Prior to these maneuvers, the same system had been in place since 1942. This administration deserves the same authority as previous administrations.
(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. senators are sounding the alarm over a purported plan by Senate Democrats to dismiss House impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House was expected to deliver impeachment charges this week after voting to impeach Mayorkas in February. They rescheduled for next week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, changed scheduling on the Senate calendar. Schumer has called...
A state senator from Massachusetts made a stop in Erie tonight to get to know the community a little better. Liz Miranda of the second suffolk district in Massachusetts spoke to a room of about 50 local political leaders and elected officials at the Historical Institute of Culture and the African American experience. She said []
Businessman David McCormick has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania, setting him up to face Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) in what will be a closely watched race, Decision Desk HQ projects. McCormick was unopposed for the nomination and coalesced GOP support around his candidacy to try to unseat the three-term incumbent Casey. The
Minnesota Republicans pushed for an expedited investigation after DFL Senator Nicole Mitchell ‘s arrest this week for burglary.Mitchell was absent for Wednesday's Senate floor session and votes were tabled for the day. In the Senate, the DFL only holds a one-vote majority, so Mitchell's vote would be critical for party-line issues.Mitchell, who represents Woodbury, faces a count of first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into her stepmother's home in Detroit Lakes. In a message on Tuesday,...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blames former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for the months-long delay in getting the national security supplemental bill, which includes aid for Ukraine, to the finish line, saying that "demonization of Ukraine" began with Carlson. "He had an enormous audience which convinced a lot of rank and file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake," McConnell says. He also cites the protracted talks over border security, which was ultimately dropped from the...
Senators will be sworn in now that House GOP managers delivered the
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran launched drone and cruise missile attacks against Israel on Saturday. “Iran has begun launching drone strikes on Israel,” Blackburn said Saturday on social media platform X. “@POTUS — we must move quickly and launch aggressive retaliatory strikes on Iran.” Blackburn's post gives
Two months ago, a majority of Republicans opposed the $95 billion foreign aid bill when it came to the Senate floor for a vote. Ten Read More
The far-right political commentator has “ended up where he should've been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin," charged the Senate GOP leader.
A state senator filmed in two separate videos getting in the face of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Friday night says that he was provoked after Ashcroft “barked off” in the face of his fellow Republican’s wife. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) tells the RFT that at Friday night’s Perry County Lincoln Day event, Ashcroft “came up to my wife Michelle who was seated at a table, pointed his finger in her face and barked off to her.” “I was there and confronted Ashcroft in the back...
House Republicans really wanted an impeachment of someone. President Joe Biden, preferably, or his son Hunter, or maybe Hunter’s laptop, or perhaps Hunter’s dog walker. They decided on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who didn’t commit any high crimes or misdemeanors but did attempt to execute the policies of the administration in which he serves. On Wednesday, the Senate took one look at the articles of impeachment oh-so-solemnly delivered by a hard-right House faction just...