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Jeff Flake stuns Republicans with call for delay on floor vote – follow live


Republican senator calls for FBI to investigate allegations further but committee backs Kavanaugh 11-10 to move to Senate floor

Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, tells reporters: “we are in a better place than we were at 8am this morning.”


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In sum, Flake is now suggesting he won't vote to confirm Kavanaugh without a one-week FBI probe into Dr. Ford's allegations. That gives nice cover to other hold-outs, Collins and Murkowski.

Up to McConnell to grant that week of delay, which he def doesn't want to do.

2:05 PM - Sep 28, 2018

Amid confusion, Grassley abruptly adjourns the meeting, citing a two hour rule.

The gavel went down and Feinstein said: “What?”

“This is all a gentlemen’s and women’s agreement,” Grassley responds before the mics are switched off.

Trump has also just commented on Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.

“I thought her testimony was very compelling, and she looks like a very fine woman to me,” Trump told reporters.

“Brett’s testimony was, likewise, really something that I hadn’t seen before.”

Open mics captured Grassley, Feinstein & Leahy bickering over what happened in the Judiciary Cmte. Kavanaugh has advanced to the floor of the Senate but there's a "gentlemen and women's agreement" to delay floor vote for a week so FBI can probe. McConnell is not bound by the deal

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And now, South Carolina Republican, Lindsey Graham: “Somebody has got to explain this to Trump, so I guess that’ll be my job.”

John Kennedy, Republican from Louisiana, has called the process an “intergalactic freak show.”

He spends his allotted time roundly criticizing the entire procedure.

“There were no winners in this room yesterday,” he said. “None. All I saw were two people, two human beings in pain.”

By Damian Paletta
September 28 at 1:11 PM
President Trump on Friday signed a massive spending package into law that averts a government shutdown and increases next year’s funding for the military and health and education programs.

The measure requires lawmakers to revisit other contentious measures in just two months, including whether to devote billions of dollars toward the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The new law avoids a partial government shutdown because it extends money for the Pentagon and health and education programs through Sept. 30, 2019, and a number of other programs through Dec. 7.

Funding for those programs was scheduled to expire on Sunday at midnight.

This spending package reflects the compromise Republican leaders sought with the White House that postpones a fight over Trump’s demand for a border wall until after the Nov. 6 midterm elections.

Can anyone be stupid enough to think an investigation would find anything after 6 background checks? Yes or no will do.

And if you do not like rape you had better have a talk with the gangs in the cities Democrats run. And maybe some of the people Obama imported.

You can add photos of Harris, Booker and Hirono to your gallery

So evidence comes forward that Kavanaugh might have unsuccessfully tried to rape a girl with a buddy of his

can he be a judge (at any level) if he is disbarred?