Tag: United States Senate

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Trump Says He Prefers a ‘Good Shutdown’ to Making a Deal With Dems to Fund Government

Frustrated with having to “do a deal” to fund the government Trump whined, “Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”

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PFAW Accuse Jeff Sessions of ‘Putting His Extreme Ideology Above the Constitution’

PFAW assert that “the burden was on Senator Sessions today to show that he’s fit to serve as attorney general. He failed miserably.”

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Mitch McConnell’s Astonishing Failure to Do His Job Revealed by the Numbers

Rather than “big things” we have been treated to a clinic on entropy; a lot of “big words” rather than “big things,” and very little action

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Rep. Elijah Cummings Leads Three-Way Democratic U.S. Senate Primary In Maryland

Cummings has not announced his candidacy, but a WA Post shows that he would lead a three-way primary race by double digits.

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Mitch McConnell Demands A Ransom That Obama Will Never Agree To In Debt Ceiling Fight

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the debt ceiling.

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GOP Leadership Purge May Continue As Conservative “Ditch Mitch” Voices Grow Louder

Since Boehner’s surprise resignation announcement, calls for removing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have intensified.

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With Boehner Gone, House Republican Suggests Taking Out Mitch McConnell Next

GOP Congressman Matt Salmon texted Utah Senator Mike Lee a message that said: “Next guy in the crosshairs is probably gonna be McConnell.”

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Nervous Republicans Worry That Trump Will Give Democrats The White House And Senate

Strategists fear Trump could badly lose a general election campaign, dragging a lot of Republican Senate candidates down with him.

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Big News For Democrats As Russ Feingold Leads Sen. Ron Johnson By 8 In GOP Poll

In Wisconsin, the situation has gotten so bad for the Republicans that they actually consider being down by 8 points “good news.”

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IL Newspaper Crushes Sen. Kirk’s Moderate Reputation By Calling Him A Loud-Mouthed Radical

A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.

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As His Son Was Abusing His Daughters, Jim Bob Duggar Said Incest Should Be Punishable by Death

Jim Bob Duggar said incest deserved execution. That sounds great — but he said it while he was shielding his own son from any legal consequences for molesting his own sisters.

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Contrary To McConnell’s Election Promises, GOP Senate Majority Proves To Be Dysfunctional

Just over six months after winning back the Senate, Mitch McConnell’s GOP majority is proving to be more dysfunctional than ever.

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Boehner and McConnell Balance Their Budget on the Backs of the American People

Republicans are making much of their “balanced” budget but this “work harder for less” budget is not really balanced at all

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John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working

Boehner’s reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate that is actually working.

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Senate Cafeteria Cook Goes On Strike To Draw Attention To Low Wages

The U.S. government should only award federal contracts to companies that pay American workers a living wage.

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Defiant Elizabeth Warren Tells Wall Street If They Want To Fight Her, “Bring It On”

Before a packed room in a Manhattan Barnes & Noble bookstore, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) refused to back off her criticism of Wall Street, after some of the big banks hinted that they could withhold campaign funds from Senate Democrats.

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US House Is Functional For A Day, Passes Bipartisan Bill, Extends CHIP Funding

In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, the US House overwhelmingly passed a Medicare payment overhaul bill on Thursday.

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Florida Republican Slayer Rep. Patrick Murphy Launches Bid To Take Rubio’s Senate Seat

Murphy’s candidacy gives the Democrats strong odds of winning the Senate seat held by Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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Even Joe Scarborough Believes Republicans Went Too Far With “Stupid” Iran Letter

During Monday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough finally relented and said that the “one-two punch” of House Republicans inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak and the sending of a letter to Iran by 47 GOP Senators was a step too far for the party.

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Racist Frat Booted From OU Campus Hires Oklahoma City Bomber’s Lawyer To Represent Them

The board for the Oklahoma University chapter of SAE voted on Thursday to hire Attorney Stephen Jones to represent them.

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Democrat Russ Feingold Leads Sen. Ron Johnson 50-41 In Potential Wisconsin Senate Rematch

Early polling suggests that if Democrat Russ Feingold decides to mount a comeback Senate bid, Wisconsin will back him all the way.

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Senate Subcommittee Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify about Religious Freedom

Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance

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47 GOP Senators Send Open Letter To Iran, Warning They Can Undo Any Deal Made With Obama

47 GOP Senators signed a letter to Iran, warning them that Republicans were prepared to undermine any nuclear agreement reached with the US.

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Bombastic Tea Party Loon Joe Walsh Eyes Illinois Senate Race

Former Congressional Representative Joe Walsh (R) says he is “very seriously considering challenging” Illinois Senator Mark Kirk (R).

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Rand Paul’s Read the Bills Act Relies on Congress to Tell the Truth

Rand Paul says he wants Congress to read bills before they vote, relying on them to tell us truthfully if they actually read them.

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Here We Go Again: GOP Lawmaker Says Rape Can Make Beautiful Children

West Virginia Delegate Brian Kurcaba says rape is awful, but remarks that it can create a beautiful child.

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Boehner’s Latest Attempt to Hoodwink America Fails Like the Rest

Boehner twisted history to claim that “the American people can’t afford a repeat of the same old top-down policies of the past”

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Sen. Chuck Grassley Absurdly Claims Bill of Rights Dependent on Citizens United

The only thing keeping Republicans in power right now is money, and they’ll tell any lies to hold onto that money.

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All Eyes On Kamala Harris As California Democrat Gavin Newsom Declines 2016 Senate Bid

Gavin Newsom has decided not to run for Senate in 2016 making attorney general Kamala Harris the presumptive front-runner if she runs.

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Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs

Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back to Bush-era economics and undo the economic progress of the past six years.

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Is Georgia Ready For Hillary Clinton?

Midterm election results in Georgia show progressive trends and point to battleground potential for the 2016 presidential race.

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Party Of Family Values: Newly Elected GOP Lawmaker Is A Convicted Child Abuser

One election where a Democratic seat was flipped red was Montana’s District 32 State House race. The Republican, Gilbert Bruce Meyers, was convicted of assault on a minor and sentenced to four years in prison.

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Democrat Jeanne Shaheen Holds Off Carpetbagging Republican Scott Brown In NH Senate Race

Incumbent Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen held on and defeated Republican Scott Brown in New Hampshire’s US Senate race on Tuesday evening.

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Latest Poll Shows Democrat Mark Udall Gaining Five Points In Colorado US Senate Race

In a Quinnipiac poll last week, the firm showed Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) ahead of the incumbent Democrat Mark Udall by seven points, 46% to 39%. However, Monday’s results showed the race a lot tighter, with Gardner’s lead shrinking to two points, 45% to 43%.

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Minority Voter Suppression In North Carolina Witnessed Firsthand

What the future holds for voting in North Carolina is unknown. What is known is that the damaging and chilling effects of this law will be felt for decades, even if the law is overturned this summer.

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Democrat Bruce Braley Up A Whopping 15 Points With Early Voters In Iowa Senate Race

In a poll released Wednesday by the Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group, Rep, Bruce Braley (D-IA) holds a commanding lead with early voters in Iowa’s open US Senate race compared to his Republican opponent, Joni Ernst.

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Even Joe Scarborough Is Hammering GOPer Joni Ernst For Skipping Iowa Newspaper Meetings

During Monday morning’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough took Joni Ernst to task for canceling meetings with the editorial boards of Iowa newspapers and local news stations.

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A Great Time For Gay Marriage? Not So Fast!

There are two issues guaranteed to get the wing-nuts to the polls even if they have to crawl on their bellies over barbed wire in a typhoon. The first is anything to do with not being able to let their kids under ten play with howitzers; the second voting magnet is anything to do with the possibility that Bob and Bruce might marry.

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GOP Senate Candidate Says He’s Losing Because Lazy Single Women Are Dependent On Government

New Jersey Republican Jeff Bell, who is running against incumbent Democrat Cory Booker in New Jersey’s US Senate race, told a New Jersey newspaper Thursday that he is behind Booker because single women are “wed” to the Democratic Party due to their reliance on government benefits.

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Conflict Of Interest: Iowa Democrats Hammer Joni Ernst Over Contracts Awarded To Her Father

Republican Senate Candidate Joni Ernst could be in some hot water over county public contracts awarded to her father’s company when she served as the county’s auditor. Ernst is running against Democrat Bruce Braley for Iowa’s open US Senate seat.

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Georgia GOP Senate Candidate Destroys His Campaign By Claiming He’s Proud He Outsourced Jobs

In a meeting with reporters on Monday, Republican Senate candidate David Perdue claimed that he is “proud of” his career in outsourcing jobs and blamed Washington policies for his own business decisions.

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GOP Takes One On The Chin As Kansas Court Rules Dems Don’t Need To Name Senate Candidate

A Kansas district court ruled on Wednesday that the Democratic Party does not need to name a Senate candidate to take on incumbent Republican Senator Pat Roberts. This decision opens the door for independent candidate Greg Orman to face Roberts in a head-to-head battle.

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Washington Post Gives GOP Senate Candidate Four Pinocchios For ‘Smarmy’ Campaign Ad

On Monday, the Washington Post published an article from their resident fact checker Glenn Kessler that highlighted an awful campaign ad from Georgia Republican David Perdue. Kessler ‘awarded’ the ad Four Pinocchios, meaning it is a complete and total lie.

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GOP Senate Candidate Doubles Down On Michelle Nunn ‘Terrorist’ Claim In New Campaign Ad

David Perdue, the Republican candidate for Georgia’s open US Senate seat, released another ad on Wednesday doubling-down on his debunked claim that Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn funneled money to terrorist organizations through the Points of Light Foundation.

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Republicans Sweating As Democrats Hold Leads In Georgia’s Senate And Governor Races

All the talk of a Republican takeover of the US Senate after this year’s midterms may have been a bit premature as a new poll in Georgia shows that Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn holds a three-point lead over Republican nominee David Perdue for Georgia’s open Senate seat.

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The Heritage Foundation Hits Up The Little Guy

The Heritage Foundation is located right in the middle of the DC power corridor and well it should be, as arguably the most powerful right-wing think tank of them all.

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GOP Scuffling In Swing State As Democrat Gary Peters Up 10 Points In Michigan Senate Race

A poll released by the Detroit News on Tuesday gave Republicans some bad news regarding their efforts to overtake the Senate from Democrats in November. Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) currently holds a ten-point lead over Republican Terri Lynn Land, 47% to 37%, in Michigan’s open US Senate race.

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GOP Rep Who Claims Senate Is Harry Reid’s Plantation Doesn’t Want To Be Kicked ‘Like A Slave’

In an article published Tuesday in the E&E Daily, a Beltway publication devoted to environmental and energy issues, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “runs the Senate like a plantation.”

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Right After ‘Constructive’ Meeting On Border Crisis, Rick Perry Runs To Fox And Slams Obama

On Wednesday, President Obama met with Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry, along with other political and religious leaders in Texas, to discuss the ongoing crisis concerning migrant children from Central America being detained at the border. Perry then ran to Fox News.

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Democratic Rep States That Racism Is Key Reason Conservatives Reject Immigration Reform

During Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) discussed the recent protests in Murrieta, CA surrounding the transport of undocumented immigrants to a processing center in the city.

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Chris McDaniel’s Strategist Blames Tea Party Leader’s Suicide On Opponent’s Campaign

Mark Mayfield, one of the leaders of the Central Mississippi Tea Party and a key supporter of Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel during his recent US Senate campaign, was found dead Friday of a gunshot wound.

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Sore Loser! Tea Party Senate Candidate Still Refuses To Concede Two Days After Loss

Two days after losing in Mississippi’s US Senate Republican primary runoff election, State Senator Chris McDaniel is still refusing to concede to the winner, incumbent Senator Thad Cochran.

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Another Red State Democrat Calls On Elizabeth Warren To Bring Home A Victory

West Virginia Senate candidate Natalie Tennant plans to campaign with Elizabeth Warren in July.

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GOP Senate Candidate Thinks White People Are The Only ‘Traditional’ Americans

In a story posted by Daniel Strauss of Talking Points Memo on Tuesday, Thom Tillis, North Carolina’s State House Speaker and Republican nominee for US Senate, did an interview in 2012 where he suggested that Hispanics and blacks are not ‘traditional’ Americans.

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Oregon Democrats Hold Commanding Double-Digit Leads In Senate And Governor Races

A poll released by Public Policy Polling on Thursday shows that Democrats are way ahead of their Republican opponents in Oregon’s major races this year

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Lone Star Lunacy as ‘Obama=Hitler’ Candidate Leads Democratic Senate Primary

Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche supporter who equates Obama to Hitler and calls for his impeachment, is leading the Dem Senate primary in TX.

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Kentucky Tea Party Senate Candidate Matt Bevin Has No Clue What The National Debt Is

This week, Bevin decided to release an attack ad against McConnell regarding his vote on the debt ceiling increase that took place earlier this month.

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Gun Sense Prevails in Dixie as Open Carry Bill Shot Down in South Carolina Senate

An open carry bill that would have allowed citizens to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, was resoundingly rejected in SC.

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GOP Senator Dean Heller Says Ted Cruz Is Wrong To Filibuster Clean Debt Ceiling Bill

On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s Crossfire, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) stated that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is wrong in threatening to filibuster the clean debt ceiling bill that passed in the House on Tuesday.

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Winds of Change: How a Residency Issue Might Open Up a Senate Seat in Kansas

Senator Pat Roberts is not a current resident of Kansas. This issue has opened the window for the Kansas Tea Party to primary him in the fall.

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Gutless GOP Senate Candidate Panders To Woman Who Wants President Obama Executed

OK Senate candidate Jim Bridenstine (R) responded to a woman who advocated executing the President by pouring gasoline on her paranoid rage.

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Alaska Voters Reject Sarah Palin and Every Other Republican for US Senate

A newly released Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey from Alaska reveals how badly tarnished the GOP brand is even in the Last Frontier State. Mark Begich, the Incumbent Democratic Senator, leads all Republican opponents in the poll. Alaska voters are not thrilled with Mark Begich’s job performance. 43 percent of Alaska voters approve of…

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