February 9, 2017





Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she impugned Jeff Sessions’s character
In an extraordinarily rare move, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Democrat had breached Senate rules by reading past statements from Coretta Scott King and others critical of Sessions, a senator who is Trump’s attorney general nominee. "She was warned. She was given an explanation,” McConnell said of Warren. “Nevertheless, she persisted.”
By Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe  •  Read more »

McConnell gives Warren’s presidential campaign an in-kind contribution
Mitch McConnell gagging Elizabeth Warren is one of the best gifts she could have received, and her birthday is not even until June. It solidifies her bona fides as a fighter for progressive causes.
By James Hohmann  •  Read more »