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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, May 2, 2017, in Washington. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a budget bill to fund the government through September - one without funding for the border wall President Donald Trump's promised during his campaign.
A pair of moderate Republicans who'd been holdouts against the GOP health care bill said Wednesday they were now backing the high-profile legislation after winning President Donald Trump's support for their proposal for reviving the languishing measure. The conversions of Reps.
House Republicans snagged a few more votes for their Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill after promising to plump it up with an $8 billion amendment designed to help those with pre-existing conditions pay for their health care. House to vote Thursday on GOP Obamacare repeal bill House Republicans snagged a few more votes for their Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill after promising to plump it up with an $8 billion amendment designed to help those with pre-existing conditions pay for their health care.
Congressional Republicans sounded an alarm Wednesday over rules allowing millions of Europeans to travel to the United States without a visa, warning that jihadists could exploit weak links in the program.The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda extremist groups "have incurred great losses in Syria and Iraq," Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told a hearing on the security of the US Visa Waiver Program . "Yet as the territory under their control shrinks, we are seeing an exodus of foreign fighters returning to their homelands," he said.
Maine's U.S. senators are joining a group of colleagues to call for more funding for state veterans homes. State Veterans' Home Construction Grant Program money helps states make facility upgrades or build new facilities to serve aging veterans.
A Southern Baptist professor will lead an overhaul of the state's troubled adoption and foster care system under a $240,000 contract awarded to him by the state's Republican governor. Daniel S. Dumas will begin his new job as a special adviser to Gov. Matt Bevin on June 19. His contract calls for him to assess a state system that has more than 8,000 children in out-of-home care and yet consistently has not met federal standards on preventing abuse and neglect.
MARCH 07: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan takes questions from reporters about the American Health Care Act during a news conference. House Republicans snagged a few more supporters for their Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill after promising to plump it up with $8 billion to help those with pre-existing conditions pay for their health care - part of a high-stakes push to win over moderate GOP lawmakers who have balked at the legislation.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says "there has been a lot of controversy" surrounding the FBI. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has told FBI Director James Comey at the start of an oversight hearing that the public's faith in the bureau had been tested lately.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events With multiple media reports suggesting that the drive to repeal Obamacare may be on life-support, House Republicans are rolling out a last-ditch effort to salvage their repeal-and-replace bill before support for it collapses once again. They plan to introduce a new amendment that is designed to give moderates a way to pretend that the GOP bill won't harm people with preexisting conditions - and thus, a way to support the bill in the numbers needed to pass it.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The Justice Department is prosecuting a woman who laughed during a Senate hearing to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general. I can sympathize with her somewhat absurd plight, because I was once tossed out of the press box in the Supreme Court for laughing at the wrong time.
The Union Times Furman Jones prepares to vote in Tuesday's primary in the Jonesville Box 2 polling station at the Jonesville Fire Department. Jones was the first person to vote Tuesday at the Jonesville Box 2 polling station which was staffed by poll workers Barbara Baldwin, Kathy Tweed, and Delores Hill.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... Rep. Fred Upton , who upended the prospects for Zombie Trumpcare Tuesday when he announced his opposition, has apparently bowed under pressure from leadership and has come up with yet another amendment.
A government-wide spending bill that President Donald Trump seemed to criticize Tuesday morning but now calls "a clear win for the American people" is headed for a House vote. The House is scheduled to vote on the bipartisan $1.1 trillion measure Wednesday afternoon.
Democratic lawmakers will attempt to protect the independence of a consumer watchdog unit as Republicans move forward with an overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory laws. House Republicans are working to undo much of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that put the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the 1930s Depression.
The Defense Department Inspector General has launched an investigation into payments President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, accepted from foreign groups, members of the House Oversight Committee said Thursday.
President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday the US government "needs a good shutdown" this fall to fix a "mess" in the Senate, signalling on Twitter his displeasure with a bill to keep operations running. But Republican leaders and Trump himself also praised the stopgap measure as a major accomplishment and a sign of his masterful negotiating with Democrats.
The revamped Republican push for an overhaul of the nation's health care system ran into a new roadblock Tuesday when a key lawmaker, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said he would vote against the current proposal. The White House and House leaders sought holdouts' support in hopes of pushing the measure through the chamber this week, but they remained short of votes.
President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. President Donald Trump says the nation "needs a good `shutdown' in September" to fix a "mess" in the Senate, saying on Twitter that the country needs to "either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51 ," suggesting more rules changes ahead in the Senate.
President Trump tried to portray his White House as the true winner of the spending bill debate despite Democrats' declaring victory, even as Republicans' Obamacare replacement plan barely clung to life yesterday. "This is what winning looks like," said Trump from the Rose Garden, rattling off the increased military and border security funding and other highlights of the spending bill he advocated for.
SEMPER FI: Bay State Rep. Seth Moulton has written a letter to the chairman of the House Veterans Affair committee after hearing the story of Brian Callahan, above, and others in the Herald this week. Staff photo by Christopher Evans U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton - alarmed by a Herald special report showing that the Boston VA benefits office bungled one in six traumatic brain injury claims - is calling for the House Veterans Affairs Committee to "fully examine" the issue, and is concerned the problem could extend nationwide.