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House Speaker Paul Ryan's announcement that he will step down from Congress leaves the door open for two likely successors. One is House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and the other House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy .
U.S. Rep. Luke Messer said Saturday that truthfulness is the main difference between him and his two rivals for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat from Indiana.
Dave Leroy, former attorney general and former lieutenant governor, at microphone, gives his opening remarks during the first televised GOP debate for Idaho's open 1st Congressional District seat in Meridian, Idaho, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Leroy debated against four other Republican opponents.
The latest statewide poll in the Republican gubernatorial race affirmed Secretary of State Kris Kobach to be the most well-known and intensely disliked candidate in the field and revealed half of the electorate still don't recognize Jeff Colyer as the state's governor four months ahead of the August primary. Kobach was known to four of every five people involved in polling by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, but 41 percent said they had a “highly negative” opinion of him.
Congress had an agency designed to help senators avoid the sort of embarrassment they faced when trying to understand Facebook - but lawmakers stopped funding it 23 years ago and have resisted reviving it. Now there's talk the Office of Technology Assessment could make a comeback.
Whitney Walker, second left, and Tracy Kurzendoerfer protest outside of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's office on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Frankfort, Ky. Walker and Kurzendoerfer are teachers in Fayette County.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday reaffirmed her support for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, an investigation that has edged closer to President Trump's inner circle. "I think it is so important, it is so imperative, that this investigation be allowed to go forward," Murkowski said at the annual Women in the World Summit in Manhattan.
The ferry, which is usually open to traffic 24-hours a day, crosses the Wisconsin River between Sauk and Columbia counties and is accessed by Wisconsin State Road 113. County highway department officials say, ordinarily, it closes for the season only until ice forms on the river.
Indiana Democrats say a jump in new candidates on the May 8 primary ballot is a sign that they could cut into large Republican state legislative majorities that have left them largely powerless over the past six years. Republican voters, meanwhile, will decide numerous contested races among the 25 state Senate and 100 House seats up for election this year.
Congressional lawmakers generally applauded President Trump's decision to launch missiles in a coordinated strike with the United Kingdom and French allies against Syria for a chemical attack the Assad regime inflicted on Syrian citizens last week. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., attends an Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 30 2017.
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash did not hold back in his criticisms of the President and Congress. Amash encouraged the next speaker to reclaim congressional war powers.
James Comey was fired as the FBI's director in May prompting the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. As Mueller's investigation into whether Donald Trump's campaign or associates colluded with Moscow moved into a more serious phase, the White House's press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has made several statements about Comey from the podium.
The U.S. Capitol is seen at dusk in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption This week in the Russia investigations: How different is the congressional situation now, really? How much might Moscow have depended on straw donors in the United States? After another head-spinning week in Donald Trump's Washington, an important new question is about the strength of the foundation under the support the president has enjoyed from another iconic edifice: The United States Capitol.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan greets President Trump at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in Washington on March 20. Almost as low in our letter writers' esteem as President Trump - and mind you, we're talking about a readership concentrated in deep-blue Los Angeles, writing about one of the most consistently unpopular commanders in chief since the advent of tracking polls - is the politician many consider to have served as the president's most effective enabler, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan .
In Oklahoma, funding for public education is down 28 percent since the recession. More than 90 school districts have turned to a four-day week to save money.
As Colorado Springs next week prepares to host the premier global meeting of the space industry with such featured speakers as Vice President Michael Pence, concerns are growing that our state - and, in fact, the nation - is dangerously vulnerable to massive solar storms. Colorado is a national leader in the aerospace industry.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray got a boost today from Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren - who many progressives idolize and many conservatives demonize. Warren appeared with Cordray, the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she created under President Obama.
Indiana's 6th District in Congress will have a new representative to the U.S. House, with five Republicans and six Democrats vying to be their party's nominee. U.S. Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, meaning the 6th District does not have an incumbent seeking re-election for the first time since 2012.
Abroad during a major military strike, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence plans to address Latin American leaders Saturday on President Donald Trump's decision to launch air strikes in Syria in response to a suspected chemical attack in the war-torn nation. Pence was whisked away from the Summit of the Americas late Friday so he could inform U.S. congressional leaders by phone of Trump's plans to announce the missile strikes.