RICHMOND, Virginia, Sept. 4 -- The Virginia Republican Party issued the following news: Last week, it was revealed that Abigail Spanberger worked at the Islamic Saudi Academy from 2002 to 2003. Spanberger went apoplectic with conspiracy theories to try to bury the lede about her work at the controversial school with extensive links to terrorism and radicalization. The school in question, Islamic Saudi Academy, in Alexandria, VA ended up closing its doors and reopening with a different name aft more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following news release: Representatives for President George W. Bush provided the Senate Judiciary Committee with a full accounting of its documents related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's service as a White House lawyer. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, President Bush's Presidential Records Act representative William Burck outlined the processes for evaluating those records, the applicable laws govern more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The office of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Representatives for President George W. Bush provided the Senate Judiciary Committee with a full accounting of its documents related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's service as a White House lawyer. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, President Bush's Presidential Records Act representative William Burck outlined the processes for evaluating those records, the appli more PR

BLOOMINGTON, Illinois, Sept. 6 -- Illinois Wesleyan University issued the following news release: Former White House CIO Theresa Payton and international environmental activist Vandana Shiva will visit Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University as guest speakers for the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series during the 2018-19 academic year. From 2006 to 2008, Payton oversaw IT operations for President George W. Bush and his staff as the first female to serve as White House more PR

MARTIN, Tennessee, Sept. 4 -- The University of Tennessee's Martin campus issued the following news release: Dr. Charles Smith, former chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin, will discuss his recently published memoir, "Journal of a Fast Track Life," at 5 p.m., Sept. 13, in the Paul Meek Library. Smith served as the university's fifth chancellor from 1980-1985 and is a former Tennessee commissioner of education as well as a previous chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents. He more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release: Today, Karen S. Evans was sworn in by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). Evans was confirmed as Assistant Secretary for CESER by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, August 28, 2018. "Secretary Perry created the CESER office to address the emerging threats of tomorrow while protecting the reliabi more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Press Service issued the following news: By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity The nation bid farewell to Arizona Sen. John S. McCain III -- former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, war hero and Vietnam prisoner of war -- in a patriotic and emotional service today at the Washington National Cathedral. McCain lost his battle with brain cancer Aug. 25 at age 81. He will be laid to rest tomorrow at th more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Sept. 4 -- Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party issued the following statement by Chairman Ken Martin on Brett Kavanaugh's hearing: "The next appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court will impact Americans' lives for decades to come, yet President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is shrouded in unprecedented secrecy. "Hours before the four-day confirmation hearings began, Senate Republicans dumped 42,000 pages of documents regarding Kavanaugh's service under Presiden more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: What are Republicans hiding? Here's a clue... "As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be 'settled law of the land,' according to a secret email obtained by The New York Times." New York Times: Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh's Time in White House Discuss Abortion an more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sept. 5 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: With a $10 million gift from University of Michigan alumni Ron and Eileen Weiser, U-M will establish a new diplomacy center to serve as a hub for engagement with the foreign policy community. The Weiser Diplomacy Center, housed at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, will bring a diverse cadre of seasoned diplomats and foreign policy experts to campus. The gift will support professors of pract more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued the following advocacy letter to the Senate: Dear Senator: On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 national organizations committed to promoting and protecting the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, and the 180 undersigned organizations, we write to express our strong opposition to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associat more PR

WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts, Sept. 7 -- Williams College issued the following news release: Brian Keating, an astrophysicist with the University of California, San Diego, thought he had a major discovery about the Universe, worthy of a Nobel Prize, but then a mistake in analysis was found. Major public announcements had to be rescinded, and his Nobel hopes vanished. He will speak about his new book, Losing the Nobel Prize - A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Hon more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Unprecedented secrecy. Just hours before Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, Senate Republicans dumped 42,000 pages of documents that were pre-screened by a Republican lawyer who used to work for Kavanaugh. Washington Post: "Hours before the start of hearings on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, the lawyer for former president George W. Bush turned over 42,000 pages of documents from the more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on Sept. 6, on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: Madam President, I want to speak for a few minutes about the hearings going on today with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I had a chance, as you did, to meet him a little over a month ago. It was clear from that conversation that he is clearly the best person available, in my view, to fill the vacan more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The office of Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today publicly released several documents previously marked Committee confidential from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as White House Counsel under President George W. Bush. "As I've been saying from the beginning, this process has been a sham," Senator Booker said. "The fact that tens of thousands of documents revealing a Supreme Court nominee's more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The office of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. "Judge Kavanaugh, welcome. Welcome to your family and to your friends. Demonstrating your good judgment, your wife was born and raised in West Texas, and you and she have been good friends of Heidi and mine for 20 years. Thank you for your decades of public servi more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court: "One of the Senate's most solemn constitutional duties is to provide advice and consent to the President on his nominations of Supreme Court justices. "We are here this week to hear from Brett Kavanaugh, to hear about his exceptional qualifications, his reco more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The office of Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on his decision to vote against the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: "I will oppose the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. I have diligently studied his record of academic writings and judicial opinions. I have read the limited documents we've been provided from his time working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and the Administratio more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued the following testimony by ex-U.S. Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns at a hearing entitled "Assessing the Value of the NATO Alliance": "Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Menendez and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "I served as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2001 until 2005 during the Administration of President George W. Bush. NATO remains our most  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Today, as the confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats spoke out for the American people and demanded that the hearing be delayed until Kavanaugh's full record has been released. Brett Kavanaugh spent over five years in the George W. Bush White House as White House Counsel and Staff Secretary. To date, only a fraction of Kavanaugh's more tha more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 7 -- Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release: Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation officially announces Mikael Garcia as the Director of Public Affairs. "Mike brings not only a rich experience to his work at the Foundation but also a personal commitment to liberty that makes him a natural fit," said Kevin Roberts, TPPF's executive director. "We are fortunate to find someone who represents the Foundation and the interests of Texans so well in th more PR