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Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would 'eliminate many problems' - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid Did Roy Moore spend the final weekend of the campaign in Philly? - MOBILE, Ala. - In the last weekend of Alabama's wild special Senate election, Doug Jones barnstormed the state with A-list Democrats in a bid to turn out black voters he desperately needs to win in the deep-red state.
Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would 'eliminate many problems' - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid Did Roy Moore spend the final weekend of the campaign in Philly? - MOBILE, Ala. - In the last weekend of Alabama's wild special Senate election, Doug Jones barnstormed the state with A-list Democrats in a bid to turn out black voters he desperately needs to win in the deep-red state.
Cory Booker has called on President Donald Trump to resign, saying that Al Franken did 'the honorable thing' by stepping down from the senate. Booker, the Democrat senator from New Jersey, made the remarks on Saturday at an event in Montgomery, Alabama, where he is campaigning against Republican senate candidate Roy Moore.
Renegade Republican Roy Moore may be plagued by scandal, but scandal alone will not convince the voters of 44th Place North to show up for Democrat Doug Jones. In a state where Democrats are used to losing, malaise hangs over this quiet African-American neighborhood in suburban Birmingham, even three days before Alabama's high-profile Senate contest.
Alabama Democratic Senate nominee Doug Jones says his campaign has "the wind at its back" as he crisscrosses the state ahead of Tuesday's election for U.S. Senate. In a Saturday stop in Selma, Jones said his campaign has been focused on bringing people together, while Republican Roy Moore is trying to divide voters.
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.
The former head of the Democratic National Committee says she considered initiating efforts to replace Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee with then-Vice President Joe Biden. Donna Brazile makes the revelation in a memoir being released Tuesday that has renewed deep divisions within the Democratic Party.
Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Joe Biden in the aftermath of Clinton's fainting spell, in part because Clinton's campaign was "anemic" and had taken on "the odor of failure."
Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chair, wrote in her new memoir that she considered pushing for the removal of Hillary Clinton from the 2016 ticket and replacing her with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report published Saturday. The Washington Post, which obtained an advanced copy of her memoir , reported that Brazile wrote that Clinton's campaign was "anemic" and had taken on "the odor of failure."
The Government Accountability Office has accepted a request by a group of U.S. senators to investigate the activities of President Donald Trump's commission on voter fraud. Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota wrote to the watchdog agency last week to request the probe, citing a lack of transparency surrounding the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity .
The Republican-led Senate judiciary committee now plans to take the first steps on legislation that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the latest sign that Trump could face a backlash from Capitol Hill if he sought to dismiss the special counsel. At the same time, the Senate panel is weighing whether to compel the appearance of Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, along with two senior FBI officials, all of whom have yet to agree to be interviewed despite the demands of committee leaders.
Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders bashed special interest groups when introducing the so-called Medicare for All Act of 2017. The seismic shift in support for Sen. Bernie Sanders ' plan to transform the U.S. health care system into a single-payer program indicates the reach the Vermont independent has within the Democratic Party.
A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A raft of regulatory questions may delay the $13.7-billion mega-merger between Amazon and the supermarket chain as Democratic lawmakers and government officials raise antitrust concerns. Whole Foods told its investors in June that the deal was expected to close late this year, but the companies reportedly warned that it could take until May of 2018.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker slammed President Donald Trump for declaring he would let Obamacare fail Tuesday, saying "that's not just cynical, it's actually sinister." In an interview on "CNN Tonight," Booker told CNN's Don Lemon that during the 2016 election, Trump promised voters that only he could fix health care in America, but he outsourced responsibility to the Republican leadership.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to quit after the White House cast his recommendation as the sole reason FBI Director James Comey was fired, according to The Washington Post . Jeff Sessions Fired US attorney: No one believes Trump's explanation for firing Comey Cory Booker: 'Problematic' that Trump, Sessions had say in Comey firing DOJ official who recommended Comey's firing threatened to resign: report MORE The Trump administration has provided several explanations for Comey's firing since Tuesday.
When the U.S. Senate was considering whether then-Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama should lead the Justice Department, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was one of the most vocal members to stand in opposition to him. Booker's chief concern: Sessions' abysmal record concerning basic civil rights, and in particular where those rights concern minorities.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker asked leaders of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing transportation to ensure federal funding for Amtrak and the Gateway Tunnel project. Their letter to U.S. Sens. Susan Collins , the subcommittee chairwoman, and Jack Reed , the ranking Democrat, came after Amtrak acknowledged responsibility for two recent derailments that tied up NJ Transit train traffic for days.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Cory Booker , criticized by supporters of Bernie Sanders for opposing efforts to allow imports of prescription drugs, has joined forces with the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate on the issue. Booker and Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, agreed on drug importation legislation that both could support.
It seems like I can't turn on the TV news without coming seeing our junior senator holding forth on one issue or another, always quite eloquently. For as long as I've known him, Booker's No.