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Staff travel makes up a significant chuck of the amounts spent on travel by the Appropriations and Budget committees. Members of the Budget and Appropriations committees have spent about $2 million on foreign travel since the start of 2016, including trips to Argentina, Tanzania, Italy and the United Kingdom, according to an analysis of congressional records.
Concord grape growers in New York are getting a boost from the federal government, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture planning to buy juice for nutrition programs. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the USDA will use up to $18 million to purchase surplus grape juice, which will help stabilize prices farmers receive.
President Donald Trump isn't backing away from the racially charged debate over Confederate memorials, even lashing out at members of his own party. Trump tweeted his defense of monuments to Confederate icons - bemoaning rising efforts to remove them as an attack on America's "history and culture."
Prominent Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is calling for "radical changes" at the White House and calling into question President Trump's capability to do his job. Margaret Brennan has the latest.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican and the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is publicly questioning the president's stability and competence. CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor of "Face The Nation" John Dickerson weighs in on what this criticism means.
The funds will be used to cover employee salaries for a therapist, resident supervisor and children's coordinator. The First, A National Banking Association, BancorpSouth Bank and FHLB Dallas awarded $20,000 in Partnership Grant Program funds to The Lighthouse Rescue Mission today in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The New Hampshire Republican Party says "malcontents" are responsible for spraying the word "Nazis" inside a hand-drawn heart on the rear of his headquarters building in Concord. The vandalism happened sometime after 6 p.m. Wednesday and was discovered early Thursday when staff came to open the office, party adviser Patrick Hynes said.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker on Thursday lambasted Donald Trump, saying the president is driving the United States toward "great peril" because he lacks the "stability" and "competence" for the country's highest office. In this July 27, 2017 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A Missouri lawmaker acknowledged Thursday that she posted and later deleted a comment on Facebook about hoping for President Donald Trump's assassination, saying she was frustrated with the president's response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong for writing the post and didn't mean what she said, but she refused calls to resign.
A Missouri state lawmaker is being urged to resign Thursday after posting on Facebook that she hoped President Trump "is assassinated," according to reports. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged that she made the now-deleted comment in a thread on her private Facebook page in response to her and another commenter's frustration with Trump's response in the aftermath of the Charlottesville violence, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Members of Alabama's congressional delegation weren't bashful about criticizing white supremacist protesters this week - but Republican lawmakers have been much more reluctant to call out President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville. "I do defend the president in condemning racism and condemning the horrible acts in Charlottesville," U.S. Sen. Luther Strange told Fox Business News Thursday morning.
The Aug. 4 commentary "Met Council actually serves Twin Cities area quite well" by former Met Council staffer Steven Dornfeld makes an impassioned defense of the Met Council's good works in light of perceived Republican attacks. Dornfeld was half right.
U.S. President Donald Trump dug in defiantly on Thursday in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy. In a series of Twitter posts, Trump also sharply criticized two fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, while denying he had spoken of "moral equivalency" between white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, and anti-racism activists.
US President Donald Trump has decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to leading Confederate figures, declaring that the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart". Mr Trump's remarks came as the White House tried to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on last weekend's racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville may be driving a wedge between him and Republican lawmakers, according to policy analysts, and his influence over their plans may be waning. Trump's muddled response to violence from neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville in the past few days took another turn on Tuesday when he blamed "both sides" for the violence and criticized people who did not think his initial response on Saturday was adequate.
President Trump has said he is considering a pardon for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was recently convicted on federal criminal contempt charges. Trump is holding a rally in Phoenix next Tuesday.
Ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is trying to play usurper to deep-pocketed Republican forces after making a runoff with incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the state's Senate primary. Getting to the runoff is a sweet win for Moore, who was twice stripped of his chief justice duties - for refusing to remove a biblical monument he installed in a state judiciary building and for resisting federal gay marriage rulings.
President Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to slam Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, as well as the "Fake News Media." "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms.
It has been an emotional journey this week for Maria Mendoza and her family. The Oakland woman and her husband late Wednesday said goodbye to their three daughters and the United States.
One after another, the nation's most powerful Republicans responded to President Donald Trump's extraordinary remarks about white supremacists. Yet few mentioned the president.