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The Senate braced for a crucial initial vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh's tottering Supreme Court nomination after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set his polarized chamber on a schedule to decide an election-season battle that has consumed the nation. A showdown roll call over confirmation seemed likely over the weekend.
Senate Democrats condemned the FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, calling it "incomplete." Democrats have accused the White House of limiting the probe, and they point to the fact that the FBI didn't interview either Kavanaugh or his most prominent accuser, professor Christine Blasey Ford.
AML for all The Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into the money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank. The Danish bank said it is cooperating with the probe.
Missouri's Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is making a bid for a third term in a state that's trended increasingly red in recent years, setting up a nationally watched showdown that could be pivotal to party control of the Senate. After President Donald Trump won Missouri in 2016 by about 19 percentage points, McCaskill's seat was immediately seen as prime for picking up by the Republicans.
All 100 senators, and a handful of Senate staff, will be able to read the FBI's new report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But it's unclear if the public will see it.
The impassioned fight over whether to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has led to heightened security at the Capitol, with some senators using police escorts to shield them from protesters eager to confront them. Capitol police have arrested dozens of people in recent days for unlawfully demonstrating in Senate office buildings.
The Senate braced for a crucial initial vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the FBI would deliver to Senators its report on claims that Kavanaugh sexually abused women.
Have people forgotten the Bill Clinton days or the 1992 election? Apparently, they have because of this faux outrage over what Sen. Lindsey Graham said about Donald Trump's remarks about Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's Supreme Court nominee. While not the most artful in delivery, the president went after Ford, whose allegation lacks evidence, corroborating witnesses, and key details.
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Ohio Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine and Democrat Richard Cordray faced off in their second - and very conventional - debate on Monday, which was quite a contrast compared to the combative political debates the country is embroiled in at the national level. The two men squared off on issues ranging from healthcare and guns to rape kits and algae blooms .
The Trump era has, at times, been uncomfortable for Republican women, especially the six senators who will be asked to vote for Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation by week's end. On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump ridiculed Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school - a claim Kavanaugh denies.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham told the audience at the Atlantic Festival to "boo" themselves Wednesday after they booed his claim that President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh was "treated like crap" during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on sexual misconduct allegations. "I'm the first person to say I want to hear from Dr. Ford.
Amazon made a big splash this week with its $15 an hour minimum wage announcemen t, but lost in the fine print: Existing warehouse workers will no longer receive stock in the company or collect bonuses. The online giant says next month it will end bonuses, which paid workers extra based on their attendance and warehouse productivity, as it boosts its minimum wage.
Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, lawyers for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Wednesday that they would turn over the notes from her therapy sessions and recordings of the lie detector test that he had requested but only when the FBI interviews Ford. Ford claims that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh groped her and attempted to rape her when he was drunk at a high school party.
Facebook, which briefed the Department of Homeland Security and FBI last week, is slated to meet with more lawmakers this week, including members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the meetings. The move appears to be part of the Silicon Valley giant's efforts to try to get ahead of a breach that could hurt the company and result in undesirable regulations.
For four years, Sen. Tammy Baldwin sat around doing nothing during her Senate term, and now in the last two years, she's trying to tell us what a great asset she is for the state of Wisconsin. An obstructionist is an asset? She voted against the tax cuts, which, as all can see, has been a blessing to our economy.
Senators nervously awaited the arrival of a new FBI report on sexual allegations that could make or break Brett Kavanaugh's tottering Supreme Court nomination Wednesday as aggressive protesters and an unusually strong security response added to a feeling of high anxiety inside the U.S. Capitol. As lawmakers anticipated the report, expected as early as Wednesday evening, three moderate GOP senators who could decide the conservative jurist's fate rebuked President Donald Trump for mocking one accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, by mimicking her responses to questions at last week's dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.