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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has returned an identical letter that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent to Harry Reid in 2009 on the Cabinet nomination process, calling on Republicans Monday to comply with the same conditions Republicans demanded when it came to President Obama’s nominees. At the time, McConnell was the minority leader and Democrats controlled the nomination process. 
  
 The New York Democrat read the original letter aloud on the Senate floor and posted the returned one on Twitter a day before President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees are set to begin flooding Capitol Hill for their Senate confirmation hearings. 
  
 Our requests are eminently reasonable, shared by leaders of both parties. I'll return this letter to @SenateMajLdr with the same requests. pic.twitter.com/IMT7ZtJFjV — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 9, 2017 
  
 The request says that before the consideration of any time agreements for a confirmation vote, Democrats want the following to be complete for each nominee: FBI background checks, Office of Government Ethics office reviews, financial disclosure statements and committee questionnaires. They are also demanding that each nominee has had a hearing, each nominee is willing to engage in committee staff interviews, each nominee agrees to courtesy visits with lawmakers and each nominee has committed to cooperating with the top Democrat on the relevant committees on requests for transparency and information. 
  
 Schumer’s request comes a few days after the director of the Office of Government Ethics sent a letter to Senate Democrats Saturday in which he expressed concerns with Republicans ramming through the confirmation hearings for Mr. Trump’s nominees. 
  
 “It has left some of the nominees with potentially unknown or unresolved ethics issues shortly before their scheduled hearings,” Walter Shaub Jr. wrote in the letter obtained by CBS News. 
  
 He also noted that some of the president-elect’s nominees have not yet completed the office’s full ethics review. On Saturday, The New York Times reported that some of the Cabinet picks had not yet completed their background checks either. 
  
 This comes as Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, prepares to testify at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday for the role of attorney general. Some of the other nominees who will undergo their confirmation hearings this week include Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director and a number of other nominees. 
  
 The Associated Press reported that ethics forms are complete and submitted for Sessions, Tillerson, Defense Secretary nominee Gen. James Mattis and Transportation Secretary nominee Elaine Chao. 
  
 CBS News’ Reena Flores contributed. ||||| "I only ask respectfully that the Republican majority follow the same set of standards they had in 2009 when the shoe was on the other foot," Sen. Chuck Schumer said. | AP Photo Schumer threatens Trump Cabinet confirmation delays 
  
 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered an explicit warning to Republicans on Monday, saying Democrats are willing to slow down confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's Cabinet until potential nominees finish independent ethics reviews. 
  
 Democrats cannot stop Trump's Cabinet with filibusters, thanks to a rules change they pushed through in 2013, but they can prolong the process for weeks by forcing the GOP to burn through extra time before final floor votes are scheduled. Schumer suggested that such a delay could be in the offing. 
  
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 "To spend an extra day or two on each nominee; even if it takes several weeks to get through them all in order to carefully consider their nominations…that’s well worth it," he said. 
  
 Schumer read aloud on the Senate floor from a letter that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sent in February 2009 asking for President Barack Obama's nominees to only receive hearings after the independent Office of Government Ethics and FBI finish vetting their backgrounds. The New York Democrat said the GOP should take the same approach to Trump's would-be Cabinet — several members of which have yet to finish their OGE ethics reviews. 
  
 And shortly afterward, the Democratic leader sent a copy of the letter back to McConnell, after scratching out the original recipients and scrawling "Mitch" instead. 
  
 "I only ask respectfully that the Republican majority follow the same set of standards they had in 2009 when the shoe was on the other foot," Schumer said. "Especially because these nominees raise particular concerns." 
  
 Notably, McConnell sent his 2009 letter, which one source told POLITICO did not receive a response at the time from then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), weeks after the Senate confirmed seven senior Obama nominees on his first day in office. The Kentucky Republican has called for a similar pace for Trump's Cabinet, telling reporters at Trump Tower on Monday that he wants to see upwards of a half-dozen nominees confirmed on Inauguration Day, and on Sunday urged Democrats to "grow up." 
  
 Nine members of Trump's prospective Cabinet are set to receive confirmation hearings this week, with OGE ethics reviews still unreleased for four of them — Education Secretary pick Betsy DeVos, Commerce Secretary pick Wilbur Ross, Housing and Urban Development pick Ben Carson, and retired Gen. John Kelly, the president-elect's Department of Homeland Security pick. 
  
 Burgess Everett contributed reporting. |||||
In 2009, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a letter asking that President Obama's Cabinet nominees not be granted Senate confirmation hearings until the Office of Government Ethics and the FBI had vetted them and other ethical review steps had been taken. On Monday, current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent the same letter back to McConnell, after writing "Mitch" in the recipient field and crossing out Reid, the original recipient—CBS has a picture. Schumer also read the letter out loud on the Senate floor, as a warning to Republicans that, now that the Democrats are the underdogs, they're willing to take the same steps Republicans did years ago to slow down confirmation hearings, Politico reports. The request comes days after the Office of Government Ethics sent a letter to Senate Democrats airing concerns that Republicans are pushing through the confirmation process—nine of Trump's Cabinet nominees have confirmation hearings scheduled this week, even though the OGE has not released ethics reviews yet for four of them. "To spend an extra day or two on each nominee; even if it takes several weeks to get through them all in order to carefully consider their nominations ... that’s well worth it," Schumer said on the Senate floor Monday. "I only ask respectfully that the Republican majority follow the same set of standards they had in 2009 when the shoe was on the other foot. Especially because these nominees raise particular concerns." McConnell on Sunday pooh-poohed the OGE's concerns.


  
  
  
 Hey guys! So yesterday I was doing a photo shoot with an adorable black kitty cat and I Twitpic'd this picture... I have been getting negative comments regarding the way I was holding the kitty, but rest assured, the owner and vet were on set and showed me how to pick him up. The cat was not harmed in any way and is perfectly fine! I love animals and would never do anything to harm any animals. ||||| Kim Kardashian's handling of kitty sparks outrage from animal rights organizations 
  
 Twitpic.com Kim Kardashian may have held a 'good kitty,' but the she received a bad reaction from fans. 
  
 There may not be a photo of Kim Kardashian that doesn't spark a controversy. 
  
 Coming off her fully nude, unretouched photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar, the reality TV star posted a photo on Twitter that sparked outraged from some of her followers and several animal rights organizations. 
  
 In the photo posted Monday, Kardashian is clad in a low-cut black ensemble and leather gloves as she holds a black kitten up by the hair on its neck. 
  
 "Pic from my shoot yesterday...good kitty cat!" she tweeted. 
  
 Among those who weren't too happy with Kardashian's handling of the feline were the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). 
  
 "Kim Kardashian isn't the only person who mistakenly thinks that because a mother cat picks up her kittens by the scruff of the neck that a supportive hand under the rump isn't needed," a rep for PETA told the Daily News. "But I'll bet plenty of fans have let her know - nicely, we hope!" 
  
 On the other hand, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals L.A said that it is tolerable to hold a kitten by his or her scruff for a brief amount of time, however warns "the manner in which Ms. Kardashian is holding the kitten could lead others to mishandle animals." 
  
 Following the uproar the photo created, Kardashian took to her blog to defend her actions. 
  
 "I have been getting negative comments regarding the way I was holding the kitty, but rest assured, the owner and vet were on set and showed me how to pick him up," she wrote. "The cat was not harmed in any way and is perfectly fine! I love animals and would never do anything to harm any animals." ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||
Congratulations, Kim Kardashian: You managed to piss off PETA without wearing fur or eating meat! After the reality TV fixture tweeted a photo of herself holding a kitten by the scruff of the neck, the animal rights organization was quick to respond: “Kim Kardashian isn't the only person who mistakenly thinks that because a mother cat picks up her kittens by the scruff of the neck that a supportive hand under the rump isn't needed,” a rep tells the New York Daily News. The SPCA, however, says it’s fine to hold a kitten that way, briefly—but says it still thinks “the manner in which Ms. Kardashian is holding the kitten could lead others to mishandle animals.” Kardashian was quick to blog about her good intentions, noting that the cat’s owner and veterinarian gave her pose a thumbs-up.

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 By Paul A. Eisenstein 
  
 When President Donald Trump rolls up to the United Nations to speak to the Security Council on Tuesday he’ll have an unprecedented level of security of his own. 
  
 On Sunday, the Secret Service flew into New York with the newest in a long series of specially designed presidential limousines. Like its predecessor, which came into service during Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the new limo goes by the nickname The Beast. And considering it weighs in at somewhere near 20,000 pounds, that’s clearly appropriate. 
  
 Intended to look like a stretched version of a Cadillac XT6 sedan, it’s one of a dozen that make up a contract initially estimated at $15.8 million and designed to help the commander in chief survive virtually every possible form of attack from a terrorist or assassin. And, if the president is injured, the Beast has an extensive range of medical supplies on board, including a refrigerator full of the president’s own blood type. 
  
 Protecting a president is never easy, especially in a modern era when POTUS could face any manner of threat, from handguns to rocket-propelled grenades. 
  
 The latest version of the Beast, which was commissioned by the Secret Service in 2014, is believed to combine a variety of different technologies, starting out with a heavily modified platform from a Chevrolet Kodiak, a heavy-duty General Motors truck. 
  
 Nothing is foolproof, but the new version is thought to use a mix of steel, aluminum and ceramic armors, each focused on a different type of threat. The Secret Service declines to provide specific details but the walls of the new limousine are believed to measure at least eight inches thick, with five-inch, multilayer windows that make the doors as heavy as those on a 757 jet. 
  
 In addition, the car is sealed against biochemical attacks, and equipped with run-flat tires inside extra-large wheel wells so the Beast can keep running in an emergency. Meanwhile, there are a number of other tricks that include a night vision system and some other James Bond-style gimmicks: It can put out a smokescreen, fire tear gas, and lay down an oil slick to send vehicles chasing it out of control. Even the door handles can be electrified to shock those who might try to get inside. 
  
 The Beast also contains an expansive array of communications technologies including, among other things, the ability to dispatch the codes necessary to fire nuclear weapons. 
  
 Able to seat seven, according to various sources, the last line of defense are the Secret Service members who ride inside, armed with an array of light weapons. The Beast is traditionally backed up by a convoy of protective vehicles and a phalanx of Secret Service officers. There’s also a back-up limo and a special communications vehicle. 
  
 As with the Secret Service, foreign security agencies are reluctant to discuss their methods of protecting heads of state on the move. But Russian President Vladimir Putin recently received an upgrade to the armored Mercedes-Benz limos he had long used, a specially developed Russian-made model. Chinese President Xi Jinping was spotted driving a new, Chinese-made limo during a trip to Africa last month. And Trump reportedly showed off the outgoing presidential limo to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their summit meeting in Singapore. Kim himself has had to settle for a decade-old, modified Mercedes Pullman Guard for his limousine. |||||

President Trump is being driven around New York Tuesday in a brand-new presidential limo—one with what NBC News calls "an unprecedented level of security." The Detroit Free Press, meanwhile, says it's "one of the most exclusive, impenetrable and expensive cars in the world." The 20,000-pound, $1.5 million limo, built by General Motors to look like a stretched version of a Cadillac XT6 sedan, is believed to use a heavily modified platform from GM's heavy-duty Chevrolet Kodiak truck and to have 8-inch thick walls and 5-inch, multilayer windows; a mix of steel, aluminum, and ceramic armors are meant to fend off different types of attacks. And in case of a biochemical attack, well, the car is sealed to protect against those, too. Its doors weigh as much as those on a 757 jet, and its has run-flat tires inside its almost bus-sized wheel wells. It also includes a night vision system, door handles that can be electrified to shock anyone trying to get inside, and the ability to fire tear gas, lay down an oil slick, or deploy a smokescreen. Among its communications technologies? The ability to dispatch the nuclear codes. Oh, and in addition to the seven seats it has inside to make sure Secret Service members can surround the president, it also contains a bunch of medical supplies—including a refrigerator full of blood matching Trump's blood type. Commissioned by the Secret Service in 2014 and going by the same nickname as the last presidential limo, which debuted in 2009—"The Beast"—it's one of a dozen making up what was initially estimated to be a $15.8 million contract. Cadillac won't comment on the car, but the Secret Service has confirmed the new limo, as well as a twin version traveling in Trump's motorcade, posting a photo of the two together on Twitter.

