Category Archives: US House of Representatives

Beto famously declines Obama help — actually it would be Schumer who …

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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.

Taylor Swift’s political colour irks Trump

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Washington, Oct 9 : US President Donald Trump has told reporters that he likes Taylor Swifts music "about 25 per cent less now" that she endorsed a Democrat in a Senate race in Tennessee. Swift on Sunday showed her political stripes in a post on Instagram in which she said she would be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate, reports variety.com.

Taylor Swift breaks political silence, reveals who she’s voting for

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Taylor Swift has made her first foray into US politics, publicly endorsing two Democrats for the upcoming midterm elections, while aligning herself to fight for LGBTQ rights, gender equity, and an end to the "terrifying, sickening and prevalent" racism in the US. "In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now," Swift wrote on social media on Sunday night, in a plea for her young fans to register and vote.

Vukmir, Baldwin clash in sometimes combative first debate

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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

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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.

Limo in fatal crash should not have been on the road, says governor

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A supersized limousine that crashed and killed 20 people had failed a safety inspection last month and should not have been on the road, and the driver was not properly licensed, New York's governor has said. The state moved to shut down the owner, Prestige Limousine, as state and federal authorities investigated the cause of Saturday's wreck in Schoharie.

Trump mocks Taylor Swift for opposing Republican in Senate race

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Donald Trump fired back Monday at Taylor Swift for weighing in on Tennessee's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, saying the country-pop crossover star 'doesn't know anything' about the Republican she attacked on Sunday. The suddenly sassy president didn't know about Swift's unprecedented dip into politics, but he told DailyMail.com outside the White House that he found her music a bit less listenable because she's opposing Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican who he's endorsed.

Tight Nevada elections drive record voter registrations

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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

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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

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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.

Cory Gardner’s wife receives text showing beheading before senator’s vote to confirm Kavanaugh

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The wife of Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, was texted a disturbing video of a beheading and the addresses of Gardner family members were released hours before Gardner voted Saturday to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. The video was first reported by Fox News.

Colorado’s Safe2Tell program sees youth suicide reports increase dramatically, echoing national trend

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Communications supervisor Linde Brinkhoff handles a Safe2Tell call at the Colorado State Patrol's Denver regional communications center on Sept. 20. The friend, upset after a breakup with a boyfriend, said she had taken pills and that this would be her final message.