Tag: Rand Paul

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  ”(Trump's) Impeachment trial is dead on arrival”, Senator Rand Paul

  

  Forty-five Senate Republicans backed a failed effort on Tuesday to halt US ex-president Donald Trump's impeachment trial, in a sign of party unity and the former president's continued sway over the GOP.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2015 - 08:07 UTC

  Obama signs bill that limits phone data collection by government

  

  The US Senate has voted to limit the government's ability to collect phone data, a policy that had been in place since the attacks of 11 September 2001. The USA Freedom Act extends the government's ability to collect large amounts of data, but with restrictions.