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Members of key congressional committees pledged today to proceed with aggressive investigations into Russia's meddling into the U.S. election and any ties with the Trump campaign, saying the American people need a full airing as to why former FBI director James Comey was ousted. Comey was fired by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
President Donald Trump's budget hasn't been released yet, but that's not stopping some of Capitol Hill's most important Republicans from giving it a cold shoulder. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday, and it's certain to include a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, federal employee pensions and farm subsidies.
Yet another impeachable offense Column by Dick Polman Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: Forgive my frequent references to Richard Nixon. It's just eerie how his impeachable behavior is being replicated by the current con man.
As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off. As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off.
Today, at 116 years young, we have achieved national recognition for our leadership and academic excellence in the fields of education, nutrition, the arts and sciences, and, especially, in the nursing and health care professions. But Texas Woman's University's work is not yet done.
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed talk of a Democratic takeover of Congress in 2018 Friday morning in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. "It's clearly my hope that he does.
Washington is fixated on President Donald Trump's firing of FBI chief James Comey and burgeoning investigations into possible connections between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. But in closed-door meetings, Senate Republicans are trying to write legislation dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law.
Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman gives a 'thumbs-up' as he leaves the West Wing of the White House in Washington Wednesday Besides being Connecticut's US senator for 14 years, Lieberman unsuccessfully ran for the presidency, was Al Gore's running mate and was considered a vice presidential possibility when Sen. According to media reports , the Trump administration is considering four candidates to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. Frank Keating , former FBI official Richard McFeely and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe .
As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off. Some said they were disappointed about his abrupt announcement this week that he's stepping down from Congress, leaving his key role investigating the White House.
By definition, nut job means a "mentally unbalanced person," according to Merriam-Webster, which tweeted Friday lookups of the word spiked 173,750%. "'Nutjob' is our number 2 lookup right now," the dictionary's Twitter account tweeted Friday, using one of the two spellings for the phrase.
Here's your open line. For amusement: the hits just keep on coming from Donald Trump, who regularly does things he once found objectionable when done by Barack Obama.
The Alabama senate passed a bill Friday which would prevent the changing of the names of Confederate memorials and removing of historic Confederate monuments. The bill "would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument that has stood on public property for 40 or more years," reads the text of the bill, reported Yahoo News .
Some 1,000 people have joi... As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off. As Utah Republicans met for their annual state convention Saturday, delegates broke from routine debates about party platforms to give Rep. Jason Chaffetz a warm send-off.
House Speaker Paul Ryan just successfully pushed the American Health Care Act the chamber. And though the bill still needed to be handled by the Senate, Trump and House Republicans took a victory lap of sorts after the much maligned legislation finally made it through its brutally tough initial battle.
An exhibition of the New Mexico History Museum on New Mexican Crypto-Jews in the late 20th Century. May 18, 2017, IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This is the final week to view our exhibition Fluid Identities: New Mexico Crypto-Jews in the Late 20th Century... Read more NOTE: Public hours for the Jewish History Museum will conclude on Sunday, May 28 and resume on Continue Reading The Consulate of Mexico is hosting an art exhibition "United by Art".
Our long-time senator, Orrin Hatch, during his recent trip to Utah, complained about people on the dole and not getting off once they are on government handouts. This illustrious senator has been on the government payroll for 40 years-plus and has the gall to even mention others.
They think tourism and hospitality sectors have more power. Really? So tourism and hospitality own the state Legislature to produce Utah's ridiculous liquor laws? Again, really? Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks everyone on the Affordable Care Act is a freeloader. I'm on it and I am not a freeloader.
Joyful voters cast their ballots for the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 19, 2017. Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday to decide whether incumbent President Hassan Rouha... .
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared Americans "ready for that new beginning" in Iowa Friday, walking a delicate path by raising his national political profile at a time of turmoil for Donald Trump's White House. The 40-year-old freshman Republican senator sounded national themes as the guest at the Pottawattamie County Republican Party's annual fundraiser in Council Bluffs in conservative western Iowa.
Regarding the just reported statement by Trump's close ally, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, which was first denied and then, when the audio came out, explained as a joke, let me cite journalist Michael Kinsey: In today's political landscape, the most common way of explaining away a true statement that wasn't supposed to be said or heard is to call it a joke. For instance, when Trump, with all sincerity, asked Russia to intervene in the election, he later explained he was joking The McCarthy quip, which he denied saying, is now being described as a joke, was reported by the Washinton Post, which had obtained copies of the audio.