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Rep. Marsha Blackburn visits with World War II veteran Clayton Hicks of Franklin at President Trump's rally held in Nashville in late May. Rep. Marsha Blackburn visits with World War II veteran Clayton Hicks of Franklin at President Trump's rally held in Nashville in late May. The Marsha for Senate campaign announced earlier this week that a coalition called Veterans for Marsha has been formed to focus on the more than 1,000 veterans who are supporting Rep. Marsha Blackburn's bid to become Tennessee's next senator.
A man using a smartphone walks across a bridge in front of a ZTE Corp. building in Beijing on May 24, 2018. A man using a smartphone walks across a bridge in front of a ZTE Corp. building in Beijing on May 24, 2018.
Gov. Phil Bredesen visited Cookeville Friday to open a campaign field office. Bredesen is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Bob Corker. Dozens packed the Putnam County Democrat Party office at 111 Cedear Avenue to meet him.
In 1938, Franklin Roosevelt, coming off two consecutive landslide victories, the second of which amassed 523 Electoral College votes and a nearly 25 percent popular vote margin, attempted to force wayward members of his party to support his agenda. Democrats in Congress had been bottling up his agenda and rebelling at his campaign to enlarge the Supreme Court , but despite barnstorming the country and imploring his supporters to nominate pro-Roosevelt Democrats, the campaign ended in failure.
Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, which was merely the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something.
Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said President Donald Trump's administration was ill prepared for its policy that led to the separation of babies, children and adolescents from their parents. Corker described the roll out of the "zero tolerance" immigration policy as one that was "done in a ready, fire, aim way."
Maybe it's not so easy after all. President Donald Trump's struggles to push immigration legislation through Congress and his about-face on breaking up immigrant families are putting a spotlight on his competence in carrying out his policies.
Since not long after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the government a decade ago, policymakers have been circling the same idea for how to revamp the housing finance system. Broadly speaking, that plan would privatize the two government-sponsored enterprises while providing an explicit federal backstop for the mortgage market.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn pointed the finger Tuesday at "liberals" and "liberal judges," blaming them for the family separations underway at the U.S.-Mexico border. "As a mother," the Tennessee Republican said in a statement released by her office, "my heart breaks for the families who are separated at the border, but we are in this position because liberals would not pay to enforce our immigration laws or build appropriate facilities for asylum-seekers."
Children are taken from the arms of their parents at the U.S. border. The Prime Minister of Canada is called "very dishonest and weak," while the brutal North Korean dictator is described as "talented" and "honorable.
Washington Post columnist George Will took issue with Senator Bob Corker's characterization of the GOP's relationship with President Trump as "cult-like," instead calling it one based on "fear." "It's not a cult," Will told HBO host Bill Maher Friday night.
There is something refreshing about having the Republican Party's cowardice out in the open, acknowledged by its own members. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters after meeting with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
The Senate sided with the Trump administration to vote down a GOP plan that would have given Congress greater oversight over deals between foreign and U.S. firms that could affect national security. The legislation, pushed by by Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., failed to clear a procedural hurdle when the Senate blocked it with a 35-to-62 vote.
Freeland's visit comes a... . Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters after meeting with Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
That's the lesson many Republicans are drawing from Rep. Mark Sanford's surprise defeat Tuesday in his primary election in South Carolina. The victor, state Rep. Katie Arrington, repeatedly highlighted Sanford's criticism of the president.
A day after MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews called out President Trump for "coming out like a kiss butt" in dealing with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the liberal pundit reveled on Wednesday in comparing Republicans to North Korean soldiers and comments by Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker that GOPers are part of a "cult" for enthusiastically backing President. Not surprisingly, Matthews seemed a little confused about whether to make the Republican comparison to those who committed mass suicide in Jonestown by first ruling at 7:21 p.m. Eastern that "Corker's not exactly a bomb thrower and he's not comparing this guy to James Jones and drinking the kool-aid and cults and that's pretty deep."
U.S. Senator Bob Corker accused his fellow Republicans of being afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as his legislation to block the president's ability to impose tariffs on national security grounds hit a roadblock in Congress. "'We might poke the bear' is the language I have been hearing in the hallways," Corker said in an emotional Senate speech.
The bill, which is sponsored by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, Heidi Heitkamp, D-North Dakota, Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, among others, would require the president to submit to Congress any proposal to impose tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. While acutely a response to steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by President Trump on poorly supported "national security" grounds under Section 232, the bill is fundamentally a restoration of congressional authority over matters of trade as presented in the United States Constitution.
They widely praised Trump for taking the bold step of sitting down to talk with Kim, but voiced concern about the vagueness of the agreement that resulted and the president's lavish praise for the North Korean leader. In much more measured tones than the president's ebullience about the meeting, Republican lawmakers urged Trump to be vigilant in moving forward.
Donald Trump is scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday in Singapore after a year of turbulent foreign-policy maneuvers built on the U.S. president's willingness to take outsize risks. He has riled European leaders by quitting the international nuclear deal with Iran , is threatening tariffs and other punitive trade measures against allies and is contemplating a summit with a perennial U.S. adversary, Russian President Vladimir Putin.