Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley attacks President Trump, Kathy Kraninger for transferring $10 million from FEMA to ICE
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) revealed this week that President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transferred nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) budget to Immigration More...
AUMF hearing: Senators, Constitutional scholars discuss war powers
In what was perhaps the most important thing and consequential that happened in Washington this week that got so little coverage was the hearing on “War Powers and the Effects of Unauthorized Military Engagements More...
Trump Nominee For Director at the Council For Environmental Quality Accused of Plagiarizing Her Answers
Ten Democratic Senators are accusing President Trump’s nominee for Managing Director at the Council for Environmental Quality of copying and pasting her answers from other nominees. photo/ Pete Linforth via More...
USA RIGHTS Act introduced in the Senate to protect Americans’ security and liberties
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and a total of 11 senators today introduced the USA RIGHTS Act, which reforms a sweeping, secretive government spying program to protect the Constitutional rights of More...
Bernie Sanders announces the ‘Raise the Wage Act’ to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
On Wednesday, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour to a crowd of hundreds of low-wage More...
Ted Cruz warns Democrats that the ‘nuclear option’ is on the table, ‘Democrats are not going to succeed’
Democrats will be primed for a battle over President Trump nomination of Neil Gorsuch as the replacement to Justice Scalia. The left are calling this a “stolen seat” and Sen. Jeff Merkkey, D-Oregon, 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...
ADF praises Neil Gorsuch nomination, Mi Familia Vota says he’s hostile on women’s rights, bad on immigration reform
President Trump’s nomination of Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court was certain to create a divide between the left and the right, the progressives and the constitutionalists and that is More...
Scott Pruitt refuses to concede to Bernie Sanders on human impact to climate change during EPA confirmation
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt testified in front of the Senate Wednesday during his confirmation hearing to be the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt has long denied the overwhelming scientific More...
‘The Monsanto Protection Act’ moves ahead in Congress, protecting the biotech company from lawsuits
House Republicans shielded the Monsanto company from penalty as they included an extension of the so-called Monsanto Protection Act in the spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown, according to text More...
Sens. Paul, Merkley and Brown send letter to President Obama: ‘It is time to bring our troops home’ from Afghanistan
“Mr. President, our valiant men and women have fought bravely in Afghanistan for over a decade. But after twelve years of conflict, it is time to bring our troops home.” Rand Paul at CPAC 2013Image/Video More...
