Senators that voted against gun control

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell batted away a suggestion that the referendum in Kansas which backed protecting abortion rights would impact the November midterm elections . Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked McConnell about the impact of Tuesday's vote in which Kansas rejected a constitutional amendment letting state lawmakers tighten abortion restrictions The Kentucky senator was asked if he agreed that the first electoral test since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling enshrining federal rights to an abortion, was a "political earthquake with the potential to reshape the entire midterm campaign." In his answer, McConnell both defended the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center and called the judges who had made the ruling "unelected." "What the Supreme Court has done is said people who are elected by the American people are going to deal with this highly sensitive issue and it'll be playing out all year," … [Read more...] about Mitch McConnell plays down midterm impact of Kansas abortion vote

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, with Republican help, are poised to spend $3.5 trillion during decades-high inflation. “Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act will make Biden one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era,” Politico Playbook writers Ryan Lizza and Eugene Daniels wrote . Although congressional Democrats have only a four-member majority in the House and a one-member majority in the Senate, Biden has been able to pass a substantial legislative agenda. It is also notable that Biden has spent so much during the first half of his term in office. This includes: The $1.9 trillion American Recovery Act, Biden’s coronavirus relief bill The $550 billion so-called Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act The $280 billion Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act As Politico noted, these expenditures amount to roughly $3.5 trillion and address many leftist … [Read more...] about Democrats Poised to Spend $3.5 Trillion During Historic Inflation with Republican Help

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Leora Levy, a first-time political candidate who received a late endorsement from former President Donald Trump, won the Connecticut Republican primary for U.S. Senate in an upset Tuesday that could signal a shift for the state GOP after years of backing moderates. A socially conservative member of the Republican National Committee, Levy defeated the party-endorsed candidate, former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a social moderate, and fellow conservative Peter Lumaj. She appeared stunned by the victory when she appeared before a cheering crowd of supporters in her hometown of Greenwich. “We’re making history here. It’s really exciting,” she said. Levy thanked Trump for last week's endorsement, promising, “I will not let you down. Thank you for having my back.” Klarides, who supports … [Read more...] about Trump-backed Levy wins GOP Senate primary in Connecticut

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 20 The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin governor's race on Tuesday features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence. Democrats are picking a candidate to face two-term GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for control of the closely divided chamber. Meanwhile, voters in Vermont are choosing a replacement for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy as the chamber's longest-serving member retires. In Minnesota, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar faces a Democratic primary challenger who helped defeat a voter referendum to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety. What to watch in Tuesday's primary elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut: WISCONSIN Construction company co-owner Tim Michels has … [Read more...] about What to watch in Wis., 3 other states in Tuesday’s primaries

Republicans probably don’t like being thought of as the party of the callous , inhumane, “ kick the poor ” caucus. Which is weird, because they could have voted to ensure every American suffering from diabetes could procure their life-dependent doses of insulin at $35 a pop, and they chose not to. Thanks to 43 Republican senators voting “nay,” Democrats couldn’t overcome the 60-vote filibuster to cap the price of insulin at $35 for everyone. Mind you, this isn’t “free” or “socialized” health care—it’s insulin . Roughly 1 in 10 Americans have diabetes (37.3 million) and about 1 in 3 (96 million) have pre-diabetes, according to the CDC . In a country with both an obesity crisis and a health-care system where even people with “good insurance” can go bankrupt because of a health crisis, you’d think the GOP would be looking for ways to puff up its supposed “economic populist” credentials, rather than voting against a modest price control that would help keep tens of millions of … [Read more...] about Republicans to People With Diabetes: Drop Dead

Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka slammed establishment Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for being two-faced ahead of the Tuesday Republican primary in Alaska. Speaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Tshibaka said Murkowski’s 21 year career has been marred by lying to voters about her Senate voting record. “She doesn’t tell us the truth. She says one thing here in Alaska and then does the exact opposite in D.C.,” Tshibaka said. “She’ll talk about writing the infrastructure bill with Bernie Sanders, but she won’t tell us that the radical extremists in the Biden administration are piling up all these new regulations on us [in the bill]. It drives up the rate of inflation so high that we won’t see additional funding, they’ve got all these regulations and permits we’ve got a jump through that we’re gonna see barely any infrastructure.” Tshibaka continued to point to Murkowski’s politics of flip-flop. “It’s all about the Green New Deal. She ran ads just a couple of … [Read more...] about Tshibaka Slams Murkowski Before Primary: ‘She Doesn’t Tell Us the Truth’

CHEESE SANDWICHES AND $1 BAGS OF RICE… UNDER INFLATION CRUSH, AMERICANS ARE SCRAMBLING TO GET BY… WAPO: Most Americans expect inflation to get worse, Post-Schar School poll finds … SURVEY RESULTS… Families are feeling the pinch. Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say they’ve started bargain-hunting for cheaper products, and about three-quarters are cutting back on restaurants and entertainment, or putting off planned purchases, according to the Post-Schar poll conducted in late April and early May. […] [T]wo-thirds of Americans (66 percent) expect inflation to get worse in the coming year, while 21 percent expect it to get better and 12 percent think it will stay the same, the poll finds. […] [Bethany] Davis, 20, has stopped eating meat, is cutting back on showers and laundry, and has been rationing trips to the store to save on gas. She and her boyfriend are down to one, maybe two, meals a day that often consist of white bread, Velveeta cheese and $1 bags of rice, she said. After … [Read more...] about Editor Daily Rundown: Under Inflation Crush, Americans Are Scrambling To Get By

Former Senator Tim Wirth and I wrote a column recently on how a Republican landslide in the House of Representatives races this fall will create a very clear path for Donald Trump to be re-elected president of the United States. Not that I think Donald Trump would win the popular vote, or even achieve an Electoral College victory, but instead, if the majority of the House ends up being Big Lie adherents, a Kevin McCarthy-led House would maneuver through our electoral process loopholes to deliver the presidency to Trump. While it is heartening to see that a bipartisan group of senators have come forward with a package of amendments to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that would close some of these loopholes, these reforms will not cut off the high probability that cheerleaders for the Big Lie in both houses will still be able to prevail. The major proposed reform would require 20 percent of the House and the Senate to object to certification of any state's Electoral College … [Read more...] about The worst Supreme Court decision is yet to come | Opinion

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As Wisconsin's longest-serving Assembly speaker, Republican Robin Vos has presided over efforts to restrict abortions, weaken unions, expand gun rights and push back against COVID-19 mandates. Despite that, he's facing a primary challenger who claims he's not conservative enough. The challenger's argument: Vos should do more to respond to former President Donald Trump's unfounded allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Primary challengers like the one facing Vos next Tuesday have been successfully targeting incumbent state lawmakers across the country, and Republicans are taking the brunt of it. With more than half the state legislative primaries concluded, Republican incumbents this year have been losing at nearly twice the average rate of the past decade, according to data compiled for The Associated Press by the election tracking organization … [Read more...] about Trump-aligned challengers ousting GOP legislative incumbents

AMERICA BRACES FOR SEVERE GAS PAINS… CBS NEWS: U.S. gas prices could soon top $5 a gallon, analysts say Motorists hoping for some relief at the pump should think again. Gas prices nationally could reach $5 a gallon on average by as early as June 17, according to Patrick De Haan, an analyst for GasBuddy, which tracks fuel costs across the nation. That’s up from the current national average of $4.62 a gallon, already a record high, according to AAA. Americans are paying record-high prices for gasoline as the summer travel season arrives — an issue that’s weighing on consumers as they make their vacation plans more than rising COVID-19 rates, according to a new survey from Morning Consult. At a handful of stations in California, fuel now tops the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. INFLATION TEAM MEETING… Biden Hosts Meeting With Federal Reserve Chair Amid Soaring Inflation President Joe Biden met Tuesday with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the White … [Read more...] about Editor Daily Rundown: America Braces For Severe Gas Pains