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President Bill Clinton clinches his fist during an Oct. 27, 1996, speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville During President Bill Clinton's first term in office, much of the United States took for granted that there would be welfare reform of some sort. The question was what it would look like.
For Kansas' elected officials, the message is clear: Your commitment to investing in public health is fundamental to our pursuit of stronger, healthier communities. It happens every day.
That statement is a core Republican tenet - you would even get Susan Collins and Donald Trump to agree on it. And when Democrats want to be uncharitable, they claim that catchy line is a mere smokescreen for the GOP's opposition towell, whatever group they want to accuse Republicans of standing against.
Donald Trump's struggling candidacy has become a direct threat to Republican control of Congress, significantly increasing the likelihood that Democrats will take control of the Senate and cut substantially into the House Republican majority next year. Trump's string of inflammatory statements in the weeks since his nominating convention last month has sent him tumbling in nearly every state with a contested Senate race, raising Republican fears that their own demoralized voters will not show up to vote, independents will abandon the entire Republican ticket and energized Democrats will flock to the polls.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, is not ruling out challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in 2018, but he's emphasizing that he is not focused on it for now. "Like Reagan said, never say never, but it's not something I'm spending a whole lot of time thinking about right now," McCaul told reporters Wednesday in Austin.
Donald Trump's new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is a respected professional in Republican politics-but, her colleagues say, she can only help so much. Donald Trump is bleeding women voters out of his wherever, hemorrhaging support from this crucial piece of the electorate as fast as he can find new ways to frighten and offend them.
Libertarian Party candidate for president Gary Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, and vice-presidential candidate William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts, hold a campaign rally at The Foundry nightclub in the SLS Las Vegas Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016.
Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday to tour flood damage, a source familiar with the plans told CNN. The mammoth flooding in the area - 6.9 trillion gallons of rain pummeled Louisiana between August 8 and 14 -- damaged more than 40,000 homes and killed at least 13 people.
Donald Trump, in a remarkable break with his characteristically unapologetic style, acknowledged Thursday that he has sometimes said "the wrong thing" and said he regretted some of his controversial statements. "Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing.
Hillary Clinton holds a giant lead over Donald Trump among New York voters in a Siena College poll released Monday, beating him by 30 percentage points in a two-way matchup and by 25 points when Libertarian and Green Party candidates for president were included in the choices.
Protestors left their signs on the fence surrounding the South Texas Family Residential Center near Dilley, Texas on May 2, 2015. A new Washington Post report takes a close look at the $1 billion contract given to the nation's largest prison company by the federal government to build a facility in the South Texas town of Dilley to detain women and children seeking asylum.
Over the past three election cycles, Republicans in North Carolina won the governor's mansion, ousted Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, and built a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature. But with Donald Trump imperiling down ballot candidates and population demographics in the state undergoing a shift, those gains could soon be reversed.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group has accused the U.S. and President Barack Obama of creating the Islamic State group, using the words of presidential hopeful Donald Trump as proof. Quoting the Republican candidate, Hassan Nasrallah also accused Mr. Trump's Democratic Party competitor Hillary Clinton of helping create the militant group.
Two decades ago, the issue of climate change wasn't as contentious. The leading U.S. Senate proponent of taking action on global warming was Republican John McCain.
Republican Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can't be performed.
" Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
Donald Trump, clearly angered by news reports that he has grown depressed and sullen over his fading presidential prospects, has issued some of his sharpest attacks on the media. "I am not running against Crooked Hillary Clinton," the Republican presidential candidate said in a speech late Saturday in Fairfield, Connecticut.