Senate passes massive $854 billion spending bill with no funding for Trump’s ‘wall’
There will be no government shutdown, or even talk of one headed into the midterm elections. The Senate, by a 93-7 vote, passed an $854 billion spending bill, the bulk of the funding going to the departments of More...
Election 2016: Donald Trump wins, GOP keeps House, wins the Senate
The Republicans will control the White House and both chambers of Congress in January as Donald Trump successfully pulled out a big victory over Hillary Clinton. Moreover, the GOP lost some seats in the House of 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...
Sarah Murnaghan, dying 10-year-old, denied lung transplant by HHS head Kathleen Sebelius, called ‘death panel’ by critics
First Sarah Palin, then Rush Limbaugh and now back again to the “death panel” allegations as Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, told Congress Tuesday that she More...
Senate votes to overcome a GOP filibuster, gun legislation debate to commence
A gun control bill that no one has read as of today will come to the Senate floor after a vote of 68-31, allowing Senate Democrats, with the 16 Republicans who voted with them, to get and exceed the 60 votes More...
