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US President Donald Trump has demanded a make or break vote on a key healthcare bill in the House of Representatives, threatening to leave "Obamacare" in place and move on to other issues if Friday's vote fails. The risky move, which was considered part gamble and part threat, was presented to Republican politicians behind closed doors on Thursday night .
The Justice Department is investigating Rep. Duncan Hunter on allegations that he used tens of thousands of campaign dollars for personal use, the House Ethics Committee announced Thursday. "Rep. Hunter may have converted tens of thousands of dollars of campaign funds from his congressional campaign committee to personal use to pay for family travel, flights, utilities, health care, school uniforms, and tuition, jewelry, groceries, and other goods, services, and expenses," according to an Office of Congressional Ethics report that the Ethics Committee also released Thursday.
The Veterans Museum in Balboa Park on Thursday celebrated Women's History night as female veterans and current service members gathered to share stories of heroism. Evelyn Coy, 90, joined the Navy in the 1940's.
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter called a proposal from President Donald Trump's administration to slash the US Coast Guard's budget by $1.3 billion "nonsensical" Wednesday. Speaking on CNN's "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan, the California congressman argued the proposed cuts -- part of the administration's tentative budget for fiscal year 2018 -- would cripple the agency's "shoestring budget."
A GOP congressman reported Friday that a painting stirring controversy on Capitol Hill will be taken down Tuesday after the agency responsible for maintaining the Capitol complex determined it violated rules for a student arts competition. The painting depicts Ferguson, Missouri, with a pig in a police uniform aiming a gun at a protester.
In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. A GOP congressman reported Jan. 13 that a painting stirring controversy on Capitol Hill will be taken down on Tuesday as a result of a review by the agency responsible for maintaining the Capitol complex determined it violated rules for a student arts competition.
This is the painting by a high school student creating controversy at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The painting is the work of high school student David Pulpus, who won an art competition sponsored Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay. It was judged by an independent panel of art professionals, CNN reported.
This Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 photo provided by Denverite.com shows spray painted anti-transgender graffiti on the car of Amber Timmons, a transgender woman, in Denver.
Hunter's campaign treasurer sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission detailing the expenses covered by Hunter's repayment for expenses "inadvertently charged on the campaign card." They include: Hunter has taken responsibility for the expenses in question and said that systems are now in place "to ensure errors are not repeated."
Capitol Hill lawmakers from both sides of the aisle blasted the Pentagon for trying to recoup reenlistment bonus money awarded to National Guardsmen years ago, calling the military's effort "a bonehead decision" that Congress can correct. Lawmakers are up in arms over a Defense Department order demanding that National Guard units repay reenlistment bonuses for combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the first of what could be the start of what could be a national public relations nightmare, California lawmakers from both sides of the aisle piled on the Pentagon after reports it is forcing vets to repay enlistment bonuses improperly paid to thousands of National Guard soldiers a decade ago. Nearly 10,000 California National Guard soldiers have been ordered to repay huge enlistment bonuses a decade after signing up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, a newspaper reported Saturday.
When it comes to the chaotic, flailing, floundering Trump campaign, many senior Republicans are in a state of panic. Will this become a state of revolt? "If the next few weeks are anything like the last two," a senior GOP official told me, "anything could happen at the convention."
Republican Maryland governor Larry Hogan has publicly admitted he isn't voting for Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Here are the many times Logan has said he won't back Trump's run for the White House.