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Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta says he will work with Congress to address the need for good, safe jobs and to provide American workers with the training they need to get them. "Whether it is those who are working, those who still seek work, those who are discouraged or underemployed, or those who have retired, if confirmed as secretary of labor, I will advocate for them," Acosta said in prepared remarks.
Illinois lawmakers failed to pass a measure in the legislature that would have made former President Barack Obama's birthday a statewide holiday, according to the Chicago Tribune. The bill would have observed August 4 as a legal holiday in his home state, but the Chicago Tribune said the proposal was six votes short of passing, where it would have next moved to the Illinois Senate.
Former Nixon counsel John Dean said Tuesday that growing concerns about former Donald Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort and his possible ties to Russia have "an awful lot of the sound and look and feel of cover-up." "People not disclosing," Dean, who was involved in the Watergate controversy of the 1970s, told Don Lemon on CNN.
During his first two days of testimony in Senate hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court by President Trump, Judge Neil Gorsuch displayed high intelligence, independence, impartiality, modesty and firmness, qualities that will serve the nation well if he is approved as the ninth justice. His performance gives the Senate's Democratic minority a problem.
Try as they might, Democrats couldn't land a punch against the Coloradan through many hours of questioning. That was partly because Gorsuch, like others before him, refused to be pinned down on issues and case.
The White House is instructing Cabinet heads and agency officials not to elaborate on President Trump's proposed budget cuts beyond what was in a relatively brief submission, a move Democrats decried as a gag order. Budget director Mick Mulvaney wrote in a memo late last week that until the full budget release in May, ''all public comments of any sort should be limited to the information contained in the Budget Blueprint chapter for your agency,'' referring to the 53-page document released last Thursday.
Skeptical Congress members on Tuesday pressed senior military leaders to take more aggressive action to prevent and punish inappropriate online activity by service members, including posts of "intimate" images on social media sites. And the military officers said a weeks-old investigation into nude photo-sharing by Marines online now involves all the services and has expanded to other websites, including a Tumblr page that has pornographic photos of people in various military uniforms.
The nomination of Neil Gorsuch presents the Senate with a constitutional dilemma: Is this nation prepared to have Eddie Haskell serving a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court? The most noteworthy thing to emerge from Gorsuch's testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee wasn't his judicial philosophy , his credentials nor even the likelihood of confirmation . What stood out was his aw-shucks, good-golly manner: Gorsuch played a folksy sycophant straight out of the 1950s.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is saying for the first time publicly that President Trump's attacks on federal judges were "disheartening" and "demoralizing." In February, Trump described the Seattle judge who put a stay on his immigration and travel ban a "so-called judge" in a tweet.
In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, in Cleveland. In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, in Cleveland.
Five weeks after inappropriately asking a reporter to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, President Trump has arranged his own face-to-face discussion with the group, whose leaders are scheduled to visit the White House on Wednesday. Rep. Cedric L. Richmond , the caucus chairman, said that he and five executive committee members have accepted Trump's invitation to discuss issues related to the African American community, including the president's proposed budget, education, criminal justice reform and health care.
Sheldon Whitehouse Gorsuch refuses Whitehouse's request to ask shadowy backers to reveal themselves Dem senator: Gorsuch must be 'independent' Live coverage: Day two of Supreme Court nominee hearing MORE 's request that he publicly ask conservative donors funding a $10 million advertising campaign run by the conservative Judicial Crisis Network to identify themselves. Whitehouse asked Gorsuch as a "matter of courtesy to the process" to ask his anonymous backers to reveal themselves so that the public could know what interests favor his confirmation.
Neil Gorsuch says he was just reading out of a law textbook. But a one of his former law students said he implied in class that many female job applicants unfairly manipulate companies by hiding plans to begin families.
Gov. Cuomo announced 27 new hires on Tuesday, including a dozen people who were out of work thanks to President Trump. The dozen either worked for President Barack Obama, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign or elsewhere in the federal government, and their hirings come as Cuomo is being talked up as a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2020.
The White House is instructing Cabinet heads and agency officials not to elaborate on President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts beyond what was in a relatively brief submission, a move Democrats decried as a gag order. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney wrote in a memo late last week that until the full budget release in May, "all public comments of any sort should be limited to the information contained in the Budget Blueprint chapter for your agency," referring to the 53-page document released last Thursday.
Graphic shows profile information for Supreme Court nominee and selected opinions; 2c x 9 inches; 96.3 mm x 228 mm; Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch, left, shares a laugh with Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The ban , which includes laptops, tablets, and video games, but does not include smartphones or medical devices, is effective for Royal Jordanian flights servicing New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Montreal. One official told NBC News that the message the airline sent was not an entirely accurate description of the forthcoming policy, to be announced Tuesday.
Those who tuned into C-SPAN today for hot-and-heavy questioning of President Donald Trump 's Supreme Court nominee were sorely disappointed. The first day isn't actually about the nominee, but just a chance for senators on the Judiciary Committee to make opening statements.
Rep. Adam Schiff , the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, made something very clear in his opening statement on Monday: "Most important, we do not yet know whether the Russians had the help of U.S. citizens, including people associated with the Trump campaign," he said. "Many of the Trump's campaign personnel, including the president himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests.
Some liberal interest groups and advocates are calling on the Senate to put off confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee while the FBI is investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia. Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe tweeted Tuesday morning that it's a "sensible rule" to withhold approval for nominee Neil Gorsuch for as long as the investigation continues.