LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe The House is expected to pass a sweeping sanctions bill Tuesday, potentially disrupting President Donald Trump’s plan to establish a new era of cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The bipartisan bill, which also levies new sanctions against North Korea and Iran, targets Russian officials in order to punish President…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Democratic representatives are launching a new diversity initiative out of concern that they don’t have enough minorities staffers in their offices, according to a Wednesday announcement. The project, called the House Democratic Diversity Initiative, plans to appoint a staffer to recruit more minorities, creating more job opportunities for ethnic…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield There is no chance the House GOP’s plan to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act will leave the Senate the way it comes in, Sen. Bob Corker said Thursday, said the Washington Examiner. The ominous statement was made on MSNBC just mere hours before the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The plays to emotion know no bounds and the number one human motivator is fear. No wonder they often find their way into today’s political grandstanding. On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) gave an impassioned speech on MSNBC decrying a “cruel” and “craven” Republican health care bill….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Members of the House banking panel revealed a 600-page proposal Wednesday evening to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act. The bill is the most aggressive plan so far by Republican leadership in Congress to loosen financial regulations after the financial crisis of 2007. President Donald Trump has taken…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Republicans in the House made the first step in approving the American Health Care Act Friday, as it passed the first rules vote that allows the bill to move to a full vote later this afternoon. Votes remained along party lines: 236 Republicans voted in favor, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Police arrested a Schenectady, N.Y., man for spray painting his house with swastikas and lying to police about it Monday. Andrew King, 54, now faces charges for falsely reporting a crime to the police, reports NewYorkUpstate.com. King claimed last month that vandals came to his house and graffitied it…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Luke Rosiak Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computer networks without permission. Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Trump administration accepted a large swath of senior State Department officials resignations Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Thursday. Toner’s statement came in response to a Washington Post story which posited that senior State Department officials resigned en-masse. The story was followed hours later by a CNN report that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck As if the Hill Republicans and the Trump team weren’t split enough already due to Trump’s less-than-favorable descriptions of the GOP establishment during his presidential run, speaker of the House Paul Ryan has now made it very clear that Trump’s more radical ideas will not be…