Leading social media company CEOs faced probing questions over their safety policies on Capitol Hill during a Jan. 31 hearing on online child sexual exploitation. The session, held by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, grilled TikTok Inc. CEO Shou Chew, Discord Inc. CEO Jason Citron, Snap Inc. CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel, X Corp. […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) grills TikTok CEO Shou Chew over why one employees in the company’s Trust and Safety department were found to have been celebrating the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel in the company employees’ Lark chat platform, during a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing called “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Tel Aviv on Monday for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s defense minister. Mr. Austin is vowing continued U.S. support—and especially in the mission to recover the hostages taken by the Hamas terrorist group. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the narrative that President […]
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) discuss their resolution for an appropriate U.S. response to any action by Iran to escalate the war in Israel at 11:00 a.m. ET on Nov. 14.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that he wants to see clear communication to Iran of the consequences the Iranian regime will face if it kills an American soldier or activates Hezbollah against Israel. Mr. Graham was speaking during a Tuesday morning Senate hearing centering on a security funding request from […]
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Annual Leadership Summit 2023 is meeting Oct. 27–29 in Las Vegas. It will feature speakers including Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.).
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and a group of Senate Republicans hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 27 to “call attention to the growing crisis at the southern border and Democrats’ failed policies that are making it worse.”
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 13, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pressed Colette Peters, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, on whether she had a plan to combat Mexican cartels running operations using inmates in U.S. prisons.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature” on Sept. 12, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) pressed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Committee Chairman, on whether an immigration bill Mr. Durbin had previously introduced is, in reality, an “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blasted a grand jury report from Fulton County, Georgia, implicating him in the 2020 election case. Unlike former President Donald Trump and 18 others, Mr. Graham was not charged in the case of President Trump allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. The report was released on Sept. 8. […]
A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, had recommended criminal charges against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as well as former GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, according to a report that was released Friday. Portions of the report were released earlier this year (pdf), but a judge had delayed its release until last month’s […]
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and John Kennedy (R-La.) sparred with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) over an unclassified FD-1023 form about the Biden family’s alleged $5 million bribe at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday.
All major congressional leaders have signaled their support for Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) debt ceiling deal despite backlash from members of both parties. Russia’s interior ministry has put U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on a wanted list, Russian news agency TASS said on May 29. This comes after an edited video was released […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that special counsel John Durham’s report is “damning,” arguing the probe’s long-awaited result points out the FBI has become a political tool that “took the rule of law and threw it over to try to get a political outcome.” Graham told radio talk show host John Catsimatidis on […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was formally admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in a public letter on March 23 for allegedly soliciting campaign contributions in a federal building in 2022. The committee, in their letter (pdf) to the Republican lawmaker, said they had reviewed an allegation that Graham “violated Senate Rules and related standards of conduct” by soliciting campaign […]
