Lawmakers introduced a bill in both houses of Congress Tuesday that would prevent the president from launching a nuclear first strike without a congressional declaration of war. A policy that was long debated — but never seriously pursued — during the Obama administration has now become anything other than abstract after the election of Donald […]
Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt Endures Nearly 7-Hour Confirmation Hearing…
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing for Director of the Environmental Protection Agency lasted nearly seven hours Wednesday. Pruitt made headlines when he testified that he disagrees with president-elect Donald Trump and believes climate change is real http://www.newson6.com/story/34293769/oklahoma-ag-scott-pruitt-endures-nearly-7-hour-confirmation-hearing …
Vows to Set Aside Politics As CIA Chief…
GOP Readies Cuts to Federal Workforce under Trump…
For years, Republicans in Congress have been eyeing an overhaul of the federal workforce — by reducing the number of workers and curtailing benefits and pay while making it easier to fire bad employees. Now, with a president-elect who has promised to do much the same, 2017 could be the best time…
Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution by Ellen Brown…
Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan appears to be just more of the same – privatizing public assets and delivering unearned profits to investors at the expense of the people. He needs to try something new…
McConnell to Lead Senate GOP, Schumer to Lead Minority…
Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell on Wednesday to be majority leader next year while Democrats picked Chuck Schumer to lead them, setting the chief actors as the chamber prepares to push an agenda that will be dominated by Donald Trump and the GOP…
Schumer Under Pressure to Add Sanders to Leadership Team…
Kaine Nor Sanders Voted. Reid Is Sole Senator to Back Obama’s Veto…
If Elizabeth Warren Wants to Probe Worker Abuse on Wall Street, Start With the Unprecedented Rash of Deaths and Suicides…
If Senators Warren, Sanders, Merkley and Brown genuinely want to change their party’s jaded image as Wall Street Democrats, they will use this timely opportunity to demand that the OCC turn over its records on the profits flowing to Wall Street from these untimely deaths of young people…
