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Dawn breaks over the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, as House GOP leaders are proposing to keep the government open for another six weeks by adding a year's worth of Pentagon funding to a stopgap spending b... Pres. Donald Trump called for a shutdown of the government if Congress can't work out immigration reform.
The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Sunday blasted a Republican memo alleging abuses of power by the FBI and the Justice Department. John Brennan accused Rep. Devin Nunes , the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of selectively releasing information to accuse law enforcement officials of improperly obtaining a warrant to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser.
The Ohio Supreme Court agreed with the state's decision to close the last abortion clinic in Toledo and end litigation initiated by a clinic in Cleveland challenging the constitutionality of abortion-related restrictions by the state. A pair of abortion clinics claiming hardships related to Ohio's escalating restrictions on the procedure lost separate fights in the state's high court on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Senator Chuck Grassley released a "much-less redacted," version of this week's criminal referral - also known as memo 2.0 - of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Grassley releases a much-less redacted version of the Grassley/Graham criminal referral of Steele, approved by FBI today, which raises many similar issues about FBI reliance on Steele with the FISA court from the Nunes memo https://t.co/sWqURR9bFm Page three of the report reveals, "The FBI stated to the FISC that "based on [Steele's] previous history with the FBI, whereby [Steele] provided reliable information to the FBI, the FBI believe [Steele's] reporting to be credible."
In this Jan. 26, 2017, file photo, containers of Roundup, a weed killer made by Monsanto, is seen on a shelf at a hardware store in Los Angeles. Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization's cancer research program over its finding that the glyphosate herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.
Tuesday, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R- Mississippi met with Biloxi Chief of Police John Miller and Assistant Chief of Police Michael Wills to discuss the local impacts of a program implemented here in MS called Regional Information Sharing System . Today, I met with @CityofBiloxi Chief of Police John Miller to discuss how regional information sharing systems help our law enforcement officers fight crime in Mississippi.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Development Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 30, 2018. ( Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Development Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 30, 2018.
Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, left, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday, Jan. 22. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, left, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday, Jan. 22. WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., is encouraging Senate colleagues to join him in a pledge: To "return civility" to politics by pledging not to campaign against each other.
West Virginia's Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday proposed a five-point strategy to rein in opioids abuse in his hard-hit corner of Appalachia, from an "enforcement surge" of 150 state troopers to limiting certain fills of pain pills to just three days. The legislative package would shield prescribers who decline to prescribe opioids - so doctors don't put economic incentives over safe care - tighten up prescribing practices under the state Medicaid program and force doctors to crosscheck a prescribing database every time they write a script for opioids, instead of just once a year.
According to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the declassified Devin Nunes memo - alleging FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation - is "not an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice." According to President Donald Trump, the memo shows how leaders at the FBI "politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats" and "totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe."
I was eating boiled crawfish last Friday night with my wife and children in Baton Rouge-Crawfish season! Finally!-when I received a text a message. The digital missive was from a longtime Capitol player, someone who knows the House and the Senate and all of the illuminated and darkened corners in between.
The Republican-led House has blocked a resolution condemning an Arizona Republican congressman who sought to arrest immigrants in the U.S. illegally at the State of the Union address. In a tweet, Conservative Rep. Paul Gosar called for the Capitol Police and Justice Department to check the identification of people attending President Donald Trump's speech and arrest "any illegal aliens."
Dawn breaks over the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, as House GOP leaders are proposing to keep the government open for another six weeks by adding a year's worth of Pentagon funding to a stopgap spending bill.
Publisher Jeremy Alford was enjoying boiled crawfish with his family last Friday when he received a text message from a longtime Capitol player, who wrote he felt like Louisianans were at a breaking point when it comes to status quo in government and politics. The mood of the electorate would soon make way for change, the messenger said, before asking Alford for his thoughts.
House Republican leaders have the votes to pass a bill Tuesday to fund the government through March 23, with a full defense appropriations bill attached to the measure, as well as two years of funding for community health centers. WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders have the votes to pass a bill Tuesday to fund the government through March 23, with a full defense appropriations bill attached to the measure, as well as two years of funding for community health centers.
Legislation to help young "Dreamer" immigrants struggled to gain footing in the U.S. Congress on Monday, as lawmakers prepared to hold a Tuesday vote on a short-term government funding measure to avoid a rerun of January's three-day partial shutdown. Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop-gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.
A political action committee dedicated to electing Democratic women on Tuesday endorsed Connie Pillich, the lone female remaining in the Democratic May primary for governor. Backing from EMILY's List could help boost Pillich, a former Air Force captain and ex-state lawmaker, in a five-way primary that includes former federal consumer watchdog Richard Cordray and former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with law enforcement officials on the MS-13 street gang and border security, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, in Washington. . Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., smiles as he meets with reporters as work continues on a plan to keep the government as a funding deadline approaches, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.