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With fallout over President Trump's take on the bloody events in Charlottesville, Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee announcing his plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president. Rep. Jackie Speier wants to remove Trump from office under an article within the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president temporarily "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
A former adviser to President Trump's campaign says a congressional probe into Russia's role in the 2016 election increasingly resembles former Sen. Joseph McCarthy 's infamous hunt for communists in the U.S. government. The accusations by Michael Caputo came little more than a week after congressional investigators on the House Intelligence Committee interviewed him as part of their ongoing probe of possible collusion between Trump campaign's and Russia.
Senators on the Intelligence Committee pressed administration officials Wednesday to disclose more about the extent of Russian hacking attempts during last year's election after the government disclosed that 21 states had been targeted. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee's top Democrat, unsuccessfully pressed government officials to disclose which states were the victims.
Rep. Jackie Speier said Friday that she has the "greatest sympathy" for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who is in critical condition after being shot in the hip by a gunman, and says his actions cannot be forgotten. Ms. Speier was shot in 1978 with Rep. Leo Ryan during a visit to Jonestown where many of his constituents had family members.
As Congress hears from top intelligence officials who reportedly said "no" when he asked them to publicly back him in the Russia investigation. British authorities tell the U.S. it was a suicide bomber.
The US Air Force has been shedding pilots over the last few years, so much so that it has begun to reconsider admission requirements and duty assignments and is weighing the possibility of paying pilots up to nearly $500,000 to stay in the service. Air Mobility Command chief and Air Force Gen.
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch , 202-646-5172 WASHINGTON, April 14, 2017 / Christian Newswire / -- Judicial Watch today sent a hand-delivered letter to the chairman and co-chairman of the House Office of Congressional Ethics calling for an investigation into whether Rep. Adam Schiff and Jackie Speier "disclosed classified information to the public in violation of House ethics rules."
Skeptical Congress members on Tuesday pressed senior military leaders to take more aggressive action to prevent and punish inappropriate online activity by service members, including posts of "intimate" images on social media sites. And the military officers said a weeks-old investigation into nude photo-sharing by Marines online now involves all the services and has expanded to other websites, including a Tumblr page that has pornographic photos of people in various military uniforms.
Colleges that expel students whom they suspect of having committed sexual assault are being asked to go further by specifying the reason for expulsion on their transcripts. Victims' advocates say it's critical to ensuring such students don't end up on other campuses without their new schools knowing the potential risk and to holding them accountable, long term, so they can't just move on with a clean slate.
When sexually explicit images surface on the Internet without at least one party's consent, they often bounce around from site to site, and there's often not much the victim can do about it. The victims - predominantly women - can't threaten legal action against websites that host the images.
Several included the fatal shootings by police of Alton Sterling of Louisiana and Philando Castile of Minnesota in their remarks. "My thoughts are with the families of those brave Dallas police officers, as well as the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile," Rep. Judy Chu said in a statement.
Just weeks after going back on his pledge to self-fund his presidential campaign, Donald Trump on Tuesday came under attack from fellow Republicans stunned to learn that he entered the final month of the primary season with barely enough cash to run for a California House seat let alone the White House.
Activists from UltraViolet, a national womenA's advocacy organization, hold a rally before delivering over one million signatures to the California Commission on Judicial Performance calling for the removal of Judge Aaron Persky from the bench Friday, June 10, 2016, in San Francisco. The case of Brock Turner, the Stanford student sentenced to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, has sparked widespread outrage.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center to oppose efforts to defund women's health care, Jan. 6, 2016, in Washington. At least 30 members of Congress will come together to read aloud a much-discussed letter from a woman to the former Stanford University student who was convicted of sexually assaulting her.
Voters in northern San Mateo County will make history Tuesday when they choose between four candidates who are vying to replace Supervisor Adrienne Tissier, who is termed out after 12 years in office. This is the first contest for an open seat under the county's new district elections, in which the voters in District 5 alone will decide their representative to the Board of Supervisors.