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Chuck Schumer, the incoming leader of Senate Democrats, warned Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press that any Supreme Court nominee of Donald Trump's will be filibustered if he or she isn't "mainstream." Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society's executive vice president and a leading adviser to Republicans on judicial nominees, told the group that Trump isn't going to be dictated to.
President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet on Monday with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and former Texas governor and GOP presidential rival Rick Perry. That's according to top aide Kellyanne Conway.
TV producer Shonda Rhimes didn't get the president she wanted in the recent election, but she'll be receiving a special honor from the president she created at the International Emmy Awards Gala. "Scandal" star Tony Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant in the ABC TV drama, will be presenting the honorary International Emmy Founders Award to Rhimes Monday night at the Hilton New York.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, drawing a line in the sand for the next administration, said he has the votes to stop President-elect Donald Trump from repealing the Dodd-Frank Act and "the rules we put in place to limit Wall Street." Schumer predicted that the Senate's Democratic minority would get help from Republicans in any such fight.
U.S. officials plan to block new mining claims outside Yellowstone National Park as the Obama administration races in its last days to keep industry out of pristine and environmentally sensitive areas. Mining claims on 30,000 acres north of the nation's first national park would be prohibited for at least two years while a long-term ban is considered.
For a candidate that practically made accepting the election results a party platform, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has been conspicuously silent on the riots, assaults and protests against President-elect Donald Trump. Losing an election doesn't absolve a person of the responsibility to guide their party: It's the single most important thing they can do as emotions run high - especially in an election where those emotions have overflowed into physical violence.
Law enforcement and protesters are in a new confrontation on the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Law enforcement and protesters are in a new confrontation on the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
Incoming Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says that President-elect Donald Trump's victory is "not a mandate," vowing to oppose the policy agenda of the Republican-controlled White House and Congress where he and his fellow Democrats disagree. "What Trump talked about was against the establishment of both parties," the New York Democrat told This Week co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
The indictment of a 35-year-old disgraced former Republican congressman jolted residents of his central Illinois district, shaken by prosecutors' claims that Aaron Schock illegally dipped into campaign and government coffers to subsidize a lavish lifestyle, including his Capitol Hill office done up in the style of "Downton Abbey." Perhaps more stunning was an allegation found on page 34 of the charging document: Schock's apparent willingness to pocket thousands of constituents' dollars by arranging annual Washington tours combined with meet-and-greets.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence exuded confidence Sunday about Donald Trump's transition, saying Sen. Jeff Sessions will be confirmed as attorney general and that the president-elect is bringing "energy" and "leadership" to a busy round of meetings with potential Cabinet picks at his tony golf club in New Jersey. Amid reports that Mr. Trump's efforts were off to a rocky start, Mr. Pence defended the mogul's moves to swiftly name his national security team and vet former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney for secretary of state and retired Gen.
In a tweet on Sunday that coincided with Schumer's interview on "Meet The Press," Trump claimed that Schumer was smarter than outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and said Schumer's appointment to the post was "good news." "I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that he wasn't offended by the cast of the play "Hamilton: An American Musical", after they delivered him a personal message , but then weaseled out of saying if he's owed an apology by the cast. Pence makes believe dissenting Americans are enjoying their "freedoms," but then refuses to share his real thoughts on the issue and simply passrs the buck to his henchmen surrogates, who no doubt will attack the issue for him.
Donald Trump sits atop Republicans in Washington, but that doesn't necessarily mean the Senate will rubber-stamp everyone he picks for his Cabinet. While he can expect the Republican Senate to confirm most of his choices, the party's narrow 52-48 edge and early infighting could slow or doom controversial ones.
Donald Trump's three adult children are playing multiple roles for their father after a campaign where the lines were constantly blurred between presidential bid and business interests. Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump are poised to wield immense influence over their father, even if they don't follow him to Washington.
President Barack Obama planned separate talks with the leaders of Australia and Canada before wrapping up the final foreign trip of his presidency. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with China's President Xi Jingping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.
The pollsters who regularly ask Pennsylvania voters about elections got it wrong in the presidential race and they're trying to figure out why. Franklin & Marshall College, Quinnipiac University and Muhlenberg College all had Republican President-elect Donald Trump well behind in their final pre-election polls, but a Republican-leaning pollster from Atlanta pegged Trump's victory here almost precisely.
When Missourians went to the polls Nov. 8, they voted for Donald J. Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to be their next president and vice president of the United States of America. After all, the Trump-Pence ticket won Missouri over Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, 56-37 percent, 1.585 million votes to 1.054 million.
Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Prestwick airport on November 14, 2014 in Prestwick, Scotland. The story of the US election was portrayed this way: millions of angry and disaffected working class white Americans rose up against the elite to put Donald Trump in the White House.