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Several Senate Republicans have come to a consensus on Environmental Protection Agency  EPA  Administrator Scott Pruitt: while they can get behind his regulation rollbacks, the recent slew of scandals surrounding his name have become a major distraction. In this week alone, stories have surfaced about Pruitt asking an agency aide to acquire a used Trump Hotel mattress and to research opportunities for stanley cup  his wife toown a Chick-fil-A franchise. On Thursday, a report came out that Pruitt had an EPA security detail hunt down his favorite skin lotion, and longtime aide to Pruitt and EPA lawyer Sarah Greenwaltresigned. Administrator Pruitt follows the same security protocol whether he s in his personal or official capacity,  EPA press secretary Kelsi Daniell  stanley tumbler told CBS News on the matter.                                        However, with Pruitt blunders maintaining footholds in the news cycle, some Republicans look eager to call out the EPA chief.Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, said Thursday that while he agrees  with many of the new policies of the EPA,  not all of which he says are attributable to Pruitt, he thinks that lately the EPA administrator has been  acting like a moron.          I said it yesterday, I don t mean any disrespect, but he s acting like moron,  Kennedy said.  If you can t use good judgment and put tax payers first, it s time to find another line of work.  Senate Whi stanley quencher p John Cornyn, R-Texas, said that all of the Pruitt stories  seem like distractions  from his ac Ddle Bernanke To Fill Greenspan s Shoes
This story was written by CBSNews poli stanley water jug tical reporter Brian Montopoli.During the Democratic primary battle, Barack Obama repeatedly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement as bad for stanley cup  America, noting that  we c stanley mugs an t keep passing unfair trade deals like NAFTA that put special interests over workers  interests. There were political advantages for Obama  and then-rival Hillary Clinton  in railing against the agreement, which many in the labor movement - a key componant of the Democratic base - blame for the loss of blue-collar jobs. There may have been something of a gap between the reality of Obama s position and the impression his words left, however. Obama has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA - and opt-out if Canada and Mexico refuse to join in doing so - but his plans do not represent a significant overhaul of the agreement. Instead, he wants to add environmental and labor provisions, similar to those included in a recent trade agreement with Peru, that many economists say will not have much impact on the U.S. job market.                                         Mexico and Canada could accept the same deal that Peru accepted and it wouldn t cause a big problem internationally, nor would it make much of a difference for U.S. workers or create any new jobs in the United States,  said Jeffrey J. Schott, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.Obama has made clear in speeches that he does not oppose global trade: In a speech Monday in Flint, Michig

Bbak At town hall, Clinton downplays effect of her emails
Several Senate Republicans have come to a consensus on Environmental Protection Agency  EPA  Administrator Scott Pruitt: while they can get behind his regulation rollbacks, the recent slew of scandals surrounding his name have become a major distraction. In this week alone, stories have surfaced about Pruitt asking an agency aide to acquire a used Trump Hotel mattress and to research opportunities for stanley cup  his wife toown a Chick-fil-A franchise. On Thursday, a report came out that Pruitt had an EPA security detail hunt down his favorite skin lotion, and longtime aide to Pruitt and EPA lawyer Sarah Greenwaltresigned. Administrator Pruitt follows the same security protocol whether he s in his personal or official capacity,  EPA press secretary Kelsi Daniell  stanley tumbler told CBS News on the matter.                                        However, with Pruitt blunders maintaining footholds in the news cycle, some Republicans look eager to call out the EPA chief.Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, said Thursday that while he agrees  with many of the new policies of the EPA,  not all of which he says are attributable to Pruitt, he thinks that lately the EPA administrator has been  acting like a moron.          I said it yesterday, I don t mean any disrespect, but he s acting like moron,  Kennedy said.  If you can t use good judgment and put tax payers first, it s time to find another line of work.  Senate Whi stanley quencher p John Cornyn, R-Texas, said that all of the Pruitt stories  seem like distractions  from his ac Ddle Bernanke To Fill Greenspan s Shoes
This story was written by CBSNews poli stanley water jug tical reporter Brian Montopoli.During the Democratic primary battle, Barack Obama repeatedly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement as bad for stanley cup  America, noting that  we c stanley mugs an t keep passing unfair trade deals like NAFTA that put special interests over workers  interests. There were political advantages for Obama  and then-rival Hillary Clinton  in railing against the agreement, which many in the labor movement - a key componant of the Democratic base - blame for the loss of blue-collar jobs. There may have been something of a gap between the reality of Obama s position and the impression his words left, however. Obama has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA - and opt-out if Canada and Mexico refuse to join in doing so - but his plans do not represent a significant overhaul of the agreement. Instead, he wants to add environmental and labor provisions, similar to those included in a recent trade agreement with Peru, that many economists say will not have much impact on the U.S. job market.                                         Mexico and Canada could accept the same deal that Peru accepted and it wouldn t cause a big problem internationally, nor would it make much of a difference for U.S. workers or create any new jobs in the United States,  said Jeffrey J. Schott, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.Obama has made clear in speeches that he does not oppose global trade: In a speech Monday in Flint, Michig