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Romney, Sasse, Murkowski Among GOP Senators Who Could Vote to Convict Trump
President Trump’s severely weakened standing among his own party will come into focus today when the House is expected to impeach Trump for inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. A handful of Republicans have already said they’ll join the effort, a number that could grow as the vote nears.
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Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski Calls for Trump to Resign: ‘He Has Caused Enough Damage'
Lisa Murkowski said Trump should resign immediately, the harshest rebuke yet from a GOP senator.
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Lisa Murkowski Becomes 2nd GOP Senator to Oppose Pre-Election Supreme Court Vote
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Sunday became the second GOP senator to publicly oppose voting on a new Supreme Court nominee before the November election.
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Following Mattis: More in the GOP Frown on Trump's Tone
President Donald Trump’s inability to unify the nation at a time of grave unrest is testing his uneasy alliance with mainstream Republicans, some emboldened by Gen. James Mattis’ plea for a leader who lives up to the U.S. ideals of a more perfect union
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Murkowski Decries Trump's ‘Shameful' Conduct But Won't Vote to Remove
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, spoke on the Senate floor Monday, criticizing President Donald Trump’s “shameful” conduct in dealing with Ukraine and explaining why she still won’t vote to remove him from office.
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Murkowski Says Trump's Actions ‘Shameful' But She'll Vote to Acquit
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican, said on the Senate floor Monday she’d vote to acquit President Donald Trump even though his actions were “shameful and wrong.” Full the full story, go to NBCNews.com.
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GOP Senator ‘Disturbed' by McConnell Impeachment Remark
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she was disturbed to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be “total coordination” between the White House and the Senate over the upcoming presidential impeachment trial. “And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed,” Murkowski told KTUU Tuesday before saying there should be distance between the White...
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Senate Panel Focuses on Missing, Slain Indigenous Women
Lawmakers pressed the Trump administration on Wednesday to respond with urgency in addressing violence against Native American women and children after they say two officials arrived at a key U.S. Senate hearing unprepared to take concrete positions on a slate of legislation. The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held the hearing in Washington to review five bipartisan measures aimed...
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Senate Rejects Trump Border Emergency as Republicans Defect
In a stunning rebuke, a dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats Thursday to block the national emergency that President Donald Trump declared so he could build his border wall with Mexico. The rejection capped a week of confrontation with the White House as both parties in Congress strained to exert their power in new ways.
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Senate Rejects Trump Border Emergency as Republicans Defect
In a stunning rebuke, a dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats Thursday to block the national emergency that President Donald Trump declared so he could build his border wall with Mexico. The rejection capped a week of confrontation with the White House as both parties in Congress strained to exert their power in new ways.
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Senate Seems to Have Votes to Reject Trump's Wall Move
Opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can’t go along with the White House. The House has voted to derail the action, and if the Senate follows later this month, the measure would...
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Trump Border Emergency Foes in Senate Close on Needed Votes
Senate opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border moved within a hair Thursday of having enough votes to prevail, and one Republican suggested he could face a rejection by the GOP-led chamber if he doesn’t change course. Trump’s move would “turn a border crisis into a constitutional crisis,” veteran Sen. Lamar Alexander said...
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House OKs Democrats' Bill Blocking Trump Emergency on Wall
House Democrats have ignored a veto threat and passed legislation that would stymie President Donald Trump’s bid for billions of extra dollars for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The move has escalated a clash over whether he has abused his powers to advance the signature pledge of his 2016 campaign. The House’s 245-182 vote Tuesday to block Trump’s national emergency declaration...
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Democrats Don't Buy Trump's Shutdown-Ending Compromise
In a bid to break the shutdown stalemate, President Donald Trump offered to extend temporary protections for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones in exchange for his long-promised border wall. But while Trump cast the move as a “common-sense compromise,” Democrats were quick to dismiss it as a “non-starter.” Hoping to put...
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Partial Government Shutdown Likely to Extend Past Christmas
The federal government was expected to remain partially shut down past Christmas as the standoff deepened Saturday over President Donald Trump’s demand for funds to build a border wall with Mexico. With Trump’s insistence on $5 billion for the wall and negotiations with Democrats in Congress far from a breakthrough, even a temporary measure to keep the government running while...
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House Democrats Promise Action on LGBTQ Rights Bill
Just weeks ahead of a midterm election they hope will deliver them a majority, House Democrats are promising to prioritize anti-discrimination legislation that would for the first time establish widespread equal rights protections for LGBTQ individuals. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently said she would introduce the Equality Act as one of her first orders of business if Democrats retake the...
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Senate Vote on Health Care Likely Fodder for Both Parties
Days after ending a turbulent Supreme Court confirmation fight, the Senate turned back to health care — with a battle squarely aimed at coloring next month’s crucial elections for control of Congress. In a return to its characteristically more unruffled mode of work, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a Democratic attempt to stop President Donald Trump from expanding access to...
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How They Did It: The Republicans' Campaign to Save Kavanaugh
Mitch McConnell walked onto the Senate floor for the big vote to save Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination with a secret: He didn’t know how it would turn out. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The Senate majority leader is often seen as a masterful tactician. But he was watching and waiting like the rest of the nation to see if...
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Protests Erupt as Mike Pence Calls for Vote on Kavanaugh
Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly called for order as protesters yelled from the galleries during the Senate confirmation vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
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Bucking Party, Murkowski Charts Her Own Path on Kavanaugh
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the lone Republican who voted against advancing Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, has carved out a path as a fiercely independent senator known for bucking her party. But she didn’t look especially happy about it Friday. Murkowski suggested she will oppose President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this weekend after she became the only GOP senator...