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All this week on Stateside, we look at how the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will affect Michigan residents, hospitals and governments. There are hundreds of hospitals in Michigan, and each of them has in one way or another been affected by the Affordable Care Act.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a sophomore Hawaii Democrat and Iraq War veteran, recently embarked on what her office called a "fact-finding" mission to Damascus, in Syria. Congressional travel to the devastated country is exceedingly rare, especially as fighting continues in direct violation of a recent cease-fire agreement brokered by Turkey and Russia.
In a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing, education secretary pick Betsy DeVos pledged that she would not seek to dismantle public schools amid questions by Democrats about her qualifications, political donations and long-time work advocating for charter schools and school choice. DeVos said she would address "the needs of all parents and students" but that a one-size-fits-all model doesn't work in education.
Few of the 60 or so House Democrats so far who announced plans to boycott the inauguration of Donald Trump have to sweat potential negative political consequences back home. Nearly all of them represent safe blue districts with constituencies likely to support their decision.
Since civil rights icon John Lewis called the Trump presidency illegitimate, more than 50 of his Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives have echoed his call to boycott the inauguration. Yet no Democratic senator has joined Lewis in the past few days, nor so explicitly questioned the validity of the presidential election.
More than 40 years ago, Rolling Stone writer Hunter S. Thompson filed a series of dispatches - collected in his book "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" - documenting how an ethically challenged Republican, Richard Nixon, trounced feckless Democrats and a vacuous press blinkered by its own pack mentality. Nearly a half-century later, another Rolling Stone writer, Matt Taibbi, has assembled a selection of his own 2016 reports.
Who will be the next top prosecutor in New Jersey? Trump to pick Garden State's next top federal prosecutor Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2jXuEs8 Legal and political insiders are still wondering who might be the next federal prosecutor for New Jersey after Inauguration Day, and whether the state's top Republican, Gov. Chris Christie, will have any say in the process. The top prosecutor job in each of the 94 federal judicial districts is a political appointment.
A bill has been re-filed named in honor of an East Texas mother who died in a hotel room after her daughter was unable to directly reach 911. Kari Hunt's daughter tried calling 911 from the Baymont Inn and Suites in Marshall on Dec. 1, 2013, to get help for her mother who had been stabbed repeatedly by her estranged husband, Brad Dunn.
Democratic senators hammered Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Education Department, during Tuesday's confirmation hearing, claiming she is not qualified to lead the nation's education system. DeVos stood firm in her long held beliefs that parents - not the government - should be able to choose where to send children to school, pledging to push voucher programs should she be confirmed to lead the nation's education system.
More than 117,000 people signed online petitions asking the president to commute her sentence, but some lawmakers fear the president has set a dangerous precedent. "There are very serious consequences when you release the type of documents that she did," says Senator Robert Menendez.
Man burned during protest outside Trump hotel in D.C. Man burned while setting fire outside Trump International Hotel, authorities said. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2k33Pae Demonstrators carry signs during a "Love Rally" in New York on Nov. 11, 2016, to protest the election of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
School choice advocate Betsy DeVos answered a wide range of questions during a three-hour confirmation hearing in Washington D.C. Tuesday night. The billionaire from West Michigan could head the U.S. Department of Education soon.
Lady Gaga, a Hillary Clinton supporter who performed at the Democratic presidential candidate's final rally in North Carolina, is no stranger to making political statements, especially against President-elect Trump. Lady Gaga, a Hillary Clinton supporter who performed at the Democratic presidential candidate's final rally in North Carolina, is no stranger to making political statements, especially against President-elect Trump.
Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Education had a particularly rough hearing on Tuesday, taking a battering from Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Sen. Bernie Sanders However, nothing quite caught the flavor of how poorly her hearing went than her response to Sen. Chis Murphy who asked her, "Do you think guns have any place in or around schools?" After saying the availability of guns should be "best left to locales and states to decide," Devos replied to further questioning on guns on campus by adding, "I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school he was talking about in Wyoming a I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies."
President-elect Donald Trump has told 'Fox & Friends' co-host Ainsley Earhardt that he doesn't mind Democratic members of Congress boycotting his inauguration, saying "I hope they give me their tickets." At least 60 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have opted to miss Friday's ceremonies, most notably Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who said last week that he did not consider Trump a "legitimate" president.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has returned to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to support the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of the Education Department. Lieberman asked senators at DeVos' confirmation hearing to "give her a chance to change the status quo" in the nation's schools.
The General Assembly will again consider installing electronic tolls on state highways, renewing a debate that's becoming an annual ritual at the state Capitol . State Rep. Henry Genga , D-East Hartford, has submitted a bill that would bring electronic tolls to an unspecified number of highways and state Sen. Ted Kennedy , D-Branford, a rising star in the Democratic Party , is pushing the idea at various forums.
The state of California has a 53-member House of Representatives delegation and, like all other states, two senators. Here is a list of all 55 members of the California Congressional delegation, and whether or not they are planning to attend Friday's inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.
Donald Trump said Rep. John Lewis is "wrong" to suggest that the President-elect's inauguration is the first he will boycott such an event, citing the Georgia congressman also protested the first inauguration of George W. Bush. "John Lewis said about my inauguration, 'It will be the first one that I've missed.'