WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today successfully added a key amendment to the 2015 State and Foreign Operations spending bill to restore the J-1 Visa program through Fiscal Year 2015 and help Alaska’s seafood processors statewide hire needed staff – after the State Department had suspended visas due to concerns rising from Lower 48 activities. […]
Vic Kohring, the former state legislator who pleaded guilty to a federal felony for accepting bribes in 2011, has now decided to run for the U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming election. It was in 2007 that Kohring was convicted by jury on corruption, bribery and extortion charges, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for […]
At a meeting of the GOP’s rank and file on Wednesday afternoon, Eric Cantor who lost his re-election bid in the 7th congressional district in Virginia, announced that he will be stepping down from his position as House Majority Leader effective July 31st. Cantor also announced that he won’t run again in the general election […]
In the largest political upset of U.S. House leadership in years, the U.S. House second-in-command Eric Cantor went down in shocking defeat to little known, Tea Party-backed David Brat in the Virginia primary on Tuesday. The Tuesday defeat sent shockwaves through the Republican rank and file who expected Cantor to handily defeat his unknown rival, Brat, […]