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Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rand Paul ? The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan spending bill Friday morning  but not before the federal government shut down when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delayed the vote past midnight to complain about the budget deficit. It was the second government shutdown in less than three weeks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Feb. 8 spoke on the Senate floor against a bipartisan budget deal and delayed a vote on the measure. (U.S. Senate)
Then  as an expected vote approached in the Senate   Paul  began to throw up roadblocks  demanding a vote on  his  amendment that would demonstrate how the two-year budget deal breaks past pledges to rein in federal spending.
GOP leaders refused to allow  him  to offer the amendment  arguing that if  Paul  got an amendment vote  many other senators might want one  too.  Paul   in turn  refused to allow the vote to go forward  making use of Senate rules that allow individual senators to slow down proceedings that require the consent of all.
“I can’t in all good honesty  in all good faith  just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits ”  Paul  said on the Senate floor as evening pushed into night.
 Paul  objected after a visibly irritated McConnell tried to move to a vote. Then  Paul  launched into a lengthy floor speech deriding bipartisan complicity on deficit spending while the country goes “on and on and on  finding new wars to fight that make no sense.” The senator direly predicted a “day of reckoning ” possibly in the form of the collapse of the stock market.
As the hours ticked on   Paul  repeatedly refused to consent to allowing the vote to happen  as lawmakers and aides of both parties grew increasingly annoyed at  him . Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)  leaving the floor after an unsuccessful attempt to curtail  Paul ’s standoff  called the gambit “grossly irresponsible” and said that leaders would not entertain  his  demand for a vote.
Senators of both parties were left fuming  with most of their ire directed toward  Paul .
“ He  has mastered the art of ticking off  his  colleagues ” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).
“It’s a colossal waste of everybody’s time ” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Of  Paul   Thune said  “He never gets a result.”
 Paul himself  made no apologies as  he  delivered one floor speech after another  casting  himself  as a lone defender of fiscal austerity  despite having voted in December for a tax bill that added at least $1 trillion to the debt.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Chloe Kim ? Extremely chill  Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim  crushed the qualifier for the halfpipe on Monday  beating out the second-place finisher by over seven points.
Is the time between Olympic qualifying runs stressful? It was stressful for me to watch  so I assume yes. But did  Chloe Kim  still tweet about ice cream during this high-pressure time? Absolutely.
Could be down for some ice cream rn — Chloe Kim (@chloekimsnow) February 12  2018
yes... —  Chloe Kim  (@chloekimsnow) February 12  2018
Should  Chloe Kim  actually bring some ice cream to the competition next round  you will be the first to know. Until then  please temper your Olympics anxiety by channeling Chloe's nerves of steel.
Remember: you're on your couch.  She 's on top of a mountain and also on TV.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Pete K. Rahn ? The Purple Line will begin carrying passengers in the Maryland suburbs later than expected because of a court fight over the project  but state officials believe it can still open in 2022   state Transportation Secretary Pete K. Rahn  said Thursday night.
The line had been scheduled to open to riders in March 2022.  Rahn  said the state and its contractor are still redoing the construction schedule  but  he  believes it can open âsometimeâ later that year.
âWe know there are going to be some delays â  Rahn  told the audience at a Silver Spring forum sponsored by the Purple Line Now advocacy group.
 He  said state officials should have a better sense of the timing â and any additional costs to the projectâs $2.4 billion construction costs â in a couple of months.  He  said  he  expects that project officials can make up some of the time lost during the one-year legal fight over the lineâs environmental impacts. A second lawsuit filed against the project is still pending in federal court  but judges have allowed construction to continue.
Early construction work has focused on cutting trees  particularly along the Georgetown Branch recreational trail between downtown Silver Spring and downtown Bethesda  and beginning to move utility lines.  He  said 75 percent of the design work is complete  and the state has acquired 88 percent of the right of way needed along the alignment.
The stateâs contractor  a team of companies called Purple Line Transit Partners  has about 375 people working on the project and will ramp up to about 1 500 people this year   he  said.
 Rahn  told the crowd the state has spent $200 million of the $325 million in federal aid that Congress has appropriated to the Purple Line. The state expects the rest of the total $900 million in federal grants to be doled out in annual appropriations of about $100 million to $125 million   he  said.
âWe are spending money quickly â  Rahn  said.
The state still expects the line to attract about 59 000 trips per day when it opens   he  said. That number is expected to grow to 74 000 daily trips by 2040.
âIf the service is as good as we think itâs going to be â  he  said  âIâm very confident in those numbers.â

Answer:
Neutral