GOP confidence grows on Kavanaugh

Senate Republicans say that Brett Kavanaugh's chances of confirmation have improved because of new doubts over allegations of sexual misconduct against the embattled Supreme Court nominee.

That growing confidence was reflected Tuesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who told reporters after a meeting of the Senate GOP conference that he will have enough votes to confirm Kavanaugh.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408424-gop-confidence-grows-on-kavanaugh?

Insurers, drug price advocacy groups pressure Congress to keep Medicare discounts

Congressional leaders must resist the drug lobby’s efforts to roll back a discount for prescription drugs that seniors purchase on Medicare, according to a letter from 16 groups that include top drug pricing reform, insurer, and hospital groups.

The groups sent the letter late Tuesday to House and Senate leadership. It calls for Congress to keep a change to Medicare’s drug coverage gap called the “doughnut hole.” The change requires drugmakers to provide drugs in the gap in prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D at a higher discount.

“The higher discount will help reduce out-of-pocket costs for seniors,” the letter said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/insurers-drug-price-advocacy-groups-pressure-congress-to-keep-medicare-discounts?

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Today a female Kavanaugh Yale classmate who lives in Wyoming called into Rush Limbaugh and talked about how MSM hacks like

@Yashar

and

@RonanFarrow

are calling her and others non-stop, begging them to make accusations against Judge Kavanaugh — Truly SICKENING!

Baltimore homicide rate is on a record high, deadlier than Detroit and Chicago

New crime statistics released by the FBI place Baltimore’s homicide rate last year well above that of any other large American metropolis, making it an anomaly in the national crime landscape for U.S. cities with populations over 500,000 people.

https://usatoday.com/amp/1426739002?

They profited from child prostitution and then donated to Kyrsten Sinema

Money comes with strings, and that is bad news for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The Arizona Democrat wants to become a senator but finds herself having to explain why she took political donations from the owners of a website accused of knowingly allowing advertisements offering sex with underage girls.

Sinema took more than $53,000 from Michael Lacey and James Larkin, founders of the classified website formerly known as Backpage.com. The FBI seized control of Backpage in April 2018 because the adult section included advertisements for prostitution and human trafficking, which the website allegedly encouraged.

The founders were arrested and Sinema immediately went into damage control. She tried giving the cash to charities that deal with sexual assault. Some refused, only extending the saga. And she tried explaining.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/they-profited-from-child-prostitution-and-then-donated-to-kyrsten-sinema?