On Tuesday, a St. Louis lawyer who gained notoriety after waving a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters last summer announced Tuesday he would be running for a Senate seat in 2022. Mark McCloskey announced his Senate bid on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, according to CBS News. “God came knocking on my door last summer …
Read More »Senate Passes Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bills With Wide Bipartisan Majority
On Thursday, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill condemning discrimination against the Asian community. It also created a new position at the Justice Department to expedite potential COVID-19 related hate crimes. According to CNN, the vote tallied in 94-1, with the lone vote in opposition from Missouri Republican Senator Josh …
Read More »Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson Vetoed Bill That Bans Gender Reassignment Surgeries And Other Treatments For Transgender Youth
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed House Bill 1570. The bill banned transgender youth from receiving gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments. “I must veto House Bill 1570,” Hutchinson said. “I have signed the veto…today, and I have notified the sponsors as well as the leadership of the House and Senate …
Read More »Joe Biden Urges Congress To Pass Stonger Gun Control Laws
Joe Biden wants tighter gun laws following the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. According to NBC News, Biden called on Congress this Thursday to tighten gun control laws after a mass shooter killed 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado grocery store. This incident occurred less than a week after a …
Read More »FBI Accused Of Conducting “Fake” Brett Kavanaugh Background Check
The FBI is under fire for possibly producing a “fake” 2018 background check of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh. Sheldon Whitehouse, a former prosecutor, turned Democratic senator who now serves on the judiciary committee, is asking attorney general Merrick Garland to coordinate “proper oversight” by the Senate to examine how …
Read More »House Set To Pass $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill; Joe Biden Expected To Sign This Week
The House of Representatives is set to pass the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Joe Biden is expected to sign it this week. We have to wait on the Senate, who will decide on the bill’s approval this Saturday. Right now, the bill is on track to be passed by …
Read More »Vice President Kamala Harris Casts First Tie-Breaker Vote In The Senate
Vice President Kamala Harris cast the first tie-breaking vote of her Vice Presidency in the Senate on Friday morning. Harris cast a vote on a budget resolution that is a vital step towards passing President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan. The plan has not garnered any support from …
Read More »Georgia Senate GOP Introduce Bills To Suppress The Vote After Georgia Turned Blue
Republican state senators in Georgia are introducing a bill that would limit mail voting because they lost the 2020 presidential election and two U.S. Senate runoffs. Georgia GOP state Senators want to legally decide who gets to vote and how they vote in new proposed bills. Democrats are calling the …
Read More »Senate Voted 50-49 To Move Forward On Coronavirus Relief Bill, With Zero Support From Republicans
On Tuesday, the Senate voted to move forward with debate on the 2021 budget reconciliation, which moves along the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package currently on the table. Not a single Republican voted in favor of the resolution. According to The Hill, the Senate voted 50-49 to proceed to a budget resolution …
Read More »These Republicans Senators Objected To Certifying The Election Results
Despite the volatile mob of rogue Trump supporters that invaded the nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, several Republicans have still voted against certifying the presidential election. Early Thursday, Congress certified the election of Joe Biden, which put an end to Trump’s long battle to prove that election fraud led to Biden’s …
Read More »Congress Passes $2.3 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
Congress has passed a $2.3 trillion package that will provide COVID-19 relief to those struggling during the pandemic and a large amount of funding to the government. The package, which the Senate voted 92-6 on, includes $1.4 trillion in government funding and $900 billion in coronavirus relief. This is the …
Read More »Ivanka Trump Reportedly Looking To Run For Senate In Florida
There is a rumor floating around the internet – apparently, Ivanka Trump wants to run for the US Senate in Florida in 2022. Trump worked as an advisor for her father, President Donald Trump. If Trump decides to run, she would be challenging Marco Rubio for his seat. “Ivanka definitely has …
Read More »Georgia’s Runoff Senate Elections Could Determine The Balance Of the Senate
There is still no winner of the two Senate races in Georgia, which means that both races could advance to a runoff election on January 5. With neither party having a clear majority, this could leave the Senate in limbo when it reconvenes early next year. Thanks to a special …
Read More »Senator Lindsey Graham Breaks The Law By Illegally Soliciting Donations At A Federal Building
Another Trump supporter is in hot water after allegedly illegally obtaining donations for his campaign. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is working overtime to obtain re-election, has been accused of illegitimately soliciting donations to his campaign when he asked his supporters for donations following Tuesday’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee …
Read More »Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey Will Step Down From Politics Putting Republicans At A Disadvantage In The Swing State
Republican Senator Pat Toomey will be stepping down from politics and has decided not to run for reelection or governor in 2022. Toomey, a two-term fiscal conservative, announced on Monday that he made the directions to leave his position as Senator over the past few days, saying that he will …
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