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House Republicans face opposition to their plan to overhaul the way corporations pay federal taxes from a powerful group of lawmakers - other Republicans. "I'm not very enthused about it," said Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman of the Finance Committee and the Senate's top tax writer.
"The man from the BBC was laughing as he reported the White House's false claims about the size of the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration," writes Gideon Rachman . "He should have been crying.... This spectacle of obvious lies being peddled by the White House is a tragedy for US democracy.
Sen. Orrin Hatch says no, that the man nominated by President Donald Trump to be treasury secretary told the truth when he asserted that his former company, OneWest, had not engaged in the practice of “robo-signing” mortgage documents. That's despite dozens of court cases uncovered by The Dispatch that showed OneWest officials' robo-signatures, along with sworn testimony from one of his vice presidents describing how she did it.
WASHINGTON In a growing rift among Republicans, Rep. Jim Jordan rejected calls by some GOP lawmakers to "repair" the 2010 health law, saying the law known as Obamacare was a "complete disaster" and needs to be swiftly and completely scrapped. During an interview Friday on Fox News, Jordan, R-Urbana said for Republicans "to say we're going to repair something implies you can actually fix something.
Gov. John Kasich is urging confirmation of President Donald Trump's education secretary nominee without mentioning the significant unpaid fine owed to Ohio by a now-defunct political action committee she controlled. The Republican governor and 2016 presidential contender didn't support Trump, but he praised Betsy DeVos for her character, experience and philosophy of limited government in a Jan. 24 letter to Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the committee that handled her confirmation.
President Trump on Friday took the first step toward unwinding Wall Street reforms put in place during the depths of the financial crisis, sparking outrage from consumer groups across the country. After a meeting with business executives, including the head of JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Jerone Williams plays piano during a Bowling Green "massacre" remembrance gathering on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, at Fountain Square Park in Bowling Green, Ky. The "massacre" that never happened has Bowling Green in the national news again ??? something that has not happened since a sinkhole swallowed several prized Corvettes at a museum.
McCain is entitled to decry Trump's terse phone call with Australia, but not to act as though he is the president. Australia is one of America's closest allies in the world.
With protests taking place throughout the country and a poll showing 40 percent of voters want him impeached, all within his first two weeks as president, Donald Trump clearly has plenty of political enemies. Across the world, online gambling websites are offering increasingly attractive odds that Trump will either be impeached or resign before his first term as president ends in 2020.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One while traveling to Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Trump is spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
If Fort Hays State University Interim President Andy Tompkins had been at the Friday press conference in Topeka where Gov. Sam Brownback hailed the winner of the $15,000 college degree challenge, Tompkins would have described a bigger pool of winners.
A White House adviser's commentary about a massacre in Kentucky that never happened has sparked seemingly endless snickering online, with jabs like "never remember" and "I survived the Bowling Green massacre." Kellyanne Conway mentioned the fictional massacre in an MSNBC interview Thursday as the reason for a temporary travel ban for Iraqis in 2011, saying it also proved why the Trump administration's ban was necessary.
An avalanche of phone calls is thundering across Capitol Hill as the Senate considers a slew of President Donald Trump's nominations, causing staffers to work continuously to field requests, complaints and other messages during an already busy time in the congressional calendar. Matt House, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said that as many as 1.5 million calls per day have been pouring into the Senate this week, according to data from Schumer's technical staff.
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General on Wednesday announced that it is reviewing the DHS' implementation of President Trump's controversial executive order issued last week that bans immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and puts a halt to admitting refugees. In a statement released late Wednesday night, the Inspector's General's office said the review of how the executive order was rolled out is in response to "congressional request and whistleblower and hotline complaints."
Betsy DeVos's embattled nomination for education secretary cleared another hurdle in the Senate on Friday as Republicans overpowered fierce resistance from Democrats. Senators voted 52-48 to cut off debate in an early-morning session, setting the stage for a final confirmation vote next week on President Donald Trump's nominee.
The nomination of Betsy DeVos as education secretary faces a procedural vote Friday morning, setting up a close vote early next week. Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell scheduled the procedural vote to end debate early in the morning Friday so that the full Senate can vote on Devos' nomination on Monday.
President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Iran by preparing to punish the Islamic republic with new sanctions for testing a ballistic missile. As many as 17 entities connected with Iran's missile work and up to eight linked to terrorism will be named under penalties as early as Friday, according to two people familiar with U.S. strategy.
President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court has put Senate Democrats in a vise. Voters from the liberal base apoplectic over Trump's presidency are demanding opposition at any cost.