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A global financial firm will be in Moore, Oklahoma, Monday afternoon to give a much-needed and much-appreciated gift to those ravaged by the May tornadoes.
Officials with Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliate, BCG partners, said they will be giving out a few $1,000 prepaid debit cards to families who had students enrolled in Moore schools May 20 and whose homes were destroyed during the tornado.
The Oklahoman - Jane Glenn Cannon
No one knows loss better than the employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that lost 658 of its 960 New York employees in the World Trade Center attacks.
The surviving employees also remember who were among the first to comfort them after the attack: Oklahomans.
“That's why there was no question but that we would help the victims of the May 20 tornado,” said Howard Lutnick, chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners Inc.
Reuters - Heide Brandes
The chairman of a New York-based investment bank that lost more than half its employees in the attacks on September 11, 2001, handed out $1,000 debit cards on Monday to victims of last May's deadly tornado in Oklahoma, as it continued its program of helping others who suffered devastating loss.
New York Times - John Harwood
Its white-hot opposition to Mr. Obama, seen first in lawmakers’ town hall meetings and then in the 2010 midterm election campaign, helped cost Democrats control of the House. It could yet help Republicans hold their majority in 2014.
Pryor Times - Patrick B. McGuigan
Oklahoma activists opposed to U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war in recent days have intensified their campaign.
Led by two well-known and respected military veterans, a coalition has formed that is characterized as “tea party to socialist to anarchist.”
Truth is, the Sooner State’s anti-war movement is so diverse it does not fit any political template.
Defense News - John T. Bennett
The drums of war were replaced Thursday on Capitol Hill by a more familiar sound: House and Senate leaders bickering over federal spending.
Congressional leaders obliged this week to President Barack Obama’s request to delay votes to authorize US military strikes to punish Bashar al-Assad for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that killed over 1,000 people. It became clear Thursday that Capitol Hill has moved beyond Syria came as those very leaders clashed over the shape of a temporary government-wide spending measure.
National Journal - Billy House
With big deadlines and political hurdles looming over fights to keep the government funded and hike the nation’s borrowing limit, a meeting Thursday of the top four congressional leaders could set the tone for the autumn.
The Washington Post - Terry Atlas, Kathleen Hunter and Michael C. Bender
The U.S. Senate is putting off consideration of a resolution authorizing strikes against Syria to give President Barack Obama the “time and space” to pursue diplomacy with Russia, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
Obama has postponed a decision on military action against Syria, sparing himself a possible political defeat at home and plunging the U.S. into potentially protracted negotiations with a global rival.
TIME - Alex Rogers
Facing yet another conservative rebellion, House Republican leaders postponed a vote on the continuing resolution to fund the government Wednesday, setting up a dramatic showdown at the end of September to prevent a government shutdown. A preliminary vote had been expected Thursday.
The Oklahoman - Chris Casteel
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa: “Our hearts will never forget the mothers and fathers, children and siblings that were lost or the pain that Americans felt during the violent acts of terror on September 11, 2001. The nearly 3,000 innocent Americans in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Virginia whose lives were stolen that day will continue to be our foundation of reason to see terrorism silenced throughout the world.