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As the upper chamber prepares to take on tax reform in September, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that the process won't be easy, but it's necessary for the party to fulfill promises. Senate Republicans are turning to reforming the tax code after failing to gain the 50 votes needed to move forward on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Trump on Wednesday endorsed an overlooked bill that aims to drastically slash the number of legal immigrants coming to the United States under a so-called "merit-based" system. Trump joined Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia at the White House to support their bill, called the RAISE Act, which they said could cut legal immigration by about 50% over the next 10 years.
Sessions: US prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/2vtIblf Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, July 31, 2017, in Washington.
President Donald Trump may tap U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who took over as White House chief of staff this week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. "While Secretary Perry is honored to be mentioned, he is happy where he is and very focused on carrying out the mission the President gave him when he was chosen to lead the Department of Energy," Shaylyn Hynes said in an email.
President Trump speaks during an announcement on immigration reform accompanied by Senator Tom Cotton and Senator David Perdue. REUTERS/Carlos Barria U.S. President Donald Trump and two Republican senators on Wednesday unveiled a plan at the White House to half the number of legal immigrants to the United States eventually and favor newcomers who speak English.
In this May 24, 2017, file photo, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., presides over a House Budget Committee meeting in Washington. Black announced on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that she is joining the Tennessee governor's race.
The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday. He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to file a lawsuit Tuesday if Congress passes pro-Second Amendment legislation that would roll back the state's major 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act. "If they try to overrule the State of New York we will sue because this state has rights too," Cuomo told reporters.
I spent the summer of 2013 riding my motorcycle coast to coast, giving talks about serious health issues that face American veterans . The ride, called "Operation Red Dragonfly," was organized by a widow in Missouri named Sheree Evans, who goes by the nickname of Tiger.
Joy Reid, MSNBC's hostess with the mostest on all things race-baiting - who, for example, recently expressed reserved and "delicate" hope for Rep. Steve Scalise's gun wound recovery because of his record "on race" - blamed voter racism and anger, fueled by talk show powerhouse Rush Limbaugh, for the rise of President Donald Trump. Reid, in the context of discussing Sen. Jeff Flake's RINOey new book, "Conscience of a Conservative," which basically takes pot shots at Trump, told her TV host Chuck Todd that "right-wing talk radio over the last 20 something years" has spawned the anger that's spawned the "vulgarity" that's spawned, ultimately, the Trump White House.
As Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition -- and not be driven into actions that may look tough but would leave every player worse off. The template hasn't really changed from the first Korean War in 1950: The North's aggressive actions bring an American response, and then a general war that devastates the Korean Peninsula.
To understand why the Arizona Republican is risking his political career this week to publish a book lambasting the president requires familiarity with a pivotal but largely forgotten episode in the early history of the modern conservative movement. It was 1962 - the same year Flake was born.
Speaking during a farm bill listening session in his ... ALLIANCE, Neb. - Omaha Roncalli secured an 11-1 victory over Gering Tuesday night and will go into Wednesday's championship vs. Nebraska City with a 4-0 record.
In this May 5, 2017, file photo, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel addresses Hispanic business owners and community members at the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce in Lansing, Mich. Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate.
In 1892, Pope Leo XIII addressed a letter to the Catholics of France. For a century French politics had been divided between mostly Catholic monarchists and mostly anticlericalist republicans, and the church had championed royalists against the secular republic.
Republican senators are bucking President Donald Trump's calls to revive the health care debate. And Trump just ousted his only top White House aide with deep links to the Republican Party.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Tuesday unloaded on Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, mocking him in a Twitter post as an "imposter" posing as a conservative. "Jeff Flake is not a conservative, nor does he have a conscience," Bozell said, slamming Flake by using the title of his new book "Conscience of a Conservative" - a nod to Barry Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive.
Several Republican and Democrat lawmakers agree that Congress needs to prevent a collapse of the health insurance market, which could hurt millions of consumers - and that concern has opened up some bipartisan dialogue. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, said the Senate health committee will hold bipartisan health care hearings on how to repair the individual market.
Colorado Republican Rep. Mike Coffman speaks to reporters before holding a constituent town hall in Brighton, Colo., on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Coffman called for a bipartisan effort on health care after the GOP-led Congress failed to produce a new health care law.