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Unlike his soon-to-be boss, the choice for commerce secretary has agreed to divorce himself from a vast financial empire. Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross can expect questions about his business dealings at his Senate confirmation hearing.
Georgia and Atlanta economic developers are scrambling to win the Amazon prize, a new corporate headquarters worth billions of dollars in jobs and investment. Amazon's bid says right up front it wants a cultural fit.
A bill has been re-filed named in honor of an East Texas mother who died in a hotel room after her daughter was unable to directly reach 911. Kari Hunt's daughter tried calling 911 from the Baymont Inn and Suites in Marshall on Dec. 1, 2013, to get help for her mother who had been stabbed repeatedly by her estranged husband, Brad Dunn.
School choice advocate Betsy DeVos answered a wide range of questions during a three-hour confirmation hearing in Washington D.C. Tuesday night. The billionaire from West Michigan could head the U.S. Department of Education soon.
Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Education had a particularly rough hearing on Tuesday, taking a battering from Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Sen. Bernie Sanders However, nothing quite caught the flavor of how poorly her hearing went than her response to Sen. Chis Murphy who asked her, "Do you think guns have any place in or around schools?" After saying the availability of guns should be "best left to locales and states to decide," Devos replied to further questioning on guns on campus by adding, "I will refer back to Senator Enzi and the school he was talking about in Wyoming a I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies."
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on a wreck that killed six Woodmore Elementary School students said the bus apparently was off its normal route.
Washington >> President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the Army intelligence officer who leaked scores of classified documents to go free nearly three decades early. Manning, who will leave prison in May, was one of 209 inmates whose sentences Obama was shortening, a list that includes Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez-Rivera.
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After a relatively easy confirmation hearing, Ben Carson will get a vote on his nomination to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development next week. The Senate Banking Committee, headed by Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, announced Tuesday evening that the vote would be held the morning of Jan. 24. Carson, a former neurosurgeon without experience in government or housing, demonstrated an ability to quickly pick up knowledge and also to diplomatically answer senators' tough questions at his hearing.
Senate Republicans offered a sharp rebuke of President Obama 's decision to commute the remainder of Chelsea Manning's sentence, which comes only three days before he is set to leave office. While speaking to reporters at the Capitol soon after the news emerged, Senate Republicans condemned the decision, which came seven years after Manning was convicted and earned a 35-year sentence for leaking sensitive information about American military activities to WikiLeaks.
Rep. Sean Duffy said Tuesday he is disappointed that more than three dozen Democratic lawmakers have said they are boycotting the inauguration, comparing them to children unable to accept defeat. "I'm disappointed, you know, that all these Democrats are saying they are going to stay home," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is joining CNN as a senior political commentator, according to Adweek , a trade publication covering the media and advertising industry. Granholm, a Democrat, is one of nine political commentators and contributors added by the cable news network for 2017 as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, said Tuesday he and his family have not decided whether they will have a residence in Washington, D.C. Banks, who joined Congress this month, told reporters at an open house at his Fort Wayne district office that he will keep his home in Columbia City.
Several Kansas lawmakers are seeking to weaken a law that will allow concealed guns on state college campuses starting this summer. A bill introduced Tuesday would permanently exempt several types of health care facilities and colleges from the law that allows guns in public buildings.
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
John Barrasso GOP chairman plans 'wholesale change' at EPA Overnight Energy: Former Exxon chief Tillerson takes the hot seat Republicans scramble on ObamaCare replacement plan MORE , the new chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote in a Fox News opinion piece Tuesday that he and Scott Pruitt, Trump's nominee to head the EPA, will implement a major turnaround at the agency. Barrasso outlined the EPA's failures under Obama, including the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado and the Flint water crisis in Michigan, as well as expensive rules.
The role of vice president has not only become more powerful since it was derided as not worth a bucket of spit, it also comes with plenty of perks. The perks of being vice president The role of vice president has not only become more powerful since it was derided as not worth a bucket of spit, it also comes with plenty of perks.
NOVEMBER 30: Actor Rob Schneider attends the premiere of Netflix's 'The Ridiculous 6' at AMC Universal City Walk on November 30, 2015 in Universal City, California. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it's important to talk about King's legacy.
More than three dozen Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives are refusing to attend the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump , according to a news release from the liberal advocacy organization MoveOn.org. Why not? Because in the words of their leader, U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, they believe Trump's presidency to be illegitimate.