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Jun 25 2023
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Brandon Miller has message for booing Hornets fans
Mitch Kupchak, the general manager of the Charlotte Hornets, said the team’s choices with the second selection in the NBA Draft on Thursday night came down to Alabama forward Brandon Miller, NBA G League guard Scoot Henderson and offers from other clubs seeking to trade for the pick. The Hornets chose Miller, which apparently wasn’t universally loved by fans of the NBA team as videos from
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Dec 07 2022
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Senate Republicans Grapple With Strategy as Democrats Rejoice
The Democrats’ capstone re-election victory of Senator Raphael Warnock forced Republicans to reckon on Wednesday with the red wave that wasn’t, as they turned with trepidation to 2024 and the intensifying divisions in the party over former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Warnock’s two-and-a-half percentage point win over Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff left Democrats with a
New York Times (News)
Feb 18 2016
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Dems Plan To Make Republicans Pay For Blockading The Supreme Court
If shame is the only real tool that President Barack Obama has to force the U.S. Senate to consider a Supreme Court nomination in his final year, let the shames begin.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared over the weekend -- within hours of the news that Justice Antonin Scalia had died -- that the Senate should not even
HuffPost
Jan 22 2020
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Senate adopts rules for impeachment trial, ends 13-hour argument marathon
The Senate early Wednesday approved rules for the impeachment trial of President Trump, wrapping up a marathon session that marked the first day of arguments in the historic proceedings.
The GOP-proposed rules package passed in a party-line vote, 53-47. The same tally that decided nearly every Democratic challenge to the rules in the 13 hours of arguments that lasted until nearly 2 a.m
Washington Times
Jul 17 2017
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Trumpcare vote delayed while McCain recovers from surgery
While Sen. John McCain remains in Arizona recovering from Friday's craniotomy, surgery to remove a 5 cm blood clot from above his left eye, business will not go on as usual in Washington. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has to have every Republican senator voting to have a prayer of passing Trumpcare, has postponed the vote for the week or two (more likely two) that McCain's recovery will
Daily Kos
Jun 22 2017
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Senate Republicans set to reveal Trumpcare: Tax cuts for the rich, Medicaid destroyed
After weeks of secret, backroom negotiating in which lobbyists seem to have played a much bigger role than either senators or health care experts, Mitch McConnell is ready to release his version of Trumpcare Thursday morning—a "discussion draft"—the first step in a rushed process to get it to the floor by next Thursday. As with the House bill, the primary feature of it is that it will destroy
Daily Kos
Jan 09 2020
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Key Pelosi lieutenant calls on her to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate
House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), a top lieutenant of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said Thursday that she should go ahead and transmit the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate and allow a trial to begin.
Smith’s high-profile break with Pelosi came shortly before she deflected when asked by a reporter about her impasse with Senate Majority
Washington Post
Feb 04 2020
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Partisan rancor on display as senators explain their positions in Trump trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate’s top Republican exhorted fellow senators on Tuesday to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, warning that the fate of the republic depended on it, even as his Democratic counterpart called Trump a threat to democracy.
The partisan rancor in the dueling speeches by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Democratic Senator Chuck
Reuters
Oct 31 2022
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House Republican says both parties need to tone down political rhetoric, ‘myself included’
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Saturday that both Democrats and Republicans need to tone down their political rhetoric in response to questions about the role of GOP rhetoric in the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), on Friday.
During an appearance on “CNN Newsroom,” Comer, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told
The Hill
Jun 22 2021
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Republicans block 'rotten' election reform bill in Senate as VP Harris presides over debate
Senate Republicans Tuesday blocked sweeping legislation on election and campaign finance reforms that Democrats said is crucial to ensuring voting rights and saving democracy but the GOP blasted as a partisan power grab.
The "For the People Act" needed 60 votes to clear a procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday, but Republicans filibustered and killed the legislation from advancing to
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