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President Obama Watches Niece In Women's NCAA Tournament Game
Besides Kentucky, there’s another undefeated team in college basketball this season, and Presi- dent Barack Obama was on hand to watch that team play on Saturday.
President Obama and his daughter, Malia were in attendance to watch his niece, Leslie Robinson, a backup forward for the Princeton Tigers. The Tigers improved to 31-0 on the season with a 80-70 win over Green Bay in the first round of the Women’s NCAA tournament at the Xfinity Center on the University of Maryland’s campus.
Robinson is the daughter of former Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother. The First Lady spent time in Japan this week and was not in attendance.
According to ESPN.com, the president arrived at his seat in the Xfinity Center “with about five minutes remaining in warm-ups” and sat “several rows up from the floor” behind the Princeton bench.
Robinson, a 6-foot forward from Corvallis, Ore., did not see any action in the game. For the
College Park, MD, USA; The President of the United States, Barack Obama looks on before a game.
season, Robinson has played in 26 games and averaged 9.4 minutes per contest. She averages 3.0 points and 2.5 rebounds per game while shooting 37.9 percent from the field.
Princeton will face the winner of Saturday’s Maryland-New Mexico State game in the Round of 32.
Democrats Refuse To Take Back Charges Of Racism Over Lynch Nomination
Washington - Democrats re- fuse to retract their accusations that the voting delay on Loretta Lynch's attorney general nomination is racially motivated, despite GOP protes- tations otherwise.
The two-time U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York would be the first African- American woman to serve as attorney general, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to delay a vote on her confirmation by the full Senate until the chamber completes consideration of sex trafficking legislation.
Lynch, who was nominated in November, has waited longer for a vote in the full Sen- ate than the past five nominees to the post combined, her sup- porters say. In a press confer- ence aimed at pushing McConnell to schedule a vote on Lynch, House Democrats touted her qualifications and the bipartisan vote in the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee to send her nomination to the full Senate.
Repeating charges laid out by other Democrats earlier in the week, several said they be- lieved her race was one reason for the hold up.
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck and it is clear to me that there is hidden
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racism rampant in the House and the Senate," said Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida. "Let's call it what it is. I mean, I know it's not comfortable to talk about it, but that's what it is."
Those remarks followed comments Wednesday by Illi- nois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the chamber, who said Repub- licans were asking Lynch to "sit in the back of the bus" when it comes to the Senate calendar. Members of the Con- gressional Black Caucus also said Lynch's race was playing a role in the delay.
The accusations, which have angered Republicans, come as the GOP is aiming to expand its appeal to attract more minority voters heading into the 2016 presidential race.
HealthCare.gov Sending Out Corrected Tax Forms
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Fri- day it's making progress trying to correct a tax-form error that affected 820,000 customers of HealthCare.gov.
Administration officials said 740,000 corrected forms have gone out to consumers in the federal insurance marketplace, and another 80,000 will be mailed next week.
State-run insurance ex- changes, including Covered
California, have also sent forms with incorrect information to some customers. The Treasury Department announced Friday that taxpayers who got incor- rect information from state ex- changes won't be required to submit corrected returns if they have already filed their taxes.
Treasury had previously of- fered the same leeway for con- sumers in the 37 states served by HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace. The Treasury ac-
tion amounts to a reprieve from paperwork headaches for early tax filers.
The issue involves a new government form called a 1095-A.
It's like a W-2 form for health care for people who got subsidized private insurance under President Barack Obama's law. Consumers who got health insurance tax credits need the information on the 1095-A to file their taxes.
President Obama Announces Over $240 Million In New STEM Commitments
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama will host the 2015 White House Science Fair today to celebrate the stu- dent winners of a broad range of science, technology, engi- neering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country.
As part of the Fair, Presi- dent Obama will announce over $240 million in new pri- vate-sector commitments to inspire and prepare more girls and boys – especially those from underrepresented groups – to excel in the STEM fields. With the commitments being made today, the Presi- dent’s “Educate to Innovate” campaign has resulted in over $1 billion in financial and in- kind support for STEM pro- grams.
The announcements being made today include, among
others:
• $150 million philan-
thropic effort to empower a di- verse cadre of promising early-career scientists to stay on track to become scientific leaders of tomorrow;
• $90 million “Let Everyone Dream” campaign to expand STEM opportunities to under-represented youth;
• $25 million Depart- ment of Education competi- tion to create science and literacy themed media that in- spires students to explore;
• 120 universities and colleges committing to train 20,000 engineers to tackle the “Grand Challenges” of 21stcentury; and,
• CEO coalition Change the Equation committing ex- pand effective STEM pro- grams to an additional 1.5 million students this year.
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