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Robert Azzi I remember when, in 1999, not long before his landslide primary win in New Hampshire over George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain was waiting to speak to a public gathering in Phillips Exeter Academy's Assembly Hall. He was signing some autographs in the Latin Study and I asked him to sign a book for my daughter.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke at the Bob Ruud Community Center in Pahrump, Monday, June 26, 2017. Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Sunday will make Bunkerville the final stop of a tour through several Western states to review national monuments.
I must congratulate Dave Ball for his July 23 column explaining conservative beliefs, values and principles, without which we would surely be less informed.
Strong arguments can be made for removing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. After all, their leadership has sent the GOP into a death spiral - bad ideas and silly stunts chase out reasonable compromise and responsible action.
Donald Trump had his worst day since he was elected president - we'll just call it Friday - and his worst week since the last one. Things can only get worser and worser, as the Bard would permit me to say.
Heroism recalled 50 years after deadly fire aboard USS Forrestal The inferno aboard the Forrestal off the coast of Vietnam killed 134 men on July 29, 1967. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2vhKHuH The crowd watches footage of the fire aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 during the 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Saturday, July 29, 2017.
John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis. The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone Friday by turning on his party and his president and joining two other GOP senators in voting "no" on the Republicans' final effort to repeal "Obamacare."
The group Indivisible Kentucky says it paid for the billboard because members haven't been able to reach Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. The group Indivisible Kentucky says it paid for the billboard because members haven't been able to reach Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell.
President Trump revealed on Friday one of the most drastic shake-ups of his White House staff to date, proclaiming with a tweet that Reince Priebus was out as his chief of staff, replaced by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. In announcing that Kelly, a retired Marine general, would succeed Priebus, Trump put to rest months of speculation about the now-former chief of staff's future in a White House marred by controversy and leaks.
The U.S. Senate passed a "motion to proceed," which allows them to debate and vote on a replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. What will they be proceeding to? Nobody knows.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
President Trump's attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions threaten to do "real harm to his agenda and even his presidency," according to Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch. "My advice to the president has been, and will continue to be, to think more carefully about some of the things he says, particularly on Twitter," Hatch, R-Utah, said during a Saturday radio interview .
Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on, but conservatives across the country are warning that the GOP-led Congress cannot abandon its pledge to repeal "Obamacare" without triggering a political nightmare in next year's midterm elections. NEW YORK>> Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on from health care, but conservatives across the United States are warning the GOP-led Congress not to abandon its pledge to repeal the Obama-era health law - or risk a political nightmare in next year's elections.
Mario Henderson leads chants of "save Medicaid," as other social service activists, Medicaid recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the building that houses the offices of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care ActAos insurance marketplaces in the fall of 2017, in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will continue to make key subsidy payments and enforce other parts of the existing law that help control prices.
By Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University. Sen. John McCain cast the pivotal vote to nix the Senate version of a bill to repeal Obamacare, only days after returning to Washington after surgery.
For the past six years or so, I've been sifting through each week to find the single person who had the absolute "Worst Week in Washington." Sometimes it's easy -- one person just steps to the front and snatches the award.
It's an idea some political observers have been debating after President Trump announced Friday that John Kelly, who leads the department, would replace Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff. Here's how the theory goes: The president has been lashing out at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia meddling investigation.
Friday morning's failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act is putting pressure on the Republican Party to push through a complex tax overhaul measure, while heading into the 2018 midterm elections that could flip control of the House and Senate back to the Democratic Party. Lawmakers have not given up on the seven-year-long effort to undo Obamacare, reports The Washington Post, but with Friday's failure to push through a "skinny repeal" measure that would have stripped many mandates from the healthcare plan, incumbent lawmakers are left with accusations that they did not live up to the promises that got them elected.
Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming will alter some road traffic and parking in order to accommodate an expected influx of people looking to view the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. "A typical August day is a very busy day at Grand Teton National Park," park spokeswoman Denise Germann said. "This Aug. 21, the day of the total eclipse, we're expecting to be the busiest day in the history of the park," Fees will be waved at the Granite Canyon, Moose and Moran entrance gates to ease the flow of traffic.