Former President Bill Clinton defended his decision to repeal the Depression-era regulation on banking known as Glass-Steagall that splits up large financial institutions and was championed by the liberals. Politicians following the financial crash fear anything they do is going to be held against them later if something bad happens, Clinton said during an interview. […]
Poll: Hillary Clinton Losing Iowa to Four GOP Candidates
Hillary Clinton would not fare well in Iowa as a new poll released by a company that is Democratic-leaning, shows the Democratic frontrunner trailing several Republican opponents. The Public Policy Polling survey or PPP released on Tuesday showed that Clinton got the worse of four matchups with GOP candidates, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee […]
Justice Department Fights Ruling of Family Detention
The White House administration is asking that a federal judge reconsider the ruling she made that called for releasing tens of thousands of immigrant children and their mothers who attempted to cross the border between Mexico and the U.S. illegally. The response of 60 pages was filed late on Thursday in which lawyers for the […]
Donald Trump and Fox News at War
Donald Trump is taking on Fox News after receiving a number of pointed and at times quite aggressive questions during the presidential debate held Thursday night in Cleveland, Ohio. The real estate mogul and 2016 Presidential candidate started to toss his rhetorical bombs following the Thursday debate taking his anger to Twitter and the small […]
Martin O’Malley Upset Over Rules in Democratic Debate
Martin O’Malley’s plans for organizing debate outside the established six-debate framework that the Democratic National Committee announced, is a move that flouts party rules and would risk excluding the former governor of Maryland from the sanctioned debuts. O’Malley, who is trying hard to gain traction in his campaign against Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination […]
Senators Patrick Murphy and Chris Leahy Support Nuclear Plan
Senators Patrick Leahy and Chris Murphy, both Democrats, backed the nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday, becoming the most recent Democrats in Washington’s upper chamber to endorse the deal ahead of a recess of five weeks. The test on the agreement, said Murphy is quite simple: is it less likely that Iran would obtain a […]
Senate Democrats Boycott Vote on Climate Rule
Democrats in the Senate walked out of their committee meeting on Wednesday, which denied a quorum for the Republicans that they needed to pass a measure to overturn the climate rule President Obama announced for power plants. Senator Barbara Boxer a Democrat from California and the top Democrat on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works […]