Ethiopia: UN Chief Condemns Expulsion Of Staff, Says Saving Lives Paramount | African Examiner

Oct 09, 2021 View Original Article
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    -14% Somewhat Liberal

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    -14% Somewhat Liberal

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"I appeal to all members of the Security Council to do all they can to support these calls and to unify behind the efforts of the United Nations and its partners in Ethiopia, the secretary-general said."
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14% Conservative
"Rep. Josh Gottheimer, one key moderate leader, got just 53"
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22% Conservative
"Rep. Josh Gottheimer, one key moderate leader, got just 53"
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22% Conservative
"It was the week that President Joe Biden and the Democratic majorities in Congress came face-to-face with reality."
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6% Conservative
"Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, wants to expand Medicare to provide dental, vision and hearing insurance (estimated to cost $358 billion)."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Now, both factions are regrouping to see how much of Biden's program they can realistically pass, knowing the outcome is vital to their party's immediate future and their one chance to make a major impact, perhaps for many years."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The 50-50 Senate means they need every Democrat so Vice President Kamala Harris can break a tie in their favor."
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0% Conservative
"House Democratic moderates precipitated last week's showdown by refusing in August to back the budget resolution, which sets the framework for the spending package, until Pelosi set a date to vote on the infrastructure bill, which passed the Senate with 19 Republican votes."
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-2% Liberal
"And that reality is that their narrow congressional majorities are insufficient to pass all of Biden's far-reaching domestic proposals, as meritorious as most of them are."
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-12% Liberal
"It depends on whether the two warring factions can agree on a scaled-down version of domestic and environmental program expansions - and on how they cut it from the current total (at least $3.5 trillion) to the level Biden suggested was most likely, between $1.9 trillion to $2.3 trillion."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Biden himself delivered the message that compromises within their divided ranks are necessary."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Clyburn hopes to extend Medicaid coverage to poor people in states like Texas and Florida, whose conservative state governments refused to join the primarily federally funded expansion in the Affordable Care Act ($300 billion)."
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-12% Liberal
"Narrow congressional majorities are insufficient to pass all of Biden's far-reaching domestic proposals"
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-18% Liberal
"What still bodes well for Biden is that, despite disagreements on the size of the proposed spending, virtually all Democrats favor expanding social programs and financing them with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy."
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-18% Liberal
"They feared that, once the infrastructure bill passed, the larger bill might be blocked by moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and some House moderates who question its cost."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi prefers to make Obamacare subsidies permanent ($200 billion)."
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-8% Liberal
"Significantly, neither Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., or Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., two top progressive leaders, disputed that in television appearances Sunday."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Significantly, neither Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., or Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., two top progressive leaders, disputed that in television appearances Sunday."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"If we fail to pass these two bills, people will not forgive us, House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn said, reflecting the view of most Democrats that failure would send a signal they can't govern that could only benefit the Republicans - and former President Donald Trump."
Positive
12% Conservative
"If we fail to pass these two bills, people will not forgive us, House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn said, reflecting the view of most Democrats that failure would send a signal they can't govern that could only benefit the Republicans - and former President Donald Trump."
Positive
12% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "I appeal to all members of the Security Council to do all they can to support these calls and to unify behind the efforts of the United Nations and its partners in Ethiopia," the secretary-general said.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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