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Jan 10 2020
Opinion
Trey Gowdy: Trump impeachment trial is not about him. THIS is what Democrats want now
Republican Senator Cory Gardner is what you would expect in a swing state like Colorado: affable, supportive of his party when it benefits his state, unafraid of independence, and not angry about any of it. Like Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Reps. Peter Welch, Elise Stefanik, and Will Hurd, Gardner has a different kind of personality than what is typically rewarded in the modern political
Fox News (Opinion)
Jun 05 2020
News
Hong Kong
“Thousands of people in Hong Kong defied a police ban Thursday evening, breaking through barricades to hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st anniversary of China’s crushing of a democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square… Earlier Thursday, the Hong Kong legislature passed a law making it a crime to disrespect China’s national anthem.” (AP News)
Last Friday, “U.S. President
The Flip Side
Nov 21 2015
News
How The White House Lost Democrats On The Syrian Refugee Bill
In the lead-up to Thursday's House vote for tightening restrictions on Syrian refugees seeking entry into the United States, senior Democrats warned fellow members that they faced a massive backlash next fall if they didn't support the bill.
Forty-seven Democrats voted for the SAFE Act, which aims to impose additional requirements on an already cumbersome refugee screening process,
HuffPost
Sep 10 2014
News
GOP senator wants to fix welfare-for-weed ‘loophole’
A Republican senator plans to introduce legislation to close what he calls a welfare “loophole” after the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it had “no authority” to prohibit recipients from using their benefit cards at marijuana stores in states where pot is legal.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., released a letter he received over the summer from HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell
Fox News Digital
Aug 03 2013
News
House Passes Bill in Bid to Undermine Health-Care Law
In its final act before leaving Washington for a five-week recess, the House voted largely along party lines Friday to approve a bill that would prevent the Internal Revenue Service from implementing or enforcing aspects of the health-care law.
The 232-185 vote marked the 40th time that Republicans have tried to repeal some or all of the Affordable Care Act since they took control of
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 16 2015
News
Rick Perry: Americans Don't Want Another 'Untested' President
After eight years of a president with a short legislative resume, Rick Perry says Americans will not make that same mistake in 2016 and are ready for a president with a proven record of accomplishment.
"We took a chance with a young, articulate United States senator who didn't have any record, and I happen to think we're paying a price for it," the former Texas governor told an audience
Newsmax (News)
Nov 09 2022
Headline Roundup
How Ballot Measures on Key Issues Fared Nationwide in the 2022 Elections
Abortion, forced prison labor, marijuana, and gun rights were just a few hot-button issues being voted on in different states across the country on Tuesday.
Abortion: Voters in California, Vermont, and Michigan approved ballot measures adding abortion rights into their state constitutions, as did voters in Montana and Kentucky, two traditionally-conservative states.
Gun Rights:
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The Hill
Mar 04 2015
News
Obama Amnesty: 100,000 Expanded Work Permits Issued Before Court Halted Program
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 100,000 applications under President Obama’s executive amnesty expansion before the official kick off date of February 18, the Obama administration reveals.
In a court filing to the federal court in Texas that recently placed a temporarily halt on President Obama’s November 20, 2014, executive amnesty — specifically the
Breitbart News
Feb 08 2015
News
District of Columbia Sees Loophole in Congress’s Move to Halt Marijuana Law
Last fall, voters in the District of Columbia chose to join a handful of states in legalizing the growth and possession of small amounts of marijuana. But unlike in the states, the free will of district voters — no matter how overwhelmingly expressed — is never the end of the story.
Congressional Republicans believe they have successfully nullified the law. But officials here, seizing
New York Times (News)
Feb 12 2014
News
'Clean' debt-ceiling hike clears House, heads to Senate
A divided U.S. House voted Tuesday to let the government borrow enough money to pay its bills for the next year, sending the measure to the Senate in an effort by Republican leaders to avoid another politically damaging legislative impasse over spending. In the 221-201 vote, less than three dozen of the majority House Republicans joined almost all of the chamber's 200 Democrats to pass the
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