Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Coalition on immigration bill clears first tests The bipartisan coalition behind a contentious overhaul of immigration laws stuck together on a critical early series of test votes Thursday, turning back challenges from conservative critics as the Senate Judiciary Committee refined legislation to secure the nation's borders and offer eventual citizenship to millions living illegally in the United States. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
White House finalizes rule on “gun show loophole” to fight gun crimes in the US The Department of Justice estimates that there are more than 20,000 unlicensed individuals who are selling firearms ... 04/11/2024 - 3:58 pm | View Link
Biden ‘must threaten Iran with devastating US response’ Joe Biden must warn Iran that the US will join a “devastating” response if Israel is attacked, Republicans have said. The US president is under pressure to provide a public security guarantee to ... 04/11/2024 - 5:08 am | View Link
The best-case scenario for Trump’s foreign policy Anyone searching for the true beliefs of Donald Trump on any major issue is liable to come away either disappointed or aggravated. The former president is known for his fulsome diatribes, changing his ... 04/10/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Arizona’s Split Reality Ground zero for the rigged-election conspiracy, the border state could decide both the fate of the Senate and the presidency. 04/8/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Biden campaign says Trump ‘directly to blame’ for Florida abortion ruling – live President’s campaign also says Trump would try to bring in a national abortion ban if reelected; top House Democrat calls Florida ‘ground zero’ in fight for abortion access ... 04/2/2024 - 10:01 am | View Link
“Jury selection is set to resume Friday morning in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York,” the Washington Post reports.
“Twelve jurors have been picked to hear the case, along with one alternate. Five more alternates are still being sought, and opening statements are expected to begin Monday.”
Associated Press: “One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.