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The deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee realized he'd fumbled his response, as he quickly retracted his assertion after the session. Atlanta, GA-Representative Keith Ellison , who also serves as the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, cautioned against President Trump's rhetoric on North Korea at the Netroots Nation conference on Friday, initially saying that the foreign leader was acting more responsibly than Trump.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the execution of a search warrant on Paul Manafort's home was a "stunning development" and an indication of "criminal wrongdoing." "This kind of raid - in the early morning hours with no advanced notice - shows an astonishing and alarming distrust for the President's former campaign chairman," Blumenthal said Thursday.
A former Republican senator is calling on lawmakers to use the 25th Amendment to kick President Donald Trump out of office. " He is sick of mind, impetuous, arrogant, belligerent and dangerous ," Gordon Humphrey, who represented New Hampshire from 1979 to 1990, said in a letter to his state's members of Congress obtained by Manchester ABC station WMUR.
Anti-Trump Rep. Maxine Waters told TMZ outside an upscale restaurant Wednesday evening that the Trump administration must tone down its rhetoric towards the North Koreans. Waters urged Sec. of State Tillerson to consider 'things they're asking for.'
Today's national media attention on immigration is primarily focusing on the deportation of undocumented immigrants and on the building of a border wall and who will pay for it. Less attention is focused on the positive work being achieved in local jurisdictions where immigrants are viewed as an asset, not a liability, and the work that they do to bring a civil tone to the immigration debate.
Exchanges between the senior White House adviser and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times and Jim Acosta of CNN became combative at a news briefing on Wednesday. Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell officially announced that she will run against Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Miami, who represents a swing district on Wednesday August 1, 2017.
Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republican Gov. Phil Scott plan to announce $2.25 million in development grants through the Northern Border Regional Commission. The Trump Administration has proposed eliminating the commission, but the proposed 2018 federal budget includes a 50-percent increase for the program.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., recounts his experience in Selma, Alabama, to a group of students gathered on the House steps on April 15, 2015. Fifty-two years ago this week, John Lewis of Georgia was a young activist, not the Democratic congressman he is today.
Senate Finance Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, seen here with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants to look at a possible repeal of the 2010 health care law's taxes as part of a larger tax package. The Republican effort to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care law may have stalled, but lobbyists are pushing the GOP to continue to target the provisions the industry most despises: the law's taxes.
The California Coastal Commission is set to consider today whether to approve Humboldt County's request to open up unused coastal lands around Humboldt Bay to new industries - including cannabis. But county Planning and Building Department Director John Ford said there are several steps and approvals that must take place before a cannabis business could even be considered to open in these areas.
It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a "culture of vicious dehumanization," not to mention its sins of incoherence, rejection of empirical fact and plain hypocrisy.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to sue the Department of Justice because it's asking the Chicago Police Department to obey the law perfectly illustrates the dangerous disdain the modern Left has for normal Americans. On July 25, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked all cities, states, and territories applying for a very specific federal law enforcement grant to adhere to three new, very reasonable measures: To openly communicate with the Department of Homeland Security, to allow DHS officers to meet with locally-held prisoners who live in the country illegally and have been arrested for non-immigration related crimes, and to give the Department 48 hours notice before releasing such prisoners.
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets - especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
Legendary rocker Ted Nugent on Wednesday blasted the "goofball" in the Michigan Republican Party who started the rumor that Kid Rock was going to run for the U.S. Senate. Nugent put to rest any notion that Bob Ritchie - a.k.a Kid Rock - was going to run against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat up for re-election in 2018.
Rep. Todd Rokita officially jumped into the Indiana Senate race on Wednesday, a long-expected decision that formalizes what's already become a brutal Republican primary in the bid to unseat vulnerable Sen. Joe Donnelly Anti-abortion Democrats fading from the scene Senate Dems unveil trade agenda Senate pivots to tax reform fight MORE The Indiana congressman has long been gearing up for a bid and has not shied away from bruising battles with GOP opponent fellow Rep. Luke Messer , with whom he has sparred for months in one of the more contentious primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory. Though local officials downplayed any threat, people who live and work on the island, which serves as a launching pad for the U.S. military, said Wednesday they could no longer shrug off the idea of being a potential target.
North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury". The sharp increase in tensions rattled financial markets and prompted warnings from U.S. officials and analysts not to engage in rhetorical slanging matches with North Korea.