Natalie Gochnour: Count My Vote victories
Utah's primary election is a week away, but it's already time to celebrate. Thanks to the Count My Vote compromise , more candidates appear on the primary election ballot this year.
Category Archives: US Senate
Mitch McConnell wants to protect your Second Amendment rights, to hell with the Fourth
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Obama chooses PNNL to lead Northwest manufacturing center
The national lab will focus on some of the most energy intensive industries in the region - food processing, advanced materials and forest products. Advances in smart sensors, digital process controls and information technology could radically reduce energy use in manufacturing and improve productivity.
Trump’s meager fundraising imperils presidential bid
Just weeks after going back on his pledge to self-fund his presidential campaign, Donald Trump on Tuesday came under attack from fellow Republicans stunned to learn that he entered the final month of the primary season with barely enough cash to run for a California House seat let alone the White House.
Ohio’s GOP senator considering gun compromise
Ohio's Republican U.S. senator is interested in a compromise gun control measure being offered in the aftermath of defeats this week of other legislation. Rob Portman says he hasn't yet seen the final language in Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins' bill to block guns from suspected terrorists.
Fish: The definition of crazy
So you'll forgive me for taking a layman's approach to what I feel is a very basic common sense piece of legislation that failed on the senate floor Monday. Maybe it's because I'm older and wiser that prevents me from wrapping my brain around why we can't pass a piece of legislation that would prevent a gun sale to a would-be terrorist.
McClaughry: Good profit is not a bad thing
The mere existence on our planet of the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch drives Sen. Bernie Sanders to torrents of outrage. They, according to Sanders' imagination, are the secret owners of the Republican Party, the Tea Party , and a long list of organizations opposed to the Sanders agenda, such as the political action group Americans for Prosperity.
Dana Milbank: Congress on guns: doing nothing faster than ever
On May 24, the House Appropriations Committee took up a proposal "to deny transfers of firearms to persons known or suspected to be engaged in conduct related to terrorism." In a party-line vote, Republicans defeated the plan 29 to 17. Nineteen days later, a man whom the FBI had investigated as a possible terrorist went into an Orlando nightclub and, claiming solidarity with the Islamic State, shot 49 people to death with weapons he bought legally.
Special session talks go south
Gov. Mark Dayton and the leaders of the Republican caucuses in the Minnesota Legislature uttered plenty of discouraging words Tuesday after another meeting meant to plot a course toward a special session. Dayton emerged from the closed-door gathering of legislative leaders at his temporary offices in the Veterans Service Building in St. Paul saying he felt "much more discouraged" than when he went into the meeting less than an hour before.
Trumpa s changes coming too late? Republicans worrying
Republicans increasingly fear Donald Trump is missing valuable opportunities to build a winning case against Hillary Clinton, compounding their concerns about his campaign's day-to-day decision making and seeming lack of preparedness for the general election. While Clinton presses a highly co-ordinated effort to cast Trump as a reckless, self-serving businessman, he has spent the past few weeks mired in controversies of his own making.
Trumpa s campaign spends $6 million with Trump companies
Protesters clash with Donald Trump supporters shortly after the a Donald Trump rally ended in Phoenix, Ariz., on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Several arguments sparked as the two groups crossed paths throughout the day, but city officials stepped in to disperse crowds if they became too heated.
Trump’s campaign fundraising falling far short of Clinton’s
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. less Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, ... more Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate.
Clinton’s VP search moves into more intense phase
Hillary Clinton's search for a running mate is moving into a more intense phase, according to several Democrats, as aides contact a pared-down pool of candidates to ask for reams of personal information and set up interviews with the presumptive Democratic nominee's vetting team. Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well-liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Trump’s fundraising falling far short of Clinton’s
Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate. Clinton and the Democratic National Committee raised more than double that.
Trump fires campaign manager in dramatic shake-up
Donald Trump abruptly fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and end an internal power struggle plaguing the billionaire businessman's unconventional White House bid. In dismissing his longtime campaign chief -- just a month before the party's national convention -- Trump signaled, at least for a day, a departure from the seat-of-the-pants style that has fueled his unlikely rise in Republican politics.
Lawmakers may not vote for gun safety, but voters usually do
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
‘Economikes’: the gatekeepers of Clinton’s economic policy
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the Democratic U.S. presidential candidates' debate in Flint, Michigan, March 6, 2016. International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department Simon Johnson and Deputy Director Charles Collyns hold a press briefing on the release of the IMF's World Economic Outlook at the IMF Headquarters in Washington July 17, 2008.
Hillary Clintona s VP search moves into more intense phase; Sanders not on shortlist
Hillary Clinton's search for a running mate is moving into a more intense phase, according to several Democrats, as aides contact a pared-down pool of candidates to ask for reams of personal information and set up interviews with the presumptive Democratic nominee's vetting team. Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump; Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well-liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state; and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Military retirees have a revolving door to civilian Pentagon jobs. The Senate voted to shut it.
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, military officers facing retirement have had a revolving door to walk through to a civilian job at the Defense Department.
Q Poll: Sanders stronger over Trump in key swing states
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton participates in a round table conversation on national security at the Virginia Air and Space Center June 15, 2016 in Hampton, Virginia. The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows Hilliary Clinton pulling ahead over Donald Trump in Florida, but in a tight race in Ohio and Pennsylvania.