Democrats and Republicans work together to make changes to retirement savings, easier for businesses to offer plans
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are considering bipartisan bills aimed at making it easier for Americans to save for retirement. This story should be the headline in every retiree heavy state, like Florida More...
Prescription drug prices falling to 47 year low as generics rise, Amy Klobuchar wrong on talking points
The cost of prescription drugs are falling for the first time in 47 years. photo/ Andrea The government on Tuesday said prescription prices sank 1% in February, marking the biggest one-month decline ever. The cost More...
Democracy for America’s Karli Wallace Thompson attacks Senate moving Kavanaugh forward as ‘disgusting’ ‘end of Supreme Court’
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, moving him to a full Senate vote on an 11-10 party-line vote. Minutes later, Democracy for America’s Karli Wallace Thompson, More...
Dianne Feinstein creates a new firestorm: Ford’s attack on Kavanaugh not ‘truthful’ and says ‘I made the letter’
Democrats attacked the Senate Judiciary Committee’s plans to convene a hearing on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday, while the panel’s More...
Barbara Boxer says Christine Blasey Ford should ‘be believed,’ it was ‘attempted rape’ and she signs of PTSD
Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers, was “to More...
Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, comes forward and also blames Mark Judge
The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of forcing himself on her when they were in high school has come forward, just days ahead of the confirmation vote to put Kavanaugh on the high More...
Senate sets SCOTUS confirmation for Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced today that the hearing for SCOTUS nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will begin on September 4 and is expected to last for three or four days. Brett Kavanaugh Opening More...
Discovery Channel’s ‘Hot Grease’ documentary to explore renewable fuels, biodiesel and ethanol use
The millions of gallons of cooking oil that our country’s restaurants use to fry up chicken, fries, and donuts used to end up as waste in landfills and pollutants in our waterways. But today, thanks to a motley More...
Planned Parenthood’s Mary Gatter caught again on video discussing baby body part prices
Planned Parenthood senior executive Mary Gatter was caught on video negotiating pricing for lungs, brains and livers of aborted babies in a new video, a shocking incident after the years of backlash and response More...
Progressive group joins Oregon Sen Jeff Merkley in call for Democrats to filibuster Neil Gorsuch
President Trump announced his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday night, Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch. Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) quickly denounced the pick and supported Sen. Jeff Merkley’s More...
Democrats win big as Dianne Feinstein delays confirmation vote on Jeff Sessions
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted Tuesday to delay the confirmation of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as President Trump’s Attorney General until More...
Senate follows Orlando terrorist attack with vote on gun laws, limits on second amendment
The U.S. Senate will vote on four new gun proposals Monday after Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and injured many others. These are the amendments to a Justice Department More...
Ultraviolet actions targets Chuck Grassley, Rob Portman, Orrin Hatch, Pat Toomey on Judge Garland hearing
photo Kauhajoki.vaakuna.svg As President Obama takes his campaign to confirm Judge Garland to Chicago, UltraViolet Action, a national women’s advocacy organization is releasing a new TV ad campaign comparing More...
Sen Charles Grassley evokes ‘Joe Biden Rules’ to justify not confirming Supreme Court Justince
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuarles Grassley reaffirmed on the Senate floor on Monday the right wing stance to block any replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia until after the 2016 election More...
Obama administration retreats from AR-15 ammo ban
After strong public outcry, the Obama administration is backing down on a proposal to ban a bullet commonly used in AR-15 hunting rifles as the ATF is responding and President Obama has been silent on a possible More...
Senators question Gilead Sciences CEO about pricey Hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Friday requested detailed pricing information on a costly new Hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug. Wyden More...
Immigration bill continues to be ‘amended’ in the Senate, Ted Cruz calls for tougher border security
A bill to enact dramatic changes to the nation’s immigration system and put some 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship is facing its first congressional test. The immigration reform will continue More...
Janet Napolitano says Saudi ‘Person of Interest,’Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, was on terror watchlist
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano confessed Tuesday Saudi ‘Person of Interest,’Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, was on terror watchlist, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Immediately More...
Adam Lanza kept huge list of murderers, body counts, pointed to gaming as motivation and saw Sandy Hook kids as ‘easy points’
Three months after the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, shocking and horrifying new details have to come to light regarding Adam Lanza‘s motive for killing 26 people. According More...
Chuck Grassley Takes Swipe At Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy
On Friday’s Washington Journal on C-SPAN, long time Iowa Senator (R) Charles Grassley was the guest for about 45 minutes talking about the Iowa caucus this coming Tuesday. Image/US Senate Though Grassley said More...
