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Having ruled out a grand coalition with either the anti-establishment Five Star Movement or former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right party, Bersani will depend on senators’ willingness to support specific measures.
This year, in addition to electing a president and members of parliament, voters will elect senators, county governors, and other political leaders.
The fossil-fuel industry spends heavily on lobbying and the campaigns of congressmen such as Senators Mitch McConnell and James Inhofe.
Two-thirds of the US Senate’s 100 members are needed, and 29 senators have already questioned the wisdom of expansion.
I was truly impressed that this small synagogue could marshal the presence of New York’s two senators, Clinton and Charles Schumer, and several other congressmen for an early breakfast gathering.
And some Republican senators are finally breaking ranks with Trump over the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (a pet of both Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner) in the grisly murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Unlike Trump, the senators refused to subordinate the moral and real-world implications of permitting a foreign government to murder a US-based journalist to the president’s exaggerated claims about the Kingdom’s future arms purchases and its supposed strategic role in curbing Iran’s regional ambitions.
Of the 26 senators representing the 13 former Confederate states today, 21 are Republicans and five are Democrats.
Of the 38 senators now representing the 19 northern states of 1861, 27 are Democrats and nine are Republicans (two Independents, Bernie Sanders and Angus King, caucus with the Democrats).
Southern white male senators play up the culture war in part to shield the Republicans’ mega-rich donors, who feast on corporate tax cuts and environmental deregulation while the party scapegoats African-Americans and Hispanics.
The new constitution eliminated the so-called “authoritarian enclaves” by subordinating the armed forces to civilian rule and removing their designated senators from Parliament.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Ben Sasse have also denounced Trump as a threat to American freedom and to world peace.
Time to Ratify New STARTWARSAW – As a long-time observer of American politics, I know that United States senators will decide whether to ratify New START, the arms control treaty with Russia negotiated this year, on the basis of a thorough evaluation of their country’s national interests.
The US remains the world’s most powerful state, however, and the senators’ decision will inevitably have an impact beyond their country’s borders.
I hope that US senators take into account the view from Warsaw in making their decisions.
This is highly unlikely to occur, especially in an election year, given that it would require 13 Democratic senators and 48 Democratic representatives to break with US President Barack Obama.
Twenty-three Democratic US senators (plus two independents who caucus with the Democrats), and only eight Republican senators, are up for reelection in 2018.
Likewise, the Republicans elected several conservative senators and a sizeable number of more conservative House members.
Among the most disingenuous arguments made by the Republican senators who sponsored the latest repeal effort was that their bill offered a choice between socialism and federalism.
It reflected the will of the Republican leadership in Congress, including the 22 Republican senators who sent Trump a letter the week before, calling on him to withdraw from the Paris accord.
These senators, and their counterparts in the House of Representatives, are on the take of the oil and gas industry, which spent $100 million on campaign contributions in 2016, of which 90% went to Republican candidates.
estimates that JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank holding company, spent close to $8 million in political contributions in 2011, and that Dimon and his company donated to most senators on the committee.
Not surprisingly, the senators’ questions were overwhelmingly gentle, and JPMorgan Chase’s broader lobbying strategy appears to be paying off; “investigations” of irresponsible and system-threatening mismanagement will likely end up as whitewash.
In the end, three Republican senators jumped ship, siding with the American people rather than with the Kochs.
Two of the most influential senators also come from California.
But America’s security and military establishment, together with Republican senators like John McCain, are unlikely to allow Trump to “Make Russia Great Again” by surrendering both Syria and Ukraine.
In the US, a group of senators has introduced the “Honest Ads Act,” which would extend the rules that apply to print, radio, and television to social media.
Dubbed “Cardin-Lugar” after its bipartisan sponsors, Senators Ben Cardin and Dick Lugar, Section 1504 codifies one important aspect of transparency in the sector by requiring oil, gas, and mining companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange to report payments made to the governments of countries in which they operate.
And the Republican senators who rallied behind the nomination of US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, despite his misleading testimony and entirely credible evidence of past sexual misbehavior, have shown it’s not true.
The senators argue that the military needs a new tribunal with “impartial justices,” rather than the “leftists” of the JEP.
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