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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is preparing to issue a subpoena to force the Justice Department to turn over former FBI Director James B. Comey 's memos that he wrote - and then had leaked - detailing his interactions with President Trump. Congress has been seeking the memos but Mr. Rosenstein missed the deadline for production earlier this week.
In this Feb. 14, 2018, photo, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., speaks to Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Babies do not care about Senate decorum.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., joined at right by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., argues in opposition as members members of the House Agriculture Committee assemble to craft a new farm bill which includes an overhaul of the food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Republicans are proposing stricter work mandates on the nation's more than 40 million food stamp recipients.
In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 photo, Max Schachter, whose son Alex was killed during the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks to the audience during a congressional town hall on gun violence in Coral Springs, Fla. Schachter has formed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission to find ways to make schools safer.
A bitterly-divided House panel Wednesday approved new work and job training requirements for food stamps as part of a five-year renewal of federal farm and nutrition policy. The GOP-run Agriculture Committee approved the measure strictly along party lines after a contentious, five-hour hearing in which Democrats blasted the legislation, charging it would toss up to 2 million people off of food stamps and warning that it will never pass Congress.
A quiz: If a bipartisan majority of House members wants votes on a subject that gets sky-high public support, why do they seem likely to fail? And why are they pushing it regardless? Here's some help: It's the politically loaded issue of helping "Dreamer" immigrants. And it's an election year.
The Senate on Wednesday voted to kill a five-year old Obama administration policy warning auto lenders not to discriminate against minority borrowers. The legislation, which passed 51 to 47 largely along party lines, is the latest Republican rebuke of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's history of aggressive tactics.
As a soon-to-be graduate with a degree in social work, the importance of advocacy and being politically involved, both locally and nationally, is becoming abundantly clear to me. I was given an opportunity to let my voice be heard, and it was an experience I'll always be thankful for.
Rep. Ron DeSantis Wednesday called on the Department of Justice to investigate several key Obama-era officials, as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey, for crimes, pointing out Comey's recommendations on Clinton. "Remember, he testified to Congress that he did not make any decision regarding Secretary Clinton until after she was interviewed," the Florida Republican, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
Billionaire donor Tom Steyer has endorsed state Sen. Kevin de Leon in the Democratic primary passing over long-time incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the Washington Examiner is reporting. "I think he's the kind of young progressive that reflects California and would be a very strong advocate for our state nationally," Steyer told the Examiner.
The GOP-led Senate has voted to block guidance a consumer protection agency issued five years ago to help ensure minority car buyers don't pay higher interest rates on car loans. The vote was 51-47.
The sixth annual breakfast will be anchored this year by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly. while the Power Breakfast program, a fast-paced mixture of informative business and political themes that helps set the scene each spring for the North American RV arena's annual selling season, is scheduled for program, headlined by Secretary Zinke and Senator Donnelly, has garnered so much interest," reported BJ Thompson, an Elkhart-based public relations executive and administrator of the annual breakfast.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) "is quietly making clear to liberal advocacy groups that he's available for a 2020 bid, even as the Democratic field of potential White House hopefuls fills with better-known progressives," The Hill reports.
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy has made major profits off of the federal government's response to the opioid crisis, Politico reported Wednesday. Mr. Kennedy, Rhode Island Democrat, has had his own battle with both addiction and mental illness and sits on the board of eight companies currently working with the Trump administration and Congress to combat the opioid epidemic.
Donald Trump's re-election campaign has demanded that Rep. Todd Rokita take down yard signs it says give the false impression the president endorsed the Indiana Republican's Senate bid, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press. The rebuke came after two volunteers who led Trump's bare-bones 2016 campaign in Vice President Mike Pence's home state endorsed Rokita during an Indianapolis news conference last week.
Former first lady of the United States Barbara Bush, wife of former president George H.W. Bush, has died at the age of 92. She is being remembered as the matriarch of an American political dynasty spanning decades. She was the second American to be both the first lady and the mother of a president.
WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Republican appeared Tuesday to quash new momentum behind a bill giving special counsels such as Robert Mueller III legal recourse if they are fired, telling Fox News that he would refuse to put it to a floor vote. "I'm the one who decides what we take to the floor.
The two Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who last year backed Mike Pompeo as CIA director have publicly refused to support his nomination to be secretary of state, making it highly unlikely that he will have the panel's endorsement when the full Senate votes on his nomination. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who voted to confirm Pompeo as CIA director, said in a statement Tuesday evening that she could not do the same for his bid to be top diplomat, citing concerns with Pompeo's positions on gay rights, Muslim Americans and women's reproductive rights.