U.S. Senate Republicans push for Mayorkas impeachment trial • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON — More than 40 U.S. Senate Republicans lobbied Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday to hold a full impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Schumer and other Democrats have indicated they’d be open to immediately voting to dismiss the House-passed articles of impeachment rather than holding a trial in the Senate. The […]
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Aid to Ukraine, Israel overwhelmingly approved by U.S. House in bipartisan vote • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON — Military and humanitarian aid could be on its way to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan within weeks after the U.S. House took a series of overwhelmingly bipartisan votes Saturday to approve $95 billion in emergency assistance — and the Senate appeared poised to agree. The approval in a rare weekend session ended months of […]
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Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson head to general election • Alabama Reflector | #elections | #alabama
Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson are headed to the November general election after winning runoffs Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District. As of 10:26 p.m. Tuesday, Figures, an attorney, had 21,926 votes (61%) while House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, had 13,990 votes (39%) in unofficial returns. In the Republican runoff, […]
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Arkansas delegation outlines support of TikTok ban vote
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Members of the Arkansas delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives all voted in favor of a bill that would mandate the sale of the popular social-media app TikTok. TikTok is owned by the Chinese company BtyeDance. Critics have argued that the company has ties that are too close to China’s […]
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Brewbaker, Dobson head to Republican runoff • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Former Sen. Dick Brewbaker of Pike Road and attorney Caroleene Dobson are headed to a runoff for the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District. Brewbaker had 22,556 votes (39.59%) in unofficial returns Tuesday evening. Dobson had 15,075 votes (26.46%) as of 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, narrowly ahead of Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, who had 14,434 […]
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Barry Moore wins Republican nomination for 1st Congressional District • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, won the Republican nomination Tuesday for the Alabama 1st Congressional District, which stretches from Mobile through the Wiregrass. As of 11 p.m. Tuesday, Moore had 53,805 votes (51.75%) in unofficial returns. U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl, R-Mobile, who currently represents the 1st Congressional District, had 50,156 votes (48.25%). Moore, who currently […]
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Caroleene Dobson calls for action on U.S.-Mexico border • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
This is the last in a series of profiles of candidates in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. Read the profiles here. Real estate attorney Caroleene Dobson said the border needs to be addressed “right now.” A Republican candidate for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District primary, Dobson, like other GOP candidates in the race, is focused on the […]
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A voter’s guide to the Alabama 2nd Congressional District primaries • Alabama Reflector | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Voters in Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District will choose nominees for the seat on Tuesday, and they don’t lack options. Eighteen candidates — 11 Democrats and seven Republicans — are running in the new district, which runs through the southern part of Alabama’s Black Belt, and takes in Montgomery and northern Mobile County. The district […]
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Immigration dominates GOP candidate forum for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Immigration was front and center at forum in Montgomery Thursday for Republican candidates in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. Candidates at the forum hosted at the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association also said, along with Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl, who introduced the candidates, that it’s important the party keeps the seat and maintains a majority in […]
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Alaska Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom announces run for Congress | #alaska | #politics
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom on Dec. 9, 2022. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Alaska Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom will run for Congress, seeking the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Dahlstrom announced her campaign in a prepared written statement and did not immediately answer phone calls seeking additional comment. If elected, Dahlstrom would […]
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