WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich's difficulties in winning the endorsements of Republican lawmakers are no secret. The animus still held by those who worked with the former Speaker has become, in no small part, a defining feature of his presidential campaign: evidence that he is volatile, unprincipled and incapable of effective governance. So it must have come as a nice surprise for the Gingrich campaign when he got the equivalent of a vote of confidence from a longtime detractor Wednesday night...Read Full Story
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Lindsey Graham: Consumer Protection Bureau ‘Is Something Out Of The Stalinist Era’
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that an agency established to protect consumers from financial fraud “is something out of the Stalinist era.”
Graham, speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” was asked why Senate Republicans had filibustered President Obama’s nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created as part of...Read Full Story
Lindsey Graham: "Don't Ask Don't Tell Is Not Going Anywhere" U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would not be repealed during the remaining weeks Congress is in session this calendar year. The South Carolina Republican, a proponent of the law banning openly gay service in the armed forces, said definitively that there was no support for repeal on the Republican side of the aisle. He called for an additional study to...Read Full Story
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Never underestimate the Republican will to do big business a favor, especially if it involves stripping protections from workers at the same time. I previously said that the House bill Democrats have labeled the Outsourcers’ Bill of Rights wasn’t going to become law, because Harry Reid wouldn’t introduce it in the Senate. Well, trust Republicans to find a way ! During a Wednesday Appropriations Committee hearing, the South Carolina senator [Lindsey Graham] will...Read Full Story
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has had no shortage of criticisms for Obama administration’s handling of NATO air support for Libyan rebels. But with news this morning of Muammar Qaddafi’s death, Graham offered a new set of criticisms for the administration’s policy of working with a NATO coalition in Libya.
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Lindsey Graham: ‘Let’s Get In On The Ground. There’s A Lot Of Money To Be Made In The Future Of Libya’Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Gannett Washington Bureau) -- Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham want to delay proposed Air Force cuts to the Air National Guard until completion of studies comparing the cost of Guard units to the cost of active ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox’s Greta Van Susteren that Congress was perhaps a bit too hard on Newt Gingrich when it ousted him from his position in the House of Representatives back in the 1990s. While he did admit that when Gingrich is “not ...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham joined four GOP colleagues Thursday in introducing legislation to block $110 billion in military spending cuts next year, saying the reductions would devastate national security. Graham teamed up with Arizona Sens.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has not yet endorsed. If he is going to do so before the South Carolina primary, he better do it tonight ON THE RECORD [...]
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham co-sponsored the anti-piracy legislation that led to online protests Wednesday from the likes of Wikipedia and Google, but now he's open to altering the controversial bill. The Protect IP Act, which Graham, R-S.C., voted ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham easily won his primary Tuesday against a fellow Republican who accused him of being too liberal for South Carolina and hammered his ties to John McCain. In Virginia, a county official beat a former ...
Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9 , 1955 ) is an American politician from South Carolina . A member of the Republican Party , he is currently the senior United States Senator from ...