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Without mentioning any candidates or a party affiliation, music superstar Taylor Swift continued her push to get Americans energized for the midterms.
. — Without mentioning him by name, Sen. Robert Menendez got in a dig at his opponent.
“The goal is to have this organization up and running in January,” the Wisconsin Democrat said.
“Even if a person was well-liked, they couldn’t survive the district,” he said.
“While I voted ‘no’ on cloture today, and I will be a ‘no’ tomorrow,” she said, “I will, in the final tally, be asked to be recorded as present, and I do this because a friend, a colleague of ours
It reminds everybody the Senate’s in the personnel business,” McConnell said. “Without the Senate, the president doesn’t get judges confirmed. He doesn’t get cabinet members confirmed.”
That said, the fundamentals I gleaned early on continue to guide me in my daily interactions. Strength in numbers First, nothing of significance in Washington is ever done alone.
“I had one beer.
“I mean, we did talk about that,” the Louisiana Republican said of the heightened tension and security.
Other members may receive added protection in response to specific threats, but otherwise spend much of their time outside the Capitol complex, including in their home districts, without bodyguards.
“However, I will not review any investigation completed by the law firm retained by the Minnesota DFL Party or any other private investigator without the completion of an investigation by a law enforcement
Scott Peters said of the Medicare plan. “I think it deserves some hearings, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. It’s not a magic bullet.”
“Ultimately I think seeing the House vote to repeal — including Bruce Poliquin — and then Susan Collins and Senate Republicans saying we can’t just repeal without trying to fix this was a wake-up call
But our view is not our-way-or-the-highway,” he said. “On the other hand, we have a complete agreement. … I think this agreement … will be much less controversial than the original NAFTA agreement.”
“I too lament the leaks, which is why I do not engage in them,” Gowdy said.
“They got some real beauties going,” Trump said as he zeroed in on a handful of the opposition party’s possible 2020 candidates.
At an event in Boston earlier in the day, Flake said he was not a man without a country even though he sometimes feels he currently lacks a party.
The president said he intends to sign and send the agreement to Congress by the end of next month. He said it should sail through Congress “but anything you send to Congress is trouble.”
Pressley, a sexual assault victim, said she had been advised to avoid coming across as an “angry black woman” on the campaign trail. “Well, I am angry,” she said, according to the Globe.
“The most consistent thing I hear from people, especially people who did support the president, is that he needs a check and balance,” he said in an interview last month outside South Central College