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☆ GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham says abortion 'is not a states' rights issue,' weeks after expressing that 'states should decide the issue of abortion'
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Graham during a Monday "Fox & Friends" interview said abortion was "not a states' rights issue." Last month, he said during a CNN discussion that states "should decide the issue of abortion." "This is not a state's rights issue. This is a human right issue," Graham said on Monday. "I've been consistent — I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion," he said at the time.
☆ Ron DeSantis said the migrants he flew to Martha's Vineyard 'hit the jackpot' — but immigration experts say the stunt more closely resembles a 'different shade of family separation'
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Ron DeSantis defended his decision to fly dozens of migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. Over the weekend, he suggested that those migrants "hit the jackpot" by landing in Massachusetts. "Florida is not on the US-Mexico border, so the migrants were transported to Martha's Vineyard from Texas on Floridians' dime." It's carefully-chosen language on DeSantis' part but doesn't represent the reality for most migrants, according to immigration experts. The migrants who landed in Martha's Vineyard last week were given misleading brochures promising cash assistance and job placement services before touching down on the island, according to lawyers for the migrants.
☆ Liz Cheney supporters say they are the 'silent majority' in Wyoming as Trump tries to oust her from Congress
  + stars: | 2022-06-07 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is in an intense political battle to hold on to her seat in Congress. "The people who hate Liz Cheney will gladly stand at their pulpit and scream it to the ends of the world," Landon Brown, a state lawmaker who supports Cheney, told Insider. And I do believe when it comes to Liz Cheney and the rest of the Republican Party, there's gonna be some pretty damning upsets." Anytime that we needed her, her help, she was there," Pete Obermueller, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, told Insider. The Wyoming Republican Party also censured her, and later voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican.
☆ 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.
☆ Congressional stock report: Diet Coke-loving Debbie Dingell buys the competition, environmentalist Lois Frankel eyes oil, and Dan Crenshaw gets his move on
  + stars: | 2021-03-29 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Members of Congress regularly make stock trades and are required to disclose them. Here's Insider's compilation of the most recent stock trades lawmakers disclosed. Her stock sales include the American Express Company, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc., and oil company Hess Corporation. Dingell this month also sold up to $50,000 worth of stock in the parent company of department store Macy's. These disclosures, which include a range of information about members' income, assets, debt, and financial trades, were originally due May 17.
☆ SCOOP: Sen. Dianne Feinstein fails to disclose husband's stock purchase, says she's willing to pay a fine
  + stars: | 2021-01-27 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, investment banker Richard Blum, invested up to $50,000 in polling firm The Generation Lab. But the Democratic lawmaker didn't disclose the purchase until this month, weeks after a federal deadline. Feinstein has not yet been contacted by the Senate Ethics Committee on whether she will face a fine, Mentzer added. Members of Congress are generally allowed to buy and sell individual stocks — to the chagrin of some government reform advocates — so long as they publicly disclose the transactions. Not until May did Feinstein publicly disclose her husband's Facebook stock purchase, investigative journalism outfit Sludge revealed later in 2018.
☆ These are all the federal crimes Trump extremists could be charged with after their attack on the US Capitol
  + stars: | 2021-01-08 | by ( Dave Levinthal | Tina Sfondeles | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +17 min
Federal authorities and other law enforcement will likely make more arrests within days, if not hours. "These fools made it easy for law enforcement to find them because they were posing for pictures. An Insider analysis of the United States Code, coupled with interviews with several leading experts on federal law, identified more than a dozen different federal crimes that could apply to Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding government officialsVideos both inside and outside the Capitol showed numerous pro-Trump extremists physically fighting with and otherwise interfering with federal law enforcement and other government officials. Anyone who "willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States" commits a federal crime.
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