“If you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow… somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?” After the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to expel Republican New York Congressman George Santos, Sen. John Fetterman renewed his demand for similar action against Sen. Bob Menendez. Fetterman (D-Pa.) has been calling for Menendez (D-N.J.) to exit the Senate […]
Nikiski, AK – Friday, members of the Alaska State Senate learned that former Representative Kurt Olson, R-Soldotna, passed away from a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Representative Kurt Olson served the Central Kenai Peninsula in the Alaska House of Representatives from 2005 through 2016. Members of the Alaska Senate Majority issued the following statements: “Kurt […]
When Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives elected Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson as speaker last week, critics quickly sounded the alarm about his previous calls to cut trillions of dollars from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—and the GOP leader triggered a fresh wave of fears on Thursday with related comments to a Capitol Hill journalist. NBC […]
Despite Saturday’s reprieve, Sen. John Fetterman warned that “pushing the snooze button solves nothing, because these same losers will try to pull the same shit in 45 days.” A government shutdown was averted Saturday night after the Senate voted 89 to 9 to approve a stopgap spending measure passed by the House of Representatives that afternoon. The […]