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Justice Department Targets Alaska Senate Election

The Trump administration says the state should not certify the election if the incumbent loses too narrowly.

Reason · Oct 26

'You Just Don't Get Any Worse': Donald Trump Brutally Attacks Lisa Murkowski in a Midnight Post

Donald Trump attacks Lisa Murkowski over the Alaska Senate election lawsuit as a Justice Department ballot challenge raises questions over certification.

International Business Times UK · Oct 26

Bipartisan chorus to Trump: Undo Russian diesel deal

A dozen senators from both parties bluntly told President Donald Trump in a letter Tuesday to reverse a deal he announced last week to allow U.S. purchases of Russian diesel fuel. The proposed waiver of U.S. energy sanctions on Russia would permit the purchase of several hundred thousand tons of the…

Roll Call · Oct 13

Lame-duck effort brewing to protect NIH grantmaking

​Senate appropriators from both parties are workshopping language that could be added to a spending bill to prevent the White House from exerting political influence on medical research grants. The provision would go into the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11. The senators, led by Appropriations Chair…

Roll Call · Oct 1

US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval

Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates

The Guardian - US · Sep 29

Appropriators seek ways to curb Trump’s spending cancellations

Senate appropriators began plotting ways to defend their power of the purse Monday after President Donald Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in appropriated funding without the approval of Congress. The so-called pocket rescission to claw back funding, announced Friday night, drew immediate condemnation from appropriators of both parties,…

Roll Call · Sep 29

Appropriators push to protect Kennedy Center from demolition

The Senate could vote on legislation next week aimed at blocking demolition of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts without congressional approval. A draft bill has bipartisan backing from the top appropriators who oversee Kennedy Center funding: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chair of the Interior-Environment Subcommittee, and…

Roll Call · Sep 24

FDA nominee evasive on abortion pill but firm on vaccine safety

Republicans and Democrats alike on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee tried repeatedly with little success to elicit opinions from the White House’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, Heidi Overton, on health policy or a pledge to assert the agency’s independence. Throughout the hearing Thursday, Overton told senators…

Roll Call · Sep 24

Former Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl dies at 84

Former Sen. Jon Kyl, once a key player in Arizona politics and a powerful voice in Republican leadership, has died at the age of 84. His family announced his death on Thursday of complications from an unspecified neurological disease, sharing a statement with Arizona’s KTAR News. Kyl had previously announced…

Roll Call · Sep 17

US Army Corps of Engineers chartered plane crashes near Alaska radar site, killing all 8 aboard

A small plane chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has crashed in western Alaska, killing all eight people aboard

The Independent UK · Aug 21