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Illegal robocalls are in the crosshairs of legislation being backed by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. Under provisions of the bill, those responsible for invasive robocalls would be liable for maximum fines which would be doubled from the current $10-thousand to 20-thousand PER CALL.
Several Missouri and national defense priorities stand to benefit with the overwhelming passage of the Fiscal Year-2019 Defense Appropriations bill. Senator Roy Blunt issued a statement of support, Thursday, praising passage of the bill by the full Appropriations Committee.
A line 3 oil pipeline opponent named Ben, who requested only his first name be used, hangs from a tripod in the middle of 7th Place in St. Paul, Minn. before a hearing at the Public Utilities Commission in St. Paul, Minn.
President Trump meets with Republican senators about health care in the White House in June 2017. Seated with him are Sens. Susan Collins , left, and Lisa Murkowski .
Vermont's Democratic U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy wants to reduce the size of the zone in which border agents can question people about their immigration status. Currently, officers of the Department of Homeland Security have broad legal authority to stop vehicles and search private land, without warrants within 100 miles of the border.
When Sen. Patrick Toomey looks at the future of the ketchup market in his home state of Pennsylvania, he sees real blood on the floor. On Sunday, Canada's $16.6-billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on dozens of U.S. products is set to kick in - the country's answer to the crushing steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
A statement Friday said the three persons were detained in two towns, adding that weapons, ammunition and electronic devices were seized at their homes. It also said the operation was conducted in collaboration with German counterparts, who, on their part, had made another arrest.
The Republican game plan for selecting the next member of the Supreme Court was ready to go even before longtime Justice Anthony Kennedy made his retirement announcement this week. Kennedy's news that he'll leave the court next month immediately activated a network of White House aides, congressional allies and outside advocates, all set for their second Supreme Court confirmation fight in two years.
Nonetheless, the service of many of these women is not noticed - by the public and even by some male veterans. The Virginia Department of Veterans Services is trying to change that while establishing a pipeline of highly skilled veterans and their spouses for the commonwealth's workforce.
The Republican game plan for selecting the next member of the Supreme Court was ready to go even before longtime Justice Anthony Kennedy made his retirement announcement this week. Kennedy's news that he'll leave the court next month immediately activated a network of White House aides, congressional allies and outside advocates, all set for their second Supreme Court confirmation fight in two years.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, speaks with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., after a markup session to vote on new federal judges, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2018. The Judiciary Committee oversees the confirmation process for presidential nominees to the Supreme Court.
Thousands of women marched through Washington Thursday in a 'mass civil disobedience act to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy. 'Where are the children?' Women march on Washington to protest family separations Thousands of women marched through Washington Thursday in a 'mass civil disobedience act to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.
The farm bill is monumental legislation that sets the eating and farming policy in the United States -- including what Americans grow, what Americans know about their dinner and how much the government spends in the process -- for about five years. All eyes will now turn to efforts between the House and Senate to resolve major issues between their respective bills by September 30, the deadline for the expiration of the current law, which was enacted in 2014.
President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Photo Credit: AP / Evan Vucci "Sometimes, our worst enemies are our so-called friends or allies," Trump told a crowd in North Dakota Wednesday night, while blasting European trade policies.
Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok told lawmakers Wednesday in a marathon, closed-door interview that the anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with an FBI lawyer were part of an "intimate" conversation and he did not intend to act on any of the missives, according to Democrats in the meeting. But Republicans argued that Strzok's claims about the messages after the fact were simply not credible, and one lawmaker claimed to have learned new information from his interview Tuesday with the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.
The Latest on President Trump's trip to North Dakota and Wisconsin to attend a series of rallies and fundraising events : Trump said Thursday that what used to be a field about 30 miles south of Milwaukee in Mount Pleasant will become one of the largest developments ever built in the world at 20 million square feet . He says the decision by the Taiwan-based maker of LCD screens and assembler of Apple iPhones shows "America is open for business."
All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pelosi and become speaker of the House.
It's an old story by now. The GOP-controlled House takes what used to be a bipartisan, consensus legislative goal-the Farm Bill typically passed every five years-and gives it a savage ideological twist.
With this president, it's hard to know for sure if this is a real scoop indicating a really speedy decision on an item of enormous importance, or just the first of many rumors, trial balloons, head feints, or empty gestures. But for what it's worth, Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs is reporting that Donald Trump is expressing interest in Senator Mike Lee as a possible successor to Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy.
The Broward Transitional Center is basically a jail for people who haven't committed crimes. It's designed to hold "low-level" immigrant detainees slated for deportation after they've been arrested on minor charges - such as driving without a license - or picked up on no criminal charges at all.