Harris, who turned 56 on October 20th, will become the 49th Vice President of the United States. She will be the youngest vice president since Al Gore (who assumed office at 44 years of age) was sworn in as the 45th Vice President in 1993 under Bill Clinton.

“Since 2008, the L.A. County Fire Department has seen a fifty percent increase in emergency medical incidents,” said Supervisor Hahn, “but at the same time, we’ve only been able to increase our department’s paramedics squad by five percent.”

“What you need are dedicated elected officials who are connected to and remember who they serve and are committed to a lifetime of service,” Cohen said.

Los Angeles County’s water management system is over 100 years old. When it rains, the system is unable to capture significant amounts of stormwater before it heads untreated to the ocean and other waterways. It is estimated that every year over 100 billion gallons of water in Los Angeles County are lost in this way. This loss of usable water has a significant impact on a water-scarce area such as Los Angeles County.

“The time is now to reform America’s largest jail system and to root out misconduct in America’s largest sheriff’s department.”

Modi’s win ends an era of shaky coalition governments, giving him ample room to advance economic modernisation.

“Sharpton thinks Obama should take more cues from his wife, Michelle. He still thinks about the time he bumped into her at a recent Chicago fund-raiser. He claims the conversation went like this.

Some officials in Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign viewed Christie’s praise of the president as a traitorous act, as did many other Republicans. But Christie didn’t back down.

What the Republicans are doing is nothing short of blackmail – in more ways than one. So far, President Obama has stood-up to it. But, this battle looks as if it will persist, bringing hardship to many and even threats to the security of the country.

Solis, the first Latina to serve in a Cabinet, is stepping down, the White House announced Wednesday.

Both the US House of Representative and the US Senate voted to approve the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Legislation. The ball is now in President Obama’s court to seal the deal.

National exit polls show that more than 70 percent of Asian American voters broke for Obama, and that this voting bloc may have also played a pivotal role in swing states such as Nevada.

There was applause when Crowley suggested that it also took others in the administration as much as two weeks to abandon the idea that the attacks were related to protests over an anti-Islam video.

“President Obama relentlessly drove the narrative that Romney can’t be trusted, and put him on the defense much of the time.”

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