Hollywood’s a long way from Wisconsin, but as Russ Feingold, a former senator, fights to regain his old seat, he’s successfully bringing in some big guns from the entertainment industry, reported D.C. news site Roll Call. On October 18, comedian and actress Sarah Silverman sent a fundraising e-mail to the Democrat’s backers asking them to…
The United States Senate has lots of outsized Jewish personalities, from Al Franken to Chuck Schumer to Bernie Sanders. If the polls in Missouri’s Senate race keep narrowing, their ranks might grow next January with the addition of Jason Kander, the young Democratic challenger who’s running close to Republican incumbent Roy Blunt. The Real Clear…
Can Donald Trump help a Jewish candidate in a tight U.S. Senate race? Russ Feingold, a three-term senator who lost his Wisconsin seat in 2010, has found Trump’s controversial statements a useful tool in his effort to win back his seat. Directing his criticism at incumbent senator Ron Johnson, Feingold took issue at his rival’s…
The state of Maryland awarded a victory Tuesday night not only to the Democratic establishment, but also to the mainstream pro-Israel establishment. Alongside a resounding victory for Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary, Maryland Democrats elected Rep. Chris Van Hollen as their candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Mikulski. In a state…
Dozens of Republican senators, many professing religious piety, have stated that they will not discharge their duty set forth in the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which reads, in part, “The president shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint… Judges of the Supreme Court.” Have they…
Democratic senators in a letter called on President Barack Obama to write a new and strengthened “Memorandum of Understanding” on security assistance to Israel. The 16 senators, led by Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D–Conn., and Ben Cardin, D-Md., — the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent the letter to the president…
Now that President Obama has more than the 34 Senate votes needed to uphold a veto and save the Iran nuclear deal, the fight has moved to another, less critical but highly symbolic threshold: winning over 41 senators to filibuster the Senate approval/disapproval vote. That would block the upper chamber from voting on the Iran…
A U.S. Senate subcommittee voted to more than double funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to $25 million for the coming year. The increase approved Tuesday by the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2016, up from the current $13 million, was actively supported by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of…
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