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☆ Wind and solar will never replace oil and gas, says Sen. Tom Cotton
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWind and solar will never replace oil and gas, says Sen. Tom CottonSen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss the Biden administration's call for a potential windfall tax on major oil companies and more.

☆ Biden's student-debt relief plans aren't enough to restore the value of a college degree as more young people decide to skip it
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

College enrollment has fallen in recent years, part of a broader trend over the past decade. President Joe Biden's student-debt reforms could make college more attractive to some but not all. College enrollment has fallen over 1% since last fall, according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse. While Democratic lawmakers have pushed back on the idea that Biden's student-debt relief will cause tuition to spike, GOP lawmakers have latched onto that criticism. While there are few signs of a significant tuition decline on the horizon, the American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry previously told Insider there had been a flicker of relief.

☆ Rand Paul calls for disqualification of a Democratic Senate candidate over past jokes about the Kentucky Republican's broken rib from a violent neighbor
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GOP Sen. Rand Paul unloaded on Iowa Senate hopeful Mike Franken for mocking him in 2021. Paul suffered broken ribs and lung damage in 2017 during an altercation with a neighbor. Franken asked if the attacker was "more than a little in the right?" "Iowa, send a decent man @GrassleyWorks back to the Senate to keep fighting for you," Cotton wrote online. Franken posted in January 2021 in reply to a recent Paul appearance on Fox News.

☆ Insider asked 38 Republicans whether they're concerned about growing anti-Semitic sentiments in their party. Their responses included silence, deflection, and rehashing old statements.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Insider reached out to House Republican leaders, GOP senators auditioning for the 2024 presidential race, the Republican National Committee, retired GOP lawmakers, seasoned Republican strategists and former Donald Trump administration officials about this disturbing phenomenon. The non-respondents included RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, former Vice President Mike Pence, National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Rick Scott, House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik, Florida Gov. Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, lashed out at West, Trump and House Republican "idiots" cheering on their reprehensible behavior. "You can say that his particular words in this particular case are not antisemitic," Rosen said Tuesday during Commentary's daily podcast. Nor have they convinced House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan to quit hailing West and Trump as personal heroes.

☆ Gordon Sondland says MAGA 'sycophants' like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marjorie Taylor Greene don't know how to manage Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gordon Sondland said MAGA "sycophants" don't know how to deal with Trump. People have to stand up to a "guy like Trump" to earn his respect, Sondland wrote in his new book. "None of the politicians in office, from Ted Cruz to Josh Hawley to Taylor Greene to Tom Cotton, know how to adopt this approach. They're sycophants who built careers on dissembling and playing roles that aren't authentic," Sondland wrote. People do it too infrequently," Sondland wrote.

☆ GOP lawmakers are bashing Biden for driving up inflation, but they could make it worse by extending Trump's tax cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Republicans are eyeing a midterm victory as a method to extend Trump's tax cuts. Biden continues to resist Trump's tax policies but has run into roadblocks from centrist Democrats. But as Republican lawmakers have been blaming Biden for high inflation levels in the country, extending Trump's tax cuts could cause prices to climb because it would stimulate consumer spending, causing demand to overpower supply. The Trump tax cuts have proven to have real political staying power, even with Democrats' razor-thin majority. Any real discussion of the future of the tax cuts probably won't come until 2025, when the individual cuts provision expires.

☆ U.S. Senate rivals Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock debate in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Former college football star and current senatorial candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally in Perry, Georgia, U.S. September 25, 2021. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Republican Herschel Walker's bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia came to a head on Friday when the two rivals met for their sole televised debate in a contentious race that could help determine which party controls the Senate. "There aren't that many people who are undecided in the race," Republican strategist Charlie Black added. An opinion poll conducted by the University of Georgia showed Warnock leading Walker 46% to 43% among likely voters.

☆ Georgia U.S. Senate rivals Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock set for showdown
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Former college football star and current senatorial candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally in Perry, Georgia, U.S. September 25, 2021. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Republican Herschel Walker's bid to unseat Democratic U.S. See you on the debate stage, Herschel Walker," Warnock wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. An opinion poll conducted by the University of Georgia showed Warnock leading Walker 46% to 43% among likely voters. That compares to Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp's 51% to 41% lead over Democrat Stacey Abrams in his re-election race.

☆ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan takes aim at Biden and 'performative' DeSantis amid speculation he's eyeing a 2024 run
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Larry Hogan of Maryland criticized President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a recent speech in New Hampshire, amid growing speculation that he'll seek the White House in 2024. The Florida governor is up for reelection in November and hasn't said he's seeking the White House, but polling shows he's been edging onto Trump as a GOP favorite. Neither the White House nor the Florida governor's office responded to a request for comment before this story's publication. Should Hogan run for president he would join what is becoming a crowded field of GOP potential contenders.

☆ 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.

☆ Sens. Rick Scott and Tom Cotton to campaign for Herschel Walker in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Summer Concepcion | Allie Raffa | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas announced they will travel to Georgia to campaign for Herschel Walker on Tuesday. Last week, The Daily Beast reported allegations that Walker, who supports a ban on abortion without any exceptions, paid for the abortion of a woman in 2009. Today it’s Herschel Walker, but tomorrow it’s the American people.”“I’m on Herschel’s team — they picked the wrong Georgian to mess with," Scott said. National Republicans, including Scott, had rushed to defend Walker after the Daily Beast's reporting of the abortion allegations. The woman who alleged Walker paid for her abortion more than a decade ago also claimed she is the mother of one of his four children, The Daily Beast reported.

☆ Republicans use Biden gaffe about dead congresswoman to bash the aging president and his White House aides
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Biden asked if late Rep. Jackie Walorski was in attendance during a Wednesday press conference. Biden said, referring to an Indiana Republican you died in August. Republicans are demanding apologies, questioning Biden's awareness and dunking on White House aides. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. "To be fair, this is no less truthful than everything else from this White House," the likely 2024 presidential contender wrote on Twitter.

☆ There's overwhelming support for an age limit on the president and Congress. Here's why that won't happen anytime soon.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Some have proposed age limits for elected officials amid concerns about America's gerontocracy. The history of the contemporary movement for term limits largely dates back to the early 1990s, when dozens of states enacted term limits not just for their own legislatures but for their federal representatives in Washington. "Put it this way: I'm a little more interested in term limits than age limits," Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland told Insider. "There's a logic to term limits, because the principle of democracy is taking turns," Raskin, 59, said. "If there were to be term limits, the legislature certainly should have more terms than the executive," he offered.

☆ Old money: How retirees are funding and fueling political candidates unlike ever before
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In the 2020 election cycle, retirees gave hundreds of millions of dollars to federal candidates. Crystal Snow, a 60-year-old retired business owner, also donated hundreds of times to Republican groups ahead of the 2020 election, according to federal records. Snow told Insider she donated according to her Christian values and did so exclusively online, including to the likes of Sens. By the 2020 election cycle, retirees accounted for more than $1 in every $5, amounting to more than $378 million. Retirees are responsible for a greater and greater share of large political contributions, federal campaign finance data indicates.

☆ A 3-way game of geriatric chicken featuring Trump, Biden, and Bernie has younger Democrats and Republicans itching for change
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Darren Samuelsohn | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The 2024 presidential race is already coming into view. These are arguments Biden is readying to run on as Trump — despite his numerous legal troubles — flirts with another White House bid. It's also the case that Sanders' 2024 aspirations remain in their own holding pattern until Biden makes his own formal declaration of his intentions. It's a fact the White House doesn't want to talk about. "The fact they both made it to the White House makes them think they both know how to get to the White House," said Brinkley.

☆ COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-13 | by ( Jamie Roth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

As COVID-19 spread through federal prisons, the Justice Department began a novel experiment: 4,500 prisoners were approved for home confinement with GPS ankle monitors. A federal correctional institution in Englewood, CO. As of May 5, there were 2,066 inmates who’d tested positive for COVID-19 in the federal prison system. "I was just recently released from federal prison," Esquivel wrote him last year on July 3, in their very first text exchange, which the couple shared with Insider. Her defense was enough for Dismas, Esquivel said, and the manager told her they wouldn't recommend any punishment. The next morning at Dismas, Esquivel busied herself as she waited for the bureau's ruling.

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