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Some bug news today: x NEW: @SenatorDurbin, the number 2 Senate dem, says he now supports an impeachment inquiry in the House, says, “I think now we need to move forward.†— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 24, 2019 Here’s some more info: “What I believe we should do is move to an official impeachment…
As you all know, the big issue for me in the 2020 Democratic Primary is which of the nominees support abolishing the filibuster if we are to get progressive legislation passed. I am very happy to see this issue gain momentum and kudos to John Oliver for shedding a light on this: x YouTube Video…
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL): Taking back the White House isn’t our only mission in 2020. We are in the fight of our lives to stop Mitch McConnell’s era of obstruction and reclaim a Democratic majority in the Senate. The only way we’ll do that is if…
I’ve made it clear in my past diaries that the next Democratic President and Democratic Controlled U.S. Senate must do away with the 60 vote filibuster rule. Today, former U.S. Senate Majority and Minority Leader, Harry Reid (D. NV), continues to make that case in an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times: The Senate…
I love this man: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this week that should Democrats take control of the upper chamber during the 2020 election, there’s one thing they could do to further efforts to tackle climate change: Kill the filibuster. “The No. 1 priority is climate change,” Reid told The Daily Beast’s…
Back in April, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D. NY) indicated that he is willing to do this in order to make the Senate work: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer won't commit to retaining the filibuster if Democrats win control of the chamber in 2020, the latest sign of trouble for the Senate's most…
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D. IL) in support of Betsy Dirksen Londrigan’s (D. IL-13) re-match against Rep. Rodney Davis (R. IL-13): Last year, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan ran an incredible race for the U.S. House, challenging a three-term Republican incumbent in Central Illinois and coming within 1% of winning this seat. Betsy started…
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: According to recent news reports, we can expect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election to wrap up at any time now. Former CIA Director John Brennan even suggested indictments could come down as soon as tomorrow….
Because Donald Trump loves the vets so, so much. The AP: The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told The Associated Press, “It’s coming…
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s (D. IL) re-election campaign: For too long, quality, affordable health care could only be accessed by the healthiest and wealthiest Americans. The Affordable Care Act helped level the playing field, but our work isn’t done until health care is seen as a human right and afforded to…
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL): Sen. Dick Durbin (D. IL) The Senate has a chance in the lame duck session to push through much-needed criminal justice reform. But we’ll need your help to do it. The First Step Act has deep bipartisan support in the House…
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL) in support of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D. NM) re-election campaign: Sen. Dick Durbin (D. IL) You probably remember Gary Johnson from his Libertarian presidential bid in 2016. Yesterday, he announced a late entrance into the New Mexico Senate race, threatening…
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac University poll showed only 27 percent of all respondents—but 55 percent of GOP backers—endorse the practice.) It began when former CIA and NSA chief Gen. Michael Hayden posted…
By now, most Americans know not to take former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at his word. The Fox News regular and failed GOP presidential candidate, after all, is on his third religion and his third wife. (Callista Bisek, currently Mrs. Gingrich No. 3 and U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, was previously known as Newt’s “frequent breakfast companion”…