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☆ 3 Palestinian college students shot in Vermont
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Celina Tebor | Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Three Palestinian college students were shot in Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday evening, according to police. Two of the three students were wearing keffiyehs, traditional Palestinian scarves, according to the police department. The victims were transported to the University of Vermont Medical Center, the news release said. Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom, posted on X about the incident, naming the students and identifying them as “three young Palestinian men.”“The hate crimes against Palestinians must stop. CNN has reached out to the University of Vermont, the University of Vermont Medical Center, the students’ universities and Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger.

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☆ Dean Phillips, the Democrat challenging Biden, won't seek reelection to Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota will not seek reelection to Congress in 2024. AdvertisementDemocratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips announced Friday he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2024, saying in a statement that "after three terms it is time to pass the torch." Phillips, a congressman representing Minnesota, has been pursuing a longshot challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024. "Civility matters, respect matters, listening matters, and effective governance matters," he continued. Phillips also apologized to Sen. Bernie Sanders earlier this month for previously dismissing Sanders' complaints about a "rigged" Democratic Party primary system.

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☆ 'We're not here to talk about fights': Drama in Congress is starting to spill over
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Mike Rogers is restrained by Richard Hudson after getting into an argument with Matt Gaetz as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy walks away. AdvertisementWhat happened: Greene called Boebert a "little bitch" on the House floor, according to The Daily Beast. When asked about it, Boebert told CNN, "I'm not in middle school." After his vote, Burchett told CNN that McCarthy had mocked his faith when he told then-speaker that he was praying over his decision. The aftermath: McCarthy told CNN that he did not purposefully run into Burchett.

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☆ Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Bernie Sanders | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas. The United States, the international community and Israel’s neighbors must move aggressively toward that goal. The only way these necessary changes will happen is if the United States uses the substantial leverage we have with Israel. For many years, the United States has provided Israel substantial sums of money — with close to no strings attached. Over the years, people of good will around the world, including Israelis, have tried to address this conflict in a way that brings justice for Palestinians and security for Israel.

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Sen. Jeff Merkley became the second senator to call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war this week. And with recent polling showing that a majority of Americans support a cease-fire in Gaza, the pressure from constituents has been thick. Sen. Chris Coons was badgered on a train about why he hadn’t endorsed a cease-fire. Both have drawn attention to humanitarian concerns in Gaza in recent weeks but stopped short of calling for a cease-fire. “I and others defended Israel’s right to respond with a campaign targeted at destroying Hamas,” Merkley wrote .

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☆ Millennials, Gen Z, Republicans, and Democrats agree: The economy sucks.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite cooling inflation, many Americans just don't feel good about the economy. Some lawmakers told Punchbowl News that housing costs, student loans, and ChatGPT are reasons why. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe rise of artificial intelligence and increased usage of ChatGPT are making young people worried about their financial futures, Democratic Rep. Bill Foster told Punchbowl.

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"A fiscal commission is direly needed," Republican Senator Mike Braun, a Budget Committee member, said in an interview. It circulated ideas from a dozen experts on how a commission could offer up solutions for taming deficits and debt. Other recommendations included subjecting high-income earners to more Social Security taxes and gradually raising the age for full retirement benefits to 69 from the current 67. A commission, said independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, would simply be "a backdoor way to get into cutting Social Security." Sanders embraced lifting the cap on taxable income to extend the life of the Social Security trust fund.

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☆ Opinion: Bad behavior test isn’t just about George Santos
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Michael Ryan | Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

What they do results from neurons firing in assorted regions of the brain, the product of an array of causes they can’t control. Every now and then someone bursts out crying — a member of his family has been killed, or his house destroyed. • Join us on Twitter and FacebookThere was no visible sign of progress on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Writing before the summit, Frida Ghitis noted, “Biden may want Xi to help bring down the temperature on the world’s ongoing wars and help prevent new ones from igniting. “Today’s miseries of flying derive from this choice to deregulate airlines and unleash them into the Hunger Games of ordinary incentives.

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☆ Biden, Trump unpopularity buoys third party hopes for 2024 US election
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/3] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a 2024 presidential election campaign event in Summerville, South Carolina, U.S. September 25, 2023. No third-party candidate has won a modern U.S. presidential election, although they have at times played outsized roles as spoilers by taking votes from major party candidates. Tony Lyons, cofounder of American Values 2024 told Reuters Kennedy shouldn't be considered a danger to just Biden or just Trump. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said: "Polls show President Trump absolutely crushing Joe Biden even with other candidates present, both nationally and in battleground states." 'PEOPLE WANT BETTER CHOICES'While cash is flowing to third party options, Biden and Trump are raising even more.

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☆ Former GOP House member's wife said Sen. Markwayne Mullin put his finger in the noses of sleeping members of Congress and their spouses on a trip to Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In 2015, Sen. Markwayne Mullin went to Israel along with several colleagues and their spouses. Two people on the trip said he picked the noses of sleeping members and their spouses on the bus. AdvertisementThe wife of a former Republican congressman said Sen. Markwayne Mullin put his fingers in the noses of sleeping congressional spouses for photo ops on a trip to Israel. Kappy Trott, the wife of former Rep. David Trott, described the story to Politico on Friday. She said the event occurred amidst a trip to Israel in 2015 with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee alongside nearly 40 members of Congress and some of their spouses.

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☆ Opinion | The War in Gaza Is Splintering the Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Should a few members of the Squad lose their primaries, the blow to Democratic unity could be severe. “And they’ll either stay at home or they’ll go to a third party.”Already, there are signs that the party is fracturing over Israel. Advocates for the freedom and safety of Palestinians, horror-struck by more than 10,000 civilian deaths in Gaza, believe that the Democratic Party is giving its approval to atrocities. These big-footed donors, who are overwhelmingly targeting representatives of color, are going to exacerbate the fissures in the Democratic Party. Diana Lovett, a Democratic Party district leader who held a fund-raiser for Bowman last year, said polarization over the congressman was tearing apart local Democrats.

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☆ The Senate failed its attempt to strip lower monthly student-loan payments from millions of borrowers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Senate failed to pass a bill that would overturn the new SAVE income-driven repayment plan. AdvertisementThe Senate failed to pass a bill that would strip relief from student-loan borrowers. On November 15, GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy's bill to overturn President Joe Biden's new SAVE income-driven repayment plan, intended to lower monthly payments for millions of student-loan borrowers, failed by a vote of 49-50. "This legislation would mean higher payments for student loan borrowers and would dramatically raise costs for graduates. "But now, my Republican colleagues want you to believe that we cannot afford to lower monthly student loan payments for working class Americans who are struggling to put a roof over her head, pay for child care, and put food on the table?

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☆ A George Santos associate privately fretted over a bobblehead that depicted the congressman with a Pinocchio nose
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An associate of Republican Rep. George Santos fretted about the congressman being made into a bobblehead. The private anxiety came to light among pages of text messages released by a House committee. One of the lighter moments in the damning House Ethics Committee report on Santos concerns an associate of Santos' fretting with a congressional staffer over a bobblehead. "If there was a single ounce of ETHICS in the "Ethics committee", they would have not released this biased report," Santos wrote on Twitter. And yes, if you want to, you can still buy a Santos bobblehead from the same company that has made ones depicting Anthony Fauci and Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Persons: George Santos, Santos, —, It's, Derek Myers, Arnold Schwarzenegger's, Mother Jones, Anthony Fauci, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden's Organizations: Republican Rep, Service, Yorker, Twitter, California Gov, The New York Times, Santos Locations: Vish Burra, Santos, California

☆ ‘What Have We Become?’ How Congress Came To Be So Boorish
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Kaia Hubbard | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

They’re members of Congress. “I mean, straighten up here.”Even before this week, a number of vulgar refrains, heated exchanges and a near physical altercation punctuated this Congress after festering in recent years. What have we become?’”Indeed, this Congress seemed to kick off with drama baked in. The picture of this Congress is a stark departure from expectations for lawmakers in recent history. “For a lot of members, Congress is not a legislature so much as it is a reality television show about a legislature,” C. Lawrence Evans, a professor of government at the College of William & Mary, says.

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☆ Rep. Becca Balint becomes the first Jewish member of Congress to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Democratic Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont is now calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on Hamas. AdvertisementDemocratic Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont on Thursday became the first Jewish member of Congress to call for a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas. "What is needed right now is an immediate break in violence to allow for a true negotiated cease-fire," Balint wrote in an op-ed for VTDigger, a local news site in her home state. Advertisement"I do not claim to know how to solve every aspect of this decades-long conflict," wrote Balint. "Even with Hamas operations intentionally embedded among civilians, Israel cannot bomb targets in densely populated areas," wrote Balint.

Persons: Becca Balint of, She's, —, Balint, Israel's, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Joe Biden, Israel, Sen, Bernie Sanders Organizations: Democratic, Service, Becca Balint of Vermont, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democratic Party, Rep, Jewish Democrats Locations: Becca Balint of Vermont, Gaza, Alexandria, Cortez of New, Vermont, Israel, United States

☆ Jimmy Kimmel Calls Tumultuous Senate Hearing ‘U.F.C.-SPAN’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. ‘U.F.C.-SPAN’Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, challenged Sean M. O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to a physical fight during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday. Jimmy Kimmel joked that the hearing had turned into “U.F.C.-SPAN all of a sudden.” Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont and the chairman of the panel, had to step in and demand the two behave like U.S. lawmakers.

Persons: U.F.C, Markwayne Mullin, Sean M, Jimmy Kimmel, Bernie Sanders Organizations: Netflix, SPAN, Republican, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Locations: Oklahoma, Vermont

☆ A Republican senator said his Oklahoma constituents would be 'pretty upset' if he hadn't attempted to fight a labor leader during a hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A GOP senator said his constituents would've been upset if he hadn't tried to fight a labor leader. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA Republican senator said his constituents would've been 'pretty upset' with him if he hadn't attempted to fight a labor leader during a congressional hearing. In a fight, I'm gonna bite. I'll do anything, I mean, I'm not above it.

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☆ The last time there was a fight in the Senate, they changed the rules to ban calling each other corrupt
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A fistfight nearly broke out in the US Senate on Tuesday but was stopped by Sen. Bernie Sanders. The last time there was actually a fight in the Senate, two Democrats brawled, hitting bystanders. The last time there was an actual fight in the Senate was in 1902, and it was so bad they changed the Senate's rules to ban insulting people. Tillman wasted no time reacting; he swung around and clocked McLaurin in the jaw, according to the Senate website. Both South Carolina senators were censured and a new rule was added that bans senators from calling each other corrupt.

Persons: Sen, Bernie Sanders, brawled, —, John McLaurin, Ben Tillman, McLaurin, Tillman Organizations: Senate, Service, Republican, Teamsters, South, Democratic, Politico Locations: States, South Carolina, Philippines

☆ The day Congress went back to fourth grade
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The 118th Congress, which took an initial step to punt funding deadlines to the winter, looked more like a fourth grade class on a day that will further erode trust in government ahead of next year’s elections. Across Capitol Hill in the world’s so-called greatest deliberative body, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin was spoiling for a prize fight. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, however, suggested that policing the Capitol was beyond even his wily capacity to enforce discipline within his conference. And only in the malfunctioning Congress would a speaker try to prevent one government shutdown by laying the possible path for two others. Israel and Ukraine have nothing to thank Congress forThe most glaring example of Congress’ failure to fulfill its duty on Tuesday came at a pro-Israel demonstration on the National Mall.

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☆ 'Stand your butt up': GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Brad Howard | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'Stand your butt up': GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearingSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., intervened after Sen. Markwayne Mullin told Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to "stand your butt up."

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☆ Bernie Sanders stops GOP senator from fighting teamster president at hearing: 'You're a United States senator!'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters almost got into a fist fight Tuesday. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Markwayne Mullin read a tweet from Teamster boss Sean O'Brien which challenged Mullin to a fight. AdvertisementThe almost-brawl comes approximately eight months after a previous committee hearing in March where O'Brien accused Mullin of being a "greedy CEO" who "hid money."

Persons: Bernie Sanders, —, Sen, Sean O'Brien, Markwayne Mullin, O'Brien, Mullin, Mullins, Sanders Organizations: Republican, Teamsters, United, Service, Health, Education, Labor, Citizen Free Press Locations: United States

☆ GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing: 'Stand your butt up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters union nearly got in a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate hearing, until Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and broke it up. The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Okla., read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O'Brien had posted in June. We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here," Mullin said to O'Brien, who was testifying at a hearing on labor unions in America. Mullin, dressed in a white shirt and no jacket, then stood up and began to move toward O'Brien. shouted Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions CommitteeMullin and O'Brien continued to trash talk each other in the hearing room.

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☆ Congress just found the dumbest way to avoid a government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Congress now appears likely to avoid a government shutdown this week. The White House even weighed in over the weekend before House Democrats started to warm up to Johnson's plan. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas didn't stop Obamacare. And Republican Sen. Rand Paul's colleagues tore into him after he forced a brief shutdown in 2018. As I was writing this story about how Johnson's plan is the dumbest thing Congress has done, Sen. Bernie Sanders had to stop one of his colleagues from throwing down with a union boss.

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☆ Congress is lame fight club now
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It's the latest in Congress' centuries of history moonlighting as a sporadic fight club. Breaking with "Fight Club's" first two rules, though, no one in Congress is keeping it a secret. AdvertisementWhat started as a quiet day on Capitol Hill quickly led to Congress devolving into a lame version of "Fight Club." You're pathetic man, you are so pathetic," Burchett reportedly told McCarthy. Around a half-hour later, Burchett told a separate reporter he could "still feel it" after taking a "clean shot to the kidney."

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But few outsiders are confident that the off-year wins will necessarily lead to Biden’s reelection or broader Democratic success next year. And Ohio Democrats don't expect Biden to compete in the state next year. To Biden aides, the results validated the strategy of sharpening the contrast with “MAGA Republicans” that helped Democrats outperform expectations in 2022. At the Chicago fundraiser, Biden noted that Beshear won reelection while “running on all the programs that were Biden initiatives.”Beshear kept some distance from Biden the day after he won. Jim Messina, who managed Barack Obama’s successful reelection against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, said the Biden campaign does not need to change its tactics.

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