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Category Archives: US Senate
Fox News draws a big audience for final Kavanaugh vote
The Senate's vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade. Fox's daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday prime-time lineup eclipsed anything since the Iraq War in 2003, the Nielsen company said.
Rep. Blum releases statement on E15 sales
Rep. Rod Blum issued the following statement in regard to President Trump's announcement to allow year-round E15 sales. "I applaud President Trump's decision to continue E15 sales into the summer months.
Bernie Sanders headed to Colorado to stump for Jared Polis, other progressives
Bernie Sanders is coming to Colorado in the midst of the state's midterm elections with the aim of giving Democrats and progressives such as gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis a boost in the home stretch.
Drug Pricing Legislation Sent to the President for Enactment into Law
Two pieces of related legislation that would prohibit so called "gag clauses" in contracts between pharmacists and health plans and pharmacy benefit managers have been passed by both the Senate and the House. The legislation prohibits any restrictions on the ability of pharmacists to alert consumers to situations where it may be less expensive for them to pay for prescription drugs out-of-pocket, rather than through their insurance benefits.
Indiana Senate candidates take part in first debate
Senator Joe Donnelly faced off with Republican challenger Mike Braun and Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton at Purdue University Northwest in Westville. The debate immediately got heated with Donnelly and Braun trading attacks.
HISTORY, Oct. 9: Public first admitted to Washington Monument
In 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.
Beto famously declines Obama help — actually it would be Schumer who …
Beto famously declines Obama help -- actually it would be Schumer who would be calling the shots if Beto gets Senate seat O'Rourke is trying hard to burnish the centrist label he adopted for his Senate run against Ted Cruz. But conservatives in Texas are probably skeptical.
UN Ambassador Haley resigning; she gives no reason
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the administration at the end of the year, she and President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
Bill, Hillary Clinton headlining 2018-2019 arena tour
Former President Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton are going on a 13-date arena tour through 2019. "Attendees will have the opportunity to hear one-of-a-kind conversations with the two leaders as they tell their stories from some of the most impactful moments in modern history," Live Nation said in a statement .
Justice KavanaughTrump Says Kavanaugh Was a Proven Innocenta Jonathan Chait
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh shakes hands with President Donald Trump during Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing in in the East Room of the White House October 08, 2018 in Washington, DC. In her lengthy speech explaining for vote to seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Senator Susan Collins emphasized the high evidentiary standard she required to disqualify a justice she had previously supported over allegations of sexual assault.
U.S. Senate Candidate Pledges To Help Dairy Farmers
Chele Farley, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, expressed her interest in helping out dairy farmers during a speaking engagement at Mid-Knight Dairy farm in Jamestown.
Sanders barnstorming country ahead of midterm elections
In this Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, gestures as he speaks during a campaign stop for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum in Tampa, Fla.
Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh during swearing-in ceremony
As newly-confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh arrives at the Supreme Court to be sworn in as an associate justice, he was met by hundreds of protesters demonstrating on the steps of the building.
Vukmir, Baldwin clash in sometimes combative first debate
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir, right, stand onstage before the start of the U.S. Senate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Milwaukee. Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir, right, stand onstage before the start of the U.S. Senate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Milwaukee.
The Latest: Wisconsin US Senate debate tense, combative
The first debate between U.S. Senate candidates Tammy Baldwin and Leah Vukmir turned tense and combative as they clashed over abortion, immigration, health care and a host of other issues. The Republican Vukmir is down in the polls to the Democratic incumbent Baldwin.
Don Jr met Israeli firm which offered Trump campaign plan to create …
Donald Trump Jr reportedly met with an Israeli intelligence firm that offered the Trump campaign a plan to gather intelligence on Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Jr reportedly met with an Israeli intelligence firm that offered the Trump campaign a plan to create fake social media profiles and gather 'intelligence dossiers' on Hillary Clinton . The meeting allegedly took place in August 2016 after Donald Trump's top campaign aide, Rick Gates, requested proposals from Psy-Group to help defeat Republican primary opponents and Clinton with online manipulation.
Tight Nevada elections drive record voter registrations
In this May 31, 2016 file photo, a sign with an Elvis impersonator reminds people to vote at an early primary election polling site in Las Vegas. Tight races for governor and U.S. Senate have pushed a record number of people to register to vote in Nevada, and any stragglers have a little more than one week to sign up in time to participate in the 2018 midterms.
Anthony Weiner on track for May 2019 release three months earlier then scheduled
Grieving bride in her wedding dress breaks down in tears at her fiancA 's grave on the day they were to marry, after the firefighter was 'killed by a drink-driving colleague' as he helped at a crash 'Their cars are junk... he didn't want to drive that day!' Stepson reveals limo driver's safety fears hours before he was one of 20 killed in horror crash, as grieving family and friends hold candlelit vigil for the dead REVEALED: Well-behaved Weiner on track for May 2019 release three months earlier then scheduled, as jail bosses are impressed with their model prisoner Don Jr 'met with Israeli psy-ops firm' which offered the Trump campaign a plan to create fake social media profiles and gather 'intelligence dossiers' on Hillary Clinton whom it nicknamed 'Forest' Ford is planning to lay off '24,000 staff' globally after it was revealed Trump's tariffs cost the U.S. car giant almost ... (more)
Guest column: Congress must oppose single payer health care
During the first U.S. Senate debate between Republican Congressman Marsha Blackburn and former Democrat Gov. Phil Bredesen, I was encouraged to hear Marsha push back against single payer health care. Single payer, also known as "Medicare for All," is the brainchild of liberal socialists like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and self-proclaimed socialist Democrat congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York.