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Dec 17 2020
Analysis
Mainstream broadcast media are barely covering the COVID-19 relief negotiations in Congress
Congress is set to go home for the holidays in a matter of days and legislators are rushing to negotiate nearly $1 trillion in COVID-19 relief. But national broadcast news outlets have barely covered the issue, much less the HEROES Act, which has been sitting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk since it was initially passed by the House in May.
A bipartisan group of House
Media MattersSep 13 2019
News
Former Kentucky Dem Party Chair Convicted of Campaign Finance Violations
A jury convicted Jerry Lundergan, a longtime Democratic operative and the father of Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes, of breaking federal finance law.
Lundergan, former Kentucky Democratic Party chairman, and Dale Emmons, a Democratic political consultant, were charged with illegally funneling corporate contributions into Grimes's failed 2014 Senate campaign without
Washington Free BeaconOct 20 2017
Opinion
Democrats are the real abortion extremists
What would America’s abortion policy be if the number of months in the gestation of a human infant were a prime number — say, seven or eleven? This thought experiment is germane to why the abortion issue has been politically toxic, and points to a path toward a less bitter debate. The House has for a third time stepped onto this path. Senate Democrats will, for a third time, block this path
George WillMar 20 2020
News
Checks In The Mail
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a sweeping economic rescue plan Thursday to pump $1,200 direct checks to taxpayers, $300 billion for small businesses to keep idled workers on payroll and $208 billion in loans to airlines and other industries.” (AP News)
“President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday proposed mailing out checks of up to $1,000
The Flip SideMar 10 2021
News
Merrick Garland confirmed as attorney general, turning page on Trump era
Merrick Garland has been confirmed as America’s top law enforcement officer, a boost for Joe Biden’s drive against racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Garland’s rise to attorney general, approved 70-30 by the US Senate in a strongly bipartisan vote, turns the page on former president Donald Trump’s harsh “law and order” rhetoric and efforts to bend the justice
The GuardianNov 06 2014
News
Can GOP, Obama find common ground? New Congress eyes Keystone, ObamaCare, tax code
Building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, overhauling the tax code and easing "excessive" regulations blamed for slow economic growth are at the top of the agenda for the new Republican majority in Congress.
But absent from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by House Speaker John Boehner and presumptive Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is any mention of immigration, which
Fox News (Online News)May 06 2020
News
Senate Republicans Return to Judicial Nominees Amid Coronavirus
Hearing for key appeals court vacancy is part of McConnell’s continued push to fill judiciary with conservatives.
Senate Republicans, with their return to the Capitol this week, are turning some of their attention back to a top pre-coronavirus priority: placing as many conservatives as possible on the nation’s federal courts.
A featured player in the current push is Judge Justin
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 21 2015
News
GOP is bamboozling Americans, Obama says
President Barack Obama’s done running for office, but not making fun of Republicans. In a speech to the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting Friday in Washington, Obama ripped into Hill Republicans — and Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in particular — for attempts to “spin” and “bamboozle” Americans by claiming to be for the middle class. Story Continued Below Mostly,
PoliticoJan 21 2020
News
Senate impeachment trial: Republicans vote to table Schumer amendment seeking documents
(CNN)Senate Republicans defeated an amendment from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday to subpoena the White House for Ukraine documents on the opening day of the bitterly fought impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
The amendment was killed by Republicans on a party-line vote, 53-47. Schumer is proposing additional amendments — including to subpoena the State
CNN (Online News)Dec 08 2021
News
It’s Kentucky straight in Lexington City Hall
Mayor Linda Gorton has been in politics long enough to know how to dodge a reporter’s question. Asked three times if she voted for Donald Trump, Gorton responded with a smile.
There’s a reason. She’s a dyed-in-the-wool nonpartisan, despite being a registered Republican.
“I don’t talk about who I voted for in anything, really,” the first-term mayor said in an interview in her
Politico