Two, Flynn assisted a criminal investigation that is completely redacted, so presumably not a known criminal investigation. There may be something else going on...
Three, “investigations in which he provided assistance are ongoing.”
Maybe the end is not so in sight as some suggest.
McNamee's record of service to the fossil fuel industry is disqualifying and I strongly oppose his nomination to @FERC. He has deep ties to polluters and Koch-funded organizations working to undermine clean and renewable energy. Watch my full statement:
It is too important to our country to have an independent & reality-based @FERC to allow an industry plant like McNamee serve as Commissioner. link.medium.com/CPd9WzK9qS
"We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised. We bear a sacred trust in our tenancy here and a covenant with those most precious to us—our children and theirs."
President Bush, like #RhodeIsland’s John Chafee, understood the #Republican Party’s legacy of conservation as a core conservative value.
This is a good capsule summary, providing some factual context regarding @realDonaldTrump’s recent Twitter rants against the Special Counsel investigation. cnn.com/2018/11/29/pol…
Thank you for caring and helping this Thanksgiving weekend.
Clearly they know they are wrong on the science; fossil fuel pressure and money makes them not care.
So rotten. Push back.
Remember, if they could challenge the science, what better time than now in Trump admin crawling w fossil fuel flunkies? thinkprogress.org/sen-mike-lee-g…
No matter how hard they try, the #Trump administration can’t bury the effects of #climatechange in a Black Friday news dump – effects their own federal government scientists have uncovered. nytimes.com/2018/11/23/cli…
This report shows how #climatechange will affect every single one of our communities.
The president says outrageous things like climate change is a hoax engineered by the Chinese and raking forests will prevent catastrophic wildfires.
But serious consequences like collapsing coastal housing prices and trillions of dollars in stranded fossil fuel assets await us if we don’t act.
It’s still an open question whether “oil majors have started their low-carbon journey.”
Clearly, they’d like it to look that way. But their renewables investment is negligible. forbes.com/sites/mikescot…
And their political investment through an array of front groups like the so-called @USChamber, @ShopFloorNAM, @APIenergy and @FarmBureau is still remorselessly opposed to any serious climate action.
In their political footprint in Congress, nothing has changed either in intensity or direction.
Denial, obstruction and delay remain their practice.
For years, our bipartisan group in @senjudiciary has been working on legislation to improve our criminal justice system. #FirstStepAct
We've agreed on ways to reform our counterproductive & costly sentencing practices & to adopt proven strategies for rehabilitating inmates to help them become productive members of society.
Our bill incorporates valuable lessons from states like #RhodeIsland, which are seeing real benefits of reform in lower numbers of repeat offenders, less criminal justice spending, and safer communities.
Right now, budget resolutions often turn into blunt instruments to help the majority ram through partisan agendas or score cheap political points.
The resulting gridlock, showdowns, and shutdowns don’t help solve our debt and deficit problem.
My bipartisan amendment with @sendavidperdue and Sen. @RoyBlunt lets Republicans and Democrats work across the aisle to tackle the big issues.
I am grateful for the support of my colleagues on the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process and believe this amendment will help restore meaning to the congressional budget process. whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/b…
#RhodeIsland is a small state, but over the years we’ve had some towering & remarkable Senators –– one being Claiborne Pell who believed that “the federal government in particular can, should and does make a positive impact on the lives of most Americans."
I only deconstruct my desk for very special people like the late Sen. Claiborne Pell. rollcall.com/video/new_lame…
#Kavanaugh talked about joining a “team of nine.” In fact, he joins a team of five that reliably delivers big wins for the #Republican interests that had such a big role in his selection and confirmation. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Perhaps Roberts can then explain the 73 decisions in which he led the #Republican appointees to deliver 5-4 partisan victories serving powerful R interests. 73 is a lot. The pattern is damning. Talking about independence doesn’t cut it, not w that record. politico.com/story/2018/10/…
Happy talk is one thing.
The test will be what he does about the 73-decision partisan romp his “Roberts 5” took the Court on, in service to big #Republican interests. That’s a little hard to explain as “balls and strikes.” washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
Something very important is happening. Since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford so bravely came forward to tell her story of assault at the hands of Brett #Kavanaugh, many #RhodeIsland women have written me to share their own personal stories of survival.
I get mail every day about the various policies debated in Congress. But I have never had mail like this. This is bigger than the fight over a court nomination.
I’ve heard from women of different ages and backgrounds, some who have held their secrets for years. Those I quote have given me permission, even encouraged me, to share their words. For privacy, their names and other identifying information has been removed.
Like former McCain adviser @SteveSchmidtSES, I have a hard time believing Ed Whelan when he says he didn’t coordinate his crackpot “doppelganger” theory with #Kavanaugh, the @WhiteHouse, and @SenateGOP.
Whelan has long been at the center of the @FedSoc’s secretive & powerful inner circle. He’s close friends with #Kavanaugh & has been scheming with Leonard Leo about how to salvage this fast-sinking nomination. washingtonpost.com/politics/kavan…
They’ve all been pushing the insulting theory that Dr. Ford was just “mixed up,” and Whelan somehow got Ford’s name before it was ever published. washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/…
This morning, the President said it is up to Dr. Blasey Ford to convince him she is telling the truth. That is preposterous. Her story is credible: it is rich in remembered detail, corresponds to facts that are known, and was told to others years before.
.@realDonaldTrump and @SenateGOP should follow protocol and order the @FBI to complete its background investigation as to this claim. This process has been off the rails for a long time now, but the last 24 hours signal a new low. medium.com/senator-sheldo…
Dr. Ford is incredibly brave & very credible. Her story is rich in remembered detail, corresponds to facts that are known, and was told to others years before.
The #SupremeCourt gives too many indications of having been captured by the far right. In case after case, the five #Republican-appointed justices band together with no Democratic appointee, and over 90 percent of the time deliver huge wins for Republican and corporate interests
That pattern leaves Americans to wonder which of their rights, freedoms, and protections the Roberts Court may sign away next.
During his hearings, #Kavanaugh could have pledged to help buck that trend, and reassured those with pre-existing conditions, women, consumers, workers, vulnerable communities, or victims of pollution.
Was there a third important court event, on top of #Manafort and #Cohen verdicts? Prosecutors and Flynn lawyers agreed to postpone #Flynn’s sentencing; sentencing is the usual day of reckoning for cooperation.
It is not unheard-of for a “substantial assistance” motion to be filed after sentencing, but it’s rare. The #Flynn plea is in; the sentencing memos are presumably complete; the question of “substantial assistance” — cooperation — is the logical reason for postponement.
I may be reading too much into this terse and nondescript document, but very big things moving sometimes leave only small surface ripples.
Divulging grand jury information is a serious offense that no judge will take lightly. It can put witnesses at risk, compromise important evidence, and threaten the integrity of entire investigations and prosecutions. #WhatAreTheyHiding#WhatsAtStakewhitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/w…
We know Ken Starr played a dangerous game of using the news media to prosecute his case in the court of public opinion, and we know that #Kavanaugh was an important part of Starr’s team. #WhatAreTheyHiding#WhatsAtStake
Here’s my statement regarding the refusal by @senjudiciary Chairman @ChuckGrassley to request critical documents related to Supreme Court nominee #BrettKavanaugh’s work as a senior advisor to President George W. Bush⬇️
The blinking red question is, what are Republicans so scared of? What is so disqualifying in #Kavanaugh’s record from the White House that they would accede to the admin’s wishes & ignore the precedent Repubs set in demanding exhaustive document productions by Obama nominees?
The Senate and the American people should have this information. Republicans ought to join us in demanding it rather than fight to keep it in the darkness. What exactly are they trying to hide? #ReleaseTheRecords
Urging us to “demand a less secretive and corrupting campaign finance system, and change the law to require that 501(c)(4)s, so-called nonprofit social welfare organizations, must disclose their donors”
“They’re often financed by one or two or several billionaires, who can spend unlimited amounts of money effectively in support of a candidate or candidates, and consequently yield enormous influence.”
Republican strategist: “Pruitt’s real problem [is that h]e thinks he is more worthy than the little people he represents.” “Maybe when Pruitt’s 30-person Secret Service detail carries him through Disney World in a sedan chair like a mandarin, people will have had enough.”
So why don’t more Republicans stand up and object?
