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Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Charlie Dent said he still has reservations about voting for the Obamacare repeal bill, citing the lack of details on how they plan to replace President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare legislation. The House is slated to vote Friday on the Senate-passed procedural measure allowing Republican lawmakers to move forward with repealing Obamacare.
U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly and U.S. Senator Todd Young announced today/Thursday that the Government Publishing Office has changed the designation of Indiana natives to "Hoosiers" in the new federal government style guide. The style guide currently uses the term "Indianan."
Web surfers expecting to tune into C-SPAN's online feed of debate in the House on Thursday instead saw images supplied by the Russian news site RT, which briefly interrupted programming on the network's website. Spokesman Howard Mortman said the website, www.c-span.org , was replaced by RT for about 10 minutes.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy answers questions about an old Facebook photo of him that shows him appearing to grab the breast of a former girlfriend. Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio referenced the photo as a way to attack Murphy during the candidates' first debate on Oct. 17. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi took questions from reporters Sept.
Backpage.com, the online website accused of complicity in teenage sex trafficking across the country, said this week it was closing its "adult" sections in which advertisers solicited sexual services. It did so when a U.S. Senate investigative committee concluded Backpage knowingly assisted pimps and traffickers.
Freshman Congressman John Rutherford, a Jacksonville Republican, was recovering in a Washington, D.C.-area hospital after what his office said was "an acute digestive flare" Wednesday night. "Doctors are happy to report that all of his vitals look great," Kelly Simpson, Rutherford's chief of staff, said in a statement Thursday morning.
In yet another aftershock from the chaotic presidential campaign, the Justice Department inspector general opened an investigation Thursday into department and FBI actions before the election, including whether FBI Director James Comey followed established policies in the email investigation of Hillary Clinton. Democrats have blamed Comey's handling of the inquiry into Clinton's use of a private email server, and his late-October public letter about the case, as one reason for her loss to Republican Donald Trump.
Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, filed a bill Thursday that would allow for a statewide vote on the issue next year. The Macon Telegraph reports roughly a dozen other lawmakers signed onto the measure as co-sponsors.
"Now I look forward to exploring ways of how best to serve both my community and my state," Levine says in the video. That exploration, he says, will include "How to make Florida a leader in the 21st century world economy based on innovation, investment and daring.
Donald Trump's pick to run the CIA took a tough stand against Russia on Thursday, distancing himself from the president-elect, who wants to warm relations with Moscow. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a four-term conservative Kansas Republican, spoke at his confirmation hearing before the Senate intelligence committee amid a testy standoff between Trump and the spy community over Russian activities during the president election.
Donald Trump's pick for secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, fields human rights questions at his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Donald Trump's pick for secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, fields human rights questions at his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday.
After ESPN reported that the San Diego Chargers plan to announce as early as Thursday they are moving to Los Angeles, a few fans gathered at Chargers Park in Murphy Canyon, where one person threw eggs at the front doors of the team headquarters. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is facing resistance from a notable quarter - Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.
He dismissed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's question about LGBT members of the military during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, saying, "I've never cared." "Do you believe that allowing LGBT Americans to serve in the military or women in combat is undermining our lethality?" Gillibrand asked.
Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo will have his turn in the confirmation spotlight on Thursday as the Senate Intelligence Committee takes up his nomination to be CIA director. The questions will almost certainly turn on what he thinks about Russia's hacking activities and how he'd lead an agency President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized.
During his first post-election press conference, Donald Trump unveils his ethics plan and admits Russian involvement in hacking of Democratic emails. The Cleveland Clinic will work to help Trump improve veterans' healthcare.
A consent decree is expected to be signed by city officials in a special morning meeting, CNN-affiliate WBAL-TV reported. The decree would likely require better tracking of problematic officers, more documentation of citizen interaction and use of force reporting, the station reported.
The Senate early has passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law , responding to pressure to move quickly even as Republicans and President-elect Trump grapple with what to replace it with. The nearly party-line 51-48 vote early Thursday came on a nonbinding Republican-backed budget measure that eases the way for action on subsequent repeal legislation as soon as next month.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks on Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, during the signing ceremony for the 21st Century Cures Act. It's a bit of a sardonic joke to refer to the new Congress, America's 115th, as its most diverse in history.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State earned the ire of lawmakers on the first day of his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, January 11 for refusing to recognize certain countries as human rights violators, including the Philippines. During the hearing, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio grilled Rex Tillerson about his view on the anti-drug campaign launched by President Rodrigo Duterte and the allegations that thousands of Filipino drug suspects were killed by police and vigilantes.
Nearly two years after the death of a young black man in Baltimore police custody exposed systemic failures within the department that included excessive force, racial discrimination and illegal arrests, city and federal officials have agreed on reforms that can be enforced in court. Details of the still-confidential consent decree will be announced Thursday at a joint news conference with Mayor Catherine Pugh and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and filed in U.S. District Court following approval by the city's spending panel.