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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 Frank Newman ? "But neither assumption is correct " said Frank Newman  a former deputy secretary of the US Treasury and now chairman and chief executive of Shenzhen Development Bank  a Chinese commercial bank.
 Making Chinese products more expensive in the United States will do nothing to shift production to US factories  he said in a commentary in the magazine Foreign Policy. It may instead nudge production to other developing countries.
 In addition  Newman said  a large proportion of goods imported from China are not end-state products  but components ready for assembly.
 A US auto manufacturer that uses Chinese car seats  for instance  pays more for the seats under a strengthened yuan and then either cuts into its profits or charges higher prices on the finished vehicle  he explained.
 That final step  he said  added just four dollars of value to the phone  whose components come from other countries.
 He said a revaluation of the yuan not only would make Chinese exports relatively more expensive but also would decrease foreign demand for Chinese-made goods  negatively impacting local production and creating "a feedback loop through to domestic employment and wages.
 "In the extreme  this threatens social stability  and China is certainly not the poster child for social stability  he warned.
 "Given the foreign interests and investments in China  it is not entirely clear to me that a yuan revaluation that catapults China into recession would not result in a global contagion effect " he said.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Boutros Boutros-Ghali ? Former United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali gives an interview to the Associated Press in New York.
May 27  1997 Former United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali gives an interview to the Associated Press in New York.  Michael Schmelling/AP
Boutros Boutros-Ghali  an urbane Egyptian diplomat  whose service as United Nations secretary general during the early 1990s coincided with genocides from Rwanda to the Balkans as well as political frictions that caused the Clinton administration to block  him  from a second term  died Feb. 16 at a hospital in Cairo.  He  was 93.
 Boutros Boutros-Ghali  in 1996  at the end of  his  term as U.N. secretary general. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo on Nov. 14  1922. He was a Coptic Christian from a family with deep roots in Egyptâs old aristocracy.

Answer:
Positive