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Cornyn to vote no on resolution nullifying Trump's emergency border wall order

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, one of the top Republicans in the Senate, said Wednesday that he will vote against a House-passed resolution seeking to block President Donald Trump's national emergency order for wall funding.

Beto O'Rourke teases presidential speculation

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

Beto O'Rourke is keeping 'em guessing.

Woman accuses Trump of sexual assault in New York in 1990s

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

(Bloomberg) -- A woman has come forward alleging that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

E. Jean Carroll, an author and columnist, described the alleged assault in an excerpt published Friday by New York magazine from her upcoming book about her experiences with men. The magazine said that Carroll confided in two friends at the time, and that both verified her account now.

Trump issued a statement Friday denying the allegation and saying Carroll made up the story. “I’ve never met this person in my life,” Trump said, despite a picture published by the magazine showing them together at a party. “She is trying to sell a new book -- that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.”

Carroll, 75, is one of at least a dozen women who have come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct by Trump, who formally launched his re-election bid this week.

In the excerpt, Carroll wrote that she ran into Trump at the door of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in late 1995 or early 1996. At the time, she was hosting a TV show called Ask E. Jean TV on America’s Talking, a cable network. She said Trump recognized her from television and asked her advice on buying a present.

She said they headed to the lingerie section, and that Trump grabbed a bodysuit and said she should try it on. They went into a dressing room together, and once the door closed, she alleges that Trump pushed her against the wall.

“He lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” Carroll wrote. “I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his...

Internet reacts to Marianne Williamson's reference to 'dark psychic force'

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

Houston's own Marianne Williamson delivered one of the more striking lines of during Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate.

Biden says he can beat Trump in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

(Bloomberg) -- Democratic front-runner Joe Biden said Monday he plans to campaign during the general election and win in South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, states that have consistently supported Republicans for about four decades.

“We plan on campaigning in the South. I plan on — if I’m your nominee — winning Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. And I believe we can win Texas and Florida, if you look at the polling data now,” the former vice president said at the Poor People’s Campaign forum in Washington. “It’s a marathon — it’s a long way off.”

Georgia most recently backed a Democrat in 1992, and that was Bill Clinton. The last Democrat who carried Georgia, South Carolina and Texas together was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Biden’s remarks came in response to a question about whether he plans to campaign in the South and the Sun Belt. He mentioned that he visited Alabama in 2017 to support Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat who won a special election in the traditionally red state.

“I have no intention of walking away, if I’m the nominee,” Biden said. “If I’m not the nominee, I have no intention of walking away, in trying to help whoever the nominee is to win those states.”

Biden, asked how he plans to get his agenda past Senate Republicans, said it’s not “naive to think we have to work together.” He said he intends to persuade Republicans to support his proposals, and if he cannot he’ll ask voters to throw them out of office.

“You try to persuade. Doesn’t mean you can do it all the time,” he said. “You can shame people to do things the right way.”

Biden’s rival, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, also appeared at the forum. She took a different tack when asked how she would get her agenda past the Senate,...

AOC, Ted Cruz float teaming up on new lobbying ban

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

(Bloomberg) -- Progressive U.S. House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is gaining support from a most unusual source, arch-conservative Republican Senator Ted Cruz, for her suggestion to ban lobbying by former members of Congress.

"Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC," wrote Cruz, an ally of President Donald Trump, in response to her message on Twitter Thursday. "The Swamp would hate it, but perhaps a chance for some bipartisan cooperation?"

Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the most visible of Congress’s new progressive insurgents, didn’t immediately agree, tweeting back that she’d only pair with Cruz if they could "agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc."

"Then I’ll co-lead the bill with you," she wrote.

"You’re on," Cruz responded.

Trump campaigned in 2016 on a promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington, but little has been done to tighten ethics rules aside from a bill passed this year by House Democrats and ignored by Senate Republicans.

Current rules bar former members of the House of Representatives from lobbying their old colleagues for a year after leaving. The Senate has a two-year ban.

"I don’t think it should be legal at ALL to become a corporate lobbyist if you’ve served in Congress," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. "At minimum there should be a long wait period."

Yet many lawmakers -- such as former House Speaker John Boehner, who joined the board of marijuana company Acreage Holdings Inc. -- provide advice on policy for companies, which isn’t covered by the lobbying ban because it doesn’t involve cajoling their onetime colleagues in Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez cited a report from the watchdog group Public Citizen that said almost 60% of the lawmakers who left Congress last year...

Texas landowner tells Congress she doesn't want a border wall in her back yard

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

Unlike the hundreds of cases that have gone to court over the past decade involving people fighting federal seizures of their land on the southwest border, Nayda Alvarez's challenge is tied directly to Trump's two-week old emergency order.

Beto O'Rourke calls on Houstonians to help him win the White House

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

House report details Rick Perry’s involvement in Trump’s Ukraine ‘scheme’

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:50 GMT

Trump’s so-called scheme was “undertaken with the knowledge and approval of” senior administration officials, including Perry, the former Texas governor who stepped down as U.S. Secretary of Energy earlier this week.

Texans on both sides find plenty to not like in government shutdown deal

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

The vote on the budget deal Congress passed Thursday night to avert a second government shutdown reflected the sharp divisions among Texas lawmakers in both parties over President Donald Trump's insistence of money for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican Texas senator John Cornyn quotes Mussolini on Twitter

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

He later explained his intention.

Republican group uses Cruz's words to block Trump's emergency declaration

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

A Republican group opposed to President Donald Trump's emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S. Mexico border is running a new ad on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday using sound bites from Texas Republicans Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposing former President Barack Obama's 2014 order protecting eligible illegal immigrants from deportation.

Pelosi in Laredo to block Trump border emergency, which Democrats say could cost Texas millions

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Laredo Friday to open her push to block President Trump's national emergency declaration, which Democrats say could re-direct nearly $520 million in military construction funds from Texas.

Beto O'Rourke unveils plan for citizenship for Dreamers, 'millions more'

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

Signaling that he may soon announce a 2020 White House run, former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke is putting a finer point on his immigration agenda, releasing a 10-point plan that calls for citizenship for both "Dreamers" and their parents, as well as for "millions more" who now live in the U.S. illegally.

'I honestly don't see color now:' Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tells Houston crowd

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:17:49 GMT

"As somebody who grew up in a very diverse background as a young boy in the projects, I didn't see color as a young boy, and I honestly don't see color now," he said.

'I honestly don't see color now:' Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tells Houston crowd

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