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Gov. Nathan Deal announced Thursday afternoon that Georgia's net tax collections for September totaled $2.23 billion, for an increase of $153.1 million, or 7.4 percent, compared to last year when net tax collections totaled nearly $2.08 billion. Deal said year-to-date, net tax revenue collections totaled $5.81 billion, for an increase of $329.9 million, or 6 percent, compared to September 2017.
In a small office full of Democratic women steamed over Brett Kavanaugh, Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema carefully avoided telling reporters whether she thought sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee were true. "The Senate can wait for the thorough investigation and then make a decision based on the conclusion of that investigation," Sinema said.
Senators took a crucial vote Friday to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court as key Republican senators remain undecided amid allegations of sexual misconduct and intense protests that have divided the nation. The procedural "cloture" vote gained the 51 aye votes it needed to proceed to a full confirmation vote as early as Saturday.
Top row: Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum and Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis. Bottom row: Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
Lawmakers are considering changes to some of the state's existing economic development tax credit programs in an effort to offer more flexibility and opportunities for local communities.
Forty minutes into Thursday night's Make American Great Again rally in Minnesota, after all the claims of historic greatness, the ritual chanting , the harping about "fake news" and the gratuitous insults hurled at Congresswoman Maxine Waters , it was pretty clear President Trump simply wasn't going there. He wended his oratorical way several times to the "radical Democrats" and his embattled Supreme Court nominee.
A second day of deliberations will begin on Friday in the murder trial of a white Chicago police officer who killed a black teenager in 2014 in a hail of bullets, a case that has put the city's large African-American community on edge. Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke watches the prosecution's closing statements during his trial for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 4, 2018.
Demonstrators protest Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday in the Hart Senate Office Building. As senators read FBI interview transcripts Thursday, the White House is confident the new background check on Kavanaugh has improved his confirmation prospects.
President Donald Trump's drive to cement the conservative grip on the top U.S. court faces a major test on Friday as the Senate holds a key procedural vote on Brett Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court nomination has set off a political brawl. Senate Republicans were growing more confident they would win the 10:30 a.m. vote after two wavering Republican senators responded positively on Thursday to an FBI report on accusations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.
President Donald Trump's nomination of conservative federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to hinge on the votes of a handful of senators: three Republicans and two Democrats. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Jeff Flake takes part in a discussion "Can our Democracy Survive?" at The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute's 2018 Atlantic Festival in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2018.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh moved closer to confirmation as the Senate prepared for a key vote today, with Republicans arguing that an FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations exonerated the judge.
Friday night, the Woodbury County Democrats welcomed Representative Tim Ryan from Ohio at the annual Harry Hopkins Democratic Dinner and Celebration. Along with Representative Ryan was Iowa Secretary of State candidate Deidre DeJear, State Auditor candidate Rob Sand, and Candidate for Iowa Congressional District 4, J.D. Scholten.
After weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests, a pair of wavering senators declared Friday they will back Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, all but guaranteeing the deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nation's highest court on Saturday. The announcements by Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia ended most of the suspense over a political battle that has transfixed the nation - though die-hard Democrats insisted on arguing through the night to a mostly empty Senate chamber.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has acknowledged he "might have been too emotional" when testifying about sexual misconduct allegations as he made a bid to win over wavering Republican senators on the eve of a crucial vote to advance his confirmation. The 53-year-old judge said in an op-ed that he knows his "tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said" during testimony last week to the Judiciary Committee.
The Senate is poised to take a crucial vote Friday on whether to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court as key Republican senators remain undecided amid allegations of sexual misconduct and intense protests that have divided the nation. The 53-year-old judge made what were in effect closing arguments by acknowledging that he became "very emotional" when forcefully denying the allegations at a Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
Oct. 03--Erie City Council has put Mayor Joe Schember's five new appointments to the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority's board of directors on hold. Council, at its regular meeting Wednesday morning, pulled the appointments off its agenda because of questions about whether two current EMTA board members have actually resigned.
Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who is running against Republican Rep. Martha McSally for the open Arizona Senate seat Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is vacating, talks to campaign volunteers, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Tempe, Ariz. Arizona's Senate race pits Sinema, a careful politician running as a centrist in a Republican-leaning state, against McSally, a onetime Trump critic turned fan.
Stan Thom, of Big Lake, Minn., drove 120 miles Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, to see President Trump speak at 6:30 p.m. in Rochester, Minn. Demonstrator's hold "Baby Trump" balloons as Anti-Trump protestors began to gather at Soldier's Field Veterans Memorial in Rochester, Minn., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he was "sharp" and said "a few things I should not have" during a Senate hearing over sexual assault allegations last week. Kavanaugh, writing in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal , said he regretted his tone at times during last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that included Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulted her when they were both teens.