U.S.Senate Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

CNN. Backers of the bill had previously hoped that it would receive an up-or-down vote prior to November’s elections, with Collins saying she hoped Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wouldn’t intentionally delay a vote on the measure to use as a cudgel against non-supportive senators in the midterms. Schumer had previously been expected to file for cloture on the bill this week, but the five senators lobbying Republicans — Baldwin, Collins, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) — said they had asked him for additional time. The five previously drafted a “consensus amendment” to add to the bill that protects religious liberty and the tax-exempt status of religious institutions, but getting Republicans to sign onto the bill has proven difficult.Due to Senate rules, and near-unanimous support from Democrats for the Respect for Marriage Act, backers need to garner at least 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster, as 60 votes are needed to start, and stop, debate on the legislation before it receives a final up-or-down vote.Collins told Axios that other Republicans have provided their own suggestions with language they’d like to see added to the bill.

push forward with a $433 billion climate change, drug pricing, and tax bill that they have prioritized instead.According to Reuters, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), one of only two LGBTQ senators in the chamber, said she now expects the bill to be brought up after the August recess, which stretches from Aug.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGreta Van Susteren says she just couldn’t stay away from the immediacy of cable news.For the past few years, Van Susteren, one of the few anchors who can say they have been employed by  CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel, has been working as a political analyst for Gray Television and doing a show for Voice of America. Now, she’s about to get back on the grid as an anchor leading the 6 p.m. hour for conservative news outlet Newsmax.“Gray has been really fun, but here’s the big difference — there really is nothing like live news,” Van Susteren tells Variety.

Jimmy Kimmel clearly isn’t supporting Dr. Oz’s run for the U.S. Senate.

Hillbilly Elegy, and Josh Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer and two-time U.S. Senate candidate who is back for his third run,  blames Democrats and President Biden for NCAA rules that allow transgender females to compete on women’s sports teams in her most recent campaign commercial, reports The Hill..Given Vance and Mandel’s previous appeals to social conservatives by attacking the transgender and two-spirit communities, Timken, the third of three frontrunners in the GOP field — who heretofore was viewed as the more “establishment” figure — is hoping the ad gains traction and allows her to consolidate Republican primary voters behind her campaign.Thomas, who previously competed for UPenn’s men’s swimming team during her first three years in college, has particularly become a favorite target of conservatives, who balk at the idea that she was allowed to compete in women’s swimming after having received hormone therapy for two-and-a-half years (under NCAA rules, trans women are able to compete after finishing a year of hormone therapy).

SAG-AFTRA is praising the passage Friday of the CROWN Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, HR 2116, would prohibit discrimination in education and employment based on a person’s texture or style of hair. Several states, including California and New York, already have such laws.

Lisa Kennedy “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” begins with the former Arizona representative placing flowers in memorial vases for victims of gun violence. With a voiceover rife with potent pauses, her cadence sounds for a moment like a spoken word poem. While her rhythm is indeed intentional and meaningful, it’s not out of a sense of artistry.

low approval ratings — even among people who previously voted for him in 2020 — Biden attempted to use his speech as a reset for his presidency, decrying Russia and its power-hungry President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine while offering praise and support for the Ukrainian resistance, and seeking to clarify his (and by extension, his party’s) positions on various domestic issues by calling for programs and bills that would make Americans’ lives easier, fight inflation, get the country back to “normal” following a two-year interruption caused by the pandemic, and calling on states and cities to deal with rising crime rates by fully funding police using money appropriated by the American Rescue Plan.But as he went through the litany of various domestic concerns, Biden seemingly hit on many of the issues and promises he had run on as a candidate for president, even though much of his priorities have been killed in the U.S. Senate, due to the inability to gain 60 votes to overcome the silent filibuster (exacerbated by the refusal of traditionalists to change Senate rules to either eliminate or reduce the 60-vote threshold, or require the minority to actively filibuster pieces of legislation, thereby calling attention to their opposition) as well as political posturing by conservative Democrats like Sens.

Beckel was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale’s Presidential run, but when that failed, he joined Fox News as a political analyst and the only liberal featured on the conservative network. He later became the co-host of Fox talk show, The Five, but was fired following back surgery. He would hop on the campaign trail again in 2002 working for Idaho’s democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Alan Blinken. However, he resigned after getting wrapped up in an extortion plot involving a sex worker.

Mehmet Oz, the celebrity cardiologist who recently ended his daytime TV "Dr. Oz Show" to run for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, will be honored Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — just as he is being attacked 2,000 miles away in a rival's TV ad saying he's too "Hollywood." The award underscores how successful Oz was before he gave up his TV show to run for public office.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Mehmet Oz, the celebrity cardiologist who recently ended his daytime TV “Dr.

Politico.Cruz, meanwhile had argued that the United States needed to take a tougher stance on the pipeline, fearing that the arrangement will strengthen Russia’s financial standing and make Germany beholden to Russia, which has recently been threatening to interfere in Eastern Europe, including sending troops to the Ukrainian border for what some analysts fear will be a military invasion.On Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a deal in which the Senate would vote on

Ellise Shafer administratorDr. Oz is officially running for U.S.

Kyrsten Sinema wore a jean jacket vest Tuesday to preside over the U.S. Senate, and the hosts of “The View” were still absolutely gobsmacked over it on Thursday’s episode.

Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir centering on Vance’s own upbringing in Appalachia, the cultural values of the region, and the financial distress and high levels of poverty that have resulted from the loss of blue-collar jobs like factory work.The 37-year-old Vance has sought to style himself in the mold of former President Donald Trump by appealing to cultural conservatives and blue-collar white voters.

Out in National Security. She also previously worked for the U.S.

issued a formal apology for the government-sponsored discrimination against LGBTQ members of the foreign service and civilian employees at the State Department.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Samantha Power as the next U.S. Agency for International Development administrator.

WASHINGTON – With President Biden’s first 100 days in office coming to a close, the Equality Act doesn’t appear even close to passage after his campaign promise to sign the legislation into law within that timeframe, although defenders say talks are ongoing and point to his executive actions in favor of LGBTQ rights.

Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday.

campaign ad on Wednesday pitching himself as a defender of conservative values who would wrest control of the U.S. Senate from the Democratic Party and the political Left, to which the party is allegedly beholden (despite myriad evidence to the contrary).

Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, speaks during a virtual press conference on March 20, 2020, about COVID-19 cases and infections in the state. Photo: State of Pennsylvania.

See also: Donald Trump says women’s sports will “die” if transgender athletes are allowed to competeIn the end, the Senate rejected many of the more than two dozen amendments to the bill, which passed on party lines, 50-49.

Taylor Swift has said she’s got her “fingers crossed” that a major bill for LGBTQ+ rights will pass through the U.S. Senate.The singer celebrated on Thursday evening (February 25), after the House of Representatives voted 224-206 to pass H.R.

The ReidOut on MSNBC, Kenyatta made the announcement that he would be seeking the seat currently held by Sen. Pat Toomey (R), who recently announced he would not run for re-election in two years.“There’s nothing written on a tablet somewhere that says America has to succeed,” he told Reid.

Donald Trump‘s second impeachment trial has ended and the former President of the United States was acquitted by the U.S. Senate.

Defense attorney Bruce Castor was compared to the inept lawyer from the movie "My Cousin Vinny" following his opening argument in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate.

The second impeachment trial of now former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT in the U.S. Senate, in the same building where just more than a month ago a pro-Trump mob uprising led to five deaths and an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection” drafted against Trump.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 78-22 to confirm Antony Blinken as the next secretary of state. The vote took place a day after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced his nomination.

Just ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden announced he will be appointing Dr. Rachel Levine to the position of assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Levine would be the first out transgender person appointed to a federal position, should she be approved by the U.S. Senate.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told "America’s Newsroom" on Tuesday that she doesn’t "operate out of fear" regarding her decision to turn on President Trump following last week's violence at the U.S.

Glamour, of her W.N.B.A. colleagues' decision to devote their time off the court, during a pandemic, to flipping the U.S.

Victories by Democrats in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff elections breathed new life into activists’ hopes for passage of the Equality Act and several other pro-LGBTQ bills that were previously thought to be dead on arrival under a Republican-controlled Senate.On Tuesday evening, Rev.

Who would you rather have write the U.S. Senate’s next budget — Lindsey Graham or Bernie Sanders? This is among the choices before Georgia’s voters on Tuesday.

At least 3 million people have already cast early votes in the Georgia runoff elections, in what has been a 2-month sprint that will likely determine which party gets the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorPresident Donald Trump is promising to drum up a burst of political theater in his waning weeks in office, starting with Wednesday’s election certification procedure in the U.S. Senate.Even after four years of drama and desperation, Trump proved he hasn’t lost his power to shock after the Washington Post released audio of a telephone conversation the President held Jan.