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Golfers and neighbors of Donald Trump's New Jersey course will have something more than just the president to look out for over the next few weeks. A tethered unmanned surveillance aircraft will be flying over the Bedminster area as part of a test while Trump is staying at his home on the golf course on a 17-day vacation that starts Friday, the Secret Service said in a privacy notice issued this week.
Vice President Mike Pence has turned over emails from a private AOL.com account he used to conduct official business while he was Indiana's governor. A spokeswoman for current Gov. Eric Holcomb says Pence's attorneys last month handed over an electronic database containing the emails, which are public records.
The Senate confirmed two new commissioners on August 4, 2017, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two Republican nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, one of whom accused natural gas pipeline opponents of waging a "jihad" against the agency.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state. Justice told about 9,000 Trump supporters at a rally in Huntington that he will be changing his registration Friday.
Citing concerns with the direction of the party, Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia announced that he would switch his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican at a rally yesterday evening. The Republican Party now controls 34 governorships, which is the largest number held by the party since 1922.
If cities want assistance as part of the Justice Department's new initiative to curb violent crime, they will have to help federal authorities tamp down on illegal immigration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. In a statement, the Justice Department said that cities can be selected for the Public Safety Partnership - which sends federal experts to work on crime-fighting efforts with their local counterparts - only if the cities "show a commitment to reducing crime stemming from illegal immigration."
State Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Houston, announces that the Senate has agreed to a conference committee on House Bill 21, the school finance bill, on Good morning and happy Friday, folks. Thanks for reading The Brief, our daily newsletter informing you on politics, public policy and everything in between.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, joined by, from left, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to re... WASHINGTON - Lawmakers scattered for their summer recess Thursday, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump. The president is angry about what the Republican-led Congress couldn't do - repeal Obamacare - as well as one of the few things it did: approve a Russia sanctions bill he detests.
McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer. McCain aims to revive immigration reform when he returns to Congress McCain is in a more reflective place in his long Senate career as he faces a serious health challenge and undergoes chemotherapy for brain cancer.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Tennessee Republican Party's Statesmen's Dinner at Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Tennessee Republican Party's Statesmen's Dinner at Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state. Justice told about 9,000 Trump supporters at a rally in Huntington that he will be changing his registration Friday.
Washington, D.C.- Senator John McCain, Chairman of the International Republican Institute , issued the following statement on the confirmation of Ambassador Mark Green as Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development : "I'm proud that the Senate today confirmed Ambassador Mark Green as Administrator of USAID. Mark has dedicated his life and career to public service and advancing human rights and democracy around the world.
Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said he was shocked at a tweet by Donald Trump that said "you can blame Congress" for a relationship "at an all-time" and "dangerous" low. Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low.
Congressional candidate E Brian Rose says Steven Palazzo fraudulently sought deferments to avoid serving in Iraq. #2018@wlox pic.twitter.com/XDcCUCLWhS Rose provided previously unreleased documents and information regarding Palazzo's service, saying Steven Palazzo sought special favors to be assigned duty at Camp Shelby, rather than be sent to Iraq with the 155th battalion in 2004.
Thursday, Republicans either doubted the success or were unaware of a bipartisan bill protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller that was previously put forth by Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis. "The President would maintain the power to remove the special counsel, but we would just want to make sure that it had merit and have that back-end judicial process," Tillis said Thursday morning on CNN's "Newsroom ."
A top Senate Republican unveiled a border and immigration enforcement bill on Thursday with fellow GOP lawmakers that would invest $15 million over four years in border security and help fund President Donald Trump's wall. The bill would authorize the physical border wall and technological advancements at the southern border.
Members of Congress just headed home after a brutal fight over repealing Obamacare, and they won't be back in Washington until September 5. The battles that await them are even more impossible - and they're only set to be in session for 12 days before they need to act to prevent a government shutdown and an economic crash. "September is going to be a very difficult month," said House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows shortly before the break.
Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job, putting forth new legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware plan to introduce the legislation Thursday.
After a crackdown on illegal immigration that has sharply reduced the number of unauthorized border crossings from Mexico, U.S. President Donald Trump is now turning his attention to reducing the number of legal immigrants in the country. The White House is throwing its support behind a bill developed by Republican senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia that would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over 10 years by reducing the kinds of relatives immigrants can bring into the country.