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
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
Unemployment falls to 7.5%; job creation solid in April The job market plugged along steadily, and unemployment fell in April, according to new data out Friday, suggesting that the U.S. economy is still expanding. The nation added 165,000 jobs in April as the unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent, from 7.6 percent in March, the Labor Department said on Friday. More
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 5-Year Low The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in more than five years, a positive signal for the labor market ahead of Friday's April jobs report. More
Jobless claims fall, labor market recovery advances The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, offering reassurance that the bottom is not falling out of the labor market despite signs of slower growth. More
Details on housing, tuition aid begin to emerge in state budget talks The fourth emergency extension authorizes $1.3 billion in spending to ensure state workers get paid and payments are made to programs. 04/12/2024 - 11:07 am | View Link
House Passes 2-Year Surveillance Law Extension Without Warrant Requirement Speaker Mike Johnson scaled back the measure to two years from five after Donald J. Trump had urged Republicans to “kill” it. An effort to require warrants to search for Americans’ messages failed on ... 04/12/2024 - 9:59 am | View Link
Polish lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban Polish lawmakers voted Friday to move forward with proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, which has one of the most restrictive ... 04/12/2024 - 6:58 am | View Link
Campaign Puts Trump and the Spy Agencies on a Collision Course As president, Donald Trump never trusted the intelligence community. His antipathy has only grown since he left office, with potentially serious implications should he return to power. 04/12/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link
House Debates Rule for Two-Year FISA Extension The House debates a rule for consideration of a bill that would extend the Foreign Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 authority for two years. A resolution for a five-year authorization was defeated ... 04/12/2024 - 2:55 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.