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Comey. . Former FBI director James Comey is greeted by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C. at the beginning of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington.
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has called a referendum on independence to be held on September 25, an official said on Wednesday, moving ahead with a plan for full statehood that is likely to be opposed by Baghdad. Wednesday's announcement comes just two months after Iraqi Kurdistan released a roadmap for a referendum, with Kurdish leaders stating at the time that a vote is a " natural right of the nation of Kurdistan to decide on its political and administrative path in a referendum and an entity of an independent state ".
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the now-controversial chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is a bit different from what Washington expects in its politicians. He grew up in the agricultural cornucopia of the Central Valley of California -- fruits, vegetables, beef, dairy products and fibers -- the concrete expression of a myriad of hard-working ethnic groups.
Former FBI chief James Comey said Thursday he will resist a subpoena to appear before a congressional committee Dec. 3 unless that happens publicly because House Republicans will distort anything he says behind closed doors.
Lawmakers verbally sparred with top intelligence chiefs on Wednesday after they staunchly refused to answer questions about conversations they had with President Donald Trump regarding probes into Russian activities during the election. Members of the Senate intelligence committee wanted to know about news reports claiming Trump had asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Adm.
GOP Rep. Chris Collins of New York said he believes President Donald Trump wasn't asking then-FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Rather, he was acting out of loyalty to protect his friend from further public scrutiny.
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday the "best evidence" to date that President Trump did not commit obstruction of justice is that James Comey is being allowed to testify in front of the Senate. Graham told Fox News' Martha MacCallum that no prosecutor would let their "star witness" testify in front of the Senate if they felt they had a decent case.
The Trump Administration, like its predecessors, has shown an apparent appetite for the use of force overseas. The "mother of all bombs" dropped on Syrian troops, saber-rattling toward North Korea, deployments of U.S. forces in 10 or more countries -- all of this suggests a growing comfort with the idea of putting our troops in dangerous places.
Sen. John McCain reportedly said Wednesday he was "disturbed" by former James Comey's statement to Congress that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop the probe into Michael Flynn's alleged Russia ties and Sen. Chuck Grassley said he might subpoena the former FBI director to testify before his committee. The comment by McCain, the six-term Arizona Republican, was reported by CNN's Manu Raju , who said "he would not go there" when the senator was asked whether Trump's actions constituted obstruction of justice.
Former FBI Director James Comey will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him to pledge his loyalty and to end the agency's investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to his prepared remarks posted online Wednesday. "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty," Comey said Trump told him in his prepared remarks, posted on the website of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Republican Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2017. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Wednesday criticized the state legislature for overriding his veto of a bill that hikes income tax rates to plug budget holes, saying it will hurt the state's efforts to spur economic growth.
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President Donald Trump 's plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system is running into bipartisan opposition in Congress. Lawmakers fret the plan could raise costs for air travelers and hurt small airports.
Lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback's signature tax policy over his objections Tuesday night, forcing into law tax increases to fix a budget shortfall and provide more money for schools.
House Speaker Paul Ryan won't commit to holding a vote to increase the government's borrowing authority this summer. The Wisconsin Republicans instead says the House will vote on such debt legislation before the government defaults - but not necessarily by an August deadline requested last month by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin .
The directors of national intelligence and the National Security Agency say they are in discussions with the White House about whether their conversations with President Donald Trump are protected by executive privilege. NSA Director Mike Rogers says he has not yet received an answer from the White House about whether the president intended to invoke the authority afforded to him to withhold certain communications from the public.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's witnesses on Wednesday included top officials from the FBI, NSA, Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Top intel officials Coats and Rogers say they've never been 'pressured' on Russia investigations The Senate Intelligence Committee's witnesses on Wednesday included top officials from the FBI, NSA, Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy has returned from an overseas trip with a bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House and Senate. Kennedy, R-Madisonville, traveled to Belgium, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and France on a trip that focused on NATO and defense spending.
On Nov. 9, 2016, in the stunned afterglow of Republicans taking the White House and holding both chambers of Congress, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor put it plainly: "It is now time for Republicans to govern," he said on CNBC. "There'll be no excuses now.
President Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signed an executive order targeting the Affordable Care Act as one of his first official acts in office on Jan. 20. The event Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House was just the latest "health-care listening session" hosted by an administration that for months has repeatedly sought to undercut a law it officially must carry out.