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Sens Ernst, Blackburn to join Judiciary Committee, marking first time GOP women will serve on panel
For the first time in the history of the Senate, Republican women are joining the Judiciary Committee. Sens Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will be on the committee, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) office announced. Sen Blackburn, who left the House for the Senate, was formerly the Chairman of the House Communications Subcomittee.
Lawmakers hail a new ‘sisterhood’ as more than 100 women take their seats in the House (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 09:22How technology baffled an elderly Congress in 2018 (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 10:28Opinion: Instead of right and left, our politics are increasingly being defined by the rooted and the mobile (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 08:49Opinion: What connects Trumpish figures around the world? The Internet is the best answer. (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 08:47These are the 2019 court fights that will decide the future of net neutrality
Here’s what to expect as the fight over network neutrality enters its next act.
Millions of Spectrum cable TV subscribers lose access to local stations amid Charter-Tribune dispute (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/02/2019 - 21:55What we still don’t know about the cyberattack on Tribune newspapers (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/02/2019 - 10:28
A year of unprecedented deception: President Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018
When 2018 began, the President Donald Trump had made 1,989 false and misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database, which tracks every suspect statement uttered by the President. By the end of the year, President Trump had accumulated more than 7,600 untruths during his presidency — averaging more than 15 erroneous claims a day during 2018, almost triple the rate from the year before. President Trump began 2018 on a similar pace as last year. Through May, he generally averaged about 200 to 250 false claims a month.