McConnell Says Federal Government Will Not Close
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday said he would get legislation passed to fund the federal government in time to avoid any agency shutdowns on Oct. 1.
McConnell sets up Senate vote on abortion ban
The Senate will soon vote on a bill that would prevent most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Judicial Watch: Five-Month Gap in Clinton Emails
There’s five months’ worth of gaps in the emails former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton turned over to the government, and a watchdog group dogging the data dump wants “an explanation about that.”
Tech company: Clinton ‘server wasn’t wiped’
Platte River Networks, the company that managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server, says the server “wasn’t wiped,” making tens of thousands of deleted emails potentially recoverable, reported the Washington Post.
Senate Democrats Block GOP Push to Derail Obama’s Iran Deal
President Barack Obama achieved perhaps the greatest foreign policy victory of his six years in office on Thursday, when a Republican-backed effort to kill the Iran nuclear agreement was narrowly blocked in the U.S. Senate, clearing the way for the deal’s implementation.
Obama Wants Filibuster, Not Vote, on Iran Deal
President Obama now has the support he needs to uphold a veto of any legislation against the Iranian nuclear deal, but apparently that’s not enough for him. He still wants Democrats in both houses to filibuster the vote; that is, to prevent it altogether.
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