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Ben Cline, a state delegate and former staffer for retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been chosen as the Republican nominee for Virginia's 6th Congressional District. News reports indicate Cline received 52 percent of the votes on the first ballot in an eight-person field.
In a major blow to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Republican leaders failed to garner enough votes for a sweeping GOP farm bill amid a revolt from hardline conservatives who opposed the bill over an unrelated immigration fight. Friday's 198-to-213 vote was an embarrassing defeat for Ryan, R-Wis., who had championed the farm bill as a major step toward welfare reform but saw that GOP priority squelched by members of his own Republican conference.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus is pushing hard for an immigration bill despised by many advocates for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals participants - an effort that has a chance of getting a House vote as soon as next week. If that vote occurs, it would make it far more difficult for DACA backers to get votes on legislation they've been seeking.
ON MAY 19, THOSE WHO were "lucky" enough to prefile to become a delegate to the 6th District Republican Convention, will not only vote for the next nominee to replace Congressman Goodlatte, but they will also be voting for the next chair of the 6th District Republican Committee. If you want someone who will not be biased toward any candidate and manipulate a federal election for that candidate, vote for Jennifer M. Brown.
THE 6TH DISTRICT WILL soon select a replacement for retiring Congressman Bob Goodlatte. I believe the best candidate - who knows the district, its residents, and its issues - is Republican Ben Cline.
The vicious tenor of the 2016 GOP presidential primary - which included attacks on a spouse's looks, demeaning nicknames and veiled talk of a candidate's ... ahem ... hand size - is being matched by Virginia's raucous congressional primaries. A GOP House candidate said he's been the target of fake stories about his advocacy for penis enlargement techniques.
President Donald Trump on Monday denounced U.S. laws dealing with immigration as "weak" and "pathetic," once more calling on the Congress to make it easier to swiftly deport people who enter the country illegally, though his calls for lawmakers to act on changes have made no headway in the House and Senate in recent months. "They are obsolete, and they are weak - and they are pathetic," the President said of current U.S. immigration laws.
But in a well-ordered democratic system, those who fight on behalf of competing parties, interests and ideas can usually find some room for mutual esteem and even occasionally try to profit intellectually from each other. It's when politics becomes unhinged that we squander the gift of social learning through reasoned argument.
Rod Jay Rosenstein Republicans divided over legislation protecting Mueller The Hill's Morning Report: Inside the Comey memos Memos document Comey's interactions with Trump MORE - a move that would fire up the GOP base, but that could also turn off moderate and independent voters in the midterm elections.
President Trump claims vindication after fired FBI Director James Comey's memos are released, tweeting that they show 'no collusion and no obstruction' Comey's released memos detail doubts the former FBI director had about reports on Russia-Trump dossier, reveal that the president had concerns about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn The Justice Department's internal watchdog sends a criminal referral for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the federal prosecutor's office in Washington, D.C. Fresno State scrambles to keep donors after an English professor bashes Barbara Bush following the former first lady's death Tuesday Hundreds of school walkouts are planned across the nation Friday on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre THE LEAD STORY - TRUMP'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS: President Trump late Thursday tweeted that the newly released memos written by ... (more)
House Republicans have invited "Diamond and Silk," two conservative video bloggers who were deemed "unsafe" by Facebook after becoming online sensations, to testify next week about allegations of conservative bias online. The hearing, set for Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, comes as Republicans accuse Facebook, Google and Twitter of favoring the liberal points of view popular in Silicon Valley and censoring conservative opinions.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, the House Oversight Committee chairman, said Sunday that he is displeased with how many documents the Department of Justice is withholding from members of the House and Senate intelligence committee members. In an interview on Fox News, the South Carolina Republican said the department is "going to have to do better than a thousand pages here and there."
Man, 67, is KILLED and four firefighters are hurt in huge blaze in 50th floor residential apartment at Trump Tower: Flames engulf several stories of president's New York home as burning debris falls on Fifth Avenue - The fire erupted on the 50th floor was a fourth alarm with well over 200 firefighters and EMS personnel on the scene Bill Maher defends Ingraham: Parkland student calling for a boycott is wrong - Comedian and progressive talk show host Bill Maher defended Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham on Friday, arguing with guests on his HBO show that a boycott led by Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg was un-American.
MONOPOLY WITH A CONTROL FETISH AND YOU WON'T GO FAR WRONG: Twitter Not Too Concerned About Death Threats Against Republican, Apparently. "A 38-year-old man was arrested Friday for tweeting death threats against Rep. Bob Goodlatte , but Twitter's response has been nonexistent.
President Donald Trump again criticized the Justice Department on Monday, saying the agency's production of documents to Congress is an "embarrassment to our country!" Trump made the statement after tweeting about unrelated topics, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the news media and Amazon. "So sad that the Department of 'Justice' and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress," Trump wrote, putting "Justice" in quotation marks.
In a letter to congressional leaders released on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed that the United States attorney for Utah has been investigating whether the Justice Department and the FBI abused its authority in surveilling an adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign. In addition to an investigation into the request for a warrant to surveil Carter Page, U.S. Attorney John Huber has been looking into whether the Justice Department ignored allegations of Hillary Clinton's ties to the sale of U.S. uranium rights to Uranium One , whose parent company is Rosatom, a Russian nuclear energy company.
Praising U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement of a special prosecutor to investigate Republican complaints in the FBI and DOJ, two House GOP leaders called the move a "step in the right direction," The Hill reported. Reps.
Leaker Adam Schiff hit the panic button on Thursday as lawmakers put pressure on AG Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to investigate Obama's FISA abuses. On Thursday, desperate leaker Adam Schiff once again floated the idea Trump obstructed justice by talking to his lawyer about firing Mueller.
Loyola Marymount student Maria Carolina Gomez joins a rally in Los Angeles in September to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Loyola Marymount student Maria Carolina Gomez joins a rally in Los Angeles in September to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Two prominent Republican lawmakers want a special counsel to investigate potential government surveillance abuse as well as possible bias and conflicts of interest at the U.S. Justice Department and FBI. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy made the request Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.