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Ogles is a member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus who reintroduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris last week after she launched her presidential campaign. He chases headlines, not results.”Johnston also had a boost from a super PAC, Conservatives with Character, that is funded by some prominent Tennessee donors and politicians, including former GOP Sen. Bill Frist. Former GOP Sen. Bob Corker also donated to Johnston’s campaign. A former county mayor, Ogles won a crowded primary in 2022 with just 35% percent of the vote, saying at the time, “We’re at war. This is a political war, a cultural war, and it’s a spiritual war.”Ogles is expected to carry the GOP-leaning 5th District in November.

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☆ Former GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe, famous for throwing a snowball in the Senate chamber, dead at 89
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, has died at age 89, Tulsa World and Politico report. AdvertisementThe Oklahoma Republican first became chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2003, and served as the committee's top Republican until 2017. Inhofe's position as chair of the environmental committee offered him a prominent platform from which he denied the science behind climate change. But despite his record on climate change, Inhofe notably had a warm friendship with his counterpart Boxer, a liberal Democrat who was outspoken about the need to address climate change. Advertisement"Jim is a climate change denier, he is really, really conservative," said Sanders, noted that even praising Inhofe had the potential to "probably ruin his political career."

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☆ How Kyrsten Sinema — who once said she could 'do anything' if she lost reelection — can get rich now that she's retiring from the Senate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kyrsten Sinema once said she could "do anything" after leaving the Senate, according to one book. Now that she's retiring, Sinema has all kinds of get-rich-quick options available to her. According that book, Sinema told the Utah Republican that she didn't care about winning reelection, a prospect that had long been imperiled by breaking with her party on government spending and the Senate's "filibuster" rule. Former Sen. Ben Sasse is set to make millions from his new role as a college president. Tasos Katopodis-Pool/Getty ImagesSinema could also seek to become a college president, as she purportedly once told Romney — and she could get rich doing it.

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☆ Former GOP Sen. Bob Corker says he's not surprised Mitt Romney isn't running for re-election because politics are 'not as conducive' to problem-solving as they once were
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ex-Sen. Bob Corker said he wasn't surprised to hear of Mitt Romney's retirement from the Senate. "I understand why he might want to spend time doing other types of things," Corker told Politico. Corker, who served 12 years in the Senate, said he's had no trouble adjusting to life outside. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The ex-lawmaker has assumed top roles in real estate, healthcare, and banking as part of his post-Senate life.

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☆ Fulton County special grand jury recommended charges against Lindsey Graham, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Sara Murray Jason Morris Jeremy Herb Marshall Cohen | Sara Murray | Jason Morris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The special grand jury in Fulton County investigating the 2020 presidential election in Georgia recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, according to the special counsel grand jury report released Friday. It was up to the district attorney to decide how closely to stick to the special grand jury’s recommendations. Graham, who appeared before the special grand jury last year after a court battle over his testimony, spoke with Georgia election officials after the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney previously released very limited portions of the special grand jury’s final report, holding back the full release until after Willis announced indictments.

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☆ Former GOP Senator James Inhofe retired because of long COVID symptoms. Other colleagues have it but keep it secret, he said.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Republican Senator James Inhofe said he retired due to long COVID symptoms. During his time in office, the Oklahoma senator repeatedly voted against COVID protections. The CDC estimated that one in five American adults with the disease suffers from long COVID symptoms. He said "five or six" other political colleagues have long COVID, "but I'm the only one who admits it." In March 2020, Inhofe voted against the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which broadly expanded benefits for those affected by the pandemic.

☆ The US military says China now has more ICBM launchers than it does, but the US still has the nuclear edge
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The US military says that China now has more ICBM launchers than Washington does. However, the US still has an edge in the number of ICBMs and nuclear warheads it has. "The number of land-based fixed and mobile ICBM launchers in China exceeds the number of ICBM launchers in the United States," Cotton wrote in letters sent to the respective committees on January 26, letters obtained by Insider. He also said that the "number of nuclear warheads equipped on such missiles of China has not exceeded the number of nuclear warheads equipped on such missiles of the United States." That said, China's edge in land-based fixed and mobile launchers does bring Beijing closer to fielding a more robust ICBM capacity.

☆ Georgia voters have their final say in the 2022 midterms, rejecting misinformation and the state of modern politics: 'There are just too many crazy people out there'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While some pointed to their civic duty and a dislike of the GOP for voting, others cited trust. "We just can't have it where people can just spill out false information," an Atlanta-area voter told Insider. Another voter, Dani, who declined to giver her last name, decried the state of negative advertisement in modern politics. "There's no way that Herschel Walker should represent any city, state, country, you name it," he told Insider. At Druid Hills High School in suburban DeKalb County, Jim Perkins told Insider that there were "too many crazy people" in politics and he had to cast a ballot because of it.

☆ Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Grace Panetta | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

☆ Rep. Marie Newman and her husband are packing their stock portfolio with COVID-19 vaccine makers and other pandemic-sensitive companies
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-21 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Democratic Rep. Marie Newman's husband has an active stock portfolio. Jim Newman, chief operating officer at Figo Pet Insurance, bought and sold stock in companies that either soared or sputtered during the pandemic, including Pfizer and Moderna, the companies behind the nation's two leading COVID-19 vaccines. Financial disclosures show Jim Newman sold up to $65,000 in Moderna stock on January 2. By February, he turned his interest to Pfizer, twice trading as much as $15,000 worth in the company's stock shares that month. For instance, Newman sold as much as $250,000 in Netflix stock in January, as much as $50,000 in Apple stock in February, and as much as $50,000 in Salesforce stock in January.

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