Americans by outlawing racist voting practices in the South. Congress has reaffirmed its belief that all men are created equal, he declared.Mr. Bush signed the bill amid fanfa <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.at>stanley thermosflasche</a> re and before a South Lawn audience that included members of Congress, civil rights leaders and family members of civil rights leaders of the recent past. It was one of a series of high-profile ceremonies the president is holding to sign popular bills into law. The Republican-controlled Congress, eager to improve its standing with minorities ahead of the November elections, pushed the bill through even though key provisions were not set to expire until next year. The right of ordinary men and women to determine their own political future lies at the heart of the American experiment, Mr. Bush said. He said <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.pt>garrafa stanley</a> the Voting Rights Act proposed and si <a href=https://www.cup-stanley.at>stanley cup</a> gned by then-President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 broke the segregationist lock on the voting box. Later Thursday, Mr. Bush is to sign another bill sure to resonate with voters in this congressional election year: legislation establishing a national Internet database designed to let law enforcement and communities know where convicted sex offenders live and work. By contrast, Mr. Bush chose to exercise the first veto of his 5 frac12; years as president in privacy last
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