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There's increasing disagreement between Gov. Gary Herbert and fellow GOP legislative leaders over how to handle a special election to replace Rep. Jason Chaffetz, if the Republican congressman steps down before his term ends. Chaffetz, who two weeks ago surprised Utahns by saying he would not seek re-election and may not serve out his full term, could announce around Memorial Day that he's leaving Congress as early as June, sources told the Deseret News.
Jim DeMint has been officially ousted as the president of The Heritage Foundation, one of the leading think tanks on the right. The decision by Heritage's Board of Trustees, announced Tuesday, came after they found "significant and worsening management issues that led to a breakdown of internal communications and cooperation," according to a statement from the board's chair, Thomas Saunders III.
The House has backed legislation that would allow private sector companies to give employees compensation time off rather than overtime pay. Republicans cast the measure as offering greater flexibility for employers and workers.
The deadline is this month for candidates to qualify, or pay their dues to get their names on the ballot, for the upcoming special election. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said his office is busy getting ready for the election, which Governor Kay Ivey moved up to this year from 2018.
The White House budget office says in an official policy statement that the administration is pleased with additional money for the Pentagon and border security, though it's "concerned" that lawmakers ignored Trump's request that the spending increases be accompanied by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. The statement arrived on the eve of a House vote on the measure.
Congressmen were described as "angry" today when they grilled executives from several different airlines during hearings in the House. Prominently featured was Oscar Munoz, the United CEO best known for recent dragging and beatdown services which are never mentioned in the rewards program brochures.
Former Senator, Jim DeMint stepped away from the conservative think tank after alleged "significant and worsening management issues", a statement by the Heritage Foundation's Chairman Thomas Saunders III specified. The Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees, by a unanimous vote, has asked for and received the resignation of Jim DeMint as president and CEO of the organization.
The board of the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday ousted president Jim DeMint after days of turmoil and internal debate, blaming him for management and communication problems that have roiled the venerable conservative think tank. Thomas A. Saunders III, chairman of the Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees, said in a statement that the 22-member board unanimously requested and received the resignation of DeMint, the firebrand former senator from South Carolina.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton, the Wall Street attorney chosen by President Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. The vote was 61-37 to give Clayton the job of running the independent agency that oversees Wall Street and the financial markets.
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the U.S. government "needs a good shutdown" in September to fix a "mess" in the Senate, signaling his displeasure with a temporary spending bill that Republican congressional leaders - and Trump himself - are praising as a major accomplishment. On Twitter and then in a White House ceremony, Trump issued contradictory statements ahead of key votes in Congress on the budget bill to keep the government running into the fall.
President Trump has long promised to crack down on tech firms that undercut American workers by bringing in less expensive foreign labor. Last month, he signed an executive order that promised extra oversight of the H-1B visa system that speeds the entry of high-skilled tech workers into the US.
Members of the Senate intelligence committee are expected to have a briefing Tuesday at the CIA, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as part of the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election last year. Members of the committee -- including Chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina and ranking Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia -- were spotted boarding a chartered bus to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The fate of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare remains in flux as House Republicans scramble to get enough votes for it to pass through a divided Republican Party before lawmakers head home for a week-long recess. Republicans still don't know whether they have enough votes to pass Obamacare repeal The fate of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare remains in flux as House Republicans scramble to get enough votes for it to pass through a divided Republican Party before lawmakers head home for a week-long recess.
In this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington, where he signed an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. While Republicans in Congress craft a bill to unwind the tighter financial rules that took effect after the 2008 crisis, President Donald Trump is looking in another, seemingly opposite direction: He's entertaining the idea of restoring the Depression-era firewall between commercial banking and its riskier investment side.
An undated photo of an Ancestral Puebloan ruin site within the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument. The Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a two-hour plus oversight hearing on the merits and detriments of monument designations, particularly Bears Ears and Grand Staircase in Utah comprising more than three million acres.
Citing past persecution of early Mormons and recent bomb threats at Jewish community centers, Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday to strengthen protections for religious minorities. The bill would expand criminal law to include threats to intentionally deface, damage or destroy any religious property or to threaten to obstruct - by force or threat of force - a person's exercise of their religious beliefs.
Russia wasn't the only election hacker: Jason Sattler Democrats will need more than anti-Trump energy in 2018 to overcome GOP intervention in democracy. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2pqNYnd Democrats came close to upsets in two special House elections in Republican districts, and now Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., has announced she is retiring.
As Congress touts spending deal, Trump calls for shutdown The president tweeted his defense of a short-term spending deal criticized on the right. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2qtNlYt President Trump speaks during an event with the Independent Community Bankers Association at the White House on May 1, 2017.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz and UAL President Scott Kirby prepare to testify at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on 'Oversight of U.S. Airline Customer Service,' in the aftermath of the forced removal on April 9 of a passenger from a UAL Chicago flight, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 2, 2017. United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz prepares to testify at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on 'Oversight of U.S. Airline Customer Service,' in the aftermath of the forced removal on April 9 of a passenger from a UAL Chicago flight, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 2, 2017.
President Donald Trump opened the door to a future meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, offering unusual praise for the globally ostracized leader at a time of surging nuclear tensions. Although the White House played down near-term prospects for such a meeting, Trump's conciliatory comments Monday marked a departure from his more unforgiving tone toward the North in recent weeks.