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Drug pricing might not be as high of a priority for Congress as repealing Obamacare, but experts say the issue likely will not fade away, particularly as patients' insurance coverage comes into question. Democrats have long supported proposals to cut prescription-drug spending.
If you believe liberal writers and pundits apocalyptic post-election musings, "Donald Trump's America" is no place to raise a child. The latest of these was in Elle magazine last week .
Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration, putting the 2016 presidential rivals on the same platform only weeks after their tough campaign. Aides to the former president and former secretary of state say the Clintons will attend the Jan. 20 inauguration.
How much does Donald Trump care about congressional ethics? The principles at stake can't bother him much, it's reasonable to say, given the choices that he has made so far regarding his own conflicts, and in a hundred other areas. That is what congressional Republicans may have guessed when, late in the evening of Monday, a federal holiday, they made the dismantling of the Office of Congressional Ethics the first order of business for their new term.
As President Obama begins the final days of his presidency, Amnesty International USA launched an aggressive effort urging him to use all the powers of his office to close GuantA namo before his term ends.
Renewing the vision of the 2014 People's Climate March in New York City, campaigners hope "to show that our movement is just as ready to fight Trump's racism and hatred as we are the fossil fuel industry that's poisoning our future." Not willing to sit idle as Donald Trump and his cabinet take office and roll out an avowedly pro-fossil fuel , anti-regulation agenda , campaigners are preparing for a multi-faceted affront to the new administration.
Committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley arrives for a hearing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill December 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI Grassley anticipates one of his first orders of business will be the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the new Attorney General.
In the last 24 hours, House Republicans unveiled a plan Monday to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics and then reversed its plans Tuesday - and that's how the whole holiday season has been. President Barack Obama on Dec. 29 announced sanctions against Russia for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, though the next day, President-elect Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin for not retaliating.
Julian Assange has accused the Obama administration of trying to "delegitimise" Donald Trump's impending US presidency over the alleged hacking of election emails. Australian, Assange, who has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012 for fear of being extradited to the US, was speaking to the Fox News channel's Sean Hannity after Barack Obama identified Russia as almost certainly being responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee .
Progressives' last-ditch effort to install Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court before Donald Trump enters the White House could end on Tuesday if President Obama does not attempt a recess appointment. Just before noon, the 114th Congress will gavel out of session before the 115th Congress begins.
In this Nov. 7, 2016, file photo Bruce Springsteen performs during a Hillary Clinton campaign event at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. During an interview on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast released Monday, Jan. 2, 2016, Bruce Springsteen questioned whether President-elect Donald Trump "is simply competent enough to do this particular this particular job."
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate lawyer Robert Lighthizer as U.S. trade representative, picking an experienced trade official who has questioned the conservative movement's commitment to free trade. Lighthizer, who served as deputy USTR under President Ronald Reagan, would play a key role in Trump's trade agenda.
House Republicans voted to rein in the power of the independent ethics office that was initiated in 2008 after Congress members went to jail for corruption. The decision to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics was made on late Monday, without any notice or debate on the subject.
In this April 11, 2012 file photograph taken by AP Images for The Hollywood Reporter, 'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough arrives at The Hollywood Reporter 35 Most Powerful People in Media event in New York. On "Morning Joe" Tuesday, Scarborough reiterated his stance that he didn't attend a New Year's Eve party at President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida despite a photo that appeared to show him standing with Trump near revelers.
The full scope of Hillary Clinton's loss and Donald Trump's victory will become apparent this week as the newly elected Congress convenes. We all know the Republicans swept the elections, winning the White House and retaining control of both houses of Congress.
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President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert Lighthizer to be his pick for U.S. trade representative, his transition team announced Tuesday. Lighthizer "has extensive experience striking agreements that protect some of the most important sectors of our economy, and has repeatedly fought in the private sector to prevent bad deals from hurting Americans," Trump said in a statement.
WASHINGTON -- A majority of U.S. adults had little or no confidence that President-elect Donald Trump would be able to prevent a major scandal in his administration, use military force wisely or handle an international crisis, according to a Gallup poll . Trump already had historically low approval ratings for an incoming president.