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Jun 09 2017
News
Comey hearings fallout? Depends on the listener.
Former FBI Director James Comey made an overlooked but insightful statement to Congress Thursday. Beneath all the important investigations into Russian interference in the November elections, there is an unseen side of Washington still united around defending the nation’s core ideals.
Christian Science Monitor
Oct 22 2019
News
Why Trump’s Impeachment Might Be Different Than Clinton’s
In the fall of 1998, it seemed like President Clinton was in trouble. An investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr had uncovered an affair between the president and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. And after months of denials, Clinton finally admitted to having had “an inappropriate relationship” with Lewinsky, which was then recounted in graphic detail in the report Starr sent to
538 (ABC News)
Feb 05 2020
News
Senate Acquits Trump of 2 Impeachment Articles, Concluding Historic and Wrenching Trial
The Republican-controlled Senate, as has been expected since last week, voted Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on the two impeachment articles against him -- that he abused his high office and obstructed Congress' efforts to investigate the matter.
On the first article, abuse of power, the vote was 52-48. On the second, obstruction, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who'd broken ranks
Newsmax (News)
Apr 09 2019
News
Attorney General Barr promises Mueller report 'within a week'
Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers on Tuesday that he intends to release within a week the long-awaited report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“Within a week I will be in position to release that report to the public and then I will engage with the chairmen of both judiciary committees about that report, about any
Reuters
Jul 10 2017
News
Sen. John McCain: Senate Health Care Bill ‘Is Probably Going To Be Dead’
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) appeared on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning and said he thought the Senate’s health care bill was “probably going to be dead” when Congress returns Monday from the July Fourth recess.
HuffPost
Dec 11 2014
News
Here's what's tucked in the spending bill
The Congress that has done virtually nothing for two years is wrapping up 2014 with a bang.
CNN (Online News)
Feb 03 2020
News
Michigan ER doctor confronts Mike Pence over Medicaid cuts, video goes viral
A video capturing the interaction between a west Michigan doctor pushing Mike Pence on health care cuts has gone viral.
Emergency room physician Rob Davidson — who made a failed run for Congress in 2018 as a Democrat — was eating at a diner in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 30 when Pence came in.
As the vice president was making the rounds through the restaurant and approached
Detroit Free Press
Apr 16 2021
News
Raul Castro confirms he's resigning, ending long era in Cuba
Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba‘s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by him and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.
The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement Friday in a speech at the opening of the Eighth Congress of the ruling party, the only one allowed on the island.
He said he was retiring with the sense
Washington Times
Jul 21 2021
Analysis
How America lost its commitment to the right to vote
The Supreme Court isn’t even pretending that it’s bound by legal texts in its voting rights cases.
The Supreme Court, Justice Elena Kagan lamented in a dissenting opinion earlier this month, “has treated no statute worse” than the Voting Rights Act.
She’s right.
The Voting Rights Act is arguably the most successful civil rights law in American history. Originally signed in
Vox
Jan 30 2015
News
4 Reasons Why It's Veto Season At The White House
President Obama is about to get his first veto opportunity of the new Congress. A bill that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline project will be on his desk soon. He's promised to veto it and that's unusual. In his first six years in office, Obama issued just two vetoes — the fewest of any president going all the way back to James Garfield, and Garfield only served 199 days in office! But
NPR (Online News)