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HuffPost
4 months ago
US news

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Squirms When CNN's Kaitlan Collins Asks Him To Back Up Claim

CNN's Kaitlan Collins challenged Sen. Ron Johnson to provide evidence for his claim about Democrats in a recent episode of 'The Source'
Johnson claimed Democrats have also declared themselves electors in several states but was unable to provide specific examples [ more ]
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POLITICO
10 months ago
US Elections

Republicans fail to get top recruit for Wisconsin Senate

Gallagher had met with the National Republican Senatorial Committee and its chair, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), who was particularly eager to land him and saw him as the strongest prospective challenger.The committee released polling it commissioned in late May showing Gallagher just 1 percentage point behind Baldwin in a survey of likely voters.
POLITICO
10 months ago
US Elections

Senate braces for conservative debt deal drama of its own

Stabenow, like many senators, foresees some Senate magic as the weekend gets closer and senators want to go home.But it could be a bumpy ride: Due to the quirks of the upper chamber, individual senators can drag out a bill for roughly a week, as all 100 members must agree in order to fast-track legislation.
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

WATCH: CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale Says Biden Did NOT Lie' About Plan Republicans Screamed LIAR!' About

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said President Joe Biden is not lying about the plan that Florida Sen. Rick Scott and other Republicans keep insisting he's lying about including the ones who shouted LIAR! at the State of the Union speech.On Friday morning's edition of CNN Newsroom, co-anchors Erica Hill and Jim Sciutto hosted Dale to fact-check Scott, who authored the proposal at the heart of the explosive moment Republicans heckled Biden at the State of the Union, and others who claim the president lied when he said some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Drone video captures part of encounter in which Riverside County deputy was fatally shot

Drone video of a deadly standoff that took the life of a Riverside County sheriff's deputy on Friday appears to capture the suspect being shot by another deputy before the wounded officer is rushed into the back of a sheriff's SUV.The video was posted to YouTube late Friday by an account created the same day.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Outside Spending on Federal 2022 Midterm Elections Tops $1 Billion

Outside spending on 2022 federal midterm elections topped $1 billion, surpassing the nearly $701.8 million spent by outside groups through Oct. 4 during the 2018 midterms.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Ron Johnson Thinks Solution to "Labor Shortage" Is to Get Retirees Working Again

During a town hall meeting last week, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told listeners that coaxing retired Americans back to work with tax incentives could be an "innovative" way to deal with so-called "labor shortages."
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www.chicagotribune.com
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Insurrection? Let Tucker explain what you think you saw.

Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes.That old, popular quote has been attributed in one version or another to a variety of funny men, according to the Quote Investigator website.I'll settle for the video clip on YouTube in which Chico Marx utters the line in the classic 1933 Marx Brothers comedy, Duck Soup.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson under heat for fake elector revelation during Jan. 6 hearings

MADISON, Wis. - An aide for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told former Vice President Mike Pence's staff that the Republican from Wisconsin wanted to hand-deliver to Pence fake elector votes from his state and neighboring Michigan, text messages revealed at Tuesday's meeting of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection showed.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

House GOP grits its teeth for the 'big lift': A budget battle

At the same time, party leadership will have to ensure steep domestic cuts won't hurt moderates back home, bruising members in vulnerable districts and threatening an already slim House majority.And in the center of what seems like a near-impossible effort - to draft a budget plan with broad GOP support - sits newly installed House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas).
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Audience Booed and Laughed at Ron Johnson in Final Debate With Dem Challenger

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson repeatedly faced laughter and boos from the audience gathered at Marquette University on Thursday for the final debate between the two-term GOP incumbent and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin's key U.S. Senate race.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

Republicans introduced a bill to ban students who identify as animals from public schools

One of the more bizarre rumors to come out of the fever swamp of online anti-transgender misinformation has been the myth that schools across the U.S. have had to install litterboxes to accommodate students who identify as cats.Now, North Dakota Republicans have gone so far as to include language banning students who identify as animals from public schools in their latest anti-trans bill.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

GOP Senate candidate says schools now have litter boxes & let kids "lick each other"

A New Hampshire Republican is refusing to back down from a claim that schools are installing litter boxes for students who identify as animals to use."They're putting litter boxes," Don Bolduc, who is running for the U.S. Senate, said at a campaign event last week."These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

GOP Senator Ron Johnson says he's "well aware" of kids using litter boxes in schools

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the latest Republican politician to insist that kids are using litter boxes in schools as part of a rant attacking transgender youth.During a recent tele-town hall event, Johnson was questioned by a caller who claimed that his niece told him that her school had provided litter boxes for students who believe they are cats.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

BREAKING: James Comer Jumps Right on Hunter Biden's Dick Pics - emptywheel

As expected, James Comer has wasted no time after getting the House Oversight gavel before launching an investigation into Hunter Biden.ABC reports that, in addition to demanding SARs relating to Hunter Biden (at least some of which Ron Johnson already got), Comer has scheduled testimony for three former Twitter executives - Jim Baker, Yoel Roth, and Vijaya Gadde.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Ron Johnson Suggests GOP Could Impose Nationwide Abortion Ban in the Future

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has said that Republicans may consider a nationwide ban on abortion if the party wins control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Senate clears $1.7T government funding bill

Congress now appears to be on a glide path to pass the spending package, which gives the Pentagon a 10 percent budget boost, includes about $45 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine and provides nearly $40 billion for disaster aid.The legislation is the final item on lawmakers' to-do list before they leave for the year, with many eager to get out of town as a winter storm threatens to lock down half the country.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Congress paralyzed by unresolved midterm races

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has spoken to Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)- whose reelection battles are still uncertain - and is telling colleagues he feels good about the party's trajectory, according to a person who has spoken to him.After winning another term of his own this week, Schumer spent the ensuing two days dialing up senators and advisers for updates on whether he'll have Senate control next year.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Retirement

How Big Were Previous Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments?

The first automatic annual adjustment to Social Security benefits was paid in 1975, the result of legislation passed by Congress in 1972.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Back Legislation to Protect Marriage Equality

The vast majority of Americans back the passage of a federal bill that would codify marriage rights for same-sex couples, according to new polling.
amNewYork
1 year ago
US politics

Senate to vote on same-sex marriage in coming weeks | amNewYork

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Wednesday that the Senate will vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage "in the coming weeks" as a bipartisan group backing the bill negotiates changes to gain more Republican support.
kvue.com
1 year ago
US politics

Senate to vote on same-sex marriage in coming weeks

A bipartisan group of senators is working to round up the ten GOP votes needed to overcome a filibuster and get the legislation through the 50-50 Senate.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

The GOP's litterbox candidates lose at the ballot box

At least three major Republican candidates who accused schools of accommodating students pretending to be animals - often by saying schools were installing litter boxes in the restrooms - have lost their elections.The urban legend was repeated by conservatives across the country, including local activists, nationally recognized pundits, and elected officials.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

Schools all over are being forced to deal with parents angry about furries & litter boxes

Joe Rogan just admitted that his claim last month that he knew of a student who forced a school to install a litter box so that she could defecate in it was false.The urban myth is still spreading like wildfire, and more and more schools are being forced to deny that they're letting kids use litter boxes.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Multi-Millionaire GOP Senator Ron Johnson Used Taxpayer Money for Vacation Travel Expenses

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has been using taxpayer dollars to pay for trips from his Florida vacation home to Washington D.C., spending thousands of dollars this year alone, a new report has revealed.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Coronavirus

GOP senator says it "may be true" that the COVID-19 vaccine gives you AIDS

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told an anti-vaccine activist in an interview that it "may be true" that the COVID-19 vaccines are giving people AIDS.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Uncalled races: Senate control hangs in balance as Arizona, Nevada counts continue

Democrat John Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning, giving his party 48 seats.That means Democrats can keep the Senate by winning two out of four remaining battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.Arizona and Nevada are the biggest question marks, with significant numbers of votes still to be counted in both states.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Ron Johnson Suggests That Federal Minimum Wage Should Be Eliminated

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has suggested that he believes the federal minimum wage should be eliminated, and that the "marketplace" should be in charge of setting wages instead - a move that would send U.S. wage policy back to pre-World War II, when the federal minimum wage was first created.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Wisconsin doctors say they will halt abortions after Supreme Court ruling

MADISON, Wis. - Doctors across Wisconsin said they would immediately stop providing abortions, even as questions remained about the enforceability of a 173-year-old state ban, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down its Roe v. Wade decision on Friday.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
US politics

Wisconsin heads to polls in new Trump Republican primary drama on Tuesday - Connecticut, Vermont and Minnesota vote too

Wisconsin Republican voters will pick a candidate to challenge Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday in the latest contest in the nationwide MAGA vs. mainstream GOP primary battle while Connecticut, Vermont and Minnesota also go to the polls.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Stephen Colbert Taunts Ron Johnson for Faking It

Colbert said that the Wisconsin senator tried to avoid talking to reporters after Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing, "but like most things, he's not very good at that."
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