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Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by GOP donors Charles and David Koch, is launching a new digital ad campaign to thank lawmakers who support a comprehensive tax reform plan, The Hill reported. Lawmakers from both the House and Senate are featured in the ads, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C, an AFP spokesman said.
Exchanges between the senior White House adviser and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times and Jim Acosta of CNN became combative at a news briefing on Wednesday. Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell officially announced that she will run against Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Miami, who represents a swing district on Wednesday August 1, 2017.
In today's Star Tribune Stephen Montemayor takes up the fate of the Minnesota edition of the Obama administration's Countering Violent Extremism Program. The Obama administration's approach to the problem of radical Islamic terrorism was fraught with stupidity and euphemism.
An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people's free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politicians to stop the practice. The American Civil Liberties Union this week sued Maine Gov. Paul LePage and sent warning letters to Utah's congressional delegation.
Americans for Prosperity on Thursday unveiled its latest piece of a multimillion campaign designed to spur on tax reform efforts, this time thanking lawmakers the group says have been solid on the issue. The six-figure digital ad campaign is designed to thank members of the House and Senate who have supported reform efforts and encourage them to keep it a priority, the pro-free market group said.
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., recounts his experience in Selma, Alabama, to a group of students gathered on the House steps on April 15, 2015. Fifty-two years ago this week, John Lewis of Georgia was a young activist, not the Democratic congressman he is today.
Senate Finance Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, seen here with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants to look at a possible repeal of the 2010 health care law's taxes as part of a larger tax package. The Republican effort to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care law may have stalled, but lobbyists are pushing the GOP to continue to target the provisions the industry most despises: the law's taxes.
Congressman Paul Gosar, a Republican from Arizona, said that leftist billionaire George Soros may have secretly organized August's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville to slander nationalists. Gosar proposed the theory about the rally - a march that prompted demonstrations against racism, including one where a White supremacist killed one woman - in an interview published Thursday with "You know George Soros is one of those people that actually helps back these individuals.
Trump's initial statement about the protests said there was hate "on many sides," which prompted critics and opponents to dismiss his statement as not being strong enough in condemning the extremist groups that initiated the protest. The statement was in contrast to several other Republican leaders such as Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Sen. Orrin Hatch , Sen. John McCain , Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio all of whom explicitly condemned the demonstrations and white supremacy saying there was no place for hatred in America.
President Mike Pence. The words do not trip lightly off the tongue. But as special counsel Bob Mueller dives ever deeper into the murky waters of Trump family enterprises - and the campaign's possible collusion with Russia - a Pence presidency must be contemplated.
It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a "culture of vicious dehumanization," not to mention its sins of incoherence, rejection of empirical fact and plain hypocrisy.
The Salt Lake Tribune Tanner Ainge, John Curtis, and Chris Herrod. During the 3rd congressional district candidate debate at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo on July 11, 2017.
A rally will be held outside Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' event on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to protest what some feel is a refusal to listen to her constituents on issues such as health care, immigration, and other key issues. "Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers refused to hold any public events before voting to take away health care from 23 million Americans," said Mariah McKay, one of the leaders of Fuse Spokane.
Over a U.S. Air Force base in the New Mexico desert, pilots on Wednesday tested some off-the-shelf options as the military looks for its next light-attack aircraft. Test flights for the experiment known as the OA-X initiative are being conducted at Holloman Air Force Base.
The Latest on a federal investigators searching offices of a consultant to U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter's congressional campaign : The firm that managed finances for California Republican Duncan Hunter's congressional campaign confirms that the FBI searched its offices. Jason Torchinsky, an attorney for Election CFO, said Wednesday that the firm's offices in Alexandria, Virginia, were searched on Feb. 23. He says the firm and its employees have cooperated fully with government inquiries and have no reason to believe that they are targets of any investigation.
" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio said that legislators must take action on tax reform and healthcare to convince voters that they can do their jobs successfully. "I think it's important that we show we can govern and, specifically, we have a great opportunity before us on tax reform," Portman said Wednesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."