UPDATE: June 23, 2016 at 2:51 p.m. ET House Democrats ended an almost 26-hour sit-in on the House floor a little after 1 p.m. Thursday. The protest was a response to lawmakers failing to pass any kind of gun-control measure, or a vote in the House. “By sitting in, we’re…
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GOP Blocks LGBT Rights Amendment Days After Orlando Shooting
A proposal that would protect LGBT employees from discrimination by federal contractors was rejected by House Republican leaders just days after GOP members publicly pledged their “support” for the LGBT community. For the third time, openly gay Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) proposed the amendment, attached to a Defense Department…
Trump Exploits Orlando Tragedy
Rather than being respectful, composed and modest in the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Trump instead has chosen to be bombastic, opportunistic and dishonest in his remarks since the tragedy. Within hours of the massacre that killed 49 people, while bodies still laid in the Orlando…
GOP Refuses to Deny Guns to Suspected Terrorists, Hate Crime Convicts
One day after a twice-suspected terrorist killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday refused to allow any discussion calling for legislation barring suspected terrorists and individuals convicted of hate crimes from buying guns. Ryan’s refusal to even allow discussion on the House…
Meg Whitman Compares Trump to Hitler
At a private meeting of Republicans on Friday, Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a major donor to the Republican Party, likened Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and hinted at the possibility of supporting the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. One donor, John Chachas, reported,…
Trump: 'It's possible' a Muslim Judge Would be Biased
Trump’s “Face the Nation” interview this weekend was described by one of his fellow Republicans as “one of the worst mistakes Trump has made.” When asked if he believes a Muslim judge would be biased against him in a courtroom, Trump said, “It’s possible, yes. Yeah. That would be possible….
Speaker Ryan is Soliciting
Speaker Paul Ryan said he was “not ready” to endorse Trump. Yet. Now we know what his real profession is — we don’t need to find out what the price is going to be; we need to drive everyone like him out of office. There’s no secret about what the…
Klan Support for Trump Too Much for GOP to Bear
For many months, while Donald Trump spewed hatred against one group after another, his fellow Republicans stood by. He has insulted Latinos, Muslims, people with disabilities, women, journalists and others; he has thrown people out of his rallies, ejected reporters from his press conferences, threatened to punch people in the…
FOX Host Calls Congresswoman a 'Race Hustler'
By Julissa Catalan As debate continued over controversial remarks by Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), FOX News host Bill O’Reilly antagonized one Ryan opponent, calling her a “race hustler.” Ryan made his controversial remarks on Bill Bennett’sMorning in America radio show last week, when he answered a question regarding the “fatherless…