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Marjorie Taylor Greene has retweeted demands that she be reinstated to her committee seats She denounced Thursday some of the most outlandish QAnon conspiracies she previously touted as Democrats will move forward with holding a vote on removing her from her committee positions School shootings are absolutely real, and every child that is lost, those families mourn it, Greene said She also said in her remarks : I also want to tell you 9/11 absolutely happened, she continued. I remember that day...

9/11 ABSOLUTELY happened and school shootings are real: Marjorie Taylor Greene says shes walked away from her QAnon beliefs in speech to Congress before Dems vote her off committees Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced Thursday some of the most outlandish QAnon conspiracies she previously touted as Democrats will move forward with holding a vote on removing her from her committee positions School shootings are absolutely real, and every child that is lost, those families mourn it, Greene said She a...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was accused Tuesday of exercising "the last vestiges of power" by obstructing—again—Senate confirmation of Merrick Garland. President Joe Biden last month tapped Garland—whose 2016 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was blocked by the then-Republican controlled Senate—to be U.S. attorney general. Graham (R-S.C.) is able to exert the control over the new nomination even though his party no longer controls the chamber, as The dispute over Garlands confirm...

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was accused Tuesday of exercising “the last vestiges of power” by obstructing—again—Senate confirmation of Merrick Garland. President Joe Biden last month tapped Garland—whose 2016 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was blocked by the then-Republican controlled Senate—to be U.S. attorney general. Graham (R-S.C.) is able to exert the control over the new nomination even though his party no longer controls the ...

Feb. 2, 2021 When the South Carolina legislature convened on Jan. 12, one issue took priority over any other. Senate Bill 1, the first piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor, bans most abortions, outlawing the procedure once a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat — around six weeks — except in cases of rape and incest, when there is a fatal fetal anomaly, and when a mother’s life is at risk. SB 1 cleared the state Senate on Thursday. Now it will head to the South Carolina Hous...

Getty Images We have come out of the most contentious political and election season of our lifetime.  How should it impact your investment strategy for 2021?  Despite calls for unity, America remains very divided.  With a new president and a power shift in the Senate, Democrats are optimistic about their new majority while Republicans are concerned about the future.  Yet the markets have been resilient.  In the face of political turmoil, a COVID economy and government restrictions, the mar...

The Senate’s Problem Isn’t the Filibuster, It’s a Lack of Open Debate While Democrats have not yet abolished the filibuster, they have rejected [1] Republican demands that they commit to maintaining the Senate’s current rules over the next two years. Some Democrats are even threatening to blow up those rules if Republicans try to filibuster President Joe Biden’s agenda. However, doing so will make the Senate even more dysfunctional than it is now. Ending the filibuster will make it ...

Senate Clashes Will Test Joe Bidens Approval Rating Honeymoon On 1/26/21 at 9:30 AM EST Public opinion of Bidens tenure so far has been largely positive, with polling showing majority approval. A The Hill/Harris X survey of 941 registered voters, carried out January 21 to 22, gave Biden 63 percent approval. While 56 percent of 11,000 registered voters in a Morning Consult poll from January 22 to 24 approved of the job he was doing so far as commander-in-chief. According to Morning Consult, this...

McConnell and Schumer ended their standoff over the new Senate. Who won and what happened? Sarah Binder © Jonathan Ernst/Reuters In this Jan. 6 photo, then-Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) arrive at the House chamber for a joint session to certify the 2020 election results. With the inauguration of Vice President Harris and the swearing in of two new Democratic senators, the balance of the Senate has shifted, ...

Wendy Caldwell-Liddell On a windy, cloudy morning two days before Election Day, Wendy Caldwell-Liddell is out at the State Fair Transit Center hassling strangers. Are they registered to vote? Have they already voted? Do they know where to go? Will they go? The 29-year-old community organizer and grant writing consultant is on a mission to boost Detroit voter turnout. At the time, she had no idea whether the work she was doing would even matter, but a few days later she’d have her reward: Almo...