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Not even Jeb Bradley could fix this one. He was powerless to bridge the gap between House and Senate negotiators on his bill dealing with how to pay for the care of animals seized following... Not even Jeb Bradley could fix this one.
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election - WASHINGTON - Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election - WASHINGTON - Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Freedom Caucus opposed the measure, seeking leverage to obtain a vote on a hard-line immigration plan.
Politico has two fascinating new articles about on-going political debates and maneuvering surrounding the FIRST STEP Act. That proposal, as reported here, received a 25-5 vote in favor in the House Judiciary Committee ten days ago, and it seems to be the top federal criminal justice reform bill with a real chance to get to the desk of Prez Trump in the coming months.
Ben Cline, a state delegate and former staffer for retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been chosen as the Republican nominee for Virginia's 6th Congressional District. News reports indicate Cline received 52 percent of the votes on the first ballot in an eight-person field.
The 17-year-old student arrested Friday after 10 people were killed and 13 were injured at Santa Fe High School in Texas confessed to authorities, court documents reveal. Dimitrios Pagourtzis was taken into custody after he collapsed in front of an art lab at the school near Houston, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in court.
Several members of Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation are getting a run for their money this year - from within their own party. Five of the eight House incumbents seeking re-election face challenges in the September primary, pending final certification of nominating signatures.
On May 22nd, voters go to the polls in primary elections in Arkansas, Georgia and Kentucky. Additionally, runoff elections will be held in Texas in several House seat races.
A Texas official says explosive devices found with the suspected gunman at a high school near Houston weren't capable of detonating. Galveston County Judge Mark Henry said Saturday that authorities found a group of carbon dioxide canisters taped together, and a pressure cooker with an alarm clock and nails inside.
GOP leaders thought they had found a way to make the party's warring conservative and moderate wings happy on an issue that has bedeviled them for years Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Freedom Caucus opposed the measure, seeking leverage to obtain a vote on a hard-line immigration plan.
The mass shooting at a Texas high school Friday led to promises from the state's top Republicans to look for ways to improve school safety, but none of them suggested that substantial gun restrictions could be on the table. Gov. Greg Abbott, a staunch advocate for gun rights, said at a news conference after authorities say a student killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a high school in Santa Fe, near Houston, that he will start holding "round table" discussions on guns and school safety issues starting next week.
That was the message Ray LaHood brought to the graduating class of Illinois Central College on Saturday morning during commencement ceremonies at the Peoria Civic Center. "Men and women, singly or as part of larger families, living their lives in decency and love, working hard, being honest, quietly attending to their duties, are the very cornerstone of community life," the former congressman and Cabinet official - himself a former community college student - told the assembled crowd.
He is the Republican Party's most powerful political weapon. Yet as the GOP fights to defend its delicate House and Senate majorities, President Donald Trump is not welcome everywhere.
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Republican Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado about the effort to force a vote on the Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals - people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Some Republican candidates fear that the unscripted and relatively unpopular president could do more harm than good should he campaign on their behalf. Leading party strategists want Trump to focus his time and energy on a handful of Senate contests in deep-red states where Democratic incumbents are particularly vulnerable.
Instead, the two officials said, the FBI and CIA gathered intelligence from a number of people as they began their investigation of Russia's interference in the U.S. election.
People embrace during a vigil held in the wake of a deadly school shooting with multiple fatalities at Santa Fe High School A 17-year-old armed with a shotgun and a pistol opened fire at a Texas high school on Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. The shooting at the Santa Fe High School was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teenagers for gun control.
Elected officials from Washington, D.C., to Boston reacted to the deadly school shooting in Texas yesterday with a combination of sorrow and outrage. "We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this horrible attack in Texas," President Trump said in a tweet yesterday.