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Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, whose path to become the next Veterans Affairs secretary remains unclear, will go before the Veterans Affairs' committee April 25, according to committee chairman Sen. Johnny Isakson.
The three Indiana Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate spent much of Sunday night's debate positioning themselves as the biggest supporters of President Donald Trump.
I want to publicly thank Georgia U.S. Sen. David Perdue for voting against the recently passed omnibus $1.3 trillion budget-busting bill. Sen. Perdue continues to represent Georgia well with his consistent common sense conservative leadership.
APRIL 15, 2018: It was reported that former first lady Barbara Bush won't seek more medical treatment after hospitalizations, but will instead focus on "comfort care," according to family spokesman April 18, 2018. ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 02: Former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush point from their seats on day two of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center on September 2, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In this April 2, 2018, file photo, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, waves to supporters as he enters the room while campaigning for re-election at the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 offices in Edinburg, Texas. The Texan is seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate by pledging to repeal Barack Obama's signature health care law, abolish the IRS and beat back federal overreach, even though the Trump administration has already diluted the health law, delivered sweeping tax cuts and code revisions and controls Washington along with a Republican-led Congress.
Craigslist appears to have surrendered to heavy pressure over the erotic ads posted on its website by shutting down its adult services section. But authorities are not convinced the move by the country's leading classified advertising service will curb the availability of prostitution and child exploitation on the Internet.
The United States Senate returned to work last week. Time to talk about President Donald Trump's nominations again - especially those to the federal courts.
When U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced his latest fundraising haul earlier this month - a stunning $6.7 million - it was widely expected to surpass what his rival, Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, brought in over the same period. Now it's clear by how much: roughly $3.5 million.
Almost at the very beginning of a recent speech, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards reminded his Southern University audience that they were used as a backdrop "to scare people" in an ad attacking him during the 2015 gubernatorial campaign. Against the faces at the historically black university, Republican David Vitter's commercial - the first one out of the gate during the runoff - charged that the election of Edwards would lead directly to the release of "fifty-five hundred dangerous thugs, drug dealers, back into our neighborhoods."
For Democrats in this year's race for Ohio governor, the choice should come down to passion, vision and an ability to grasp the bully pulpit to inspire Ohioans about the need for change. Ohio's next governor must be a fighter -- a fighter for greater equity, justice and common sense; a fighter for the state's urban centers; and a fighter against the moribund thinking on education, diversity, economic opportunity and home-rule rights that's held Ohio back for too long.
Early this past Sunday morning, at the last minute, Kansas legislators passed a school funding bill of more than $500 million. The Supreme Court must still rule on its constitutionality, but the frantic maneuvering of last week allows Kansans to understand a lot about state politics as we head toward the end of the session and the 2018 elections.
Among the “scrambled thoughts” that came to a young Ted Kennedy as he stumbled from the water into which he had crashed his Oldsmobile, killing his passenger and crippling his political career, was a sort of existential question, if not a supernatural one. The 37-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts wondered that night in 1969 whether “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.” He recalled the thought aloud one week later in a televised speech, after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of the crash and failing to notify police until morning, as Mary Jo Kopechne died in the water off Chappaquiddick Island.
U.S. Rep. Luke Messer said Saturday that truthfulness is the main difference between him and his two rivals for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat from Indiana.
Susan Witka writes Anti-bombing protest messages in front of Senator Dianne Feinstein home on Saturday, April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. Eleanor Levine is at left of a public address speaker.
The New York Working Families Party, an influential coalition of labor unions and progressive activist groups, voted on Saturday to endorse actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon in her primary challenge to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two-term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3-to-1 margin.
The latest statewide poll in the Republican gubernatorial race affirmed Secretary of State Kris Kobach to be the most well-known and intensely disliked candidate in the field and revealed half of the electorate still don't recognize Jeff Colyer as the state's governor four months ahead of the August primary. Kobach was known to four of every five people involved in polling by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, but 41 percent said they had a “highly negative” opinion of him.
Again and again, the urgent call goes out for educators and employers to work together to develop the talent supply pipeline needed for economic competitiveness and business growth in the Commonwealth. Blueprint Virginia 2025 - the business plan issued by the Virginia Chamber this past December - leads with the observation that "the availability of a well-trained and educated workforce remains the top concern for Virginia's business community, and with good reason."
Congress had an agency designed to help senators avoid the sort of embarrassment they faced when trying to understand Facebook - but lawmakers stopped funding it 23 years ago and have resisted reviving it. Now there's talk the Office of Technology Assessment could make a comeback.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday reaffirmed her support for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, an investigation that has edged closer to President Trump's inner circle. "I think it is so important, it is so imperative, that this investigation be allowed to go forward," Murkowski said at the annual Women in the World Summit in Manhattan.