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Sep 21 2020
News
Trump Says He Plans To Announce Supreme Court Pick Friday Or Saturday
President Trump said on Monday that he plans to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday or Saturday.
"I think it will be on Friday or Saturday, and we want to pay respect," Trump said in an interview on Fox and Friends. "It looks like we will have probably services on Thursday or Friday, as I understand it, and I think in all
NPR (Online News)Jun 15 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Mainstream Media Across the Spectrum Fail to Follow Up on Tara Reade in Russia
Tara Reade — the woman who worked for President Joe Biden from 1992-1993 during his tenure as a senator and raised sexual assault allegations against him in 2020 — has defected to Russia.
Or at least that’s how mainstream outlets from CNN (Lean Left bias) to Fox News (Right bias) reported the news, which broke on May 31.
However, in an exclusive June 7 interview with Rising,
Andy GorelJun 28 2021
News
McConnell tries to derail Democratic infrastructure strategy
Mitch McConnell is pressuring President Joe Biden and congressional Democratic leaders to further weaken the link between a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a bigger liberal-leaning spending bill, warning Monday that Biden's party wants to "hold a bipartisan bill hostage over a separate and partisan process.”
The Senate GOP leader called on Biden to request that Senate Majority Leader
PoliticoDec 16 2020
News
McConnell says ‘significant progress’ made on COVID-19 relief bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a bipartisan group of lawmakers seeking to hammer out a coronavirus relief bill during the lame-duck session of Congress is making “significant progress.”
“Everybody wants to finish,” McConnell said late Tuesday as legislators were wrapping up negotiations for the evening. “Everybody wants to get a final agreement as soon as possible. We all
New York Post (News)May 21 2019
News
Progressive Caucus chair backs calls for Trump impeachment inquiry
A co-chair of the influential Congressional Progressive Caucus on Tuesday threw his support behind pursuing impeachment of President Trump, giving the movement another bump.
Rep. Mark Pocan, Wisconsin Democrat, said he was swayed by Mr. Trump’s obstruction of Congress’s efforts to conduct investigations into the president and his team.
“Regrettably, the president’s most recent
Washington TimesDec 10 2021
Opinion
The Inflation Suspense Goes On
Today’s consumer price report came as a huge surprise to almost everyone — because the numbers came in almost exactly in line with expectations, which basically never happens. Analysts whose job is to forecast what official numbers will say a few hours before they come out — a job of dubious usefulness, but whatever — expected the one-year rate of inflation to come in at 6.8 percent; it came
Paul KrugmanAug 03 2021
Opinion
The lapsed eviction moratorium is the Supreme Court’s fault
On Sunday, a federal eviction moratorium, which was intended to prevent renters from losing their homes in the midst of a pandemic, expired.
At its height, this moratorium may have saved as many as 40 million Americans from eviction. But, in late June, the Supreme Court signaled that this moratorium must expire at the end of July, effectively leaving many renters without protection.
VoxSep 24 2021
News
Leader McCarthy Urges 'No' Vote on Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he'll vote against the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill when it comes up for a vote on Monday, because he no longer views it as "bipartisan."
"You know, I don't view it as a bipartisan bill any longer, where the Democrats have now made it one, over-$5 trillion bill."
Spending so much on new entitlement programs "would
CNSNews.comMay 16 2020
News
What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?
Washington — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a massive coronavirus relief bill on Tuesday, the fifth proposed legislation related to the economic fallout from the pandemic. The House is expected to vote on the $3 trillion proposal on Friday, although it is considered dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The bill, which spans more than 1,800 pages, is known as the
CBS News (Online)Apr 03 2020
News
Democrats outline "phase 4" of coronavirus response, emphasizing infrastructure
Washington — House Democrats unveiled a proposal Wednesday to bolster the country's infrastructure to mitigate the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, in what would be "phase four" of the congressional response to the outbreak.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters in a conference call that the House's "interest in infrastructure has always been bipartisan." The plan builds
CBS News (Online)