Alaskans and voters across the country have been flooding Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) voicemail to voice their opinions on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the senator said Tuesday evening.
“All the voicemail boxes are are literally filled within the first hour,” she told Alaska Public Media, adding that the number of calls has been even higher than before recent health care votes.
Asked for clarification by the APM reporter for whether there were mor...
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The Kavanaugh Senate confirmation fight is actually the first race of the midterms
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice should be a shoe-in, but lobbying groups are still spending millions trying to convince American voters to support or oppose him.
The Senate remains controlled by the Republicans, who hold a 51-49 margin as...
Senate, House, and Trump all poised to rip open pristine Arctic landscape in hunt for oil
Forces in Congress are moving to open the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, bypassing debate by including the controversial move in the upcoming appropriations bill.
Alaska’s coastal plain, 1.5 million acres of protected land known as Area 1002, is the primary breeding ground for a unique herd of 195,000 porcupine caribou — which are, in turn, a staple for the indigenous Gwitchin tribe, who say their way of life would be irreparably change...
Trumpcare’s ‘Alaska Bribe’ has a big constitutional problem
In one of the more surreal chapters in the ongoing Trumpcare saga, the Independent Journal Review’s Haley Byrd reports that some of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) Republican colleagues hope to entice her into supporting their latest effort to repeal Obamacare by letting Alaska keep much of Obamacare.
Under the reported deal — alternatively nicknamed the “Alaska Bribe,” the “Alaska Purchase,” the “Polar Purchase,” and the “Sno...
With CBO sidelined, key senator turns to Trump administration’s cooked numbers to evaluate Trumpcare
A key Republican senator, who is likely to decide the fate of her party’s latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and phase-out Medicaid, says she will rely on a Trump administration office with a history of producing cooked figures in order to determine whether to back the bill.
Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office announced that, due to the rushed process Senate Republicans are using to try to pass the latest version of Trumpcare, it will not be able to...
Democrats want investigation into Trump administration’s reported ‘blackmail’ over health care…
Democrats want investigation into Trump administration’s reported ‘blackmail’ over health care votesCommittee ranking member describes conduct as similar to what “we’d see from the Kremlin.”President Donald Trump meets with Republican senators, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), on health care at the White House on June 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), the top De...
Repealing Obamacare alone would leave 32 million Americans uninsured
Thirty-two million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement.
