and while conservatives hide behind the argument that they simply care about biden nominating the most qualified person to the bench, it’s clear to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the modern republican party that something else—some people might even call it racism!—is going on ...
The following is a transcript of an interview with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina that aired Sunday, January 30, 2022, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham joins us from Clemson, South Carolina, this morning. Good morning to you...
Kaine was a centrist Democrat, befitting a politician who was from a state that had aconservativerural sector in the south and west and liberal urban and suburban enclaves in the north and east. Virginia also had a large military presence, and Kaine took a strong interest in defense and vete...
The top Republican on the Senate panel, John Cornyn of Texas, argued that most cases are without merit, as opposed to asylum cases, which are based on a credible fear of death or harm. He said that people are “clogging the courts” and are aware the severe backlogs will allow them to...
MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Lindsey Graham was on this program recently raised a concern that the president wasn't listening to his national security advisers in Afghanistan. Do you think Congress needs to put some kind of backstop in place to keep the troop number at a certain level like he's...
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that the Republican leadership “has truly lost touch with reality if it’s contemplating marching COVID-stricken members to the Senate to rush through a Supreme Court nominee.” As the COVID-19 crisis envelops the Capitol, Graham annou...
Jeanne Sheen is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2008 and began representing New Hampshire the following year. She was the first woman to serve as governor of the state (1997–2003).
Arlen Specter was an American lawyer and politician who was a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1981–2011). Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican in the 1960s before switching back to the Democratic Party in 2009. Specter, the son of Russian Jewis
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Jon Ossoff is an American politician elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate from Georgia in a runoff in January 2021. He is the state’s first Jewish senator and, at 33, was the youngest Democratic senator elected to the body in 40 years. Ossoff is the