Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung, attended Senator Kelly Ayotte’s (R-NH) town hall meeting on April 30 and asked the Senator why she voted against expanded background checks. Lafferty pointed out that Ayotte said
Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control special interest group founded by Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, has started running ads against Senators who opposed the Manchin-Toomey background check expansion on April 17. The first two Senators targeted
President Obama has invited all 20 women Senators out to dinner this evening. The dinner is “to discuss current policy issues…..CQ Roll Call was not able to immediately confirm the attendance of all 20 senators.” Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and
The New York Times lept to the defense of alleged terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Monday morning in a blistering editorial denouncing calls for the US government to consider the Chenyian-born terrorist an enemy cabatant. A press release calling for the Obama Administration
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) is the unsung heroine of the foreign policy debates of the past few months. A Tea Party candidate who was elected in the 2010 wave, Ayotte has been one of the most reliable voices on the
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation as Secretary of Defense was delayed last week when the Senate failed to vote to end debate, has responded to a query by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) by denying that
Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter to Sec. of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel asking whether he really believes “the State Dept. is controlled by Israel.” The letter is in response to comments made by Hagel
Following on their meeting with UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) released a statement bashing her performance and stating that President Obama had serious questions to answer about Rice’s statements in
After today’s meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice regarding Benghazi, Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), emerged more troubled than ever. Said McCain: “We are significantly troubled by many of the answers
Today, the Democrats opened their playbook to page 213 – the section labeled “Racism and Sexism” – and read directly from it with regard to Ambassador Susan Rice. Rice has been under fire, justifiably, for lying to the American public
The new spiritual leaders of the Republican Party have come out swinging against Mitt Romney for his controversial remarks on a donor conference call about why Barack Obama won reelection. According to the New York Times, Romney said Obama had
The Labor Department, warning defense contractors against announcing impending layoffs as required by law, is elevating election-year politics above sound policy, according to a former top DOL official. Paul Conway, who served as chief of staff to Labor Secretary Elaine
Both of my Senators have spoken out forcefully on the Obama administration’s new mandate requiring religious institutions to provide health insurance that covers abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception in violation our First Amendment right to religious liberty. Their remarks present
On Wednesday, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) took to the floor of the Senate to condemn a recent Health and Human Services rule that forces Catholic hospitals, colleges and charitable organizations to offer health insurance coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs and
In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Rick Santorum highlighted his visits to the Granite State, a place he says that he has visited more often than any of the other candidates, excepting Jon Hunstman. In the campaign for New