Author: Sean Sullivan
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Kavanaugh accuser to tell her side to Senate
WASHINGTON – Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, said Saturday that she has accepted the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request to testify about her allegation next week. In an email sent to the committee at 2:17 p.m. Saturday, attorneys…
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Sen. John McCain, GOP presidential candidate and war hero, has died
John Sidney McCain III, the maverick Republican who twice sought the presidency and served in the Senate for more than three decades after surviving brutal captivity during the Vietnam War, died Saturday after battling brain cancer. He was 81. “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on August 25, 2018. With the Senator when…
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Democrats favor looser restrictions on marijuana – and some in GOP join them
Democrats are increasingly embracing looser restrictions on marijuana – and a growing number of high-profile Republicans are joining them, marking a shift in the politics of cannabis. As Democrats try to regain control of Congress in the November elections and make gains in state races, some party strategists are wagering that being firmly on the…
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Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chairman amid sexual misconduct allegations
Casino mogul Steve Wynn stepped down as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee on Saturday, amid allegations of sexual misconduct. “Today I accepted Steve Wynn’s resignation as Republican National Committee Finance Chair,” RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement. Wynn’s resignation comes in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report that…
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Schumer has rescinded offer to Trump on border wall funding
WASHINGTON – The Senate’s top Democrat has withdrawn an offer that would allow President Donald Trump to fulfill a signature campaign pledge: Construction of a wall along the U.S-Mexico border. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took back his offer late Sunday through an aide, according to a person familiar with the situation, who was…
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Trump suggests Republicans will let ACA market collapse, then rewrite health law
As divisions between the two main ideological camps within the GOP widened Tuesday, Republicans were scrambling to contain the political fallout from the collapse of a months-long effort to rewrite former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment. President Trump predicted Tuesday that Republicans would wait for the federal insurance market to collapse and then work…
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Facing GOP opposition, Senate leaders postpone vote to overhaul Obamacare
Senate Republican leaders bowed to pressure from within their own ranks Tuesday and postponed a vote to overhaul the Affordable Care Act until after the July 4 recess, raising doubts about their ability to fulfill one of their party’s core political promises. The delay, which now exposes lawmakers to a barrage of lobbying as they…
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Furor over Comey firing grows with news that he sought resources for Russia investigation before his dismissal
The furor over President Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James B. Comey grew Wednesday with the revelation that Comey had sought more resources for an investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government shortly before he was dismissed. Republicans and Democrats alike expressed dismay Wednesday over Comey’s firing the day…
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GOP health-care push faces new obstacles as concerns about preexisting conditions grow
Republican efforts to overhaul the nation’s health-care system collided Tuesday with fierce resistance about how it would affect people with preexisting medical conditions, casting the proposal’s future into deeper uncertainty as GOP leaders scrambled to try to salvage it. On Capitol Hill, influential Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) came out against the plan, dealing a major…
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Amid deep partisan rancor, a sharply divided Senate barrels toward Sessions vote
WASHINGTON – A sharply divided U.S. Senate barreled toward a final vote on President Trump’s nominee for attorney general Wednesday, capping an ugly partisan fight and revealing how deep the discord has grown between Republicans and Democrats at the dawn of Trump’s presidency. Following an unusually tense conflict on the Senate floor Tuesday night, the…