President Trump speaking this year at the National Association of Realtors. Ousting him through impeachment would be the first step in restoring America’s standing internationally, the author argues. CREATIVE COMMONS
In early 1974, fresh out of journalism school, I walked into the offices of the newly created Federal Energy Office in Washington and asked for a job.
Despite the White House’s apparent opposition, the US congress has passed a new sanctions package against Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Donald Trump seems destined to sign the legislation – and in fact, he has little choice.
Congress passed the bill by a nearly unanimous, veto-proof vote of those present: 419-3 in the House and 98-2 in the Senate (Sens. Paul and Sanders dissenting).
As a proposed new anti-Russian sanctions bill makes its way through congress, the outcry has been swift among Washington’s European allies.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, speaking to the EU College of Commissioners denounced the proposal saying:
The Republican majority US House of Representatives has blocked a Senate bill which passed 98-2 in the upper chamber. The bill would codify into Federal law, a plethora of US sanctions against Russia.
House Republicans cited a provision of the Constitution requiring all bills which regulate Federal revenue to originate in the House rather than the Senate.
The Duran’s Alexander Mercouris had previously written that the bill could be unconstitutional on even broader grounds as it interferes with the President’s ability to make and conduct foreign policy.
An article posted on CNN’s website demonstrates why CNN is losing viewers and why it deserves to lose more. The piece by someone called Chris Cillizza, CNN’s editor at large is called, ‘Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand how the Senate works’.
4.83/5 (12) It has been a strange two weeks for space news, and the steady trickle keeps coming! There's been an interesting development, for example, in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to this article shared…
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