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Screenshot via Breitbart News Some conservative commentators sounded off on Wednesday night about President Donald Trump’s latest deal with Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced their agreement with Trump that would protect certain unauthorized immigrants as part of a broader border security plan. Shortly after, Breitbart News featured […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L) makes a point to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office prior to his departure from the White House September 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that after Donald Trump struck a deal with Democrats to increase the debt ceiling, the president called him […]
NBC Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday denied a report that he’s considering teaming up with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper for a bipartisan presidential ticket in 2020. In an interview on “Meet The Press,” the Republican governor denied an Axios report that said he and Hickenlooper, a Democrat, were considering a presidential bid with Kasich at […]
A group of senators introduced two bills today to modernize digital privacy. The current federal statutes derive from the Electronics Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), which was passed in 1986. One of their big motions extended phone wiretap laws to include communications between computers — but a lot has changed in the last 30 years, and […]
Associated Press/Mindaugas Kulbis Lawmakers are responding to news that Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain is expected to undergo treatment for a glioblastoma found during a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye. That treatment could include chemotherapy and radiation. It is unclear […]
AP The bipartisan National Governors Association urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday to allow them more time to review Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare and introduce deep cuts to Medicaid. Senate leadership is reportedly planning a vote on the measure as early as Thursday, after weeks of writing the bill in […]
President Donald Trump is proposing major cuts to several agencies, but none would be as hard hit as the Environmental Protection Agency. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill confronted EPA chief Scott Pruitt, assuring him the cuts would not fly. In a hearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday, EPA Administrator Pruitt defended the Trump administration’s […]
The majority of state attorneys general have joined together to investigate the growing opioid epidemic and what part drug manufacturers played in creating and prolonging the crisis. On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office has been working with the bipartisan coalition to evaluate “whether manufacturers used illegal practices in the marketing […]
The author is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. TV pundits are bemoaning the loss of “bipartisan compromise.” They think they’re being sophisticated and worldly, but they are simply telling everyone just how very old they are. Back in the 1950s, and even into the 1970s, all fights — civil rights, taxes, […]
Enlarge / Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). (credit: Getty Images | Joe Raedle) US Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is a guest opinion writer for Ars today. Thune argues that Congress should overhaul the net neutrality rules implemented by the Federal Communications Commission. This piece is a counterpoint to an Ars […]
