The United States Senate is sworn-in for the impeachment trial of Alejandro Mayorkas. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes. Watch NEWSMAX anytime at http://NewsmaxTV.com. Don’t have cable/satellite that carries NEWSMAX? Watch NEWSMAX online, on-demand by subscribing to NEWSMAX+ with a free trial at http://NEWSMAXPlus.com. Listen to…
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ABC Has Time for ABBA, Caitlin Clark, NONE for Mayorkas Senate Trial
It is interesting which historical things networks choose to cover and which they do not. The New York City trial of former President Donald Trump, for example, draws top billing across the dial. A no-brainer, really. But for ABC World News Tonight, the also-historic impeachment and potential Senate trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…
ABC Has Time for ABBA, Caitlin Clark, NONE for Mayorkas Senate Trial
It is interesting which historical things networks choose to cover and which they do not. The New York City trial of former President Donald Trump, for example, draws top billing across the dial. A no-brainer, really. But for ABC World News Tonight, the also-historic impeachment and potential Senate trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…
Watch Live: Boeing Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate Committee About 787 Dreamliner
Watch Live: Boeing Whistleblower Testifies Before Senate Committee About 787 Dreamliner Update (1113ET): The second Senate hearing on Boeing is about to begin (1115 ET). Lawmakers will hear whistleblower allegations about significant safety lapses in Boeing’s manufacturing of the 787 Dreamliner. * * * Update (0955ET): Boeing faces two hearings on Capitol Hill today: First: Senate Commerce…
Boeing whistleblower testifying in front of Senate committees
A whistleblower who says all Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets should be grounded by the aerospace company for safety reasons will be at the center of two major Congressional committee hearings Wednesday. Sam Salehpour, who sent documents to the Federal Aviation Administration amid its investigation into the quality and safety of Boeing’s manufacturing, is…
California’s Senate Democrats Reject Bill to Make Purchasing Children for Sex a Felony
Democrats are a threat to humanity. Democrats rejected Bill authored by Sen. Shannon Grove to make the buying of children for sex a prison felony, and hijacked her bill forcing hostile amendments by denying Grove’s efforts to protect 16 and 17-year-old children from being purchased as part of commercial sex trafficking. Under the amended bill…
Senate Democrats Dismiss Impeachment Article Against Mayorkas within 20 Minutes
by Bethany Blankley Within 20 minutes of convening to hold an impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Democrats in the Senate steamrolled through motions and voted to dismiss the first article of impeachment brought against him. Two impeachment charges were delivered to the Senate on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader…
US Senate Expected To Swiftly End Mayorkas Impeachment
Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday is expected to make clear his plan to bury without a trial the Republican House of Representatives’ impeachment of President Joe Biden’s top border official. The House on Tuesday delivered two articles of impeachment charging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with failing to enforce U.S. border…
Mayorkas impeachment moves to Senate for trial
Senators swear in as jurors Wednesday, April 17, for the impeachment trial against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate will issue a summons to Mayorkas, informing him of the charges and requesting a written response; he is not required to appear. Today, for only the second time in American history, the US Senate received articles…
Bayer Protection Act: Iowa Senate Passes Bill Limiting Lawsuits Against Pesticide Manufacturers
One of the nation’s largest conventional food-growing states just passed a bill that critics say protects the chemical agriculture industry from civil lawsuits. That state is Iowa, where state senators just passed Senate File 2412 to protect pesticide companies from lawsuits involving contaminated food that poisons and sickens consumers. SF 2412 “allows that if a…
Speaker Johnson reveals new plan to break Senate foreign aid package into separate bills in House
For the past two months, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been under intense bipartisan establishment pressure to pass a foreign aid package — primarily comprised of military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza — that faces staunch opposition among many House Republicans. On Monday, Johnson announced a new proposal to break…
Mayorkas Must Be Held Accountable at His Senate Trial
Immigration Mayorkas Must Be Held Accountable at His Senate Trial Tabling the DHS secretary’s impeachment is an insult to the American people. Credit: Iev radin The House managers have officially delivered the letters of impeachment for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate. For weeks, I have been calling for the Senate…
Impeachment Articles Against Mayorkas Sent To Senate
America’s House of Representatives said they were going to do it, and on Tuesday, April 16, they did it. ABC News is reporting that as promised, America’s House of Representatives officially transmitted articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate. The House impeachment managers, as selected by Republican leadership, walked the…
California’s Senate Democrats Reject Bill to Make Purchasing a Child for Sex a Felony
California News: You read that headline right. California State Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) authored Senate Bill 1414 – a bipartisan measure to strengthen protections for minor victims by making the act of soliciting, agreeing to engage in or engaging in any form of commercial sex with a child a felony offense, with sex offender registry…
Louisiana Senate Passes Bill to Stop Coercing Women Into Abortions
Today, Sen. Thomas Pressly’s Abortion by Fraud bill (Senate Bill 276), passed unanimously on the Senate Floor. The legislation creates a new crime of “coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud” to give law enforcement proper means to prosecute those who use deceit and manipulation to harm pregnant women and their unborn children. Sen. Pressly…
California Senate Committee Advances Bill to Create “Geneology Office” for Reparation Policies
The California Senate Judiciary Committee has greenlit legislation aimed at establishing a new cabinet-level agency, the California American Freedman Affairs Agency, charged with executing the fantastical recommendations put forth by the state’s reparation task force. Under this proposed legislation, the agency, to be overseen by a secretary appointed by the governor, would include the creation…
Long-awaited articles of impeachment against DHS secretary arrive in Senate
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas [Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.] By Virginia Allen The Daily Signal The House delivered the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The articles are expected to be acted on quickly by the…
Senate warns Speaker Johnson against changes to foreign aid package
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is moving forward with a vote on four separate foreign aid bills. Three of the bills would provide funding for Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific Region. The fourth bill contains Republican priorities like measures to allow the U.S. government to transfer seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction. The bill…
David Trone Has Poured a Record-Breaking $42 Million Into His Senate Campaign
Rep. David Trone (D., Md.) made history Tuesday, becoming the largest self-funder in Senate primary history. Trone, the co-owner of the multibillion-dollar liquor chain Total Wine & More, has loaned $41.7 million to his campaign for Maryland’s open Senate seat since launching his run in March 2023, Federal Election Commission filings show. The Maryland Democrat’s…
Mayorkas impeachment articles delivered to Senate
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on impeachment efforts against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas after House lawmakers deliver articles to the Senate. #foxnews Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news…
Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Says Opponent’s Pro-Israel Stance Driven by Donor Money
A Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan said his Jewish opponent’s support for Israel is driven by donor money, in an interview on Monday. Hill Harper, a politician and actor known for his roles on CSI:NY and The Good Doctor said Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the frontrunner for Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, was pandering for campaign “checks”…
WATCH: House delivers Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate
Rep. Mark Green delivers remarks on the impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the Senate for the border crisis. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes. Watch NEWSMAX anytime at http://NewsmaxTV.com. Don’t have cable/satellite that carries NEWSMAX? Watch NEWSMAX online, on-demand by subscribing to NEWSMAX+…
House Speaker Mike Johnson to send Mayorkas impeachment to Senate
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he plans to send impeachment articles against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate Tuesday, the same day the Homeland Security Secretary testified in front of a congressional committee. Sending these charges would require senators to convene a trial on them, although Democrats have signaled that they will oppose…
LA | Gun Bills to be Heard in Senate and House Committees
Gun Bills to be Heard in Senate and House Committees Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17th, several gun bills will be taken up by committees in both the House and Senate. First, at 9:30 am, it will be “gun day” in the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee, where pro-gun bills HB 62, HB 721, SB 194,…
House Managers To Deliver Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate
House Managers To Deliver Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas at the U.S. Capitol, on April 10, 2024. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Two counts of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, approved on Feb. 13 by the House…
Senate Democrats Block Standalone Israel Aid Bill
Senate Democrats blocked a standalone Israel bill Monday evening introduced by two GOP senators that would have provided the country with additional aid as tensions in the Middle East continue, lawmakers confirmed. Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall pushed for lawmakers to vote on the standalone bill, leaving out both Ukraine…
GOP Plans to Bring Senate to a Halt Over Mayorkas Impeachment
To say Republicans are unhappy with the border crisis would be a vast understatement. They’ve made it clear since day one of President Joe Biden’s administration, when he overturned many of his predecessor’s policies, that the rate of immigration is unsustainable and a threat to the American public. To that effect, they filed…
Boeing defends aircraft safety before Senate hearing
Ahead of a Senate hearing on Wednesday, April 17, concerning Boeing’s safety, the company is denying allegations by a whistleblower about shortcuts in the production of its 787 Dreamliner and 777 aircraft, saying the planes meet all safety standards. Boeing has called the whistleblower’s accounts inaccurate and stands by the company’s safety measures. The whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, is…
House to send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday, forcing senators to convene a trial on the allegations that the Homeland Security secretary has “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce existing immigration laws. But the proceedings may not last long. While the Senate…
FISA Moves to Senate Without Provision Requiring Warrants to Conduct Searches of Americans
On Monday a congressional vote to move 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill to the Senate succeeded in the House with a vote of 259-128. The bill now goes to the Senate without any provision requiring warrants on the surveillance of Americans who are in communications with foreign actors. Ahead of the…
Kentucky GOP Limits Governor’s Role In Senate Appointments Amid Health Concerns
In a significant shift in Kentucky’s political landscape, Republican lawmakers have enacted legislation that alters how U.S. Senate vacancies are filled. AP News reported that the new law mandates a special election for U.S. Senate vacancies, stripping appointment powers from Governor Andy Beshear, amidst ongoing health concerns for Senator Mitch McConnell. Last Friday, the Kentucky…
Bill to Introduce Higher Level Math Courses To 8th Graders Introduced In Senate
California News: A bill to mandate the inclusion of Algebra I or Mathematics I course offerings for all 8th-grade students was introduced in the Senate recently, with the first Committee hearing on the matter being scheduled to occur later this month. According to bill SB 1410 authored by Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-Yucaipa), the state Board…
House Sends Chamber-Passed FISA Extension Bill To Senate Before Friday Deadline
The House voted Monday in favor of sending a chamber-approved measure to the Senate to extend authorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 surveillance authority The GOP-led chamber last week approved a two-year extension of Section 702, which allow for the warrantless surveillance of foreigners abroad and the compilation of a database of…
What Senate rules say about dismissing Mayorkas impeachment
The impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to begin on Tuesday, April 16, two months after he was impeached. The question is, will there be a full trial with a presentation of evidence? Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has not tipped his hand as to what he’ll do. Schumer has…
Australian Senate to Investigate Excess Mortality
Some people claim that 60 percent of all statistics, like this one, is just made up out of thin air. All statistics in relation to Covid – numbers infected, infection and case fatality rates, deaths from and with Covid, the number of lives saved by lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, the number of lives lost in…
Trump gives endorsement to PA Senate hopeful Dave McCormick
Donald Trump just made a rather intriguing about-face ahead of the 2024 election season. As The Hill reports, the former president and presumptive GOP nominee announced his endorsement of Republican Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Dave McCormick, someone Trump declined to support the last time he sought the role back in 2022. Trump endorses McCormick for Senate…
RFK Jr. anxiety rises among Senate Democrats
Senators in both parties are warning that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may end up tipping the presidential election to either former President Trump or President Biden, but Democrats are expressing more worries he could be a spoiler candidate than Republicans. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), one of President Biden’s most outspoken defenders on Capitol Hill, said…
Cruz: Senate Has Constitutional Obligation To Hold Impeachment Trial On Mayorkas
A coalition of Republican senators is calling out Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for his purported plan to table the impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Before Schumer adjourned the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators made their case for what they say is the Senate’s constitutional duty to hold…
Cruz: Senate Has Constitutional Obligation To Hold Impeachment Trial On Mayorkas
A coalition of Republican senators is calling out Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, for his purported plan to table the impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Before Schumer adjourned the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators made their case for what they say is the Senate’s constitutional duty to hold…
KY Lawmakers Restrict Governor’s Role In US Senate Appointments
In a significant legislative move, Kentucky’s Republican-controlled Legislature has eliminated the Democratic governor’s authority to appoint U.S. Senate vacancies, mandating instead that such vacancies be filled through special elections. The Kentucky GOP’s decision underscores a shift towards electing rather than appointing senators, reflecting broader national concerns over such appointments, as the Associated Press reports. Legislation…
Billionaire Leonard Leo Defies Senate Subpoena on Supreme Court Ethics Inquiry
Leonard Leo, a prominent conservative donor, has publicly rejected a Senate subpoena probing undisclosed gifts to right-leaning Supreme Court justices. The Guardian reported that Leo has decided not to comply with a Senate judiciary committee’s subpoena investigating gifts to conservative Supreme Court justices, raising questions about ethics and influence at America’s highest court. The subpoena…
Billionaire Leonard Leo Defies Senate Subpoena on Supreme Court Ethics Inquiry
Leonard Leo, a prominent conservative donor, has publicly rejected a Senate subpoena probing undisclosed gifts to right-leaning Supreme Court justices. The Guardian reported that Leo has decided not to comply with a Senate judiciary committee’s subpoena investigating gifts to conservative Supreme Court justices, raising questions about ethics and influence at America’s highest court. The subpoena…
Senate Republicans call on Schumer to hold Mayorkas impeachment trial
Nearly all Republican members of the U.S. Senate are calling upon Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to hold a trial on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Hill reports that the Republicans made the call in a letter that they sent to Mayorkas this past week. This comes after Mayorkas was…
Senate Passes Resolution to Overturn Biden’s Green Agenda Highway Emissions Rule
The U.S. Senate has voted to pass a resolution that would overturn Democrat President Joe Biden’s radical green agenda rule for highway emissions. Senators voted to overturn Biden’s “climate” regulation that is already facing pushback from federal courts. The Federal Highway Administration rule requires states to set targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions on highways….
Shocking New Biden Move Just Got Annihilated – Democrat Senate Betrays Biden in Huge Turnaround
Federal agencies have enacted oppressive rules and regulations upon the American people in the past few decades. The power given to unelected federal employees strayed out of control over the years that Congress is forced to rein in the wayward agencies. Joe Biden has used this unintended power of federal agencies to circumvent Congress and…
Greene threat to oust Speaker Johnson has Senate Republicans anxious
Senate Republicans are anxious and frustrated about the possibility of House conservatives ousting a second Speaker in six months, warning them to avoid at all costs a repeat of the drama that ground Washington to a halt for weeks. They worry that as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gets closer to putting Ukraine aid on the…
Senate Democrats confused by panicked leftists demanding justice’s resignation: ‘This is not an RGB situation’
Some Senate Democrats are reportedly pushing back against efforts on the left to oust Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. As previously reported, some congressional Democrats and “progressive” activists want Sotomayor, 69, to resign so that she doesn’t later die in office under a Republican president like former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did when she died…
Missouri Senate votes — almost unanimously — to ban teens under 18 from getting married
The Missouri Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would end all child marriages in the state, barring anyone under 18 from obtaining a marriage license under any circumstance. The legislation, filed by Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, a Scott City Republican, and Sen. Lauren Arthur, a Kansas City Democrat, passed the chamber on a vote of 31 to 1. It now heads to…
Senate passes resolution that would overturn Biden’s highway emissions rule
The Senate voted to overturn a Biden climate regulation on Wednesday that is already facing pushback from federal courts. The Federal Highway Administration rule requires states to set targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions on highways. A resolution to overturn the regulation passed 53-47 on Wednesday after two different federal courts found Biden overstepped his authority….
Senate Considers Cutting Funding To Medical Schools That Push DEI
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the EDUCATE Act, a bill that would eliminate federal funding to medical schools that embed the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda into their admission or instruction policies, on Thursday. Called the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education (EDUCATE) Act, the Senate bill corresponds with legislation that was recently…
43 Senate Republicans Sign Demand For Full Mayorkas Trial
Almost all members of the Senate Republican conference have demanded that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer move forward with a full impeachment trial against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, while Senate Democrats are signaling they’ll dismiss charges against him quickly. Forty-three of the Senate’s 49 Republicans, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., sent a letter to…