Kavanaugh battle traps Republicans between base and female voters
Supreme Court nomiinee Brett Kavanaugh at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Sept. 4, 2018.
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US Chamber endorses GOP’s Braun in Indiana Senate race
One of the largest business organizations in the U.S. is endorsing Republican Mike Braun in the Indiana Senate race. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that it was backing the businessman and former state lawmaker, who is challenging Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election.
‘Outrageous’ Move by ‘Chickensh*t’ GOP as Grassley Schedules…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley leads Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the witness table at the beginning of Kavanaugh's second day of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. The word " chickenshit " became one of the operative adjectives and "sham" a widely-used noun overnight after it was learned late Tuesday that Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had hired an outside female prosecutor to grill Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during a hearing scheduled for Thursday and then proceed to a committee vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday morning, less than a day later.
Brett Kavanaugh denies Two More sex attack claims
Brett Kavanaugh denies TWO MORE sex attack claims - including anonymous allegation he drunkenly pushed woman against a wall when he was investigating Bill Clinton Two new cases surfaced Wednesday in transcripts of phone interviews between Kavanaugh and Senate aides, both of them with no one's name attached One allegation, lodged anonymously, is that Kavanaugh 'sexually' shoved a woman up against a wall after leaving a bar with her in 1998 That correspondes to the period when Kavanaugh was a staff attorney working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal Neither accusation can be corroborated because there are no firm details, and Kavanaugh denies it all as 'made up,' 'ridiculous' and 'total Twilight Zone' Senate investigators questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new claims of sexual misconduct, including one from an anonymous ... (more)
As Ford Polygraph Made Public, Senate Judiciary Democrats Unified: Kavanaugh Should ‘Immediately Withdraw’
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Senator Dianne Feinstein , speaks during a news conference denouncing the White House's withholding of documents on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Also pictured are Sen. Mazie Hirono , Sen. Chris Coons , Sen. Cory Booker , Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin , Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse , Sen. Richard Blumenthal , Sen. Kamala Harris , and Sen. Patrick Leahy .
Does Joe Cunningham need to woo SC Republicans to win?
Low Tide Brewing on Johns Island was Joe Cunningham's first stop on a "Cunningham Brewery Tour" on Thursday July 26, 2018 in his campaign for congress. Wade Spees/Staff Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington turns to former congressman Tommy Hartnett as she expresses gratitude for his work during a 1st Congressional Honorees Banquet at Alhambra Hall in Mount Pleasant on Thursday, August 16, 2018.
Democrats have leads in Rust Belt states that Trump won: Reuters poll
An Indiana U.S. Senator seen as one of the chamber's most vulnerable Democrats has a slight edge while four of his Rust Belt Democratic colleagues have solid leads in states President Donald Trump won in 2016, a Reuters poll found. A Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center for Politics Poll released on Wednesday found that a majority of likely voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana disapprove of the Republican president and more than one-third were "very motivated" to back someone who would oppose his policies.
Cadillac headquarters is moving back to metro Detroit after 4 years in New York City
General Motor's luxury brand Cadillac is returning its global headquarters to Warren, Michigan, after nearly four years in New York's SoHo. Cadillac headquarters is moving back to metro Detroit after 4 years in New York City General Motor's luxury brand Cadillac is returning its global headquarters to Warren, Michigan, after nearly four years in New York's SoHo.
Deep state
On January 2, 2018, Virginia Senator Mark Warner released a tweet saying, "Slandering the Department of Justice's career law enforcement and intel professionals as the 'deep state' - whatever that actually means - is dangerous and unpresidential." It was only one of the more recent uses of the phrase, but one of the first to include the cautionary comment "whatever that actually means."
Public hearings set on Chicago police reforms
Two public hearings have been announced for late October, at which people can comment on a proposed consent decree that will govern reforms of the Chicago Police Department. Both hearings -- Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 -- will be in the John B. Parsons Ceremonial Courtroom on the 25th floor of the Dirksen Federal Building, 219 S. Dearborn St., Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office announced Wednesday.
Merkley to seek court injunction to delay Kavanaugh vote
A day before the eagerly awaited appearance of embattled U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and one of his female accusers before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Merkley wants to call a time-out. The Oregon Democrat on Wednesday will ask a federal judge for an injunction that will stop the Senate Republicans' hurry-up plan to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination as soon as possible.
Lawmakers demand answers from Columbia Gas
Lawrence, MA. - September 14, 2018: Charlie Baker, Massachusetts Governor, joins US Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma, US Congressman Ed Markey, D-MA, and others in a tour of 35 Chickering St., where a young man was killed during yesterday's gas leak/fires, today September 14, 2018.
1 year after hurricanes, senators call for hearing on health,…
One year after hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Senator Elizabeth Warren and seven other senators are renewing calls for Senate hearings over the dire states of health and education infrastructure on the islands. "Hurricane Maria killed about 3,000 American citizens, had a crippling impact on health and education systems in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, had an impact all around the country - and yet, there hasn't been a single hearing," Warren, D-Mass., said Tuesday, using her time at a committee hearing on a different education bill passed in 2015 to raise the issues.
Steve Dettelbach unveils opioids plan, says Republicans have failed: Capitol Letter
An Ohio Statehouse north-side garden showcases a poppy quilt design to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Attacking addiction: Steve Dettelbach, the Democratic attorney general candidate, unveiled his plan to combat Ohio's opioid epidemic. He told cleveland.com's Laura Hancock he opposes Issue 1 but supports other ideas for criminal justice reform.
New Englanders To Take Part In U.S. Senate PFAS Hearing
A Senate committee holds a hearing Wednesday about the federal government's role in the nation's growing PFAS crisis. Federal regulators and advocates from Michigan and New Hampshire will testify on how the military helped spread the industrial toxins by using firefighting foams.
Latinos Should Rally To Omar Qudrat, Potentially The First Muslim GOP Congressman
It's election season again and politician promises to Latino voters are on their way. The question always remains whether those promises will be kept.
The Latest: GOP bringing in Arizona prosecutor for hearing
Senate Republicans are bringing in Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to handle questioning about allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. A news release from committee chairman Chuck Grassley's office describes Mitchell as "a career prosecutor with decades of experience prosecuting sex crimes."
Kavanaugh, Rosenstein Confrontations Are High Stakes
That day, the fates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and much else, may be decided. The New York Times report that Rosenstein, sarcastically or seriously in May 2017, talked of wearing a wire into the Oval Office to entrap the president, suggests that his survival into the new year is improbable.
Rachel Mitchell, prosecutor experienced in sex-crimes cases, to…
Senate Republicans announced late Tuesday that Rachel Mitchell, a decorated career sex crimes prosecutor with decades of experience, will handle the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault decades ago, at a scheduled hearing on Thursday. Saying he wants the hearing to be a "safe, comfortable, and dignified" environment, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote in a statement that the move would help take politics out of the proceedings.
Under attack: Because we don’t vote Republican
John Lewis Congress losing faith in Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi Obama to urge rejection of 'authoritarian politics and policies' in speech Florida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson MORE John Andrew Boehner Democrats should be careful what they wish for Blue wave poses governing risks for Dems Nancy Pelosi: Will she remain the 'Face of the Franchise'? MORE , and Republican legislatures across the country. He declared that voting rights are under attack in America.