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Trump Is Personally Pressuring Senators to Confirm Matt Gaetz

Yahoo Daily News 19 Nov 2024
“He clearly wants Matt Gaetz,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), told Axios Monday after he received a call from Trump ... The committee’s chairman, Rep ... John Cornyn of Texas, Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa> Murkowski of Alaska. Sen.
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GOP senators deride idea of replacing FBI background checks for Trump nominees

The Hill 19 Nov 2024
The FBI should do the background checks, in my judgement,” said Sen ... Sen ... Sen. Lisa> Murkowski (R-Alaska) argued “it’s just been routine” for the nation’s top law enforcement agency to handle background checks for high-level appointments ... Sen ... Robert F.
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Once Again, Donald Trump Misreads the Senate

Time Magazine 19 Nov 2024
This article is part of The D.C ... Lisa> Murkowski of Alaska is not going to be ready to tank a Gaetz nomination by recorded vote but then send herself home for at least 10 days to give Trump a Supreme Court-guided window of a recessed legislature ... .
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Health Groups Devise Plan to Block RFK Jr.’s Cabinet Position

The Daily Beast 18 Nov 2024
Chip Somodevilla. Democratic-leaning healthcare groups discussed strategy for stopping Robert F ... The war room will target Sens. Lisa> Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who are both moderates. They’ll also reach out to Sen ... ....
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'Full-circle moment': 'Constitutional clash' in Congress mirrors 'epic rivalry' between 2 Republicans

Alternet 18 Nov 2024
Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) for U.S. attorney general — a position presently held by Merrick Garland under outgoing President Joe Biden ... Sen ... Lisa> Murkowski (R-Alaska), both moderate conservatives, were shocked that Trump wants to put Gaetz in charge of DOJ.
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Health care advocates prepare to fight RFK Jr. nomination

The Hill 18 Nov 2024
They’ve already hired lobbying teams targeting the home states of key GOP senators — moderate Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa> Murkowski of Alaska; Dan Sullivan of Alaska who is up for reelection in ...
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The 9 GOP senators who could derail Trump’s Cabinet picks

The Hill 18 Nov 2024
Lisa> Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — have already voiced deep reservations about Gaetz, who was embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, of leading the Justice Department ... Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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Trump Is Testing the Senate. And Guess Who’s Going to Win That One?

Yahoo Daily News 18 Nov 2024
Kennedy Jr ... Honestly, Alaska Senator Lisa> Murkowski, liked well enough at home that she beat a proto-Trumpian GOP loon named Joe Miller in a 2012 write-in campaign, is maybe the last of the truly independent-minded Republican senators in that body.
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The Memo: Gaetz and Hegseth controversies could trickle down to Trump

The Hill 18 Nov 2024
In the process, they threaten to put a new spotlight on Trump’s record with women. Former Rep ... He’s all in.” ... Former Rep ... Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa> Murkowski (Alaska) are among the most likely to vote against Trump’s more controversial nominees ... ....
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What We Do—and Don’t—Know About the Matt Gaetz Allegations

Time Magazine 18 Nov 2024
A House committee had been pursuing a separate investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct ... Sen ... Sen ... Key Republican senators have already expressed reservations about his candidacy, including Alaska Sen. Lisa> Murkowski and Maine Sen ... .
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Trump nominees will face friendlier Senate, with bigger majority

Roll Call 18 Nov 2024
That’s an additional cushion from the 52-seat majority Trump had in 2017 ... John McCain of Arizona, Mitt Romney of Utah, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona ... Sen ... Lisa> Murkowski, R-Alaska, opposed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ... Former Rep ... .
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Biden lifts ban on Ukraine using US weapons to strike deep inside Russia | The Excerpt

Usatoday 18 Nov 2024
On Monday's episode of The Excerpt podcast ... Podcasts ... Taylor Wilson. ... ♦ ... ♦ ... Taylor Wilson. ... ♦ ... The other people that were really eyeing here are Lisa> Murkowski of Alaska, and then Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana who have also been very outspoken on Trump.
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Alaska political leaders hope to see Trump undo restrictions on oil drilling

Manila Bulletin 17 Nov 2024
16, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska ... The question of drilling on the refuge's coastal plain, as Trump sought to do during his first term, also divides Alaska Native communities ... What do Alaska Natives want? ... Lisa> Murkowski told reporters.

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