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So many times I think about Al Franken having to resign over taking a silly picture.
Boy have times changed! That had to be, what, 40 years ago at this point? 🙃
Dunno. How long ago was Howard Dean ending his political career with an ill-timed awkward scream and Dan Quayle flushing his career down the toilet for misspelling "potatoe?" Was that before color TV?
US politics has always been stupid. Now it's just stupid louder...
Stupid louder. I'm stealing that!
Ah, the famous "I Have a Scream" speech.
Dean's scream wasn't ill-timed, just ill-recorded. They were using a noise-dampening microphone, so he was basically shouting over the screams of the crowd. But we couldn't hear it because it wasn't part of the recording.
Potato, potatoe.
How about Rick perry crashing for, in part, forgetting which govt depts he wanted to defend and, in part, from him being Rick perry
Can we kick him out, charge him, and move on already?? Dude's a fucking distraction we don't need...
So, you think each country gets their own senator?
I would imagine they can effectively split their time between 3-5 countries, depending on how much business each one has before the Senate.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US senator Robert Menendez, who is already facing corruption charges, has now been accused of acting as a foreign agent of Egypt.
In September, prosecutors charged Mr Menendez and his wife Nadine with accepting bribes of cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage and a luxury vehicle from three New Jersey businessmen as part of a scheme to use the senator's influence to increase US aid and military sales to Egypt.
During a search of the senator's New Jersey home last year, investigators found $480,000 (£393,000) in cash hidden throughout the residence, as well as 13 bars of gold bullion worth an estimated $155,000 (£127,000), prosecutors allege.
The new indictment filed by New York federal prosecutors on Thursday alleges Mr Menendez used "his influence and power to breach his official duty in ways that benefited the Government of Egypt".
It also includes new photos of Mr Menendez and his wife, Nadine, dining with Egyptian officials at a steakhouse in Washington, DC.
"We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate," Mr Fetterman said in a statement.
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