Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
Senate planning vote on Internet sales tax bill The days of tax-free online shopping could finally be numbered. The Senate is planning to vote on a bill as soon as Monday that would give states the authority to collect sales taxes on all Internet purchases, handing local governments as much as $11 billion per year in added revenue that they are legally owed — but that hasn’t been paid to them for years. More
The World’s Largest Financial Institution Is Way Too Big To Fail While the U.S. government had virtually no lending role prior to the Great Depression of the 1930s, today it is ubiquitous as a lender across the financial marketplace. 09/16/2024 - 1:18 am | View Link
Congress Gets a Nudge on 'Too Big to Fail' Life Insurers The U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. all helped provide the companies with “exclusive ad hoc financial assistance backed by taxpayers to prevent their failure ... 09/11/2024 - 5:51 am | View Link
Harris and Trump squared off Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump squared off in their first debate on Tuesday night, trading jabs and promises before millions of Americans watching as the 2024 ... 09/11/2024 - 4:04 am | View Link
Protesters storm Mexico’s Senate after ruling party wins votes for court overhaul Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday as lawmakers weighed a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the body to take a temporary recess for the ... 09/10/2024 - 9:26 pm | View Link
The Federal Reserve Is Caving to the Big Banks—Again A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout. 09/10/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
The Teamsters union has decided not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election—reflecting a growing political rift within one of the country’s most powerful labor organizations and delivering Trump a political victory.
The union announced its decision on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after releasing the results of a poll conducted of members after both parties’ conventions.
Drug overdose deaths have been on the rise for years, devastating communities nationwide. But as National Public Radio reported on Wednesday, that trend may be changing—so much so, said one expert who spoke to NPR, Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta of the University of North Carolina, that he anticipates as many as 20,000 fewer annual overdose deaths in coming years.
Another open letter from Republicans endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential bid just dropped.
This one, first reported by the New York Times, is signed by 111 former national security and foreign policy officials who worked under former presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush—and, yes, Trump himself.
At the center of the two biggest controversies of JD Vance’s short political career have been cats. The first came from his attacks against the “childless cat ladies” on the left. More recently, the Republican vice presidential candidate has been spreading lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets.
One possible conclusion to draw from these missives is that he is an angry man who spends too much time on the internet.