JUNEAU – Today, Senator Bill Wielechowski (D- Anchorage) unveiled a new PFD Losses Calculator that Alaskans can use to understand the adverse impact to their family’s finances under the Senate Majority’s proposed fiscal plan. “I don’t think many Alaskans realize just how much the Senate Majority’s fiscal plan takes from them,” said Sen. Wielechowski. “Their […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate passed the omnibus appropriations bill to fund the federal government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017, heading it to the President to be signed into law. As a member of the Appropriations Committee and Chairman of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was […]
After setting up a roll call vote in a near empty Senate Chamber, using a relatively unknown Senate rule, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky, bullied Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren into silence on the Senate floor. Warren had taken to the floor during the debate on Senator Jeff Sessions nomination […]
U.S. President Donald Trump wasted no time Monday night in firing an acting attorney general who earlier in the day ordered the Justice Department not to defend his executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven mostly Muslim countries. A White House statement said Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, “betrayed […]