Showing posts with label Susan Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Collins. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ceding tariff authority to the executive was the Congress' way of escaping the political consequences of fulfilling their responsibilities under the constitution, but that may be changing

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 The phenomenon is mirrored in the states by the enthusiasm for referenda, aka ballot measures, which are promoted as democracy but are in f...
Monday, March 17, 2025

This is brutal: A list of Senate Democrats who were all for last week's failed filibuster after they were against it

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 In the first column are 30 Democrats who infamously voted to abolish the filibuster late in the evening on Jan 19, 2022, which failed 48-5...
Friday, March 7, 2025

A few GOP senators are not happy with Trump on Ukraine

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 Republicans press Trump to resume military, intelligence aid to Ukraine   ... Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) ... ... Susan Collins (R-Maine) ......
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Kash Patel confirmed to FBI by the US Senate 51-49

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Saturday, February 1, 2025

You would think a president who needs the votes of a senator from Maine to confirm his nominees would give it a minute before imposing tariffs on Canada, its primary trading partner

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But you would be wrong.  
Friday, January 24, 2025

Pete Hegseth is confirmed to SECDEF 51-50, VP Vance breaks 50-50 tie

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  Republican Senators Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell voted against Pete Hegseth, necessitating the tie-breaking vote from Vice President ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Hegseth advances to a final vote with 51-49 vote to end debate, with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voting against him

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 Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon clears a key hurdle in the Senate I find myself in small company agreeing with two of the mo...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Judicial overreach drives Trump critics within the GOP to support him, including Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Mike Pence

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  Even former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, who has refused to endorse Trump, called the verdict an “outrage.” ... “He might win in a l...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Republican Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney vote to confirm soft-on-sex-crime Judge Jackson to Supreme Court

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                  There was clearly a rush to push Breyer out and confirm a candidate before Biden becomes any less competent in office than...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Peeling off Romney and Collins for a 49-51 result isn't losing "so horribly": That those Republicans cared so little for the constitutional order, which hangs by a thread, should upset us

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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Democrat Adam Schiff alienates more Republican Senators: Murkowski, Barrasso, Collins, Risch and Cotton

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Republican traitors in US Senate AGAIN help Democrats pass bill ending border emergency

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Senate again votes to end Trump emergency declaration on border wall: Senators voted 54-41 on a resolution to end the declaration, whic...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Gotta give it to Trump here, his lizard brain has scared the open borders Republicans out of the bushes for everyone to see

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They think he is weak (he is), but the Republican base is ready to feed on the flesh of these bastards as much as is the lizard himself. ...
Monday, November 12, 2018

And don't forget Mitt Romney now has to be counted on to cooperate

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I can just see it now. Mitt Romney, Lisa Mercowskie and Susan Collins will form the trio of stooges broken by the death of John McCain ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Hillary, Democrats and Twitter (but I repeat myself) incite terrorism against Senator Susan Collins

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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Susan Collins wins one for The Sniffer

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Susan Collins' speech was good but definitely contained too much information

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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Susan Collins was expecting Monday

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

The news just now said Senator Susan Collins is moderate and believes in abortion rights

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In what world is murder moderation?
Friday, July 28, 2017

John McCain, Liza Mercowskee, and Susan Collins vote against skinny repeal, leaving millions in bondage to healthcare mandates

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Bloomberg reports here : The GOP’s ‘skinny’ repeal bill was defeated 49-51, falling just short of the 50 votes needed to advance it. R...