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Rising star Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., met with some "key" Hillary Clinton donors in a wealthy New York resort enclave "as she takes a national stage and expands her influence and ambitions," the New York Post reported. The freshman California senator and former San Francisco district attorney was the star attraction last Saturday at the Bridgehampton, Long Island, home of MWWPR CEO Michael Kempner one of Clinton's national-finance co-chairs who led a fundraiser for her 2008 presidential bid, the Post's Page Six columnist Emily Smith reported.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after announcing the revised version of the Republican health care bill.
Border agents may not use travelers' laptops, phones, and other digital devices to access and search cloud content, according to a new document by U.S. Customs and Border Protection . CBP wrote this document on June 20, 2017, in response to questions from Sen. Wyden .
Protesters again took to Capitol Hill on Monday to protest Senate Republicans' proposed health care bill, staging a demonstration in the Hart Senate Office Building, where several people were reportedly arrested. Demonstrators there urged Republican senators to vote against the bill, which would dismantle key portions of the Affordable Care Act and cause millions of people to lose their health care coverage, largely due to cuts to Medicaid.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, showed off his physical strength by entering a push-up contest with a reporter after a Monday morning interview. This isn't the first time the Senate judiciary chairman has displayed his push-up skills.
The fiance of Justine Damond, the woman shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer in the alley behind her home Saturday night, said his "utterly devastated" family has been told little by law enforcement about what transpired. "We lost the dearest of people and are desperate for information," Don Damond said Monday afternoon.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a new health coverage overhaul bill today, but the Washington Post reports that doubts remain whether he has sufficient Republican votes to pass it. The situation is complicated by a competing bill from two Republican senators.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, left, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testified before the committee. less Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, left, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, as Federal ... more Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, before the Senate Banking Committee.
WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Dick Durbin , Ranking Member of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, slammed the Trump Administration's simplistic approach to immigration, arguing that a border wall would do little to stop people overstaying visas, who make up the majority of recent unauthorized immigrants. Senator Durbin recalled that the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the Senate in 2013 - which he helped author as a member of the "Gang of 8" - would have increased border security, created a system to track overstays, and provided a path to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants with deep roots in the United States.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Wednesday granted conditional approval for Italian oil company Eni to explore for oil in Alaska's North Slope region. Eni's proposal, which is still subject to local and additional federal approvals, is to drill three oil wells roughly three miles off the Alaskan coast.
Even as the progressive list of everything wrong in our society that the 99 percent suffers at the hands of the one percent was enumerated at least three times, the mood at the Civic Center was upbeat today in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sen. Bernie Sanders was coming to speak, to introduce and endorse Maryland progressive gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, the popular former national president of the NAACP.
WASHINGTON U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a total of $2,058,130 in grant funding to Illinois agencies through two programs the Housing Counseling Grant Program and the Service Coordinator Program to help families, seniors, and people with disabilities who live in insured and assisted apartment housing across the state live more independent lives. "This funding will give local housing agencies across Illinois the ability to expand and improve existing supportive services for families, seniors, and people with disabilities, helping them to continue to live as independently as possible in the communities they love and know," Durbin said.
Joe Donnelly Dem senator's family profits from outsourcing he decries: report Indiana Republican raises M for potential Senate bid Senate confirms Trump's 'regulatory czar' MORE , who has fiercely criticized the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, has profited from a company that uses a Mexican factory to produce dye for ink pads, The Associated Press reported Thursday. Stewart Superior Corp., an arts and crafts business owned by Donnelly's family, has for more than a year shipped raw material to a company-owned factory in Mexico where it produces ink pads and other products.
Elizabeth Warren continued on her fund-raising tear for the second quarter, building up her 2018 war chest to more than $11 million, according to numbers Warren's campaign provided to the Globe. The Massachusetts Democrat raked in $3.5 million in the three-month period ending June 30. As with her previous haul, much of that money came from small-dollar donors: Donors writing checks for $50 or less made up 93 percent of the individual contributions; those writing checks for $25 or less comprised 76 percent of the contributions.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that Donald Trump Jr.'s emails could prove intent if charges result from one of the investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. "No question that we're very far from criminal charges here and from proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but if you're asking what's the significance of these emails, it's criminal intent, which is often the most difficult part of any case," Mr. Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, told CNN.
Cynics are said to be people who are prematurely disappointed about the future. Such dyspepsia is encouraged by watching Republicans struggle to move on from the dog's breakfast they have made of health care reform to the mare's nest of tax reform.
Members of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee gained feedback this week about three draft proposals to reform how and when veterans seek private-sector health care, setting the stage for negotiations between Democrats and Republicans on what might be the biggest task for the committee this year. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., the chairman of the committee, said an "amazing amount" has been accomplished so far this session and he contributed it to an amendable relationship between Republicans and Democrats on the committee.