If House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (CA-23) legislation is passed through the House before the midterms, the Senate will most likely not vote on the bill until January, getting it to President Trump’s desk in early 2019 at the quickest pace if all goes according to plan.
The “Tenaciously Moving for American Change in 2020” political action committee announced that they are going to “encourage” former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to run for the Democratic presidential nomination to challenge President Donald Trump.
“We have to negotiate with the Taliban and Pakistan in order to leave” the War in Afghanistan, said Democratic candidate Leslie Cockburn, all the while criticizing Republican Denver Riggleman’s military service, implying that he played a minor role.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has listed all seven of Virginia’s Republican representatives in the 115th Congress as award winners for their key votes to bolster small business and support low-tax initiatives.
The bill from Delegate Margaret Ransone (R-Westmoreland) would direct the State Board of Elections to appoint a commissioner that oversees the Department of Elections, eliminate two additional senior-level political appointees made by the governor, establishing a one full-time director of operations, and increase the term lengths for board members from four to six years.
“Look at two years, look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy. Now the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we’re going to do something, we follow it through, and the President proved that,” U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said in the Oval Office following President Donald Trump’s announcement that she will resign at the end of 2018.
During his 12 years on the federal bench, “no federal judge — not a single one in the country — has sent more women law clerks to clerk on the Supreme Court than I have,” Brett Kavanaugh said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. He added, “I’ll be the first justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have a group of all-women law clerks. That is who I am.”
“I didn’t know Rod before,” President Donald Trump said Monday leaving the White House. “I’ve gotten to know him, and I get along very well with him.” He added at a previous press conference, “My preference would be to keep him and to let him finish up.”
“Six years ago, a national group of liberal donors began a systematic effort to attack the bipartisan redistricting plan adopted by the House, despite pre-approval by President Barack Obama’s Justice Department and overwhelming support from the African American members of the House. This coordinated, partisan effort cost taxpayers millions of dollars and is culminating with an overt attempt to install a court-drawn plan more politically favorable to Democrats than any politically-neutral plan that might emerge from a legislative compromise,” said Speaker of the House Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights).
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are traveling the continent to talk about their careers, important moments in American history, and, of course, the “most controversial and unpredictable presidential election.”
