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Clinton vows to defeat Islamic State if elected president
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks about recent comments from in Paris and a massacre in mantle the terrorist group
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign stop in Salem, N.H. California currently under from the air, ground and
investigation by the FBI as online, and plans to outline
(AP Photo/Jim Cole) an act of terrorism. her strategy for homeland
“The others, they talk a lot, security next week.
they throw out all of these Clinton reiterated she
approaches,” Clinton said would not send American
at a rally in Oklahoma. “But ground troops to the re-
I’ve been in the situation gion if elected president,
room in the White House saying it was “not smart”
and I know what it’s go- and is what terrorists would
ing to take and I will keep want to happen.
America safe.” Clinton was campaign-
Republican candidates ing in Oklahoma, a safe
have assailed President Republican state in gen-
Barack Obama as being eral elections, and among
weak on responding to several “Super Tuesday”
the rise of the Islamic State states holding Democratic
and are seeking to link the primary contests on March
White House to Clinton’s 1. The former first lady is the
record on foreign policy. overwhelming front-runner
Clinton has sought to offer against two rivals for the
an extensive plan to dis- Democratic nomination.q
J. JUOZAPAVICIUS ing the Islamic State group presidential candidate House backs new bill to exclude
Associated Press but that she’s the only pres- and former Secretary of climate change from trade deals
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) — idential candidate with a State sought to empha-
Hillary Clinton said Friday specific plan. size her foreign policy cre- MATTHEW DALY anywhere in denial about
her opponents are all talk Speaking in Republican dentials in the aftermath Associated Press climate change,” Levin
when it comes to defeat- territory, the Democratic of a major terrorist attack WASHINGTON (AP) — As said. “That denial is why
negotiators in Paris worked this provision ... on climate
to finalize a global agree- is before us.”
ment on climate change, Supporters said the wide-
the Republican-controlled ranging bill would beef up
House on Friday approved enforcement of U.S. trade
a bill that would block trade agreements and help pre-
deals from being used to vent counterfeit goods
cut greenhouse gas emis- from entering the country.
sions. The bill was approved The bill also would make
on a 256-168 vote. Twenty- permanent a moratorium
four Democrats joined with that prevents states from
232 Republicans to sup- taxing access to the Inter-
port the bill. Opponents, net. Rep. Kevin Brady, the
mostly Democrats, said Republican chairman of
the bill sends the wrong the tax-writing House Ways
message as U.S. diplomats and Means Committee,
meet in Paris with more said the bill “will level the
than 190 nations to finalize playing field for Americans
an agreement to reduce and also make it easier
man-made carbon emis- for them to compete in a
sions and adapt to rising global marketplace.”
seas and increasingly ex- The provision on climate
treme weather. change ensures greater
Rep. Sander Levin, a Dem- oversight of executive-
ocrat, said the climate branch negotiators who
provision was inserted by work on international trade
Republicans who oppose agreements, Brady said.
action on climate change. “Trade agreements should
Many Republicans in Con- not include provisions on
gress question whether hu- immigration or greenhouse
man activities are contrib- gas emissions,” he said,
uting to global warming. noting that there are other
“The Republican Party ways for officials to address
of the United States may immigration and global cli-
be the only political party mate change.q
