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Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Texas Republican who faced pressure to resign after sexual harassment allegations - but said he would retire at the end of his current term instead - unexpectedly announced Friday he would step down effective immediately. "While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it's time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve," he said in a statement.
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Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned Friday, four months after announcing he wouldn't seek re-election amid sexual harassment allegations. "While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it's time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve," Farenthold said in a video statement, adding that his action was effective as of 5 p.m. In December, Farenthold had posted another video denying a former aide's 2014 accusations, including that he'd subjected her to sexually suggestive comments and behavior and then fired her after she complained.
Democrat Conor Lamb declared victory early Wednesday morning in the special election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, as he clung to a razor-thin lead with one county's absentee ballots still left to be tallied. If Lamb's margin holds up, it would be a humiliating defeat for Republicans in a district President Trump won by 20 points in 2016.
What does President Trump ask the country to believe? On Saturday, he insisted again via Twitter that there was "no Collusion and there was no Obstruction." Yet rather than let the investigation of the Russian intervention into 2016 presidential election play out, confident the facts will fall in his favor, the president contends the FBI and the Department of Justice are out to pin false charges on him.
Congressional Republicans in sweater vests and fleece gathered at a West Virginia resort Thursday in search of a winning election-year agenda, facing the notion that the best they have to offer in 2018 may be a recitation of the tax cuts approved in 2017 and with the threat looming of another government shutdown. President Donald Trump speaks at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
Republican Rep. Ed Royce of California said Monday he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term in the House, the latest in a string of committee chairmen who have announced their retirement. Royce is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers is pushing legislation that he says will maintain a "free and open" internet, but a former member of the Federal Communications Commission said it would do anything but. An industry group representing content giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon also is criticizing the bill, calling it "net neutrality in name only."
Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold won't seek re-election next year, two Republicans said Thursday, adding his name to the list of lawmakers leaving Congress amid sexual harassment allegations that have cost powerful men their jobs in politics, the arts and other businesses. The accusations against Farenthold first surfaced in 2014, when a former aide sued him over sexually suggestive comments and behavior and said she'd been fired after she complained.
Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold won't seek re-election next year, two Republicans said Thursday, adding his name to the list of lawmakers leaving Congress amid sexual harassment allegations that have cost powerful men their jobs in politics, the arts and other businesses. The accusations against Farenthold first surfaced in 2014, when a former aide sued him over sexually suggestive comments and behavior and said she'd been fired after she complained.
Traditional Republicans fancying the cracks in their party as an opening to primary President Trump in 2020 need to deal with one inconvenient fact: Republican voters aren't interested. The brawl for dominance in the Republican Party is certainly remarkable.
On the mid-August day when President Donald Trump first called the nation's opioid epidemic a "national emergency," plaudits from the state's congressional delegation were quick to follow. Sen. Sherrod Brown, DOhio, said the designation was overdue.
"It has been a high honor and great responsibility to serve the people of the 15th District, and I am proud of my time in Congress," Dent said in a statement. "Since the government shutdown in 2013, my family and I have engaged in periodic discussions regarding my future in public service.
Hard-line House Republicans considering voting against the House GOP health bill are bracing for payback from a president who claims his favorite biblical passage is "an eye for an eye."