The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday morning on President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration, Andrew Saul, a former vice chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
Like other Trump nominees, Saul has no background in the field he was chosen to lead. He did, however, serve on the board of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right-wing think tank whose visiting fellows include Charles Murray, a race scien...
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Murkowski claims more voters have called her office about Kavanaugh than Obamacare repeal
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...
GOP Iowa congressman’s ad pretends he ‘stood up’ to his own party on preexisting conditions
Rep. David Young (R-IA) has voted with Donald Trump about than 99 percent of the time, including backing the Obamacare repeal legislation known as Trumpcare. That legislation would have destroyed insurance protections for the more than 100 million Americans with pre-existing medical conditions. That vote was hugely unpopular.
Facing a very tough re-election in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, Young launched a new ad this week simply lying to the voters — a tactic sever...
‘What am I going to tell my daughter?’: Mainers implore Susan Collins to vote against Kavanaugh
PORTLAND, MAINE — “I was raped three times,” one Maine resident said to Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) senior staffer as she jotted down notes on a memo pad.
The woman speaking was a registered Democrat who visited Collins’ local office Monday to plead that a senator she helped elect in 2014 not confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after last week’s moving testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford detailing her allegations of sexual assault...
Melania Trump is taking ‘Be Best’ to Africa, because of course she is
First Lady Melania Trump is officially taking her “Be Best” campaign to Africa, because of course she is.
Melania will be heading for her first major solo international trip on Monday. Over the next week, she will travel to Ghana, Malawai, Kenya, and Egypt to discuss the campaign, which she says has many concepts that can be applied globally.
Melania first introduced her “Be Best” campaign in May. At the time, she said it would be focused on addressing...
These are the senators who can stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation
There are only four senators left who appear undecided about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation Friday afternoon, just one day after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified that he sexually assaulted her at a party when the two were in high school. The vote will then head to the full Senate and could be as soon as Tuesday.
Republicans need only 50 votes in order to confirm Kavanaugh, as Vice ...
Brett Kavanaugh just debunked one of the biggest lies Republicans tell about the judiciary
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began his testimony at a hearing examining allegations that he sexually assaulted a young women in high school with an angry, 45-minute long rant.
The judge was emotional, shrill, hysterical, and he would have looked so much more attractive if he’d smiled.
He also revealed himself as a staunch partisan. Kavanaugh, who denied in a previous day of testimony that he is a “Republican judge,” twice looked over at the section ...
Kavanaugh says he has a lot of female friends and therefore he could not have ever assaulted a woman
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly claimed Thursday that he could not have sexually assaulted anyone because he has women friends, which, dear readers, is (of course!) ridiculous.
“One of my closest friends to this day is a woman who was sexually abused and who in the 1990s when we were in our 30s confided in me about the abuse and sought my advice. I was one of the only people she consulted,” he said, several minutes into his angry testimony.
He wou...
GOP senate candidate vows to protect people with pre-existing conditions while doing the opposite
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, who is currently running for Senate against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), put out an ad Monday afternoon touting his commitment to protecting people with pre-existing conditions, despite currently working as part of a lawsuit that aims to end protections for pre-existing conditions.
“We’ve got two perfect little boys. Just ask their mama,” Hawley says in the ad, which his campaign shared on Twitter Monday. “Earlier this ...
Two federal judges rule insurance companies must cover transgender health procedures
Two different federal courts granted rulings last week in favor of allowing transgender people to access the medically necessary care prescribed to them by their doctors.
The rulings confirm the Affordable Care Act’s protections on the basis of sex extend to transgender people.
In Wisconsin, two University of Wisconsin employees challenged an exclusion to the Uniform Benefits established by the state’s Government Insurance Board. The exclusion prohibited coverage ...