Here is NBC News: The Senate on Thursday night passed the most sweeping gun bill designed to prevent gun violence in decades, a major victory for advocates and a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association. The vote was 65 to 33, with all...
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George W. Bush donates to the Liz Cheney and Lisa Murkowski campaigns
Representative Cheney (R-Wyo) and Sen. Murkowski (R-Alaska) are facing challenges in their 2022 primaries from Trump-supported candidates. Those primaries will take place on August 16, 2022. Here is Brittany Gibson at Politico: Bush donated a maximum individual contribution of $5,800...
Only six Republican senators voted for a commission to study the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812
It looks like American historians will need to do the work. John Hope Franklin once called historians “the conscience of the nation.” A Senate vote on a bill to create an independent commission to study the January 6, 2021 insurrection...
Trump says he will go to Alaska to campaign against senator Lisa Murkowski
The former president is bringing his toxic and poisonous brand of politics to Alaska. Here is Alex Isenstadt at Politico: Former President Donald Trump is making official his plans to target Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, vowing to travel to Alaska...
The seven GOP Senators who voted to convict Trump were unafraid of political retribution
Here is Catie Edmundson at The New York Times: …the senators were united by a common thread: Each of them, for their own reasons, was unafraid of political retribution from Mr. Trump or his supporters. “Two are retiring, and three...
Trump is acquitted by a vote of 57-43 in the United States Senate
Fifty-seven U.S. Senators voted to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. But it was not enough. Sixty-seven voters were needed to convict. Here are the GOP members who broke with their party and voted to convict Donald Trump in...