Meet freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) the now infamous alleged author of the Republican open-letter to Iran. As Huffington Post reported back in January, Cotton proved to be “one of the most hardline foreign policy hawks” in the Senate less than a month into his first term as U.S. senator. During an appearance on CNN, […]
Controversy continues to rage on Tuesday over an open-letter by Republicans to Iran that threatens to undermine nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States, Russia and China. Organized by freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), the letter was signed by the entire party leadership in the chamber and by potential presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Ted […]
The New York Times and other sources are reporting that Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York Assembly for the past 20 years, has been arrested on federal corruption charges, “sending shock waves through the political establishment and upending the new legislative session.” According to The New York Times, Silver, a Democrat, surrendered […]
Quietly on a Friday, just two weeks after the mid-term elections, the Republican-led House Select Committee on Intelligence released its final report on the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, clearing the administration of any wrong-doing. The investigation took over two years and thousands of hours of “asking questions, poring over […]
So what in the world is up with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and secret tapes? You might recall last April when Mother Jones published an expose about “A recording of a private meeting between the Senate GOP leader and campaign aides reveals how far they were willing to go to defeat the […]