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☆ Ruben Gallego hopes his unusual path to the Senate will ‘nudge’ Democrats — and the chamber
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

So there’s like nothing really shocks or surprises me anymore when things happen,” Gallego told CNN as he walked back from his ceremonial swearing-in in the old Senate chamber on Friday. “I’m just very lucky to experience a lot of good stuff, at least.”Intense ambition and drive are what make Gallego like any other member of the Senate. He recorded an ad for Gallego in the Senate campaign. Gallego will be different from many in the Senate, but Kelly said that it comes down to being able to “nudge the thing in a certain direction. “So I think the future of this country is more in the line of what Ruben represents.

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☆ Trump got the perfect birthday present: complete capitulation by the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Donald Trump got his 78th birthday present a day early — a handshake from his longtime bitter critic, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, encapsulating the Republican Party’s complete submission to its presumptive presidential nominee. They were provoked by the president.” He said Trump was morally and practically responsible for the assault on his beloved Capitol. “There’s tremendous unity in the Republican Party,” the ex-president said. Vance, was asked how some senior Republicans who had condemned Trump after January 6 could meet and applaud him now. “I think it’s a good thing and the Republican Party is in a good place.”Vance is not wrong.

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☆ Why dragging tech CEOs in front of Congress might mean something this time
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. But his consistent criticism of some of the real issues happening in Big Tech has sometimes reminded me of a classic Clickhole headline: "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point." Section 230 is controversial and has become a rallying point for some conservatives and others, who think it allows Big Tech to hide from criticisms that it isn't fair to all sides. Clearly, these big platforms haven't succeeded — sometimes motivated by a whole bunch of internal factors, including profit. AdvertisementBut if there were some magic bullet to stop child exploitation, I truly believe the companies would've used it by now.

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☆ Biden called Republicans' arguments that student-loan forgiveness is a political strategy and should be blocked 'both unsurprising and legally insignificant'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Republicans claimed Biden's student-debt relief should be blocked because it was a political move. In a legal filing, Biden said that argument is "unsurprising and legally insignificant." "That the policy is consistent with one of 'the President's policy goals,' is both unsurprising and legally insignificant," the defense stated. But some Democratic lawmakers have acknowledged the political benefits to the relief — and they said it's a good thing. "Canceling student-loan debt for more than 40 million Americans would persuade a lot of young people that this president is in the fight for them," she said.

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