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Tired of being cast as the poster child for big banks behaving badly, Wells Fargo & Co. has been expanding its presence in the nation's capital to convince lawmakers it has changed and talking up its charitable work in their districts.
A House panel on Thursday voted along party lines to advance a measure that would strengthen enforcement of a law against agencies defying congressional appropriators, but Democrats argued the bill is a "solution in search of a problem." The Anti-Deficiency Reform and Enforcement Act , introduced by Rep. Paul Mitchell, R-Mich., prescribes stricter penalties for more serious violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act, including the firing of federal employees who break the law "knowingly" or with reckless disregard for it.
Two Democratic congressmen have sent a letter to the White House requesting documents relating to efforts by senior White House officials -- including senior adviser Jared Kushner -- to secure a high-level position for a Chicago banker who lent $16 million to Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, the ranking member of the National Security Subcommittee, are asking for information related to Stephen Calk, the chief executive officer of the Federal Savings Bank.
The back-and-forth of the general election campaign season seems to have started Monday for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican challenger Geoff Diehl. Warren, seeking election to a second term on Nov. 6, appeared on WGBH's "Boston Public Radio" where co-host Jim Braude picked up a question tweeted at the show by Diehl's campaign regarding specifics on how much Warren wants to see tax rates increase.
Aug 6, 2018--AIDS Healthcare Foundation welcomed the introduction last week of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 6505, that would require the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices of prescription drugs furnished under part D of the Medicare program. "We especially want to thank U.S. Reps.
Cook County Jail detainees discuss their experiences with opioid relapse. The jail runs a program to help those who struggle with opioid addiction, but the reach of the program is limited.
When the history of the Trump era is written, this quotation from our president will play a prominent role in explaining the distemper of our moment and the dysfunction of his administration. Trump was talking about media coverage of his trade war, but he was also describing his genuinely novel approach to governing: He believes that reality itself can be denied and that big lies can sow enough confusion to keep the truth from taking hold.
Under pressure to show he's taking the threat of Russian interference seriously, President Donald Trump claimed without evidence Tuesday that Moscow will be "fighting very hard" to help Democrats win in the 2018 midterm elections.
Environmental Protection Agency manipulated its handling of open records requests so that documents from the Obama years got priority over those involving the agency's embattled former chief, Scott Pruitt, and other Trump administration officials, according to congressional interviews with EPA staffers. The agency also allowed political appointees to review some planned responses to requests lodged under the Freedom of Information Act, according to interview excerpts cited by Representative Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat.
The Environmental Protection Agency assigns public-records requests from environmental groups or others that it sees as "politically charged" to special internal review, a top agency official told congressional staffers investigating the actions of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former administrator who resigned this month amid mounting ethical allegations. EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson told congressional investigators one such records request, from the Sierra Club, was a "fishing expedition."
The Latest on testimony to Congress by a former FBI agent involved in the Clinton email and Russia probes : FBI special agent Peter Strzok says a text message saying "we'll stop" the election of Donald Trump was written in response to a series of events including Trump's "disgusting" insult of the family of a fallen American soldier. Strzok says in congressional testimony that the text reflected his view that the American people would not elect someone "demonstrating that behavior."
Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks to the crowd after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS ** Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks to the crowd after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS ** President Donald Trump nominated Marylander Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Monday evening.
Five people are dead and several others are "gravely injured" after a shooting at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to officials. A shooter is in custody, police said.
Rep. Elijah Cummings , Maryland Democrat, is certainly no fan of the Trump administration , but he said Sunday that the Red Hen owner should have served White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders . "As far as the restaurant incident, I think the restaurant owner should have served her.
During her first weeks in office as Baltimore's top prosecutor, Mosby made international head... . FILE- In this July 27, 2016, file photo, with a mural depicting Freddie Gray in the background, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, center, speaks during a news conference after her office dropped remaining charges a... BALTIMORE - During her first months in office as Baltimore's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby vowed to "deliver justice" on behalf of a black man whose death in police custody triggered massive protests and the city's worst riots in decades.
President Trump has reversed his zero tolerance immigration policy with an executive order that will stop agents from separating children and parents detained at the border. Immigrant advocates applauded President Trump's decision on Wednesday to end the separation of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally but fear a return to long detentions while the families' appeals for asylum are decided.
Republicans and Democrats sparred for a second day Tuesday over an internal Justice Department report that sharply criticized former FBI Director James Comey for the bureau's work investigating Hillary Clinton in 2016.
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. Customs and Border Protection is executing the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants.
"The system has been broken for many years, the immigration system, it has been a really bad, bad system. Probably the worst anywhere in the world," he said before entering the meeting.