New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim was taking his kids to their annual checkup on Friday when his phone went haywire.
“I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling and texting,” he says. “I looked at it, and the first thing I saw were the images of the gold bars. I was just trying to figure out what was happening.”
What was happening was a criminal indictment against...
“I was in the doctor’s office with them, they were running around and being absolutely crazy, but I could feel in my pocket my phone blowing up, just people calling and texting,” he says. “I looked at it, and the first thing I saw were the images of the gold bars. I was just trying to figure out what was happening.”
What was happening was a criminal indictment against...
- 9/28/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Federal law enforcement officials are examining communications between insurrectionists and members of Congress to determine whether lawmakers aided members of the mob who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, according to CNN.
Investigators want to know “whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists,” a US official briefed on the matter told CNN, and so far they have gathered data that includes “indications of contact” between “alleged rioters discussing their associations with members of Congress.” More than two dozen prosecutors are assigned to help the effort.
So far investigators are...
Investigators want to know “whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists,” a US official briefed on the matter told CNN, and so far they have gathered data that includes “indications of contact” between “alleged rioters discussing their associations with members of Congress.” More than two dozen prosecutors are assigned to help the effort.
So far investigators are...
- 3/5/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Nancy Pelosi was elected to another term as Speaker of the House, in an ever-so-tight vote that reflected Democrats’ narrower majority in the next Congress.
Pelosi was elected 216-208 and will serve as speaker for her fourth term. Pelosi got the support of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left flank of the party. Two Democrats voted for other candidates: Rep. Conor Lamb (D-pa) voted for Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat, and Jared Golden (D-md) voted for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-il). Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-va), Elissa Slotkin (D-mi) and Mikie Sherrill (D-nj) voted present.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-ca) garnered 209 votes.
The Covid-19 crisis overshadowed the proceedings. House members are required to wear masks when they are in the floor of the chamber, even when giving speeches. New members were allowed to invite just one guest to their swearing in, in a ceremony that in years past filled the galleries.
Pelosi was elected 216-208 and will serve as speaker for her fourth term. Pelosi got the support of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left flank of the party. Two Democrats voted for other candidates: Rep. Conor Lamb (D-pa) voted for Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat, and Jared Golden (D-md) voted for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-il). Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-va), Elissa Slotkin (D-mi) and Mikie Sherrill (D-nj) voted present.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-ca) garnered 209 votes.
The Covid-19 crisis overshadowed the proceedings. House members are required to wear masks when they are in the floor of the chamber, even when giving speeches. New members were allowed to invite just one guest to their swearing in, in a ceremony that in years past filled the galleries.
- 1/3/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
What a catastrophe Wednesday night was for Mike Bloomberg. The New York plutocrat was kicked in the teeth by Elizabeth Warren in the first minutes — she denounced him as a Trump-like “arrogant billionaire” who called women “horse-faced lesbians” — and never made it back to his feet.
Bloomberg stood in mute fury as his $400 million campaign investment went up in smoke. His contempt for democracy and sense of entitlement surpass even Donald Trump, who at least likes crowds — Bloomberg’s joyless imperiousness makes Trump seem like Robin Williams.
That Bloomberg has...
Bloomberg stood in mute fury as his $400 million campaign investment went up in smoke. His contempt for democracy and sense of entitlement surpass even Donald Trump, who at least likes crowds — Bloomberg’s joyless imperiousness makes Trump seem like Robin Williams.
That Bloomberg has...
- 2/20/2020
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — A few hours after the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Trump, bringing a swift end to the third impeachment trial in American history, a pair of armed police officers escorted Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado for the last time back to his Capitol Hill apartment. As one of the seven House impeachment managers, Crow had spent the last three weeks making the case to senators, and to the American people, that Trump should be removed from office. He had stood in the white-hot center of our politics.
- 2/14/2020
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Hours after Senate Republicans voted to block any witnesses from being called in the impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a morose Bill Maher welcomed Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg to his HBO talk show but also wondered aloud several times if things like the upcoming election really have relevance now.
“I don’t know if voting matters,” the comedian said at one point during Friday night’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher.
Maher also described the Senate’s cynical move as a finish line moment for American experiment that began in 1776: “I feel like anything we talk about tonight is almost moot. We’re going to talk about politics in Iowa and who’s going to win and I feel like we’re talking about a world that doesn’t exist anymore.We’re in a post-democracy world.”
Maher had already opened the show with a downbeat welcome:...
“I don’t know if voting matters,” the comedian said at one point during Friday night’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher.
Maher also described the Senate’s cynical move as a finish line moment for American experiment that began in 1776: “I feel like anything we talk about tonight is almost moot. We’re going to talk about politics in Iowa and who’s going to win and I feel like we’re talking about a world that doesn’t exist anymore.We’re in a post-democracy world.”
Maher had already opened the show with a downbeat welcome:...
- 2/1/2020
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Powerful political women are becoming more common on our screens.
Robin Wright is playing the president on “House of Cards,” Elizabeth Marvel’s character sits in the Oval on “Homeland,” and on CBS’ “Madam Secretary,” Téa Leoni’s Elizabeth McCord is planning her move from Secretary of State to the White House. Selina Meyer may have lost the Presidency on “Veep” in Season 6, but she’s back on the presidential campaign trial in Season 7.
America is not there yet, but Hollywood may be moving it closer. The popularity of these story lines, combined with celebrities willing to tell their #MeToo stories and create the #TimesUp movement, has infiltrated the public zeitgeist and arguably left a mark on the midterm elections.
Also Read: Anita Hill, Rosanna Arquette and 12 Other Powerful Women at TheWrap's Power Women Summit (Exclusive Photos)
Over 100 female politicos will soon be pouring into Congress. Future stars in this unusually diverse,...
Robin Wright is playing the president on “House of Cards,” Elizabeth Marvel’s character sits in the Oval on “Homeland,” and on CBS’ “Madam Secretary,” Téa Leoni’s Elizabeth McCord is planning her move from Secretary of State to the White House. Selina Meyer may have lost the Presidency on “Veep” in Season 6, but she’s back on the presidential campaign trial in Season 7.
America is not there yet, but Hollywood may be moving it closer. The popularity of these story lines, combined with celebrities willing to tell their #MeToo stories and create the #TimesUp movement, has infiltrated the public zeitgeist and arguably left a mark on the midterm elections.
Also Read: Anita Hill, Rosanna Arquette and 12 Other Powerful Women at TheWrap's Power Women Summit (Exclusive Photos)
Over 100 female politicos will soon be pouring into Congress. Future stars in this unusually diverse,...
- 11/20/2018
- by Michele Willens and Mary Murphy
- The Wrap
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