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Republicans preview 'rational environmentalism' approach to climate policy

House Republicans previewed how their party would approach climate and energy policy if they win the majority in the House of Representatives at an event at the United Nations' climate summit known as COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, this week. The GOP delegation to COP27 included members of the Conservative Climate Caucus who sit on critical House committees that handle issues around regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy policy. Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, ranking me ...

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Steve Hobbs breaks Washington Democrats' losing streak for secretary of state

Steve Hobbs has broken Democrats' 58-year-losing streak when it comes to Washington's secretary of state's office. Driving the news: Nonpartisan candidate Julie Anderson conceded to Hobbs on Thursday after trailing him 46.86%% to 49.34% on the third day of vote counting. Why it matters: The secretary of state is Washington's top elections official, in charge of ensuring vote-by-mail elections run smoothly and securely. Flashback: Republicans held a tight grip on Washington's secretary of stat ...

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Eli Lilly Dives After Fake Twitter Account Promises Free Insulin; Takes Novo Nordisk, Sanofi With It

ALLISON GATLIN10:33 AM ET 11/11/2022 Elon Musk's new pay-for-play verification system on Twitter shook pharmaceutical mainstay Eli Lilly (LLY) — leading LLY stock to skid Friday — after a fake account claimed "insulin is free now." The tweet went live around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday from an account claiming to be Eli Lilly. It remained online for several hours, gaining steam from hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes. As of Friday morning, the fake account is no longer verified a ...

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Democrats Are On The Brink Of A Historic State Legislative Election Performance

The last time a party in the White House retained all of its state legislative majorities in a midterm year was 1934. Democrats may do that and more. ...

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Christine Drazan concedes to Tina Kotek in Oregon governor's race

Republican Christine Drazan has conceded to Democrat Tina Kotek in Oregon’s race for governor. Drazan’s concession comes two days after The Oregonian/OregonLive called the governor’s race for Kotek on Wednesday morning. In results tallied as of 3 p.m. Friday, Drazan trailed Kotek by 64,259 votes, at 47.1% to 43.4%. Kotek’s lead widened considerably Thursday after Multnomah County, Oregon’s largest and bluest county, finished tabulating results from ballots received through Wednesday. Drazan, ...

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Some Republicans Want to Raise Voting Age After Gen Z Midterm Turnout

(Daily Beast) Tuesday’s midterm election saw Gen Z come out strong for Democrats, including for their generation’s first U.S. representative: Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old Democrat from Florida. The young blue bloc left Fox News personalities dismayed, with other conservative voices suggesting that the minimum voting age be raised from 18 (currently enshrined in the constitution) to 21 or 28.

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Four Supreme Court justices attended right-wing gala -- risking the credibility of the court

(Raw Story) Four U.S. Supreme Court justices attended the black-tie dinner gala at the first Federal Society convention since the court overturned Roe vs. Wade in its controversial Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health decision. Associated Press correspondent Mark Sherman reported Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh were in attendance at the group's 40th-anniversary celebration. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wondered if the justices at the dinner had forgotten their job. "As with so many of our institutions, the judiciary can only do its work when the public has confidence in it," Vance noted. "Some of our judges seem to have forgotten that and that they have life tenure to serve the American people, not the political agenda of the people who put them in place."

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Adding to Kevin McCarthy's Problems (if Republicans take the House)

(Political Wire) A good point from Nate Silver: “One thing about the GOP mini-wave in NY state/NYC metro is that you’re going to have a half-dozen Republican House members who are extremely vulnerable under typical presidential-year turnout conditions and will have a lot of incentive to buck GOP leadership.”

JHB

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Democrats surprise Republicans in battleground Wisconsin

(AP) Democrats outperformed expectations during the midterm elections in battleground Wisconsin, leaving Republicans shocked at the narrower than expected win by two-term incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson and a further eroding of support in reliably conservative Milwaukee suburbs. The biggest win for Democrats came with Gov. Tony Evers beating back a challenge by Republican Tim Michels to win another term, tripling the margin of his first win four years ago in a race that polls had shown for months to be about even.