In closed-door conversations, he urged senators and donors to relay their concerns privately to the president and his team. He believed it would be the most effective way to get through to Biden, rather than publicly bashing the president and causing disarray. That worked, for a...
Brian Kemp (Moron — Georgia) has sued the mayor of Atlanta, Keesha Lance Bottoms, and the Atlanta city council, because they dared to issue a mandatory mask order, in violation of his ban on such orders from all localities in the state. Kemp claims to believe that people ought to wear...
Some ethics analysts consider rules of ethical oversight to have been defanged. Senators don’t need to divest from conflicting assets, nor must they place them in a blind trust, a move that would ease ethical concerns. “She could avoid all of those problems by putting her money in a blin...
Reuters, and Getty, issued “kill” notices to take down the photo because it had been manipulated, conspiracy theories came thick and fast, including that she had a face-lift, was in a coma, she was in hiding, there was a body-double used in the picture and some even wondered whether...
John McCain and ISIS leaders routinely meet and are photographed; John Kerry was evacuated from a meeting in Paris with ISIS leaders in Georgia. China and Russia were put in charge of the UN WMD search in Syria; nothing like putting a Fox in the hen house eh? What Trump and Putin have...
defense spending. The approved legislation is $45 billion more than what was proposed by President Joe Biden. With an 83-11 bipartisan majority, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was greatly supported by the senators, a bill-setting policy that must be passed annually for the ...
The Georgia House passed the measure knowing it wasn’t good legislation.In the Rules Committee on March 5th, Rules Chairman Jay Powell made it clear that he had concerns with the bill but they would work to ‘fix it in the Senate.’ Not only this an unprincipled approach to legislation,...
Senate in May 2013. Republican senators who supported him then would likely be asked to justify why they couldn't back him for the Supreme Court. [ 9 Current Affairs – February 2016 News 35: Prof. Yogesh Tyagi: New Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University President Pranab Mukherjee appointed...
In March 2015, as Iran appeared to be close to signing a 10-year accord that would scale back its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, 47 U.S. Republican senators signed an open letter to Iranian officials saying the agreement could be reversed "with the stroke of a...
Each state has two senators, elected at-large to six-year terms; one third of Senate seats are up for elec- tion every second year. The president serves a four-year term and may be elected to the office no more than twice. The president is not elected by direct vote, but by an ...