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Homeowners in high-tax states like New Jersey, where a modest house within commuting distance of New York City can easily carry property taxes of over $15,000 a year, are wondering whether the Republican bill being sold as a tax cut would actually result in higher bills for them. At issue are provisions that would end deductions for state and local sales and income taxes and would cap the property tax deduction at $10,000.
Republican Ed Gillespie has pulled ahead of Democrat Ralph Northam in the Virginia governor's race - leading by 3 points in a new poll released Saturday - three days before the election. Gillespie, a former aide to President George W. Bush, leads Northam, the lieutenant governor, 40.4 percent to 37.4 percent in the survey of likely voters by Optimus/Firehouse Strategies .
In this April 7, 2017 photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks to reporters on the way to the confirmation vote for President Donald Trump's high court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Rand Paul suffered minor injuries when a man allegedly assaulted him at his home in Warren County, Kentucky, on Friday afternoon, according to state authorities.
SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks to members of the press on health care September 25, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Sen. Paul discussed on the Graham-Cassidy health care bill.
Kentucky police arrested and charged a 59-year-old man for assaulting Sen. Rand Paul at his Bowling Green home. State troopers responded to the Republican politician's home just before 3:30 p.m. on Friday and charged Rene Boucher with fourth-degree assault, according to a police statement obtained by the Bowling Green Daily News .
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters gathered at The Champions of Liberty Rally in Hebron, Ky., Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Paul was joined at the fundraising event by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, and U.S. Reps Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Military images - including this picture of a fighter jet - now decorate the renovated North Topeka YMCA building at 1936 N.W. Tyler, which is being transformed into the "Veteran's YMCA" for this community. More than 150 people attended a ceremony held late Saturday morning just outside the branch building at 1936 N.W. Tyler to celebrate its transformation into the "Veteran's YMCA" for this community.
The release states Kentucky State Troopers responded to Paul's residence in Warren County after a report of an assault around 3:21 p.m. on Friday, November 3. "Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault. The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police."
Trump Campaign Adviser Met With Russian Officials in 2016 - WASHINGTON - Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump presidential campaign, met Russian government officials during a July 2016 trip he took to Moscow, according to testimony he gave on Thursday to the House Intelligence Committee. Longtime Trump bodyguard to face questions about 2013 Moscow trip - One of President Trump's most trusted confidants, a security chief who served as his sounding board for two decades, will face questions from congressional investigators next week about Trump's 2013 trip to Moscow, according to people familiar with their plans.
The GOP tax plan released this week has a lot of promise. There are really good things in there that need to absolutely pass, and we as conservatives should endorse the good that is in there.
In this Oct. 29, 2016, file photo, then-Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., speaks to volunteers at a home serving as a canvassing site to train and organize supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cincinnati. WASHINGTON -- One current and three former female members of Congress said they have been sexually harassed or subjected to hostile sexual comments by their male colleagues while serving in the House.
Legislation providing five more years of financing for an expired children's health program won House approval Friday, though a partisan battle over paying for the extension continued to play out in the Senate. Each side is using the fight to accuse the other of jeopardizing the Children's Health Insurance Program, which serves more than 8 million children from low-income families.
The House's leading tax writer on Friday opened the possibility that Congress' push to cut taxes could mesh with its so-far failed effort to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, saying the tax bill could include a measure to do away with the health law's mandate that most Americans have health coverage. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said no decision had been made about whether to include repeal of the so-called individual mandate.
The South Carolina Republican, who served as an Air Force lawyer for more than 30 years, says Friday he has tremendous respect for the military justice system. But he says "this sentence in my view falls short of the gravity of the offense."
Carter Page met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich while in Moscow in July 2016, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's campaign confirmed to CNN on Friday. The encounter occurred during a conference in July 2016 at Moscow's New Economic School, Page said, describing it as more of a "hello" in passing than a formal meeting.
House conservatives want the repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate included in tax legislation, but some are shying away from saying that inclusion is critical to their support. The comments come as the House's chief tax writer Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said Friday that he is considering including repeal in the bill, which currently doesn't contain it.
A change made Friday to the House Republican tax bill could reduce the bill's benefit to the middle class by tens of billions of dollars. The revised bill changes the way future updates to key individual tax parameters, such as bracket thresholds and the amount of the standard deduction, would be calculated - by using a measure of inflation known as "chained CPI" that tends to grow more slowly than the "unchained" alternative.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback announced on Friday Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore, 72, will retire from In this "tell all" with Brian Hanni, the Voice of the Jayhawks, opens up about his current role at the University of Kansas. Kansas State senior Matthew McCrane is one of 20 place kickers in the nation to be named a semifinalist for the 2017 Lou Groza Award, the Pa TOPEKA, Kan.