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Sen. John McCain said Thursday the Senate could not overcome an impasse on debates and voting for controversial amendments to its 2018 defense policy bill, including a measure to eliminate sequestration. The sequestration amendment, sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is among four amendments the upper chamber was trying to bring to the floor for votes since Wednesday as part of passing the National Defense Authorization Act, but could not reach a consensus to allow it.
Democrats in the House and Senate said Thursday they had a deal with President Trump to protect immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but passing that "deal" through Congress still faces significant hurdles. By Thursday afternoon, three major problems emerged with the supposed deal described by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. First, Pelosi said Democrats are angling to pass a "Dream Act" bill from Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., that would give so-called Dreamers a path to permanent resident status in the U.S., and even U.S. citizenship.
In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington.
Democratic leaders on Wednesday night declared that they had a deal with President Trump to quickly extend protections for young undocumented immigrants and to finalize a border security package that does not include the president's proposed wall. The Democrats, Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi, said in a joint statement that they had a "very productive" dinner meeting with the president at the White House that focused on the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
13, 2017... . FILE- In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capi... President Donald Trump says he's "fairly close" to reaching a deal with congressional leaders on protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
After Sheriff Joe Arpaio was found guilty of defying a court order instructing him to stop infringing on Latino Americans' constitutional rights, the president pardoned him. Unlike past pardons, this presidential act threatens the judicial branch's authority, the right to equal protection, and the Constitution itself.
President Donald Trump says he's "fairly close" to reaching a deal with congressional leaders on protections for young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But the president says he needs "massive border security."
In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington.
Speaker Paul Ryan says in AP interview that deporting people brought to US illegally as children not in America's interest. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Congress has an 'aggressive timeline' for passing a tax reform bill, insisting it will be done by the end of the year.
Democratic leaders in Congress have claimed they have agreed a deal with US President Donald Trump to protect the legal status of young undocumented migrants brought to the US as children. Party leaders declared late on Wednesday that Mr Trump had following a dinner at the White House agreed to introduce legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation and enact border security measures that did not include building a physical wall with Mexico.
President Donald Trump's rocky relationship with lawmakers has made Congress free enough to act in the country's best interests, Murphy writes. If you were a member of Congress, especially a Republican member of Congress, you could be forgiven for having at least some contempt for President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Janesville, Wis., in March 2016 A Republican primary is officially underway in the Wisconsin Senate race, with candidates facing off over who should take on Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next year. President Donald Trump won the Badger State by less than one point in November, the first time a Republican presidential nominee had won Wisconsin in more than 30 years.
Chief Justice Warren Burger with Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., talking over a book at the Capitol Hill Reception for the New Washington Guide Book in 1975. Speaker Paul D. Ryan was a Senate staffer back when Sen. Pete V. Domenici wielded the gavel of the Senate Budget Committee.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday after a meeting of the House Republican Conference. Republican lawmakers for months have been talking about a tax overhaul with a sense of urgency, but those words have yet to translate into action.
The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some border security enhancements - not including Trump's long-sought border wall. The agreement, the latest instance of Trump ditching his own party to make common cause with the opposition, was announced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi following a White House dinner that Republican lawmakers weren't invited to attend.
Upending the political order in the nation's capital for the second time in a week, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and her Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer of New York, said Wednesday night that they had reached an agreement with President Trump to shield undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children from deportation and to increase border security, but without building a wall. The two Democrats made the announcement after dining on Chinese food with Trump and Republican congressional leaders at the White House.
President Trump met with the Senate's only black Republican on Wednesday, South Carolina's Tim Scott. After the meeting, Scott spoke exclusively with CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes.
Up against an unprecedented cash crunch, Republicans who control Pennsylvania's House of Representatives prepared a late Wednesday night vote on a no-new-taxes borrowing package to help plug the state government's $2.2 billion budget gap. In addition to a $1 billion loan, the House GOP's package would siphon cash from off-budget programs, including accounts for mass transit, environmental protection and economic development.
Former national security adviser Susan Rice told the House Intelligence Committee that she "unmasked" the names of President Donald Trump's associates because she wanted to find out why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates visited Trump Tower in New York last year without notifying the US government, CNN reported on Wednesday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, UAE's crown prince, traveled to New York during the transition period in December 2016 and reportedly met with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.