WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and several of his colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) demanding answers regarding the implementation of the DOC’s new financial management system. This financial management system has disrupted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) […]
“Republicans revealing what they REALLY think about the working class,” said one progressive commentator. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz took a thrashing from progressives on Friday after he underhandedly acknowledged that President Joe Biden’s move this week to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower is likely to help Democrats in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. […]
Democratic lawmakers and the father of a 14-year-old killed in a previous school shooting were among those who unleashed on Republicans. Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, was among those who refused to hide his fury at the right-wing lawmakers whose allegiance to the […]
Amid mounting calls for Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri to resign or be expelled from the chamber, a group of Democrats filed an ethics complaint on Thursday requesting an investigation into the two senators’ roles in inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Tina […]
