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It's time for the Republican party to just acknowledge that they are the paid lackeys of corporations and the rich. After a decade of clamoring about how high the national debt was, they pass a tax bill that adds at least a trillion dollars to it.
Gov. Sam Brownback said he expected the U.S. Senate to vote on his confirmation for a federal job by the end of the year. Gov. Sam Brownback's nomination to be the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom is still stuck in the Senate.
Perhaps the most widely discussed and debated law in the history of the state of NY, the NY SAFE Act, was enacted by a large bipartisan vote of the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Cuomo in 2013.
The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. President Donald Trump, surrounded by Utah representatives looks at Sen. Orrin Hatch to give him the pen used to signs a presidential proclamation to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments at the Utah Capitol on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Depends on whom you ask.
One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with the House and President Trump signs it, may be the first step toward starving the big government beast.
In a surprising 51-to-49 vote, the Senate narrowly approved a major piece of tax legislation for the first time in 31 years. Though this Tax-Reform Bill will have several drastic implications affecting hard-working Americans, it also stands to affect the lives of millions of students who are carving a better future for themselves and their families.
President Trump stumped for Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore during a packed rally in nearby Pensacola, Fla., last night, where he said the GOP needs the controversial former judge to keep its "Make American Great Again" agenda on track. "We want jobs, jobs, jobs, so get out and vote for Roy Moore," Trump said about 30 miles from Florida's state line with Alabama, where voters Tuesday will choose between Moore or Democrat former prosecutor Doug Jones.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey is slamming the Republican tax plan as a measure that would disproportionately hurt Bay State residents and is sounding off on calls to go after entitlement programs next year. "This Republican tax plan is a direct assault on Massachusetts families and their way of life," Markey said.
By continuing to back Roy Moore for Alabama's U.S. Senate seat, national Republican leaders have ceded any claim to the moral high ground in the name of political expediency. In the long term, Republicans have likely dealt their political fortunes a serious blow as well.
We need to prepare for the eventuality that the Robert Mueller probe catches President Donald Trump, family members and associates red-handed - and Republicans in Congress refuse to do anything about it. This is beginning to look like a possible or even probable outcome.
Minnesota's state economic forecast, released Tuesday, says the state could face a $188 million deficit in its budget next year. That's not happy news, but the forecast is based on so many suppositions and uncertainties that it is hardly worth getting worked up about.
At least three people must have celebrated the news that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversation with a Russian ambassador. First to pop a champagne cork was surely Matt Lauer, whose Icarus imitation put to shame all others recently accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., leaves the Capitol after speaking on the Senate floor, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo Credit: AP / Andrew Harnik He became the first television comedian to win a U.S. Senate seat.
Here were Senate Republicans, poised for their first real legislative victory of the year. Tax overhaul, they knew, would be their main shot at shaping public perceptions of the GOP in the Trump era.
This isn't complicated. The rich only want their fair share. Since their view is that they create all of the wealth, the fairness issue is quite simple to them.
Now that Richard Cordray has announced his candidacy for governor, it's time for Supreme Court Justice William O'Neill to get back to doing the job that Ohioans elected him to do in 2012.
President Donald Trump is a political lightning rod. Even his staunchest supporters accept this reality - some seem to embrace it, actually, as it speaks to their belief he can disrupt a stagnant political establishment.