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APPLE VALLEY - The Dreamers, Visionaries and Leaders Project celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday with its fourth annual Felix Diaz Mariachi Festival. Held at the Victor Valley Museum, the free event was geared to bring the community together and embrace Hispanic culture through live music and dance performances, crafts, great food and much more.
House Republicans are set to vote Wednesday on a hard-fought immigration compromise between conservative and moderate GOP flanks, but the bill has lost any real chance for passage despite a public outcry over the crisis at the border. Instead, lawmakers are expected to turn toward a narrow bill to prevent immigrant family separations in hopes of addressing that issue before leaving town for the Fourth of July recess.
House Speaker Paul Ryan scheduled a long-awaited showdown vote on a broad Republican immigration bill for Wednesday, but is showing little confidence that the package will survive. Underscoring the legislation's weak prospects in his GOP-run chamber, Ryan, R-Wis., declined to answer questions Tuesday about a separate, narrow measure Republicans are privately discussing.
Just when House Republicans needed Donald Trump's backing the most - on their big immigration overhaul - he dashed off a presidential tweet saying they should quit wasting their time on it.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on Friday in Washington. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on Friday in Washington.
Just when House Republicans needed Donald Trump's backing the most -- on their big immigration overhaul -- he dashed off a presidential tweet on Friday saying they should quit wasting their time on it.
By Friday, former GOP Assemblyman Tim Donnelly had further separated from Democrat Marge Doyle in the close contest to face Rep. Paul Cook in a November run-off. While national Democrats hung high hopes on certain state districts - particularly seven Republican-held ones that voted for Hillary Clinton - the conservative 8th Congressional District was not one of those highlighted by the New York Times.
For all their worrying about Orange County, it could be San Bernardino County where Democrats are once again shut out of a congressional race. Unofficial results posted by the California Secretary of State on Wednesday, June 6 showed Republican Tim Donnelly leading Democrat Marge Doyle by 760 votes for second place in the 8th Congressional District, a sprawling district covering the High Desert, Lake Arrowhead and Crestline along with Inyo and Mono counties.
VETERANS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENTS: Voting 347-70, the House on Wednesday passed a bill that would launch the process to realign, consolidate or close some of the Department of Veterans Affairs' 1,200-plus medical centers and outpatient clinics, some of which were built to treat veterans of the Civil War. The bill also would streamline a four-year-old "community care" program in which veterans who live at great distance from Veterans Health Administration medical facilities can receive publicly funded care from close-to-home private-sector providers.
Steven Bailey, a Republican candidate for California attorney general, will address the Redlands Tea Party Patriots when they meet 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at Mill Creek Cattle Company, 1874 Mentone Blvd., Mentone. Bailey, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, was an El Dorado County Superior Court judge until he retired in 2017.
About 120 vacant jobs at the federal prisons in Victorville are expected to be lost in 2018 as the government cuts staffing nationwide. The head of the union that represents employees at the federal prison in Victorville said he plans to carry to Washington next week his concerns that nationwide staffing cuts will endanger the safety of guards, inmates and the public.
California is home to amazing natural resources, a diverse economy and a hard-working population eager to flourish. However, we don't have sufficient water to meet the needs of all who call California home.
Each year, the Military Order of the Purple Heart is honored to pay special recognition to a National leader who best demonstrates inspirational leadership and distinguished service to our nation's veterans. On March 22, 2017, National Commander Hershel Gober presented this year's Special Leadership Award to California Congressman Paul Cook , a distinguished Member of the House Armed Services Committee.
A cardboard cut-out of Rep. Roger Williams leans against the microphone at the mock town hall in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. As people flood town halls during the Congressional recess to register their outrage over President Donald Trump's right-wing agenda, many members of Congress are apparently attempting to duck the public outcry by refusing to hold any town halls at all.
The Purple Heart is more than just a medal - especially to the recipients who have sacrificed while fighting for their country. "It gives me a distinguished feeling," said Sam Houston, who was awarded a Purple Heart in 1970 after his service in the Vietnam War.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.