Robert Mueller’s warning that Russian interference is still happening “as we sit” is putting pressure on Republican leaders in Congress to join Democrats in passing additional election security legislation.
Even though the bill has little chance of passing the Republican-led Senate, or being signed into law by President Trump, the proposed bill pushes a $15/hour wage to the forefront as the new standard.
The president stunned Republicans last week by announcing he wanted to try again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, insisting the GOP could become the “party of health care.”
The package to end the shutdown will include one bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels, with $1.3 billion for border security, through Feb. 8.
Federal workers and contractors forced to stay home or work without pay are experiencing mounting stress from the impasse affecting hundreds of thousands of them.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised a floor vote this week, even as the FBI continues to probe Brett Kavanaugh’s background.
The vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee was set for 1:30 p.m. Friday, Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley announced as the panel gaveled to order. Emotions running high, several Democratic senators walked out for a time in protest.
Sometimes showing anger, other times fighting back tears, the conservative jurist launched a bristling attack on the “national disgrace” of his treatment by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Denouncing his accusers for launching “smears, pure and simple,” Brett Kavanaugh said Monday he’ll continue fighting for Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court, even as a second woman asserted a long-ago sexual assault.
A second allegation of sexual misconduct has emerged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a development that has further imperiled his nomination to the Supreme Court, forced the White House and Senate Republicans onto the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she was “appalled” by the president’s morning tweet.
The development came after President Trump showered sympathy on his Supreme Court nominee and as Senate Republicans and Democrats fought over who should testify.
