Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough to sway a divided Congress to move substantive gun control efforts forward.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced on Tuesday a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the most significant proposal by Republicans in Congress to curtail the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three months ago.
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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday said he is “1,000% confident” that Russia, not Ukraine, meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, breaking from President Donald Trump and others in his party who have pushed the discredited conspiracy theory. “It was the Russians. I’m 1,000% confident that the hack of the DNC was by Russian operatives, […]
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Turkey has launched a planned military offensive into northeastern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday, just days after the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops back from the border area. “Our aim is to destroy the terror corridor which is trying to be established on our southern border and to bring peace […]
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Tuesday that he plans to invite Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to speak to the committee about Ukraine. In a series of tweets, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, wrote, “Have heard on numerous occasions disturbing allegations by @RudyGiuliani about corruption in Ukraine […]
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With Donald Trump working to keep his party unified in the government shutdown battle, some Senate Republicans have begun discussing expanding negotiations over the wall to include additional immigration issues, such as relief for DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The conversation, mostly involving Republicans, picked up steam on Wednesday as the stalemate over […]
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A red-faced and livid Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday furiously blasted Democrats for orchestrating a “sham” hearing against Brett Kavanaugh and fiercely defended President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, telling him that he had “nothing to apologize for.” At Kavanaugh’s hearing Thursday afternoon, Graham, like every other senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a […]
