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With Senator Jeff Sessions preparing for a senate confirmation hearing for the position of U.S. Attorney General, Governor Robert Bentley began interviewing candidates for the seat. "It is probably the most important decision he will make with respect to the future of America, not just Alabama, but America," U.S. Congressman Mo Brooks said.
Americans can have effective armed forces without having to choose between guns and butter. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of rampant, massive waste at the Pentagon can see that.
A southern Kansas woman whose hands and feet had to be amputated after she was shot during a robbery got an early Christmas gift - new electronic hands worth $260,000, courtesy of a businessman and his wife. Julie Dombo of Derby showed off her new hands Tuesday with her husband, a day after receiving them as a present from Koch Industries' general counsel Mark Holden and his wife, The Wichita Eagle reported .
Sen. Jeff Sessions is President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for attorney general. The Left views him as the spawn of Satan over controversial racial remarks he made while serving as a U.S. Attorney for Alabama, which sunk his nomination to a federal judgeship in the 1980s.
Angered by skyrocketing drug prices, a pair of senators on Wednesday urged Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Claire McCaskill , D-Mo., released findings from a year-long investigation into companies like Turing Pharmaceuticals, which generated national outrage last year after hiking the price of a life-saving anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent.
"Obamacare" seems to be holding its own. The administration said Wednesday that 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov, ahead of last year's pace.
The Department of Defense is providing $80 million to establish a bio-research and manufacturing institute in Manchester, New Hampshire, to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American soldiers and other patients. The five-year award was announced Wednesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen , Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan .
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. Trump's closest advisers see Democrats' complaints that Moscow hacked their private ... The CEO of Boeing is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago just weeks after a public flap over the cost of the Air Force One project.
Donald Trump's aides are reportedly floating the idea that instead of putting his considerable business assets and holdings into a blind trust a S-a Ssomething other presidents have used to avoid conflicts of interest a S-a She might put his funds into a not-actually-blind-at-all "half-blind trust." Rep. Tom Cole said on Wednesday that he does not think Trump needs to disentangle himself.
US President-elect Donald Trump has said the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped". US President-elect Donald Trump has said the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped".
The committee's assessment: the federal Environmental Protection Agency is to blame more than Michigan's own leaders. to the House Appropriations Committee closing the investigation, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, found that the "federal regulatory framework is so outdated that it sets up states to fail."
In mid-June, Larry Hogan was asked by a reporter if he would vote for Donald Trump. The governor of Maryland's response: "No, I don't plan to," per The Washington Post .
President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet with his incoming national security adviser in the aftermath of violence abroad as the process of filling top jobs in his administration presses on, marked by some infighting among advisers. Trump's meeting Wednesday with retired Lt.
Now, they're finding common cause with Trump over his pick to lead the State Department: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has long orbited their same political, philanthropic and business worlds. Former President George W. Bush, who has largely avoided politics since leaving office in 2009, heaped praise on Tillerson in a recent phone call to Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee lawmaker who will oversee the secretary of state confirmation hearings.
Throughout the presidential campaign, the Bush family and many of its Republican allies turned their backs on Donald Trump. Now, they're finding common cause with Trump over his pick to lead the State Department: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has long orbited their same political, philanthropic and business worlds.
President-elect Donald Trump's victory tour was more than just an opportunity to strut and preen around the country like a peacock with a comb-over. It was a warning to Republican leaders in Congress that Trump intends to be in charge -- and that there will be consequences if the party establishment does not fall in line.
Columbus has a can-do spirit. The latest proof is the success of a fundraising campaign to send the Sound of North marching band from Columbus North High School to Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration festivities.
Democrats are accusing Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to become secretary of state, of reneging on a pledge to hand over three years worth of tax returns. A standard questionnaire sent jointly by Democrats and Republicans asks whether the nominee would be willing to provide prior tax returns for himself and his spouse "if asked."
President-elect Donald Trump met Tuesday met with candidates for his unfilled Cabinet positions, including prospective hires to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, a beleaguered agency that the Republican businessman has vowed to overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with members of his incoming national security team a day after acts of violence rocked the world.