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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Rubio secured a spot on a 9/11 committee. Then he skipped many of the
meetings.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio poses for photographs during a
town hall event in Greenville, S.C., on Feb. 18. (Paul Sancya/Associated
Press)
By Manuel Roig-Franzia February 18 at 1:52 PM
In the anxious weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the
Florida House hurriedly assembled an elite group of lawmakers to develop
plans to keep the state safe.
A spot on the Select Committee on Security w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 3 for the ultimate hellish Damnedcraps!
to them, America's future is here now in Detroit, kudos to Hilarious and
Sanders!
Teacher sickout closes most Detroit schools Monday
By Emma Brown May 2 at 8:26 AM
The ceiling is crumbling in this room at Ron Brown Academy, an elementary
school in Detroit. (Detroit Federation of Teachers)
All but a handful of Detroit Public Schools were closed Monday after
teachers — angry that the troubled district may not be able to pay them
over the summer — threatened a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 美帝法治展：斯坦福强奸犯被判6个月
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 7 21:05:25 2016, 美东)
Female lawmakers expressed outrage Tuesday over the sexual assault case at
Stanford University that resulted in what critics said was a light sentence
for the convicted attacker.
The attempted rape of an unconscious woman, which took place near a dumpster
behind a fraternity party, is the latest such incident on a college campus
to make headlines and yet another exa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24594 | 5 Attorney General Loretta Lynch repeatedly dodged and deflected specific
questions Tuesday on the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email use,
referring Republicans to the FBI director instead of answering them herself
– and leading to heated exchanges with top Republicans over the course of
several hours of testimony.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said Lynch’s “lack of clarity is bad for the
republic.”
During questioning before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz
, R-Utah, also asked ab... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 6 French lawmakers told Bataclan terrorists tortured, disemboweled victims
According to this testimony, Wahhabist killers apparently gouged out eyes,
castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They may also
have disemboweled some poor souls. Women were stabbed in the genitals –
and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for Daesh or Islamic State
propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of torture
victims to the families, investigators said.
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发帖数: 543 | 7 都在沙特受过培训吧？
：French lawmakers told Bataclan terrorists tortured, disemboweled victims
：According to this testimony, Wahhabist killers apparently gouged out eyes,
：castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They may
also have disemboweled some poor souls. Women were stabbed in the genitals
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：and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for Daesh or Islamic
State propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of
torture
：victims to the families, investigato... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 8 演讲全文
AUGUST 31, 2016 -
DONALD J. TRUMP: ADDRESS ON IMMIGRATION
Thank you, Phoenix. I am so glad to be back in Arizona, a state that has a
very special place in my heart.
I love the people of Arizona and, together, we are going to win the White
House in November.
Tonight is not going to be a normal rally speech.
Instead, I am going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the
greatest challenges facing our country today: immigration.
I have just landed having returned from a very important ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2555 | 9 据说COMEY事先通知了DOJ
Senior Justice Department officials warned the FBI that Director James B.
Comey’s decision to notify Congress about renewing the investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s private email server was not consistent with long-
standing practices of the department, according to officials familiar with
the discussions.
Comey told Justice Department officials that he intended to inform lawmakers
of newly discovered emails. These officials told him the department’s
position “that we don’t comm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 10 Republican lawmaker Jason Chaffetz says he received death threats after
tweeting about the FBI’s Clinton investigation.
Cheffetz tweeted on Friday that the FBI reopened their investigation of
Hillary Clinton’s private server.
FBI Dir just informed me, "The FBI has learned of the existence of
emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation." Case reopened
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) October 28, 2016
Strib.com reported:
Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he’s increased his securi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 12 荷兰最大政党领袖反建制派Geert Wilders在大选前因言论自由被定罪
Geert Wilders is convicted due to the Free Speech who's the leader of the
biggest Dutch party just before the Dutch General Election
下面是他的Youtube Video用英文演说做的申明(因为荷兰MSM(主流媒体)都被
Establishment Elites和左逼控制了)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKj1-HWqfM
(AP) – A Dutch court convicted populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders
of inciting discrimination Friday at the end of a trial he branded a
politically motivated “charade” that endangered freedom of speech.
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发帖数: 29576 | 13 应该修宪把选举人投票取消，保留各州名义选举人，certify选票直接有结果。
Wyckham Seelig still plans to vote for Donald Trump despite thousands of
emails and letters urging him not to.
Another Michigan elector, Michael Banerian, the youth vice-chair of the
Michigan Republican Party, said he has even received death threats from anti
-Trump forces.
On the eve of Monday’s meetings of the Electoral College to select America
’s next president, the pressure on hundreds of Electoral College voters
from pro and anti-Trump forces has only... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 14 Jeh Johnson: Don't use Dreamer data for deportations
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stressed Tuesday that federal
authorities should not use private information of so-called Dreamers to
deport them — an implicit warning to President-elect Donald Trump, who has
pledged to unravel executive actions that have granted key benefits to more
than 740,000 young undocumented immigrants.
In a letter obtained by POLITICO, the outgoing Homeland chief said when the
young immigrants applied for the D... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 15 The former head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) confronted FBI
Director James Comey on Friday during a confidential briefing on Russian
hacking that left many Democrats calling for Comey’s scalp, several
lawmakers told The Hill.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who was forced to resign last summer
as head of the DNC amid the hacking scandal, told Comey that he should have
come to her directly once the FBI was aware of the breach, just as he had
done with other hacking victims.
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发帖数: 61690 | 16 Hillary Clinton gave her 2016 campaign rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),
the cold shoulder at a posh lunch held in the U.S. Capitol’s ornate
Statuary Hall Friday to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration as the
country’s 45th president.
Clinton spent quality time chatting with Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wis
.) and Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), as well as with House Democratic Whip Steny
Hoyer (Md.).
But when Sanders waded through the crowd to say hello to Clinton, she took
awhile to acknowledge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1071 | 17 越来越多共和党出来指责Trump，
Growing Number of G.O.P. Lawmakers Criticize Trump’s Refugee Policy
By NICHOLAS FANDOSJAN. 29, 2017
G.O.P. Leaders React to Trump's Order
Several Republicans spoke out on Sunday in response to President Trump’s
temporary ban on immigration from seven countries. Senator John McCain said
he feared it would provide propaganda for the Islamic State. By ELSA BUTLER
on Publish Date January 29, 2017. Photo by Al Drago/The New York Times.
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发帖数: 61690 | 20 House Democratic women to stage walkout for ‘Day Without a Woman’ strike
House Democratic women plan to stage a symbolic walkout from the House floor
Wednesday afternoon in a show of solidarity with the “Day Without a Woman
” strike.
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), the chair of the Democratic Women’s Working
Group, said that female lawmakers expect to deliver speeches on the House
floor in support of the strike, then walk out shortly after the chamber
convenes at noon. They also plan to wear red, as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 21 Several female Democratic lawmakers symbolically staged a walkout from the
House chamber on Wednesday to show solidarity with people striking for the
“Day Without a Woman.”
The walkout itself was relatively modest. Only about ten female lawmakers
left the chamber together; dozens more later joined them a few minutes later
to address a rally on the Capitol’s east front.
Before leaving the House floor together, Democratic women delivered speeches
in support of the “Day Without a Woman” protest.
“W... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 22 Congress Warns Donald Trump: Stop Deleting Your Tweets
WASHINGTON ― When President Donald Trump or a member of his staff deletes a
tweet, they may be violating federal law, two top congressmen warned the
White House this week.
Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman and
ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White
House counsel Don McGahn on Wednesday expressing concerns about the Trump
administration’s record keeping habits and its nontrans... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 23 California shouldn't invest in companies that build President Trump's border
wall, lawmakers say
Three state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require California’
s pension funds to divest from any company involved in building President
Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Assembly Bill 946 from Assemblymen Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and Eduardo
Garcia (D-Coachella) and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego
) would require the California Public Employee Re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 27 停了联帮给医保公司的补贴obamacare就真的垮了，难怪老头以前对obamacare垮掉这么
有信心
Trump Threatens to Withhold Payments to Insurers to Press Democrats on
Health Bill
‘Democrats will start calling me’ if turmoil hits insurance markets,
President Donald Trump tells The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Nearly three weeks after Republican infighting sank an overhaul
of the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump dug back into the battle
on Wednesday, threatening to withhold payments to insurers to force
Democrats to the negotia... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20761 | 28 United CEO Oscar Munoz testified in front of Congress on Tuesday. Source: AP
More
Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated airline executives in a hearing looking into
what went wrong in the now famous April 9 incident when a United Airlines
passenger was violently dragged off an overbooked flight.
United (UAL) CEO Oscar Munoz and executives from prominent US airlines
testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in
what its Chair, Bill Shuster (R-Penn.), described as “a tough... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7937 | 29 http://time.com/4769960/jared-kushner-sister-visa-chinese-investors/
时代周刊：库什纳妹妹以饱受批评的签证项目讨好中国投资者
Jared Kushner's Sister Woos Chinese Investors With Much-Criticized U.S. Visa
Program
(BEIJING) — The sister of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner
has been in China courting individual investors with a much-criticized
federal visa program that provides a path toward obtaining U.S. green cards.
Kushner's sister Nicole Meyer promoted One Journal Square, a Kushner
Companies' development in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7937 | 30 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-sister-woos-china-golden-visa-investors-eb-5-green-cards/
Jared Kushner's sister woos China's "golden visa" investors
BEIJING -- The sister of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has been
in China courting individual investors with a much-criticized federal visa
program that provides a path toward obtaining U.S. green cards.
Kushner's sister Nicole Meyer promoted One Journal Square, a Kushner
Companies' development in Jersey City, at an event Sund... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 31 California Single-payer healthcare cost twice as much as budget
California is a big state with a nearly $200 billion annual budget.
California is a big state with a nearly $200 billion annual budget. It's
also a liberal state, where some lawmakers want to create a universal single
-payer healthcare system.
Today, they got an estimate from the state's legislative analysts of how
much such a system would cost: $400 billion per year.
This is not quite as big as total national spending on Medicaid (... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 32 现在美国农村的萧条和悲惨
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’
A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely
populated counties have replaced large cities as America’s most troubled
areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that’s
accelerating
At the corner where East North Street meets North Cherry Street in the small
Ohio town of Kenton, the Immaculate Conception Church keeps a handwritten
record of major ceremonies. Over the last decade, according to these
sacramen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24733 | 33 Attorney General Jeff Sessions is firing back at former FBI Director James
Comey, after he suggested in Thursday's hearing that there might be more
than meets the eye to the AG's recusal from the Russia probe.
Sessions recused himself from “any existing or future investigations”
regarding the 2016 presidential race in early March, after facing bipartisan
pressure to step aside from the probe due to his involvement with the Trump
campaign.
But in his long-awaited testimony before the Senate Intel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 34 A group of black lawmakers in Congress is pushing Uber to hire more people
of color for executive roles at the ridesharing company.
In a letter addressed to the San Francisco-based ridesharing and autonomous
car company, the Congressional Black Caucus suggested that Uber’s recent
slew of executive departures offered an opportunity for the company to boost
its ailing diversity.
“Recent reports suggest that Uber has vacancies for several of its most
senior positions,” the lawmakers wrote in a lett... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 35 A federal court in Texas on Wednesday struck down the state's controversial
voter identification law, granting an injunction that bars state officials
from enforcing the measure.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled that the law was enacted with
the deliberate intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters.
Ramos said that it violates the Voting Rights Act.
The original 2011 law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, requires
registered voters to present one of seven for... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21638 | 37 连习恩恩都没说要排除地产税itemlize啊。
要排除的是州税市税。
Preserve some deductions: Again without specifics, the framework calls for
lawmakers to retain tax incentives for home ownership, retirement savings,
charitable giving and higher education. But that doesn't mean lawmakers won'
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发帖数: 178 | 38 这个女议员本身就是反川的。
Which Democratic lawmakers are skipping Donald Trump's inauguration?
Last Updated Jan 19, 2017 6:27 PM EST
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A handful of Democratic politicians are opting out of Inauguration Day in D.
C. -- but aren’t specifically saying they’re doing so as a form of protest
against Mr. Trump. Here are those five members and their reasons for
skipping town:
Frederica Wilson (D-Florida): Wilson never planned to attend the
inauguration because her goddaughter is getting married Saturday.
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发帖数: 61690 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 美帝议员牛啊，拿着刀架在前议长的脖子上
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 30 14:34:19 2017, 美东)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) once pinned former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
against a wall and held a knife to his throat during a heated debate about
earmarks.
John Boehner told Politico about the incident in a new profile published
Sunday. The former speaker described his difficulties in banning earmarks,
or measures that funded projects in lawmaker’s home distri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 41 周末先告法院，现在发动国会议员给她站台，就nm一个代理一两个月的位子，明显是要
博知名度，当反床标兵。
As confusion reigned, Ms. English headed to Capitol Hill to meet with at
least four lawmakers about her plans. Among those lawmakers: Senator Chuck
Schumer, the Democratic leader, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat
of Massachusetts who proposed the bureau and helped set it up, according to
a spokeswoman for Ms. Warren. |
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发帖数: 953 | 42 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-are-headed-for-a-major-
clash-over-impeachment/ar-BBHqbaB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
After bruising defeats in Virginia, New Jersey, and Alabama, Republicans are
bracing for the possibility that Democrats take back the House in 2018—and
Democrats, after a year in the wilderness, are beginning to seriously
debate the political ramifications of impeaching Donald Trump if they do.
For months, the Democratic base has been agitating for leadership to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 43 An unnamed senator inadvertently broke a glass elephant belonging to Sen.
Susan Collins (R-Maine) in the midst of using a "talking stick" during
bipartisan shutdown talks in her office, CNN reported on Monday.
Another senator present at the meeting told CNN that Collins presented the
stick to the group to prevent interruptions during negotiations. Only the
lawmaker holding the stick would be allowed to talk.
The senator told CNN that another lawmaker who was speaking with the stick
was interrupt... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6346 | 44 Paul Ryan is on the train and is OK
Why Republican lawmakers were heading to West Virginia
The train that collided with a truck was carrying Republican lawmakers to an
annual GOP retreat.
The retreat at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, is
scheduled to begin today and end Friday. Vice President Mike Pence, who was
not on the train, is expected to speak to members later today, and President
Trump is scheduled to address the event tomorrow.
Rep. Lee Zeldin said some members o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 50 | 45 A State House effort to categorize Asian-Americans into specific ethnic
groups is clashing with a vocal and well-organized opposition that has
likened the effort to racial profiling.
A bill by state Representative Tackey Chan urges “all state agencies, quasi
-state agencies, entities created by state statute, and sub-divisions of
state agencies” to identify Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, as
defined in the US census, in all data they collect and report.
But critics say Chan’s efforts woul... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11249 | 46 The ongoing skirmish over Delta’s discount for National Rifle Association
members and Georgia lawmakers who want to end its sales tax exemption on jet
fuel is over a sale of only 13 tickets.
Delta, which decided to end its group ticket discount for NRA members in the
wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, told TPG that during the
entirety of the discount program, only 13 tickets were purchased using the
discount.
“It was a one-time group rate for the NRA’s annual meeting, which I
beli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5818 | 47 当年是 “the man with integrity”，现在 muller 接过这个称号
Trump：i did great service to fire Comey for american people, so true !!
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Lawmakers accuse FBI of 'destructive level of animus' following release of
IG report
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle slammed former FBI Director James Comey
and other agency personnel on Thursday after Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz released a long awaited report on the FBI and DOJ’
s Hillary Clinton investigation ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3833 | 48 Jason Spencer, a Georgia state lawmake 共和党议员侮辱中国留学生. In a show,
Spencer
imitated a Chinese accent in an exercise that had him pretending to be a
Chinese tourist in an attempt to take a photo under a person's burqa. 模仿中
国留学生偷拍女性裙底走光, 已经宣布辞职. For more details , see CNN: Georgia
lawmaker who came under fire after yelling 'n-word' on 'Who Is America?'
says he'll quit. |
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发帖数: 3833 | 49 最近，Geogia 州的共和党议员Jason Spencer侮辱中国留学生。在一个最近出台的
showtime搞笑节目里，Georgia state lawmaker Jason Spencer 模仿中国留学生偷拍
女性裙底走光, 利用 Selfie Stick伸到阿拉伯女性的burqa裙底，判断是否男性女性的
恐怖份子。美国的共和党议员经常侮辱中国留学生， 爱国华人组织CAFT对此行为极度
愤慨，组织在洛杉矶游行抗议.
For more details , see CNN: Georgia lawmaker who came under fire after
yelling 'n-word' on 'Who Is America?' says he'll quit. |
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发帖数: 61690 | 50 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is privately warning GOP
colleagues that there will be political fallout for the party if they fail
to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, quashing any talking
within his conference about pressuring Kavanaugh to drop out.
McConnell gathered Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in
his Capitol Hill office Tuesday to buck up their resolve to get the nominee
confirmed before the election, according to lawmakers who attended.
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