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Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. October 3, 2023. Editorial: Censorship is dangerous, no matter where it is We want to talk about censorship today. A pair of items put it back on our agenda. It’s Banned Books Week. Unlike prior decades, when many of the...
Speaker McCarthy ousted in historic House vote, as scramble begins for a Republican leader
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political...
These 8 Republicans stood apart to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy had support from 208 members of his conference to remain as House speaker. But it took only eight dissenters in his party to boot him from the job. A handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to make history as McCarthy became the first...
House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers, frays relationships and roils Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker “is hereby declared vacant. ” For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil. “Now...
Trump turns his fraud trial into a campaign stop as he seeks to capitalize on his legal woes
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's court appearances are no longer distractions from his campaign to return to the White House. They are central to it. The dynamic was on full display this week as the former president and GOP front-runner returned to New York for the opening days of a...
Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina is the leader of the House, at least for now
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Kevin McCarthy got pushed out of his job as House speaker, in part by colleagues who helped put him on the dais nine months ago, one of his top lieutenants stepped in to preside — at least temporarily. North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry took the gavel...
Pence calls Trump's attacks on Milley 'utterly inexcusable' at AP-Georgetown foreign policy forum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday criticized his former boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor over phone calls he made to China in the final stormy months of their...
Mike Pence says he is 'deeply disappointed' in vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence, the former vice president, chastised a group of hard-right Republicans who ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as House speaker Tuesday, saying that “chaos is never America’s friend.” Pence was onstage at a national...
Oklahoma's Republican governor wants to cut taxes. His GOP colleagues aren't sold on the idea.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt renewed his pitch on Thursday for lawmakers to reduce the state's individual income tax rate, but not all of his Republican colleagues in the Legislature are sold on the idea. On the first day of a special session to consider Stitt's...
Wisconsin Senate Republicans vote to reject commissioner who backed disputed top elections official
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate's elections committee retaliated Tuesday against one of the three Democratic elections commissioners who tried to block them from voting to fire the state's nonpartisan top elections official earlier this year. The...
