JUNE 9: Sen. Al Franken speaks to reporters at a news conference dubbed #WeThePeople outside the Capitol on June 9, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Senate Democrats unveiled a new legislative proposal that will reform campaign finances and ensure fairer elections. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken questioned President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Flynn’s fitness for the job Sunday amid reports that Flynn discussed US sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador before Trump took office.
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Insider Q&A: Duke University expert James Cox on SEC future
This photo provided by James D. Cox shows Cox, a professor at Duke University School of Law. Cox is an expert on securities law and is a close SEC-watcher.
Border wall will pay for itself many, many, times over: WH12 min ago
Washington, Feb 12 Claiming that illegal immigration costs the US about USD 100 billion a year, a top White House official today said that the proposed wall along the US-Mexico border will pay for itself “many times over”. “It’s estimated that illegal immigration costs our country, state, local and federal benefits, about USD 100 billion a year.
Another election a ” Not already
While the fallout from November’s presidential election is still front page news, voters will soon be returning to the polls to elect their local officials. Another election — Not already! While the fallout from November’s presidential election is still front page news, voters will soon be returning to the polls to elect their local officials.
Back in Florida, Craig Fugate is happy to leave the next disaster to a new FEMA chief
Craig Fugate, FEMA administrator, appears with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Oct. 7 after briefing the president on Hurricane Matthew. [Manuel Balce Ceneta Naturally, disaster threatened North Florida as Craig Fugate returned home after seven years in Washington running the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Washington’s top lawyer uses strategic streak to fight Trump
The legal challenge that would launch Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson into the vanguard of resistance against President Donald Trump’s travel ban was already in the works as Ferguson flew home from Florida the morning after Trump issued his executive order. “We were having internal conversations about a potential action by the president along those lines,” Ferguson recalled in an interview.
Pentagon launches effort to solve a baffling WWII mystery
The Pentagon is launching efforts to solve a baffling World War II mystery: whether dozens of U.S. sailors listed as missing from a ship disaster were actually recovered and buried all along as unknowns in a New York cemetery. More than 130 victims of the USS Turner’s 1944 explosion and sinking near New York Harbor are still officially missing.
FEC Commissioner to Trump: Prove Voter Fraud
A commissioner on the Federal Elections Commission called on President Trump to give proof of voter fraud, after he reportedly made further claims in a meeting with senators. Trump reportedly blamed voter fraud for why both he and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte lost in New Hampshire last November during a recent meeting with a bipartisan group of senators.
Phil Murphy Hits NJ Campaign Stops Alongside Bernie’s Son, Levi Sanders
“It is critical we elect progressives like Phil at all levels of government,” asserted Levi Sanders, the son of 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The appearance of Sanders yesterday at a pair of campaign events, helped Phil Murphy accomplish two things as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey.
We’re not an authoritarian country,’ Patrick Kennedy says about Trump
Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he thinks what President Donald Trump has done so far in office will ”hopefully spark a reexamination of who we are as a people.’ ‘ The member of one of the nation’s most famous Democratic families told The Associated Press in an interview he sees threats to the constitutional form of government, and said his father, the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, of Massachusetts, believed that Americans should never take democracy for granted.
Neil Gorsuch, Bishop Edward J. Burns, the Constitution, President Trump, U.S. Congress
The headline of a front-page report stated “High court pick rebukes Trump.” The words Judge Neil Gorsuch used were “disheartening” and “demoralizing,” which most would not classify as strong a condemnation as the word rebuke implies, but perhaps that could be viewed as nitpicking.
Christie: Health care repeal shouldn’t cost people coverage
Gov. Chris Christie says Republican lawmakers seeking to repeal or replace the Obama-era health care law must ensure that people covered by its Medicaid expansion aren’t harmed. Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, Christie stood by his previous calls to change the law.
Trump Adviser Defends President’s Lies On Voter Fraud, Despite Providing No Evidence
After President Donald Trump last week repeated the false claim that massive voter fraud kept him from winning the popular vote in November, his senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday attempted to defend the statement – without providing any evidence. “We can talk about it more in the future,” Miller said.
John Podesta Says ‘Forces Within The FBI’ Wanted Hillary Clinton To Lose
John Podesta, chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, addresses the crowd her election night rally in New York. He said at an event on Wednesday that “it’s inexplicable that [the FBI was] so casual about the investigation of the Russian penetration of the DNC emails.”
White House: Deportations Will ‘Prevent Crime Before It Happens’
White House policy director Stephen Miller on Sunday expanded the goals of President Donald Trump ‘s controversial immigration executive order, saying it would “prevent crime before it happens” by deporting undocumented immigrants deemed to “pose a threat to public safety.” The statement was reminiscent of the plot of “Minority Report,” a film set in a dystopian future where people are arrested before they actually commit crimes.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has defended free speech, religion
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been a defender of free speech and a skeptic of libel claims, an Associated Press review of his rulings shows. His record puts him at odds with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists and tendency to lash out at critics.
State’s congressional delegation holding forum
Rhode Island’s congressional delegation has scheduled a town hall forum to give state residents a legislative update and answer their questions. The forum with Democratic U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Democratic U.S. Reps.
White House defends travel ban as provocations mount
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. – A top White House aide renewed support for President Donald Trump’s embattled immigration order and praised a surge in deportations Sunday, as the new president faces a new provocation in the form of an apparent missile test by North Korea.
Hezbollah leader says ‘idiot’ Trump makes him optimistic
The Northeast U.S. is once again in the sights of a winter blast of snow, bitter cold and strong winds. The Northeast U.S. is once again in the sights of a winter blast of snow, bitter cold and strong winds.
A Price On Carbon Is Neither Liberal Nor Conservative. It’s Just Practical
Earlier this week, a group of prominent Republicans called for a nationwide price on carbon to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow climate change. It’s a proposal we should all be talking about, but we know Congress won’t – at least not before 2018 -because while these elder statesmen of the Republican party were floating the paper, their juvenile progeny in the Senate were voting to let US oil companies pay bribes overseas and stifling any mention of the $20 billion per year in subsidies and tax breaks that the US gives the fossil-fuel sector.
Soon judges, not Arizona Department of Child Safety alone, could…
Arizona’s Department of Child Safety will soon make caseworkers obtain a court order in most situations before taking children from their families. Soon judges, not Arizona Department of Child Safety alone, could decide when to take children from families Arizona’s Department of Child Safety will soon make caseworkers obtain a court order in most situations before taking children from their families.
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During the last of the DNC regional forum’s today in Baltimore Maryland, leading candidate Keith Ellison outlines why every non-Democrat should hope he wins the chairmanship. Ellison’s expressed approach is that Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch should be filibustered by all Senate Democrats.
Protesters mass outside Mitch McConnell’s Louisvillehome to recite Coretta Scott King letter
Protesters recited Coretta Scott King’s decades-old letter opposing newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday evening outside the Louisville home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. Nearly 400 demonstrators gathered outside Mr. McConnell’s residence Friday night to read aloud King’s 1986 critique of Mr. Sessions, the Huffington Post reported.
Troops Await DeploymentOrders from Ninth Circuit
Apart from the unremitting attacks on Republicans by paid mobs and Democratic congressmen desperate to help the base forget they lost big time and will continue to do so in 2018, the big news this week has to be the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granting itself the right to dictate foreign policy despite the clear words of the Constitution and federal law granting the president the absolute right to preclude entry to any alien he thinks poses a threat to national security.
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Administrators at Yale University announced on Saturday that a college named for John Calhoun, a former US vice-president who was an ardent supporter of slavery, will be renamed after sustained protest and activism from students. “This is a victory for the New Haven community,” Kica Matos, one of the leaders of the Change the Name Coalition and a fellow at Yale’s Stiles College, told the Guardian.
Tom Kacich: Republicans showing support for Marlin
There’s evidence of Republicans already crossing over to vote in Urbana’s Democratic mayoral primary election, according to Champaign County Recorder Mark Shelden, an elections numbers cruncher who formerly was the county clerk. Shelden said he reviewed the names of about 240 people who have voted early in the three-way Feb. 28 mayoral primary and found that about 25 percent of them were people who had voted in the Republican primary election last March.
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New chairman quickly shakes up FCC
Ajit Pai, the new Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is quickly making his mark on the agency, shaking up its operations and rolling back Obama-era initiatives. His moves have drawn Republican praise, but also alarmed Democrats and consumer groups, and set the stage for the fights ahead.
It’s not just Donald Trump feuding with the courts. States are doing it, too.
In a speech to law enforcement officials, Feb. 8, President Trump read federal law giving broad him broad authority to set immigration restrictions, adding, “a bad high school student would understand this.” As President Trump escalates his confrontation with the judiciary branch in tweets and speeches, lawmakers in some half a dozen states are testing their state courts’ independence with actual legislation.
Ohio’s Gov. Kasich Works to Erase State’s ‘Rust Belt’ Label
The Republican governor has made it his mission to send the label to the scrap heap of history. He points to advances in such areas as drones, data analytics, biotechnology, robotics and autonomous vehicle research.
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Former presidential candidates eye Senate comebacks
Orrin Hatch Former presidential candidates eye Senate comebacks Warren: Trump’s Treasury pick the ‘ultimate Wall Street insider’ Trump outburst puts Gorsuch in a corner MORE retires. Jon Huntsman, a 2012 GOP candidate, could run for the seat, as could 2016 independent candidate Evan McMullin.
Jeff Sessions get the Saturday Night Live treatment; Melissa McCarthy brings back Sean Spicer
This week’s take included defense of Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, and her fashion line. The line has been removed from Nordstrom, Belk and other stores, prompting the president to call the move “unfair.”
Netanyahu pledges to promote ‘responsible policies’ at Trump meeting
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would present “responsible policies” in talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, signaling to the Israeli far-right to curb its territorial demands in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu leaves for Washington on Monday and will see Trump at the White House on Wednesday for their first meeting since the Republican’s inauguration last month, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and policy toward Iran on the agenda.
Enzi on being mayor, Part Two
When we embarked on our story on seven mayors who have served Gillette since 1975, we knew that trying to corner U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi would be difficult since he has much more important duties these days with a new president and confirmation hearings on top of an already packed schedule. But we lucked out.
Three weeks and counting down
My “good” prediction is based on the Law of the Pendulum. Enough Americans, including most independent voters, will be so ready to shed Donald Trump and his little shop of horrors that the 2018 midterm elections are all but certain to be a landslide – no make that a mudslide – sweep of the House and Senate.
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The conference, whose partners include Gov. Matt Mead and U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, as well as the Wyoming Business Council, the Small Business Administration and the UW Business Resource Network, will feature breakout sessions on government contracting and general business strategy. It also includes time to network with business owners, contracting officers and economic development professionals.
Thinkin’ about “Lincoln” again
Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln seems to have dropped from our cultural consciousness. Perhaps the cognitive dissonance it induces on the left suppresses memory of it.
17 artists you won’t believe have won a Grammy
From puppets and presidents to cartoon characters and comedians, a whole host of unlikely suspects have got their hands on that coveted golden gramophone trophy over the past six decades. Ahead of the 2017 ceremony on February 12, here’s a look at 17 of the most utterly baffling winners.
SNL Spicer Is Back
Melissa McCarthy surprised with an amazing impersonation of Sean Spicer on SNL last weekend. On Saturday she is back and it is another comedy triumph.