Despite what the Democrats and the media would have the public believe, Republicans voting to bar Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night is neither outrageous nor particularly rare. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum explained on CNN Wednesday morning that while in office he himself was warned with Rule 19. “Rule 19 was brought up when I was up on the floor, [when he was] going after some folks.”
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Senator blocked from speaking in fierce attorney general debate
A Democratic senator has been barred from speaking during debate on the attorney general nominee after Republicans said she violated a Senate rule. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was interrupted, told to sit down and barred from speaking Tuesday during debate on President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions .
Voting starts in Somalia’s presidential election
Sentencing is set Wednesday for an American-born Muslim convert convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas. Sentencing is set Wednesday for an American-born Muslim convert convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas.
Syria rejects Amnesty’s report of mass hangings as ‘untrue’
The left picture is of Alshogre taken on January 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. The right pict… Sentencing is set Wednesday for an American-born Muslim convert convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas.
Warren raking in millions in campaign donations
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is raking in millions in campaign donations as she looks ahead to a re-election bid next year. According to an Associated Press review of Warren’s latest campaign finance reports, the Massachusetts Democrat took in a hefty $5.9 million in campaign contributions from January 2015 through the end of 2016.
Silenced on the Senate floor, Elizabeth Warren goes to Facebook Live
On Tuesday night, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked ” Rule XIX ,” censuring Senator Elizabeth Warren for her attempt to read a letter critical of fellow senator and attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions. The section of the rule used says that “No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.”
Republicans Tried to Suppress The Words of Coretta Scott King. Bad Idea.
Senate Republicans banded together Tuesday night to block Sen. Elizabeth Warren from reading a letter Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, wrote to oppose a judicial appointment for Sen. Jeff Sessions more than 30 years ago. But the move ignited a firestorm of resistance from Democrats, ensuring widespread attention to the letter itself.
Sen. Warren book on middle class coming in April
This book cover image released by Metropolitan Books shows, “This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class,” by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The book will be published on April 18. Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has written previous 10 books.
Rosie O’Donnell Offers To Play Steve Bannon On ‘SNL,’ Social Media Goes Insane
Rosie O’Donnell is willing to follow in the impressive shoes of Melissa McCarthy and join the SNL cast as controversial Trump adviser Steve Bannon. Up until now, the role of Steve Bannon on SNL has been portrayed by cast member Mikey Day donning a Grim Reaper ensemble.
Warren Violates Arcane Rule, Sparking Senate Dustup
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for – believe it or not – quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber’s arcane rules by reading a 30-year-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions ‘ failed judicial nomination three decades ago.
Mitch McConnell tells Elizabeth Warren (and Coretta Scott King) to sit down and shut up
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Senate set to confirm DeVos as education secretary
In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, Feb. 6, 2017, about the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education Secretary. The Senate will be in session around the clock this week as Republicans aim to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks over Democratic opposition.
Trump blocks Booker-backed rule to curb retirement financial adviser abuse
WASHINGTON — Rules designed to curb abuses by financial advisers handling retirement funds were put on hold by President Donald Trump even as he spent the campaign railing against Wall Street . Trump blocked new U.S. Labor Department requirements that such advisers recommend retirement investments that would be best for their clients, even if they carried smaller fees and generated less profits than other funds.
Trump attacks restrictions on big banks, retirement advisers
President Donald Trump has launched his long-promised attack on banking rules that were rushed into law after the nation’s economic crisis, signing new orders after meeting with business and investment chiefs and pledging further action to free big banks from restrictions. Wall Street cheered him on, but Trump risks disillusioning his working-class voters.
Elizabeth Warren to Trump’s $285 million Goldman Sachs man: Recuse yourself
Elizabeth Warren is not cool with the eye-popping $285 million Gary Cohn is collecting from Goldman Sachs on his way to becoming President Trump’s top economic adviser. The Democrat from Massachusetts sent Cohn a letter on Friday questioning the “astonishing windfall,” and it’s impact on the former Goldman Sachs exec’s ability not to “play favorites” when he makes decisions about the economy.
Former congressman: Betsy DeVos will give parents voice and a break the teachers union monopolya
President Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is shown at her confirmation hearing this month before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Bill McCollum is the chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee.
Donald Trump Just Gave Wells Fargo a Break
But the tide has already begun to turn for the nation’s third biggest bank by assets, thanks in no small part to the new presidential administration. Earlier this week, the U.S. Labor Department removed a website it had created to log complaints from Wells Fargo employees who claimed to have been retaliated against by supervisors for blowing the whistle on a massive fake-account scandal that look place at the bank from at least 2011 through 2015.
Elizabeth Warren, Hater of Banks, Skirts Ethics Rules to Protect Sweet Deal With A Bank
There’s nothing more nauseating than a politician who does a whole lot of grandstanding, finger-wagging, and who has massive bouts of self-righteousness. It’s even worse when information is discovered to reveal the finger-wagger as a big fat hypocrite, and that is what happened with Elizabeth Warren.
Agawam mayor complains city wasn’t notified of USDA bird poisoning
A Massachusetts mayor says the U.S. Department of Agriculture waited too long to tell Agawam officials about a pesticide application that reportedly caused dead birds to fall from the sky. Mayor Richard Cohen asked for better communication from the USDA in a Jan. 12 letter to U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Richard Neal.
New Poll Shows Tough Re-Election Road For Sen. Warren
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks during the first session at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich – RTSJMII A new poll released Monday morning shows Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren may have a tough path to re-election in 2018.
Thousands gather at anti-Trump march on Boston Common
Thousands of people converged on Boston Common on Saturday to march in protest of Republican President Donald Trump and stand in solidarity with society’s most vulnerable people. The Boston Women’s March for America was part of a nationwide series of post-inauguration marches and rallies.
Anti-Trump protesters fill streets across the globe
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Washington, D.C., and cities across the globe on Saturday to show how upset and angry they are about the election of President Donald Trump. The Women’s March drew members of Congress, world-famous actresses and countless citizens like Joanne Gascoyne of Albany, New York, a 78-year-old retired teacher who traveled to New York City with her daughter and two granddaughters.
Thousands of protesters expected to join Boston Women’s March Saturday
In a few hours, the Boston Common will be awash in pink hats, protest signs, and a sea of demonstrators joining the Women’s March for America to speak out against hostile rhetoric and violence directed at immigrants, Muslims, and others during the presidential campaign and in the wake of the election. The Boston event is expected to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators and is one of more than 670 marches being held nationwide and globally, a day after President Trump formally took office.
The Democrats’ Fight Against School Choice Is Immoral
There’s something perverse about an ideology that views the disposing of an unborn child in the third trimester of pregnancy as an indisputable right but the desire of parents to choose a school for their kids as zealotry. Watching President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, answer an array of frivolous questions this week was just another reminder of how irrational liberalism has become.
Company that HHS pick invested in faced criminal penalty
A medical device company in which Rep. Tom Price purchased stock last year has faced years of legal problems and agreed this month to a $17 million Justice Department criminal penalty in a foreign bribery case. Democrats this week challenged the Georgia Republican, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, on his investments and potential conflict of interest.
Trump’s Treasury pick Stephen Mnuchin facing criticism over foreclosures
Donald Trump ‘s pick to lead the Treasury Department, Stephen Mnuchin , built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor. But one of those investments has put him in the crosshairs of Democrats as he heads into his confirmation hearing Thursday: sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac bank.
Trump’s Treasury pick facing criticism over foreclosures
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, Stephen Mnuchin, built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor. But one of those investments has put him in the crosshairs of Democrats as he heads into his confirmation hearing Thursday: sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac bank.
US Rep. Capuano also planning Trump inauguration boycott
A second member of Massachusetts’ all-Democratic congressional delegation has decided to skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Rep. Michael Capuano said in a series of tweets Wednesday that although he has great respect for the office of the president and accepts the result of the November election, he won’t attend the inauguration.
Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said – and refused to say – at her confirmation hearing
Sen. Elizabeth Warren , with Sen. Chris Murphy at the hearing for Betsy DeVos. At her contentious confirmation hearing as Donald Trump’s nominee to be education secretary on Tuesday, Betsy DeVos was asked a question by Sen. Al Franken about an important education debate involving how student progress should be measured.
Warren Embraces Her Role As Democratic Foil To Trump
Elizabeth Warren is embracing her role as a top Democratic foil to Republican President-elect Donald Trump. The Massachusetts senator penned a scathing 16-page critique of Trump’s education secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos; grilled his pick for housing secretary Ben Carson; and co-sponsored legislation requiring the president to disclose and divest potential financial conflicts of interest.
Reviewing the other night’s travesties
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan reads from a list of states with increasing health insurance premiums during his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yesterday, January 12, was a shameful day for us in Colorado.
For the Record: Carson meets with Senate committee, everyone stays awake
During the GOP debates, Carson joked that he never got called on. But in a “Twilight Zone” twist, he got to spend his Thursday answering ALL the questions.
Ben Carson, Elizabeth Warren spar during confirmation hearing
Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled Dr. Ben Carson about Trump’s businesses during a Senate confirmation hearing. Carson is nominated to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson gets hearing for HUD chief
In this Dec. 8, 2016 file photo, Yale University alumnus Dr. Benjamin Carson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, speaks at Yale, as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, in New Haven, Conn. Carson is preparing to take lawmakers questions about his vision for the nation’s housing policies.
Murkowski holds firm: Ethics review first, then hearing
No Cabinet nominee of President-elect Donald Trump’s will get a confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee without having a completed review by the Office of Government Ethics, a spokeswoman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who leads the committee, said.
Democrats push bill to keep Trump from presidenting for personal profit
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… force Donald Trump to get rid of his opportunities to profit from the presidency by putting his money into a blind trust. But Democrats aren [Sen. Elizabeth Warren] – backed by nearly 30 House and Senate Democrats – will introduce legislation Monday that would require Trump and Vice President-elect “The American people deserve to know that the President of the United States is working to do what’s best for the country – not using his office to do what’s best for himself and his businesses,” Warren said.
4 Of 9 Trump Nominees Set For Hearings This Week Haven’t Completed Ethics Disclosures
Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump ‘s Cabinet picks are set to begin just hours from now. But four of the nine Trump nominees scheduled for hearings this week still haven’t disclosed key financial information to the Office of Government Ethics, which is charged with making sure they don’t break federal ethics laws.
Several Trump picks’ ethics reviews incomplete
Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet choices have not completed a full review to avoid conflicts of interest, the government’s ethics office says, even as Republican senators move quickly to hold at least nine confirmation hearings next week. In a letter to Senate leaders, the director of the Office of Government Ethics described the current status of several nominees, some of whom are billionaires and millionaires, in the ethics process and expressed concern about the lack of ethics reviews just days from committee hearings.
Obama’s Ethics Appointee Tries To Derail Confirmations Of Trump’s Cabinet
The way the Obama administration is acting in its final days reminds one of a wounded beast in its death throes. It knows it has been turned out of office but it is doing its level best to damage the incoming administration to the greatest extent possible.
Ethics reviews incomplete for several Trump Cabinet choices
In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government’s ethics office says several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet choices have not completed a review to avoid conflicts of interest even as Senate Republicans move rapidly to hold at least nine confirmation hearings next week.