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A panel of military and civilian leaders, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, touted the north country's healthcare system as a potential model for other military communities. The post is the lone Army installation with a division in America that does not have an on-post hospital.
The new chairman of the state Democratic Party plans to heal divisions within the party stemming from last year's presidential election. NM Dem leader wants to unite Hillary, Bernie supporters ALBUQUERQUE - The new chairman of the state Democratic Party plans to heal divisions within the party stemming from last year's presidential election.
There was an air of "The Last Hurrah" as Bob Crane, then 85, stepped to the microphone at St. Cecilia Church in the Back Bay to eulogize his pal Kevin White, the legendary four-term mayor of this city who was 82 when he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease five years ago. Everyone expected Crane, who was Massachusetts' state treasurer for a record 27 years, to regale the massive congregation with raucous recollections of the salad days they shared, and he did not disappoint.
Bernie backers who are suing the DNC for propping up Hillary Clinton over the Vermont U.S. senator have little chance of winning their long-shot legal battle - but they've hit gold in the court of public opinion. The disgruntled group of Bernie Sanders supporters and Democratic donors say the Democratic National Committee defrauded them by unfairly boosting Clinton to clear the way for her primary victory.
In a win for credit unions, and as urged by NAFCU, a bipartisan $1.1 trillion federal spending bill drafted in the House and Senate contains funding for the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund program and the NCUA Community Development Revolving Loan Fund. The bill, funding operations through Sept.
Boston Mayor Kevin H. White and his wife Kathryn celebrate his victory in the Massachusetts Democratic Party's gubernatorial primary election, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1970. White subsequently lost the general election, though he remained mayor of Boston for 14 more years.
Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, arrives with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, right, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, at the Woman 20 Dialogue summit for the empowerment of women in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 'NOT PARTICULARLY HELPFUL': Political watchers say U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's battle with Ivanka Trump, right, is likely a waste of time because the first daughter 'isn't going anywhere.'
Sen. Mike Lee introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules. "Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet," Lee said in a statement.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, meets with reporters and members of the editorial board at the Deseret News and KSL in Salt Lake City, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Lee wants President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval before taking any humanitarian military action.
Protesters walk down College Street on Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn., holding signatures from a petition asking the school to engage in collective bargaining with the graduate student union, April, 2017. Eight graduate student teachers at Yale University have been on hunger strike since last Tuesday in an effort to push a collective bargaining agreement with the university forward.
Sen. Orrin Hatch praised the Trump administration's proposed tax reform plan, saying Congress has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul the system. "One thing I've said throughout this endeavor is that tax reform, if it's going to be successful, will require presidential leadership," Hatch said in a speech on the Senate floor.
U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman announced Monday, May 1, that the government funding measure finalized late last night includes $300 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for this fiscal year. Brown and Portman raised concerns over the GLRI's future after the Administration's 2018 budget request eliminated the program, and the Senators vowed to keep fighting to protect the program.
Top Republicans were looking Monday to jump start the Kansas Legislature's debate over raising income taxes to fix the state budget, something they saw as crucial to solving public school funding and other spending issues.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) will not launch a bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), likely clearing the field for another Democratic congressman to take on the first-term Republican incumbent and former presidential candidate, the Washington Post reports.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL, right, admires Ysmelio Lopez's American flag themed tie after the dedication of a Statue of Liberty replica on the campus of Florida International University, Monday, July 6, 2015, in Miami. Lopez donated the statue which was unveiled after a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony.
Kansas' revenue agency will unveil collection figures later today for April, a key month because of personal income tax payments. The monthly report from the Department of Revenue also marks the first since a revised, slightly more optimistic long-term revenue forecast was issued in April.
Top Capitol Hill negotiators reached a hard-won agreement on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, aides said Sunday night. Details of the agreement were expected to be made public Sunday night, said aides to lawmakers involved in weeks of negotiations.
House of Representatives minority leader Nancy Pelosi and celebrity chef Tom Colicchio discuss the farm bill as part of the Plate of the Union campaign, April 27, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Hunger in America can often seem invisible, but recent studies have shown that it is a problem that affect millions of people, many of them children. An estimated 13.1 million kids live in homes with insufficient food, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gives a thumbs up during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.