New KPMG chair slagged off Labor senator in email

Senate Democrats sound alarm over Trump’s Postal Service plans for mail-in ballots

The entire Senate Democratic Caucus has signed a letter pressing the postmaster general for answers about a Trump executive order that could place the Postal Service at the center of an election battle. The post Senate Democrats sound alarm over Trump’s Postal Service plans for mail-in ballots appeared first on MS NOW.

Canada’s Senate: A glimpse at the operations of the upper chamber

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney made his first appointments to the Senate on Tuesday, naming four new senators to the upper chamber. They include Carney’s principal secretary Tom Pitfield and Conservative MP Richard Martel, who will both fill seats from Quebec. He also announced he is dropping the non-partisan criteria for appointments to the [] The post Canada’s Senate: A glimpse at the operations of the upper chamber appeared first on Loonie Politics.

Trump DOJ Nominee Surprised By Questions About Tweets Insulting Judiciary Committee Members

Konstantinos Ligris, a DOJ nominee floated by President Donald Trump, seemed surprised when he was asked about tweets insulting two sitting senators serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump sent Ligris’s nomination to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday. If confirmed, Ligris would become an assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice [] The post Trump DOJ Nominee Surprised By Questions About Tweets Insulting Judiciary Committee Members appeared first on The New Civil Rights Movement.

Carney names his principal secretary and a Conservative MP to Senate

Prime Minister Mark Carney has named his principal secretary Tom Pitfield to the Senate and says he is dropping the non-partisan criteria for appointments to the upper chamber. Pitfield is one of four new appointments to the Senate announced today, the first Carney has made since he took office more than a year ago. Conservative [] The post Carney names his principal secretary and a Conservative MP to Senate appeared first on CityNews Montreal.

Top Republicans say they spoke with Mitch McConnell while still in the hospital

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), and Kentucky-born political commentator Scott Jennings say they all spoke with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as the senior senator remains in the hospital, where he has been for several weeks. “Leader Thune spoke with Sen. McConnell yesterday by phone,” a Thune spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on []