Behindthescenes moments you almost never get to witness in realtime. It all began, it appears, with a citizen, a Sexual Assault survivor confronting republican senator jeff flake this morning. You see some of that right there. Pleading with him not to back Brett Kavanaugh. Now flake had said he would vote for kavanaugh, but then within hours of that confrontation, senator flake did something that we rarely see in this choreographed partisanship era of this congress. And its certainly something rare for many republicans who seem to live in a quivering, quailing surrender to their leader donald trump. Senator flake just took a stand. And on at least one thing he effectively overruled trump are, forcing his colleagues to back this fbi check in order to even get that nomination moved to the floor. And that meant backing democrats. So flake is saying that he would not support kavanaughs nomination until the fbi investigates. This is what im trying to do. This country is being ripped apart h
The Associated Student Government Senate distributed the remaining money in its $30,000 budget for additional funding to student organizations on Tuesday. ASG allocated $28,906 in the first funding senate meeting May 24, but the rest of the funding process was postponed to allow for continued deliberation among senators. Tuesday’s meeting began with a cutting period,.
Aprogressive interest group filed an ethics complaint against a state senator, alleging he had a conflict of interest regarding a bill he was assigned to manage