In health care town hall held without Toomey, crowd decries Obamacare repeal

A health care town hall with Sen. Pat Toomey went ahead as planned on Tuesday, minus the senator himself. In an Allentown church, hundreds gathered to relay their concerns about the future of the Affordable Care Act under President Donald Trump, and to condemn Toomey's continued support for repealing and replacing the law.

1,000 protesters greet Mitch McConnell at Kentucky speech

Nearly a thousand people have crowded behind a chain link fence to try to catch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's attention as he made his first stop on a tour of Kentucky during the congressional recess. The protesters on Tuesday chanted, "No ban, no wall, Mitch McConnell take our call," a reference to the senator's clogged voicemail system during the first month of Donald Trump's presidency.

McCain steps up Trump criticism

Now that he has returned to the Senate for another six years, Sen. John McCain is back to being a president's biggest headache on Capitol Hill. The Arizona Republican bashed President Donald Trump's White House as an "administration in disarray" while attending a security conference in Munich.

US must work with Turkey on Syria, says US senator McCain

The U.S.-Turkey partnership must be revitalized under the Donald Trump administration, Republican Senator John McCain said on Feb. 20 after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoAYan. "I had a warm and constructive meeting with President ErdoAYan today.

Renewing the Democrats – and America

Why have Democrats struggled to defeat President Trump's most objectionable cabinet nominees? Because Hillary Clinton's 3 million popular vote margin obscures this nettlesome fact: Outside California, Massachusetts, and New York, Donald Trump won by 4 million votes. Across the map, political polarization and demographic sorting are shrinking the party.

West Wing Creator Aaron Sorkin Goes In On Trump In Epic Rant

As the American presidency takes a series of bizarre and disturbing turns, it would be only natural to look to the West Wing for comfort. The show was a ridiculous fantasia of American politics then, and is doubly so now, but the thinking goes that maybe the writer of such a fantasy might have some solid views about how to get there.

As tension simmers, John McCain becomes critic in chief of the commander in chief

Sen. John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of long-standing Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.

Trump Pursues His Attack on Sweden, With Scant Evidence

President Donald Trump escalated his attack on Sweden's migration policies Monday, doubling down on his suggestion - based on a Fox News report - that refugees in the Scandinavian country were behind a surge in crime and terrorism. Trump set off consternation and ridicule Saturday when he seemed to falsely imply to an adoring throng at a rally in Florida that a terrorist attack had occurred in Sweden, which has admitted tens of thousands of refugees in recent years.

Veterans injured by service wait years for compensation hearings

"If I sit down with the VA [secretary] nominee, I'm going to ask him about technology, personnel and managing the system," Sen. Tim Kaine said. Vietnam veteran Thomas Hundley displays letters he sent to his wife in 1966 from Vietnam He had to prove to the VA that he served in the war.

Blumenthal announces Wi-Fi upgrades at Connecticut VA locations

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal announced Monday morning that contracts have been requested from vendors to provide every room at VA hospitals in Connecticut with Wi-Fi access, after a News 8 exclusive report in 2016. At a news conference Monday, Blumenthal said that every veteran staying at a VA facility should feel connected to the world around them.