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Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse defended his Democratic colleague Sen. Dianne Feinstein for making public the closed-door congressional testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday that it helped clarify what he told the Judiciary Committee. What Republicans "tried to do is create this sense that there's some collusion between the Russians and Christopher Steele, the guy who wrote the dossier that Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS published," Whitehouse said.
Glenn R. Simpson, former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrives to testify at a closed U.S. House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Nov. 14, 2017. Simpson hired a former British spy to gather opposition research on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein released the full transcript of testimony that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson gave to the Senate Intelligence Committee - and it contains explosive allegations that President Donald Trump has direct ties to international money laundering operations. During his testimony, Simpson detailed ways that money had been stolen from a bank in Kazakhstan, then laundered throughout multiple countries - before being funneled in part to the Trump Soho hotel project.
President Donald Trump has tasked chief of staff John Kelly with shepherding his immigration proposals through Congress, several administration officials and others familiar with the situation say, in the hopes that the retired Marine general can help him fulfill core campaign promises ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Assigning the chief of staff to such a specific policy initiative is rare, given the top aide's duties in running White House operations and overseeing disparate factions in the West Wing.
If the 2018 U.S. Senate race in California proceeds as expected, voters will ultimately have their pick of incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein or state Senate Leader Kevin de Len. With that set of choices, voters will have the misfortune of having to choose between an incumbent whose re-election bid most think will be a "bad thing" for California, according to a Berkeley IGS poll, and an opponent whose name 43 percent don't recognize and of those who do only a minority like him, according to a Sextant Strategies & Research/Capitol Weekly poll of 1,554 likely voters.
If the 2018 U.S. Senate race in California proceeds as expected, voters will ultimately have their pick of incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein or state Senate Leader Kevin de Len. With that set of choices, voters will have the misfortune of having to choose between an incumbent whose re-election bid most think will be a "bad thing" for California, according to a Berkeley IGS poll, and an opponent whose name 43 percent don't recognize and of those who do only a minority like him, according to a Sextant Strategies & Research/Capitol Weekly poll of 1,554 likely voters.
Strong irony is in the air as California heads into the hot political year of 2018, with an initiative to end the state's "top two" primary election system in play just as top two, also known as the "jungle primary," may be about to accomplish its central purpose. That aim was to allow voters in the minority party to influence elections and elect more moderate members of the larger party when their own party either has no candidate in a race or fields a sure loser.
Rabbi Beth Singer led those gathered at City Hall in prayer Sunday after praising the late mayor's justice, mercy, and humility. The 65-year-old Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants and San Francisco's first Asian-American mayor, died last week.
A proposed "Southern Crossing" would carry more than just cars in this architectural rendering of a proposed new bridge, just one of several transportation improvements imagined as part of a "mega" funding measure. Imagine a Bay Area with highways that flow instead of grind to a halt.
California Sen. Tony Mendoza resisted calls Thursday from Senate leader Kevin de Leon, his former roommate, to take a leave of absence until an investigation is completed into his alleged sexual misconduct. "I was not appointed to the position I hold but was elected by the voters in my district," Mendoza said in a statement.
California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, at podium, speaks to reporters during a news conference in his office at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. De Leon ramped up pressure on his fellow Democrat, Sen. Tony Mendoza of Artesia, to take a leave of absence until an investigation of his alleged sexual misconduct ends.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein points to a photograph of a rifle with a "bump stock" during a news conference to announce proposed gun control legislation at the U.S. Capitol October 4, 2017 in Washington, D.C. One of the worst tendencies of politicians in the aftermath of a tragedy is the hijacking of public sentiment to promote sweeping proposals to expand government power. A recent case in point is a proposed ban on "assault weapons" after the tragic shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Federal lawmakers are pushing the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to build a new bridge across the San Francisco Bay, but state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, says that funding could be better used to build another cross-bay BART tunnel. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, sent a letter Wednesday urging the MTC to construct an additional east-to-west bridge south of the Bay Bridge to ease commuting traffic, which has increased by 80 percent since 2010.
A top Democrat is hinting that the Justice Department's investigation into Planned Parenthood is politically motivated, but a pro-life advocate said those claims would not stop the feds from pursuing their investigation. The DOJ is asking for unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee's probe into accusations that Planned Parenthood violated federal laws regarding the sale of fetal tissue and body parts of aborted fetuses.
In a letter first obtained by Fox News, Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the same panel that led the congressional probe into the women's health organization. "The Department of Justice appreciates the offer of assistance in obtaining these materials, and would like to request the Committee provide unredacted copies of records contained in the report, in order to further the Department's ability to conduct a thorough and comprehensive assessment of that report based on the full range of information available," Boyd wrote.
In this May 16, 2015, file photo, then Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, speaks at the California Democrats State Convention in Anaheim, Calif. Atkins is now a state senator.
Tax-reform plans before Congress would limit or eliminate the natural-disaster deduction, meaning future victims of wildfires like the ones raging throughout Southern California could no longer deduct losses of property that is uninsured or under-insured. The House and Senate proposals, which are in the process of being reconciled, would not affect natural-disaster deductions filed for the 2017 tax year.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Republicans on the committee of rushing through President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, according to The Hill . Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that the confirmations were the fastest pace she could remember in her 25-year experience as a committee member.
The Senate Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees, two of the three major congressional panels investigating Russia's election interference, appear to have resigned themselves to the reality that their probes will be conducted according to the partisan interests of their members. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has recently begun sending out a flurry of letters to witnesses requesting new documents and interviews related to potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia.