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The Senate on Thursday is expected to consider a bill to provide assistance to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan after Republicans in the chamber rejected a bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill. The scheduled Thursday afternoon vote is procedural, on whether to move to the question of taking up the foreign aid package, and would […]
21-year-old’s bid for GOP office, seeks to be the youngest Black legislator in the US Fox News Source link
The first Black Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate was a preacher by the name of Hiram Revels. He was born free, to free parents, in 1827. Mississippi state legislators sent Revels to Washington in 1870 to fill one of two vacancies. When the state seceded in 1861, both its senators went with it. […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson led a delegation of House Republicans on a Wednesday trip to the U.S.-Mexico border to demand hard-line immigration proposals in exchange for passage of President Joe Biden’s emergency global security supplemental request. “If President Biden wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national security, it better begin by […]
Georgia lawmakers OK U.S. House map that adds Black districts but keeps GOP advantage | Georgia Public Broadcasting Skip to main content Source link
WASHINGTON — After a marathon day and late-night vote to avert a Thanksgiving government shutdown, four U.S. Senate Republicans held the floor until the wee hours Thursday, urging their Alabama colleague to lift his months-long objections to hundreds of U.S. military nominations. Sens. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Todd Young of Indiana, Joni Ernst of Iowa […]
KFAR AZZA, Israel (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie on Sunday visited Israel, expressing solidarity in Israel’s war against Hamas and saying the U.S. must stand “shoulder to shoulder” with its close ally. Christie toured a kibbutz that was ravaged in the Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas militants that triggered the war and was […]
Republican operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl urged the Michigan Supreme Court to toss felony voter intimidation charges against them Thursday, claiming the US Constitution gives them the right to issue a misleading robocall seeking to deter Black Detroiters from voting in the 2020 presidential election. During the Covid-19 pandemic, in a city that was […]
U.S. House Republicans are continuing to use government spending bills to engage in culture war battles, with legislation debated during the past week that would ban pride flags on some federal buildings, strip funding from a new museum for Latino history and target certain LGBTQ and racial equity policies and programs. The hot-button provisions in […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Only a week into the job, the North Dakota Republican Party’s executive director has resigned after a media outlet publicized some of his social media posts that were demeaning toward women and dismissed concerns raised by Black people about racism. The party announced the resignation Monday of Dave Roetman, who previously […]