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Gov. Charlie Baker is urging the state's congressional delegation to fight a Republican-backed health care bill that he said could undermine Massachusetts' efforts to maintain its highest-in-the-nation rate of insured residents. The Republican governor is including his concerns in a letter he's planning to send to the all-Democratic delegation Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is rallying support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers at the Capitol, two days before the House plans a climactic vote that poses an important early test for his presidency. Top House Republicans unveiled revisions to their bill in hopes of nailing down support.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch faces hours of questioning from senators as frustrated Democrats are determined to press him on everything from abortion and guns to his independence from President Donald Trump. Republicans are unanimously supporting Gorsuch , and certain to give him what cover they can as he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for Day 2 of his confirmation hearings on Tuesday.
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill isn't happy that President Trump wants to cut money to protect his city from terrorism - and he headed to Trump's new town to make that clear. O'Neill traveled to Washington, D.C. on Monday to meet with key stakeholders and set a battle plan with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to fight $110 million in cuts to vital security programs .
Even while insisting they would evaluate Gorsuch fairly, several spoke angrily about the treatment of Judge Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court nominee, who was denied even a hearing for 10 months a year ago by Senate Republicans. The statement kicked off a day of opening statements - and opening statements only - as a kind of appetizer for the main course on Tuesday, when Gorsuch will endure 30-minute rounds of questions from the 20 committee members.
On Capitol Hill, Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch, who pledged to be fair, not political in his Senate Confirmation Hearing today. Democrats railed at a "historic dereliction of duty" in not granting a hearing for Mr Obama's choice.
Tuesday, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly received the 'Spirit of Enterprise' award from the United States Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his support for economic growth for Hoosier workers and businesses. Donnelly said, "My focus has always been on expanding economic opportunities for businesses and families across Indiana, because every Hoosier who wants a job should be able to get one.
The FBI is investigating whether Donald Trump's associates coordinated with Russian officials in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, FBI Director James Comey said Monday in an extraordinary public confirmation of a probe the president has refused to acknowledge, dismissed as fake news and blamed on Democrats. In a bruising five-hour session before the House Intelligence Committee, the FBI director also knocked down Trump's claim that his predecessor had wiretapped his New York skyscraper, an assertion that has distracted White House officials and frustrated fellow Republicans who acknowledge they've seen no evidence to support it.
Twenty-four million more Americans would be uninsured by 2026 under the House Republican health care bill than under Obamacare, including 14 million by next year, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday. The long-anticipated score immediately puts the writers and supporters of the GOP Obamacare repeal bill on the defensive.
Leading Republicans are brushing off unfavorable aspects of a Congressional Budget Office report Monday on their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, arguing the nonpartisan CBO is unreliable and only taking a portion of their plan under consideration. If anxious members were hoping the CBO score might temper Republican leadership's plans to push the bill forward, they'd be wrong.
Some Senate Republican responded to the release of a Congressional Budget Office report Monday -- which found that up to 24 million more Americans would be without health insurance within 10 years under a Republican health care plan --- by saying that they expect the House proposal to be changed in the Senate. "The bill's likely to change in the House and again in the Senate," said Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, after the CBO report was released.
The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department has been delayed until later this month. But a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, says the hearing will now be held on March 22. The spokesman, Taylor Haulsee, cites a scheduling conflict in which Alexander is to appear with Trump at an event in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday to help promote Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Barack Obama's health care law.
In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump unveils a proposed budget on March 16 that will sharply test RepublicansA' ability to keep longstanding promises to beef up the military by making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic programs.
Washington: The Trump administration's belief that it's besieged by a so-called deep state - rogue elements of the bureaucracy bent on undermining it - came under direct challenge on Sunday, when Republican senator John McCain demanded that the President put up or shut up on his claim that Barack Obama had ordered wire taps on Trump Tower.It was further challenged when Preet Bharara, the much-admired US attorney of the southern district of New York, refused to comply with a Trump request that he resign along with 45 other attorneys across the country who had been asked to quit, forcing the White House to sack him.
In this Sept. 17, 2015 file photo, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara listens as a member of his team speaks during a news conference in New York.
He said Sunday that he is not interested in running for the U.S. Senate, after rumors bubbled last week that he was considering a campaign for the seat currently held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "I'm deeply flattered by all of the people who have approached me about running for Senate, but my mission right now is to bring sanity to Washington through redistricting reform like we passed here in California," Schwarzenegger wrote on his Facebook page early Sunday morning.
The president told legislators for a second time this week that he expects the health bill to keep moving through Congress quickly, as he promised this law would fulfill Obama's unmet promises. "There's a pretty big the medical-industrial complex in America", Rep. Greg Walden of OR, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters.
In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo provided by Middle Tennessee State University professor Mary Evins, students take part in a role-playing game about the 1676 Bacon's Rebellion, in a class in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The university has staged re-enactments of historical events to help shed light on conflicting perspectives that led to great compromises.
Protesters gathered outside the Omni Dallas Hotel as Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. spoke at a Dallas County Republicans event.Trump's son thanked those in attendance for their support during his father's historic campaign. President Donald Trump's eldest son and Sen. Ted Cruz rallied Dallas County Republicans on Saturday evening at a fundraiser held at the Omni Dallas Hotel.