Tag: senator
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Senator urges DOJ to investigate youth treatment centers after probe uncovers ‘rampant abuse’
The Department of Justice should investigate four of the nation’s biggest operators of youth residential treatment facilities for civil rights violations and fraud, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., argued Wednesday in letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland. In two letters, obtained by NBC News, Wyden stated that his recent Senate investigation into the corporations — Universal…
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GOP senator eyes health care overhaul and extending Trump tax cuts in one big 2025 bill
As Donald Trump calls for overhauling the Affordable Care Act with a new health care system, one Republican senator running for an influential leadership position says the party should combine that pursuit with a major tax bill in the new year. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told NBC News after the vice presidential debate in New…
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West Virginia state senator asked to resign after second arrest in two months
A Republican state senator from West Virginia is being asked to step down by his local GOP party chair after being arrested on a drunk driving charge — his second arrest in as many months. State Sen. Mike Maroney, who was first elected in 2016, was arrested in August on a charge of indecent exposure.…
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GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to ‘hide your head in a bag’
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., repeatedly suggested a leading Arab American activist is a Hamas supporter when she testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes, and he told her she should hide her “head in a bag.” The activist, Maya Berry, said repeatedly that she did not support Hamas and was “disappointed”…