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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says sexual misconduct allegations against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken are "troubling" and he hopes and expects that the Senate Ethics Committee will fully investigate. He said Thursday that a bipartisan ethics panel should "fully investigate this troubling incident, as they should with any credible allegation of sexual harassment."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants an ethics investigation into Sen. Al Franken's behavior in light of new explosive allegations that he inappropriately touched a woman while on a USO tour in 2006. The top Republican in Congress hopes his counterpart, Chuck Schumer, will support his effort.
After his first attempt at an apology for groping a woman's breasts while she was asleep was ripped apart by just about everyone, Sen. Al Franken has issued a lengthier statement apologizing for his actions. Franken also called for an ethics investigation into his conduct and pledged to "gladly cooperate" with any investigation.
Radio host and former Playboy model says Democratic Senator Al Franken kissed and GROPED her while she was asleep and without consent during a USO tour to Afghanistan in 2006 'I don't expect any of you to forgive me': Man who STOMPED his prison mate to death confesses to killing girlfriend and baby boy who 'were SUFFOCATED before their mysterious disappearance eight years ago' Grandmother, 69, dies of an overdose while cleaning up her son's drug paraphernalia by 'absorbing the substances into her system' just days after his fatal overdose Top interior designer reveals the decorating hack that will add THOUSANDS to your home Children's yoga teacher, 22, is charged with repeatedly molesting a six-year-old because he thought the boy was 'cute' EXCLUSIVE - Runaway bride: Serena Williams pairs Versace couture gown with NIKES for rehearsal dinner as she and fiance Alexis Ohanian generously pay ... (more)
A stressed Gulf War veteran who set himself on fire outside a Veterans Affairs clinic and later died went nearly a year without a mental health appointment or medication, one of several serious problems government investigators found with the clinic in a report released Thursday. The Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general found Charles Ingram III went almost a year without seeing a counselor or taking medications for his mental health problems before his death in March 2016.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez waves at reporters before entering the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Courthouse for his federal corruption trial, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Jury deliberations continued on Thursday morning. NEWARK, N.J.>> Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial has ended in a mistrial after the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked on the charges against the Democrat and his co-defendant.
Two things have become painfully clear on Capitol Hill this week: Lawmakers and staffers say sexual harassment is "rampant" -- but even members of Congress have no idea just how widespread the problem is. The controversial and sensitive issue has taken center stage in Congress this week, with female lawmakers making fresh allegations of sexual harassment against unnamed members who are currently in office, and the unveiling of a new bill on Wednesday to change how sexual harassment complaints are reported and resolved.
Peninsula Village Council accepted Stantec Consulting Services Inc.'s preliminary engineering report for a wastewater collection and treatment system at the Nov. 13 meeting. Mayor Doug Mayer said the report will help the village when the time comes to make a decision on the system.
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez stops to talk to the media on health care reform and jury deliberations as he leaves the federal courthouse in Newark, NJ on Tuesday. The jury has yet to reach a verdict in his corruption trial.
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., said she rejected a fellow member's advances with a rolled-up newspaper. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmaker said other colleagues were watching as she batted the unidentified member of Congress away and snickered.
The Graduate Student Government sent a letter to the United States Congress on Wednesday expressing graduate students' concerns about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the latest Republican-sponsored bill proposed to modify the existing tax code. The letter, which garnered more than 450 signatures, was a direct response to several provisions in the proposed bill, including one that would repeal the graduate and professional students' tax-free tuition income.
The president let loose on Twitter after a 12-year-old photo showed the Minnesota Democrat appearing to grope a fellow entertainer. Senator Al Franken has been accused of unwanted groping and kissing by model and sportscaster Leeann Tweeden.
Former defense secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks during a discussion on countering violent extremism on Oct. 23 in Washington. Three former secretaries of defense are warning lawmakers not to enact proposed Republican tax restructuring plans, arguing they will jeopardize future military spending.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in October 2017 in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, Nov. 15, Blumenthal announced alongside U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and four other senators a proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act that among other aims would penalize companies if they do not notify consumers promptly of breaches in their payment card systems and other databases storing sensitive information.
The Senate campaign of Roy Moore of Alabama sought Wednesday to discredit a woman's accusation that he sexually assaulted her when she was 16, suggesting that what looks like his signature on her high school yearbook could be a forgery. Moore's attorney, Phillip L. Jauregui, Jr., also disputed a statement by Beverly Young Nelson that she'd had no contact with Moore since the alleged assault took place in 1977 in Gadsden, Ala.
One of President Donald Trump 's judicial nominees, Don Willett, said Wednesday he was just kidding that time he compared gay people's constitutional right to marriage with a right to marry bacon. Willett, nominated for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, told the Senate Judiciary Committee he wasn't mocking same-sex marriage when he tweeted in April 2015 that he "could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon" - a day after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the landmark marriage equality case.
Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, one of President Donald Trump's nominees to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Senate Democrats grilled him over statements made on his popular Twitter feed. Willett appeared with James Ho of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, another nominee to the 5th Circuit, the New Orleans-based federal appeals court.
Legislation to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration advanced out of a Senate committee on Wednesday, largely along party lines. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, joined with GOP lawmakers to pass ANWR legislation in a 13-10 vote.
It's time to shed the mythical claim that electoral features of the United States Constitution somehow infuse our national political system with a rural Republicanism, conservatism, or Trumpism. This charge appears prominently in Nancy MacLean's controversial book Democracy in Chains , which cites the U.S. Senate's equal representation clause as well as the Electoral College as evidence of the Constitution's anti-democratic features.
The pension crisis has been news for some time now, but it's finally gotten so bad that U.S. politicians are now proposing legislation to solve the problems facing private pensions. But the "solution" they're offering won't fix the problem.