Micheál Martin stated, "none of us are perfect" and emphasized that "there is always space for all of us to do better" during a party meeting.
Under the pretext of targeting foreigners abroad, Section 702 has become a vehicle for unconstitutional, warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' private communications. The FBI conducts up to 3.4 million illegal backdoor queries in a single year.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune that he needs to look into allegations against one of his Senators, adding that the allegations are very disturbing.
Martha, I think most people are economic voters. I think they're pocketbook issue voters, which is why we need to be speaking to them. And the one thing that we've made very plain is because of the things we did last summer, they're going to have more money in their pockets.
Dare, or the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, was created in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County school district. From the start, the program was a success. Its stated goal was "to equip elementary-school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs and alcohol." The initiative was embraced by police departments and politicians, and within just a few years the Dare curriculum had spread to more than three-quarters of the country's school districts.
In perhaps a vain attempt to prove themselves moderate, the Democratic lawmakers helped override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes. Voters responded with the kind of ballot-box fury that should serve as a lesson to other incumbents. It wasn't just a case that the incumbents lost. They were buried, with several of them getting trounced by margins of 40 points or more.