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About 15 people gathered outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in San Francisco to deliver a petition calling on Democrat congressional leaders to reject president-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointees. About 15 people gathered outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in San Francisco to deliver a petition calling on Democrat congressional leaders to reject president-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointees.
After years of hearings, negotiations, amendments, bipartisanship, and editing, the sweeping landmark 21st Century Cures Act has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Fred Upton of St. Joseph and Democratic U.S. Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado co-sponsored the package of bills that is designed to simplify and expedite the process for approving new drugs and medical devices.
In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, Kathy Schmitt, left, folds T-shirts that she designed, declaring "Madam President," for sale at an election night party for Democrats in Seattle. Copies of a one-off edition of Newsweek featuring Hillary Clinton that carried the title "Madam President" that were recalled following Clinton's loss in the Nov. 8, 2016, election are being sold for hundreds of dollars on eBay.
House Democrats will vote Thursday to adjust how they operate internally in the 115th Congress, a move that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hopes will placate members who complained that the caucus leadership is too closed off from rank and file lawmakers. Although his bid to replace the 76-year-old Californian as party leader failed Wednesday, her challenger, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, succeeded in forcing her to accept some of his proposed rule changes , most notably making the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairmanship an elected position.
Elected officials and veterans advocates said Tuesday that they were deeply disturbed by allegations that employees at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford may be involved in selling drugs to patients. On Sunday, The Sun reported that the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was investigating an alleged drug-dealing ring at the hospital that includes employees and patients and may be linked to at least two overdose deaths in VA facilities.
Motorcycle law enforcement officers lead a procession away from Tacoma General Hospital of an ambulance bearing the body of a the officer. SEATTLE - A police officer who was shot multiple times in Tacoma while responding to a domestic violence call died Wednesday night, while police worked to arrest a suspect they believed was still barricaded in the home with a gun, authorities said.
It's a glittering jewel in Donald Trump's hotel empire. Securing the rights to use the government-owned building where it is housed took him more than a year of negotiating.
The election night defeat of Hillary Clinton must be taking a big toll on the Clinton family, in spite of talk earlier this week of the possibility that Hillary Clinton was looking at another go in 2020 . This week, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend and associate of the Clintons, says that no such plan is in the works.
President-elect Donald Trump is set on Thursday to trumpet a deal with furnace and air conditioner manufacturer Carrier Corp. that would reduce the planned 1,400 job cuts at an Indianapolis factory that became a political cause during the presidential campaign. Feb. 10: Company officials announce plans to shutter the Indianapolis factory, along with a 700-worker factory in the northeastern Indiana city of Huntington that is also owned by Carrier parent company United Technologies Corp. of Hartford, Connecticut.
U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican, is calling on Donald Trump to reverse President Obama's designations of national monuments across the country. President Obama designated two national monuments in Nevada - Tule Springs Fossil Beds on Dec. 19, 2014, and Basin and Range on July 10, 2015.
California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on how, whether, and why his state will "resist" Trump-era national policies. Another Californian on the left.
Indiana's government will subsidize Carrier through a special tax break in exchange for Carrier keeping two thirds of its jobs in Huntington-jobs the company had said it was moving to Mexico. President Election Donald Trump -whose VP-elect happens to be Indiana's governor-has waved this decision by Carrier aloft as a victory for Trump's toughness and dealmaking.
Rep. Keith Ellison's road to chairing the Democratic National Committee keeps getting rockier - which is a healthy sign for the party. No less than President Obama seems to think the Minnesota congressman is the wrong way to go: His people have been pushing Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Michigan ex-Gov. Jennifer Granholm for the job.
Thousands of California National Guard troops will not have to repay enlistment bonuses and benefits they received a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a deal between House and Senate negotiators. Rep. Adam Schiff, whose congressional district includes Burbank, Glendale and the Pasadena area, said legislation will ensure soldiers who were required to pay back bonuses and benefits “they received in good faith are not the subject of clawbacks both now or in the future.” Southern Calfornia native John Bischler, who spent 13 years in the National Guard, said he was cautiously optimistic about the compromise.
The personnel file of the police officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding attacker at Ohio State University contains high marks for the officer's performance in his short time on the job.
More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said. Meanwhile, North Dakota law enforcement will not make spot checks on vehicles headed to the camp where activists are based, the governor's office said on Wednesday, backing away from a previous plan.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defeated Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan to retain her post as the top elected Democrat in the House during a closed-door meeting Wednesday. The final vote was 134 to 63 for Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi has lead House Democrats so long she remembers when Virginia Foxx was the craziest member of the opposition. Senate Republicans are looking to sync better with Donald Trump, so OF COURSE they're begging an octogenarian Mormon from Utah to stay in the upper chamber.
"The people have lost trust in us, and we have to find a way to get it back," said Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, after House Democrats endured a bruising battle over their leadership . House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California prevailed, but only after insurgent Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, won 63 of the 197 votes cast.
There was a moment this week when what appeared to be a challenge to the leadership standing of South Carolina's Rep. Jim Clyburn could have turned nasty. It didn't because, according to Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Clyburn is "ridiculously loyal."