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During an interview with the Fox Business Network, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) explained why he was vehemently opposed to a so-called permitting reform bill attached to a spending bill under consideration in the Senate. The Kansas Republican called that part of the legislation the “Mountaineer Kickback,” referring to the deal Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) made with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. “I’m voting no,” Marshall said. “Let’s call this what it is. This is the Mountaineer Kickback: good for West Virginia, horrible for the rest of the country. This bill is inflationary — it will allow FERC, the federal government, to base their permitting decisions based upon the origins of the energy. So they would permit a transmission line for say wind or solar, but they wouldn’t permit it say for nuclear, for coal or for natural gas.” “In Kansas right now, over 50% of the electricity is generated from wind,” he continued. “Most of that is … [Read more...] about Marshall: Manchin’s ‘Mountaineer Kickback’ Will Drive Up Energy Costs

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, broke from his own party in voting against a bipartisan bill that would bar him from singlehandedly objecting to presidential election results, as he did on Jan. 6, 2021. The bill, dubbed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, aims to prevent a constitutional crisis like the one that nearly occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. It clarifies procedural ambiguities that former President Donald Trump tried to exploit in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, sponsored the bill, and it has the support of Democrats and Republicans alike. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, came out support on Tuesday, raising the likelihood of passage. But during a Senate Rules Committee vote on the bill, Cruz objected, saying the bill undermines states’ constitutional autonomy in running their elections and therefore opens the door for voter … [Read more...] about Ted Cruz votes against bipartisan bill to prevent another Jan. 6

President Joe Biden on Wednesday mistakenly gave a shoutout to a Republican congresswoman who died in August. “Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Biden asked after thanking several bipartisan members of congress. “I didn’t think she was going to be here,” he added. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) died in a tragic car accident in August. Biden spoke about Walorski during a White House event on a national effort to stop hunger. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, September 28, 2022. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images) The president did not appear to remember he mourned her death in a statement released by the White House on August 3. At the time Biden praised Walorski’s efforts on the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, pointing out “her deep care for the needs of rural America.” It’s unclear whether Biden was reading off of … [Read more...] about Watch: ‘Where’s Jackie?’ Joe Biden Gives Shoutout to Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) Who Died in August

Joe Concha, contributor to Fox News and the Hill and author of Come On, Man! : The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency , graded President Joe Biden’s presidency an “F” on addressing the coronavirus pandemic, economy, and national unity. Concha evaluated Biden’s presidency in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “On Covid-19, he did horribly in 2021,” Concha remarked. “Donald Trump in 2020 had no vaccine. [Trump] kept saying at the time that we’ll have one by the end of the year, then fact-checkers would say ‘No, that’s impossible.’ They somehow time-traveled into the future to show Trump was wrong in saying a vaccine wouldn’t come in 2020, and sure enough it did in December of 2020. I would know. My wife got a shot at that time. She is an ER doctor treating COVID patients on a daily basis.” He continued, “Then Biden promises he would — quote — stop and control — unquote, t he … [Read more...] about Joe Concha on Biden Presidency: ‘F’ on Economy, Pandemic, Unity

Photo: Oliver Contreras/AFP via Getty Images At a White House conference on nutrition and hunger in America on Wednesday, President Joe Biden looked for Representative Jackie Walorski, an advocate for the issue during her time in office. “Jackie, are you here?” Biden asked. “Where’s Jackie? She was going to be here.” But Walorski was not in attendance: In August, the Indiana Republican and two of her aides were killed in a head-on collision on a highway outside South Bend . The 79-year-old president, who has called himself a “gaffe machine” in the past, was aware of Walorski’s passing. In August, Biden and First Lady Jill Biden released a statement offering condolences for her family and noting her work in putting together the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, where he made the error. Earlier in the day, a video memorial also played for Walorski, detailing her fight to end food insecurity during her five terms in the House. It was plain to most … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Asks About Whereabouts of Congresswoman Who Died

Click here to read the full article. At the end of Nothing Compares , an exploration of the heyday and downfall of Sinéad O’Connor, director Kathryn Ferguson rolls out a montage of the troubled Irish singer, songwriter and provocateur’s legacy. The clips includes female activists in pop from the last decade — Pussy Riot, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion — as well as abortion-rights and #MeToo rallies and footage of the newly disgraced Catholic Church. More from Rolling Stone 'It Gets Hard to Breathe': Selena Gomez Releases Emotional First Trailer for New Documentary Documentary Producer Sheila Nevins on True Crime, Real Sex, and Being 'Lowbrow' 'Free Chol Soo Lee': The Anti-True Crime Documentary That Exposes Much More Than a Terrible Miscarriage of Justice As heavy-handed as that may sound, it’s easy to see why such a roundup is necessary. It doesn’t feel that long ago that O’Connor, at the peak of her fame, ripped up a photo of Pope … [Read more...] about A New Doc Says Sinéad O’Connor Matters More Than You Think. It’s Right