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Pompeo Confirmation Debate Highlights Another Week of Senate Nomination Feuds
The question is how much pain will senators go through along the way.
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The question is how much pain will senators go through along the way.
Schumer also said that he would support legalization in his home state of New York, in a well-timed interview with VICE News which aired Thursday night.
James Lankford said in an interview taped Thursday that the best strategy will be to let the chips fall where they may, citing the example of how the firing of FBI Director James Comey precipitated an
“These hardworking men and women should not be paying the price of the State’s cost-cutting measures,” the Arizona Democrat said.
Roy Blunt, a member of the GOP leadership team, said in a brief interview Wednesday that he and his fellow Missourian, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, are the authors of the exemption provision.
Gonzales rates the race Likely Republican. Democrats have interpreted the GOP spending as a sign the party is worried about losing the seat.
the air traffic control system from the government.
of one of the most important powers bestowed upon Congress by the Founding Fathers.
Bernie Sanders got the attention of the internet for retweeting a Cardi B quote about improving Social Security.
The Senate is known for resisting change, but senators might quickly and quietly update one of the most entrenched rules of who can be on the chamber floor. Illinois Democratic Sen.
Heading into a weekly meeting of the moderate Tuesday Group, Dent said it would be up to the the group’s members whether they want to replace him immediately as co-chairman or wait until the next
next day regarding the agenda items the leaders discussed with the president.
McConnell’s determination that the action is not needed is apparently regardless of what happens in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She said the two issues “should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions,” according to a 1992 Los Angeles Times interview.
President Donald Trump on Monday continued his effort to discredit James Comey, the morning after a nationally televised interview during which the former FBI director lambasted him.
When contacted Thursday, Katyal declined an interview request. But he did point a reporter to a recent series of Twitter posts he wrote about the matter.
Helping the disabled has been a priority for the Mississippi Republican since his election to the House in 2008.
Under hard questioning from Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Pompeo repeatedly refused to discuss the conversation during the public hearing.
She used a private email server, and the FBI did interview her about it — though never under oath — and cleared her soon after, to candidate Trump’s chagrin.