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Feb 04 2021
News
McConnell to force Democrats to vote on paying illegal immigrants, funding schools that refuse to open
Senate Republicans are set to force Democrats to cast votes on a variety of potentially uncomfortable topics in the coming days, taking advantage of the rules of the budget reconciliation process Democrats are using to advance President Biden's coronavirus stimulus plan while getting around a filibuster.
Debate on the budget resolution, which started Wednesday, will continue in the
Fox News DigitalApr 19 2019
News
Mueller report: Subpoena issued for unredacted version
A subpoena demanding the release of the full report into Russian meddling during the 2016 election has been issued, amid claims the current version "leaves most of Congress in the dark".
Democrat Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House judiciary committee, argued they are entitled to an unredacted version.
Democrats have promised to continue pursuing Donald Trump following the
BBC NewsFeb 27 2020
News
Haley Hits Back After Biden Reportedly Criticizes Her Brains
Why gaffe-prone Joe Biden felt he of all people is in a position to attack someone for not having “brains” is anyone’s guess, but that’s reportedly what he did to Nikki Haley during a South Carolina campaign event on Wednesday.
According to The Post and Courier reporter Jamie Lovegrove, Biden criticized the Palmetto State’s former governor for “declining to expand Medicaid here.”
TownhallNov 09 2013
News
Promise breakers: Congressional lawmakers shirk shutdown pledge, keep paychecks
Nearly half of Congress promised to share federal workers’ pain during the partial government shutdown by forsaking pay — but now that the shutdown is over and employees got paid, many lawmakers say they deserve their own checks. Some of the lawmakers said their vow to forgo pay was good only for as long as the shutdown lasted. When the shutdown ended after 16 days, they said, they had done
Washington TimesMay 06 2015
News
Republicans Reject Calls on Guantanamo Bay Closure
Senate Republicans are rejecting renewed calls by Democrats and a retired Supreme Court justice to expedite closing Guantanamo Bay, saying they fear released detainees could pose a security threat.
In remarks to a legal group Monday, retired Justice John Paul Stevens said that the prison never should have been opened, and said that some detainees who were abused by U.S. forces or held
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 04 2015
News
Ted Cruz Runs First Ad Of 2016 Presidential Cycle On Easter Weekend
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is airing the first television ad of the 2016 campaign cycle on Easter weekend, a spot that emphasizes his religious background as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination.
"Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household," Cruz says in the 30-second ad, entitled "Blessing
HuffPostFeb 04 2020
Analysis
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay In The Air
On a strictly mathematical level, engineers know how to design planes that will stay aloft. But equations don't explain why aerodynamic lift occurs. There are two competing theories that illuminate the forces and factors of lift. Both are incomplete explanations. Aerodynamicists have recently tried to close the gaps in understanding. Still, no consensus exists. In December 2003, to commemorate
Scientific AmericanMar 08 2020
Headline Roundup
Trump Attends First TV Town Hall of 2020 Election
President Donald Trump appeared on his first TV town hall of the 2020 election cycle on Thursday, when he fielded questions from Fox News anchors in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Topics of discussion ranged from the administration's response to the coronavirus to entitlement spending on programs like Medicare and Social Security, which the Republican suggested he might cut in order to reign in the
Townhall Politico FactCheck.orgFeb 18 2021
Analysis
The Twelve Flavors of Trumpism: A Guide
What does the future hold for Trump’s political movement? First we must determine which forms will prevail.
How much of “Trumpism” will survive in the Republican Party now that Donald Trump is gone from the White House? That is the hot question of the day on the right. Much depends, of course, on whether Trump himself is able to stage a comeback in 2024, but there are still years of
National Review (News)Feb 12 2021
Opinion
Our family knows the cost of political violence. Senators must show profiles in courage.
William Kennedy Smith, a physician, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, executive director of Retirement Security for All, are the nephew and niece of President John F. Kennedy and the nephew and daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
In 2016, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last of the nine children of our grandparents Joe and Rose Kennedy, co-wrote an op-ed with one of us that ran in The
Washington Post