Faced With Attacks, TV News Networks Defend Each Other
But now in the new world order of the Trump Administration, there may be a little less competition. TV news channels may be helping each other -- as journalism colleagues.
Category Archives: US Senate
Boom: Michelle Obama Just Got Bad News
Each first lady typically takes on a cause that they will advocate for throughout their time in the White House. Nancy Reagan fought against drugs, Hillary Clinton notoriously had health care, Laura Bush advocated for literacy.
1,000 protesters greet Mitch McConnell at Kentucky speech
Nearly a thousand people have crowded behind a chain link fence to try to catch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's attention as he made his first stop on a tour of Kentucky during the congressional recess. The protesters on Tuesday chanted, "No ban, no wall, Mitch McConnell take our call," a reference to the senator's clogged voicemail system during the first month of Donald Trump's presidency.
McCain steps up Trump criticism
Now that he has returned to the Senate for another six years, Sen. John McCain is back to being a president's biggest headache on Capitol Hill. The Arizona Republican bashed President Donald Trump's White House as an "administration in disarray" while attending a security conference in Munich.
US must work with Turkey on Syria, says US senator McCain
The U.S.-Turkey partnership must be revitalized under the Donald Trump administration, Republican Senator John McCain said on Feb. 20 after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoAYan. "I had a warm and constructive meeting with President ErdoAYan today.
Renewing the Democrats – and America
Why have Democrats struggled to defeat President Trump's most objectionable cabinet nominees? Because Hillary Clinton's 3 million popular vote margin obscures this nettlesome fact: Outside California, Massachusetts, and New York, Donald Trump won by 4 million votes. Across the map, political polarization and demographic sorting are shrinking the party.
David Harsanyi: The Resistance is the best thing to happen to Trump
Sure, it matters that President Donald Trump has a historically low favorability rating.
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A week after one of his closest aides was forced out of the job of National Security Advisor, President Trump filled that post by selecting Army Lt. General H.R. McMaster, as the choice drew praise from both sides of the political aisle.
West Wing Creator Aaron Sorkin Goes In On Trump In Epic Rant
As the American presidency takes a series of bizarre and disturbing turns, it would be only natural to look to the West Wing for comfort. The show was a ridiculous fantasia of American politics then, and is doubly so now, but the thinking goes that maybe the writer of such a fantasy might have some solid views about how to get there.
As tension simmers, John McCain becomes critic in chief of the commander in chief
Sen. John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.
Questions on Russia still need answers
He lied to the vice president, and by extension the president and the American people, about a conversation in December with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in which sanctions were discussed in some manner. And this opened him up to Russian blackmail, the Justice Department concluded.
Palliative care vital for quality of life
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got it wrong when speaking on palliative care on CNN recently with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trump Pursues His Attack on Sweden, With Scant Evidence
President Donald Trump escalated his attack on Sweden's migration policies Monday, doubling down on his suggestion - based on a Fox News report - that refugees in the Scandinavian country were behind a surge in crime and terrorism. Trump set off consternation and ridicule Saturday when he seemed to falsely imply to an adoring throng at a rally in Florida that a terrorist attack had occurred in Sweden, which has admitted tens of thousands of refugees in recent years.
Trump names H.R. McMaster as national security advisor to replace ousted Flynn
President Trump, right, names Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, left, his new national security advisor during a brief appearance at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday.
Veterans injured by service wait years for compensation hearings
"If I sit down with the VA [secretary] nominee, I'm going to ask him about technology, personnel and managing the system," Sen. Tim Kaine said. Vietnam veteran Thomas Hundley displays letters he sent to his wife in 1966 from Vietnam He had to prove to the VA that he served in the war.
Speaker Ryan to take quiet border trip
Rep. Paul Ryan's secretive trip to the border, President Donald Trump 's moves on Obamacare and Steve Bannon's media victory - those stories and more fill out this week's Inside Politics forecast. Rep. Paul Ryan is headed to the US-Mexico border this week.
Blumenthal announces Wi-Fi upgrades at Connecticut VA locations
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal announced Monday morning that contracts have been requested from vendors to provide every room at VA hospitals in Connecticut with Wi-Fi access, after a News 8 exclusive report in 2016. At a news conference Monday, Blumenthal said that every veteran staying at a VA facility should feel connected to the world around them.
Confessions of a Hillary Clinton Canvasser
A dog started barking inside when I knocked on the door, the desultory, half-assed bark of an animal who doesn't really feel alarmed. Somebody's probably home, I thought.
Harry Reid exits the ring
Roger Scholl first met Harry Reid in 1983, the year Reid began his first term in Congress, representing a Las Vegas House district. Scholl, now the state chair of Friends of Nevada Wilderness, had worked for years to develop a sweeping 2.2-million-acre wilderness proposal for U.S. Forest Service lands in Nevada.
Sources: House Speaker Bill Howell will announce retirement
There are sources who say Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell will announce today he will not seek re-election in November - bringing to an end after 15 years the 2nd-longest House Speaker tenure in the Commonwealth's history. The 74-year old has held his Stafford County seat for 30 years, and has been primaried a few times by further right Republican opponents.