On Tuesday, North Korea said it planned to scrap the armistice that stopped the Korean War in 1953 and warned it could carry out strikes against the United States and South Korea.
Coburn offered the transportation secretary a list of reforms that could make up for the $600 million cut without major safety disruptions.
The bold and direct approach of Senator Cruz has already ruffled a few feathers among Senate colleagues. But many of us out in the hinterlands are appreciative of the energy and forthrightness the junior Senator from Texas brings to Washington.
It remains to be seen if the cuts that are about to take effect are as palpably felt—or objected to—as the administration has said they will be.
The Illinois Republican called on State Department Officials to rescind an award for Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim, who has numerous times made anti-American and anti-Semitic comments on Twitter.
A federal jury decided Thursday that Homer police were not responsible for the gunshot that left a Duluth, MN woman’s young son brain damaged.
Huffington Post called Liberty a “notoriously conservative private college with an anti-gay reputation.” And more than 10,000 people have signed a petition launched by Faithful America calling on the quarterback to cancel his speech.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed John Brennan as the Obama administration’s next Central Intelligence Agency director, overcoming concerns expressed by Republicans and some Democrats about the administration’s use of lethal drone strikes.
McCain said the filibuster would give fire to critics of the Senate rules and warned his colleagues that it set a bad precedent.
Paul’s performance signaled a groundshift in the power base of the Republican Party. While establishment figures like Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) were dining with President Obama, Paul was drawing the nation’s attention from the floor of the Senate with his invocation of the most basic of all Senate rights: the right to be heard, in the fashion of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.