VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board on Wednesday censured Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency, diplomats said, calling on Tehran to provide answers in a long-running investigation and reverse its decision to bar several experienced U.N. inspectors. The development comes just over a week after a report by the International […]
A former Tri-Cities judge should never have been on the bench because of his alleged abusive relationship with his ex-wife and the relentless hounding of a former girlfriend, argued an attorney for Washington’s judicial conduct commission this week Sam Swanberg’s behavior was the focus of a day and a half of testimony at the Benton […]
Ed Massey would seem to be an ideal Republican candidate in a primary: Trump-supporting, “pro-life through and through” in his own words, a lawyer who has held a statehouse seat and before that served years on school boards. But now Massey, 56, has watched as his local county Republican party has not only backed his […]
The Italian opposition’s censure motion against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his far-right party’s stance toward Russia has failed. After hours of debate in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome on Wednesday evening, the leader of the League party easily survived the no-confidence motion brought by three centre-right parties. A total of 209 lawmakers […]
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker implored the Legislature’s Executive Board on Thursday to hold a colleague accountable for invoking her name in a graphic reading on the legislative floor, which some say constitutes sexual harassment. The decision of whether Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran will face a censure vote of the full Legislature […]
Florida Republicans censured state GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler on Sunday and stripped him of his authority and six-figure salary until party leaders decide whether to remove him from his post. The slew of disciplinary actions came during an emergency meeting of the Florida GOP’s executive board in Orlando called by the party’s Vice Chairman Evan […]
Jeffries: Maga Republicans ‘wasting so much time’ targeting Democrats because they ‘have nothing to show for their fading majority’ In response to the House’s vote to censure New York’s Democratic representative Jamaal Bowman, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Maga Republicans “have nothing to show for their narrow, fading and decreasing majority”. He said: […]
The House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for pulling a Capitol Hill fire alarm in September, CNN reports. The GOP-led House just last month voted to also censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for her criticism of Israel. The Bowman resolution passed 214-191 with five members voting “present.” Three Democrats joined the […]
The House of Representatives is formally reprimanding Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., on Thursday morning over his pulling of a fire alarm earlier this year. The House voted largely along party lines to censure Bowman, who pulled the alarm despite no immediate threat of a fire in the middle of a dramatic floor vote. Lawmakers were […]
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., introduced a privileged resolution on Tuesday to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional building while House members were gathered inside to consider a vote to fund the government. McClain’s resolution was introduced as privileged, meaning the House must move to act on it within […]