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Congressional candidate Mallory Hagan said Thursday that a worrisome number of Alabama voters have been removed from active voter lists, prompting her to create a committee to assist people who encounter problems before and on Election Day. Hagan's campaign said more than 55,000 voters in the 3rd Congressional District have been disqualified or labeled inactive since February 2017, according to numbers they obtained.
The national midterm elections are coming up in less than a month. One race getting attention in north Alabama is for the 5th district seat in the U.S. Congress.
Rep. Mo Brooks said in a radio interview that counting of illegal aliens when establishing congressional seats and electoral college votes violates the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The state of Alabama has joined with Brooks to sue the federal government for its counting of illegal aliens, rather than only American citizens, in congressional district apportionment and votes for the Electoral College.
Launched from the USS John Paul Jones, a Standard Missile-6 demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight during live fire tests July 28-Aug. 1, 2015. President Trump's dream of a "Space Force" to protect American satellites either had a setback or made "significant progress" this week, depending on your perspective.
Marshall officials say Todd May announced his retirement to employees at the Huntsville facility on Monday. It takes effect July 27. A statement from Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville says May is being replaced on an acting basis by Marshall's deputy director, Joan A. "Jody" Singer.
This past week, incumbent 5th District Congressman Mo Brooks released an endorsement letter from President Donald Trump for his re-election. Republican challenger, Clay Hinchman, was joined by three retired army generals who endorsed his candidacy.
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The race is on to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House - assuming the Wisconsin Republican chooses to retire, an eventuality everyone seems to be expecting, Politico reports. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the top Republicans on Ryan's leadership team, have begun quietly rounding up support from their camps, Politico reports.
Republicans rode the tea party wave to power eight years ago on a message of fiscal responsibility and attacking budget deficits, and kept at it during President Barack Obama 's two terms. That was then.
A two year budget agreement announced Wednesday by Congressional leaders was met with scorn from many more conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill, as the combination of big increases in military and domestic spending left some GOP lawmakers frustrated over a lack of budget discipline, while outside groups quickly predicted the plan could swiftly bring back $1 trillion yearly deficits. "It's almost a quarter trillion dollar increase in spending," said Rep. Jim Jordan , who told reporters it reminded him of the Obama Stimulus law.
For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Alabama by 28 points, everything had to break just right for the Democrat. And it did.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks said on the House floor this morning he has been diagnosed with "high-risk prostate cancer" and will have surgery on Friday. Brooks said he has "a very good cure prognosis."
Most Republican leaders in Alabama said they plan to vote for Roy Moore on Tuesday despite sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge that have prompted others around the country to say he should never be allowed to join the U.S. Senate. Sen. Richard Shelby is an exception - he said Sunday that the "tipping point" in his decision to cast a write-in ballot rather than vote for Moore or Democrat Doug Jones was an allegation Moore molested a 14-year-old girl decades ago.
In this Nov. 30, 2017 file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, in Dora, Ala. Most statewide Republican officeholders in Alabama say they're voting for Moore for U.S. Senate, but the state's senior U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby didn't vote for Moore.
Most Republicans leaders in Alabama say they plan to vote for Roy Moore on Tuesday, despite sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge that have prompted others around the country to say he should never be allowed to join the U.S. Senate. "I have stated both publicly and privately over the last month that unless these allegations were proven to be true I would continue to plan to vote for the Republican nominee, Judge Roy Moore," Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill wrote in a text message to The Associated Press.
Two men running separate write-in campaigns for Alabama make arguments echoing many third-party challenges of the past: The major parties don't represent us. Lee Busby , a retired military veteran and businessman, and Mac Watson, a business owner, are mounting separate write-in campaigns for US Senate.
Rep. Mo Brooks told the Birmingham News that he is sticking with Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, arguing that the conservative agenda is "vastly more important" than the claims against Moore. Said Brooks: "Who will vote in America's best interests on Supreme Court justices, deficit and debt, economic growth, border security, national defense, and the like? Socialist Democrat Doug Jones will vote wrong.
Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned in Alabama for Democratic Senate hopeful Doug Jones this week, and Steve Bannon is all in for Republican former judge Roy Moore. Jones' campaign has worked hard to convince Democrats to take seriously the former prosecutor's chances of defeating Moore -- the twice-removed former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice whose theocratic campaign message has alienated some moderate and pro-business Republicans.