Senator Sonny Angara said he is leaving it up to the upcoming members of the majority to decide who would be the next Senate leader, but is vouching for Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri to be the next Senate president. Angara issued the statement in an interview saying that while
children were killed, he is the person who made sure that we would have no gun control legislation. so, his legacy is a broad one, and while i write about the four years of the trump presidency, because i regard that as a catastrophic failure of government by the senate, his legacy is far broader and more darker. you write of other majority leaders in here, the legendary mike mansfield who had bipartisan admiration, a republican who also had bipartisan respect and admiration as a majority leader, and in none of those models did we see the model for the way mitch mcconnell has operated as a leader in the senate. you know, i think that is right, lawrence. senate leaders always regarded themselves as having a special
he is the person who has done the most damage to the campaign finance system. and he is a person who, after 2013, at sandy hook, when 20 children were killed, he is the person who made sure that we would have no gun control legislation. so, his legacy is a broad one, and while i write about the four years of the trump presidency, because i regard that as a catastrophic failure of government by the senate, his legacy is far broader and more darker. you write of other majority leaders in here, the legendary mike mansfield who had bipartisan admiration, a republican who also had bipartisan respect and admiration as a majority leader,
investigation into former president trump and his company is full steam ahead. this despite speculation that the case was closed following the high profile departure of two senior prosecutors. let s bring in cnn correspondent kara scannell. you spoke with the manhattan d.a., under a lot of pressure here, what did he tell you? these were his first public statements since those two prosecutors resigned. and they resigned because they said he would not authorize them to seek an indictment of the former president donald trump. so in this interview yesterday, he really wanted to make the point that this investigation is ongoing, it is active, they re still interviewing witnesses and said they re reviewing new evidence and as to those prosecutors departure, he said he wanted them to follow other avenues. he said there was more work to be done. and i asked him, you know, there is a lot of speculation that maybe the office is being too conservative, because donald trump is the former presid
Southern senators in the sixties who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote afterward chief vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. When were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern it isnt an american concern. This is about the american peoples right to vote. Unfettered. It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way, because nobody is debating i dont believe, whether all americans have the right to vote. The bottom line is that the president and i are very clear to support as one, to support the john lewis Voting Rights act and the fight is not over. Since january of this year, just since january at least 14 states have a net did 22 new laws that restrict access to voting.