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☆ Senator blocks $75 million in U.S. military aid to Egypt over rights concerns
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Humeyra Pamuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Egypt has missed out on an additional $75 million in American military aid after a senior Democratic U.S. senator blocked the funding over concerns about Cairo’s human rights record including holding political prisoners. We all have a responsibility to uphold the law and to defend the due process rights of the accused, whether here or in Egypt,” Leahy said. The United States allocates around $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt annually. Talks between his office and the State Department failed to resolve the issue, and the $75 million in funding expired on Sept. 30. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy hospitalized 'as a precaution' after not feeling well
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Patrick Leahy, 82, was taken to a Washington area hospital "as a precaution" on Thursday after not feeling well at his home in Virginia, his office said. The Democrat from Vermont was expected to undergo tests and "remain overnight for observation," his office said in a written statement released shortly after 8 p.m. eastern time. The statement said his office would release updates as they became available. Senator, announced last year that he would not seek re-election to the seat he has held since 1975. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Sandra Maler and Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Claver-Carone denied in an interview with Reuters on Monday that he ever had an intimate relationship with the staffer and said he was planning legal action against the bank. Cuban-American Claver-Carone was nominated for a five-year term then-President Donald Trump and took office in October 2020. He is planning legal action against the bank, he told Reuters. Claver-Carone told Reuters he did so because the phone contained confidential texts from world leadersHe said he felt let down by the U.S. government. "I've never felt so betrayed by my country," Claver-Carone told Reuters, saying he had never been told by the bank's legal counsel what to expect from the investigative process.

There’s no palpable hunger for a shutdown so close to the Nov. 8 midterm elections, so Congress must pass a bill by midnight Sept. 30 to avert a lapse in funding. “The cleaner the bill is, the more likely” it is to pass quickly, said Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D. He wants tens of billions for Covid, and he says the pandemic is over,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a physician. Cases, hospitalizations, deaths, mental health aspects of Covid, long Covid. But conservatives are rebelling, saying Congress should push the issue into 2023 in the hope that the GOP will seize the majority and write legislation to its liking.

☆ LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman visits Capitol Hill as the Saudi-backed league battles the PGA Tour
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jack Stebbins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

LIV CEO and commissioner Greg Norman watches play on the third hole during the final round of the LIV Golf Invitational Series Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois. LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman will be visiting Capitol Hill this week to meet with members of Congress, as the Saudi-backed league tangles with the PGA Tour. The LIV Golf league was founded as a competitor to the PGA Tour and is financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. LIV has already poached major golfers such as Phil Mickelson from the PGA Tour, and Norman himself is a former tour star. The LIV Saudi Golf League is not that.

☆ Some of Congress' youngest members have famously flamed out. Can a candidate be too young to serve?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

More youthful representation would better serve the country, young members of Congress say. But members of Congress, political scientists, and strategists generally don't blame age for these downfalls — leaders both young and old are prone to controversy. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history in 2019 as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 29. "I was always accustomed to being the youngest," Schatz told Insider at the Capitol. The nation needs "more principled members of Congress," Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, 35, told Insider, adding: "It doesn't matter their age."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the veteran Democratic lawmaker who told reporters Monday he will not seek re-election in Vermont, holds impressive distinctions. Leahy went on to appear in "Batman & Robin" (1997), "The Dark Knight" (2008), "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016). "The Dark Knight" gave Leahy his juiciest role outside Capitol Hill — as well as his most cherished Batman cameo, according to David Carle, Leahy's press secretary. "He scared the heck out of me, when he came at me with the knife," Leahy told the political publication Roll Call. "I have too many other things going on with Covid, with appropriation bills," Leahy told the newspaper in August 2020.

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