All posts tagged "Jacky Rosen"

A lawmaker grilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for shamelessly using an anti-Semitic term against his enemies.

"You compare journalists, you compare us, you compare so many to 'Pharisees,'" Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) told Hegseth during a hearing on Thursday. "'Pharisses' is a problematic and historically weaponized term that casts Jewish communities as morally corrupt."

She stressed that "words matter" and asked Hegseth, "How do you justify using this language as Secretary of Defense?" and "Why do you continue to use it?"...

A usually reserved Sen. Jacky Rosen — who seeks re-election this year as a Nevada Democrat — laid into Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Monday over his remarks that Democratic-led bump stock ban legislation is likely aimed at a "PR problem, not something that’s going to meaningfully reduce gun violence in this country."

After the Supreme Court struck down a ban on the rapid-fire gun attachment — used to slaughter 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017 — Vance talked with reporters Monday about Senate Democrats' effort to ban them.

“I think that we have to ask ourselves: What is the real gun violence problem in this country, and are we legislating in a way that solves fake problems? Or solves real problems? And my very strong suspicion is that the Schumer legislation is aimed at a PR problem, not something that’s going to meaningfully reduce gun violence in this country," Vance said, adding he was also worried the legislation could end up trampling on the rights of "law-abiding" citizens....

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators are doing something rare this weekend: Actually working.

Well, at least, some senators are. On Friday night only 83 of the Senate’s 100 members showed up for a late night vote, which is only compounding the tangible frustration at the Capitol as lawmakers have seen their schedules upended — including one senator who had to scrap her plan to attend the Super Bowl — over an internal GOP debate that’s now boiled over into public view.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is forcing his colleagues to stay in town this weekend and battle over a now $95.3 billion foreign aid package that includes funding for Taiwan, Israel and Gaza — a measure that included border security funding and reforms last weekend until the GOP killed that compromise measure — because Paul opposes the $60 billion in the measure earmarked for Ukraine. ...