“Speaker McCarthy is wasting precious time catering to the hard, hard MAGA right,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “The House Republicans are a total shit show.” So said Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, just over a week away from a potential U.S. government shutdown, as the fractured House Republican Conference once again proved incapable of […]
One-time Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, 76, will not run for reelection in the Senate, he announced on Wednesday. The elder statesman amassed a multimillion-dollar net worth working in private equity. Then he swapped careers: In 2003, he was sworn in as governor of Massachusetts, following in the footsteps of his father, who served as […]
U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman told the Republican House speaker that “if you don’t stand up to this harmful element of your own party, you will allow them to destroy you and us in the process.” As far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz on Tuesday signaled that he wasn’t impressed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to appease MAGA […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and North Slope and other Alaska leaders Wednesday expressed their opposition to two Alaska new anti-development decisions announced by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). DOI is proposing to withdraw millions of acres within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and […]