All posts tagged "Gop Senator"

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) bragged about a road salt win at a Maine Senate debate, and her challenger's comeback had observers cheering.

On Tuesday, Collins faced Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a debate weeks before the midterms. Asked what she would do about President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, Collins pointed to a specific victory.

"I was successful at getting road salt removed from the tariff list," Collins said. Jackson responded by pouncing on the answer....

GOP senators turned on their own party's handling of the final stretch of Congress and faulted leaders for burning precious floor time.

Republicans spent their final hours in the Capitol staging votes they knew would fail, The New York Times reported Thursday. The votes were meant to show voters the GOP was working on rising costs, but they produced no meaningful results.

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) gave his own party a blunt warning as Republicans left Washington to campaign ahead of the midterm elections....

A speech pathologist warned that Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) recent thumbs-ups and waves are automatic reflexes masking a likely brain injury that rarely heals.

Hilary Shae, a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist who specializes in concussion and neurological disorders, told "The David Pakman Show" in a Wednesday interview that McConnell "really appears to be someone who has suffered" a brain injury caused by loss of oxygen. She stressed that she was not offering a diagnosis.

"Clearly, as we all know, we cannot diagnose somebody that we've never met," Shae said. "As a speech-language pathologist, I do not diagnose brain injuries."...

A GOP senator couldn't help but laugh when asked about Trump's algae-filled Reflecting Pool, according to a veteran D.C. reporter.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) was amused by reporter Joe Perticone's question about how the green, murky Reflecting Pool with floating strips of paint is looking, according to a new Substack piece by The Bulwark.

"It doesn't look very beautiful," Daines told Perticone, who noted the senator's laugh. "We gotta find out what went wrong with it; [it] needs to be corrected. It's a great part of the experience coming down to the Mall."...

Fox Business was called out on Wednesday after using the wrong photo of a GOP senator in a graphic.

People responded after the news organization labeled an image as Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) — yet it was clearly not that Susan Collins.

The photo used was actually of another Susan Collins, a former University of Michigan provost who was named the first Black woman to lead a Fed bank in February 2022. ...

Newly minted Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said in a lecture posted to his YouTube channel that Congressional laws banning child labor are forbidden by the US Constitution.