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A leading Republican lawmaker applauded the Trump administration's decision to send CIA Director Mike Pompeo to North Korea for a clandestine meeting with reclusive leader Kim Jong Un. "I like the fact that Pompeo met with him.
Rep. Ron DeSantis Wednesday called on the Department of Justice to investigate several key Obama-era officials, as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey, for crimes, pointing out Comey's recommendations on Clinton. "Remember, he testified to Congress that he did not make any decision regarding Secretary Clinton until after she was interviewed," the Florida Republican, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
After months of uncertainty surrounding the enforceability of state marijuana legislation in light of federal prohibitions, President Trump may have offered the legal cannabis industry some solace. Late last week, President Trump promised to abandon Justice Department efforts to target recreational marijuana in states that have legalized adult use.
The sixth annual breakfast will be anchored this year by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly. while the Power Breakfast program, a fast-paced mixture of informative business and political themes that helps set the scene each spring for the North American RV arena's annual selling season, is scheduled for program, headlined by Secretary Zinke and Senator Donnelly, has garnered so much interest," reported BJ Thompson, an Elkhart-based public relations executive and administrator of the annual breakfast.
Iowa lawmakers are remembering and celebrating a history-making political leader after news of Barbara Bush's death broke on Tuesday evening. Fellow Senator Chuck Grassley also took to social media to celebrate Bush's life, and released a statement alongside his wife: "Former First Lady Barbara Bush was everything a country could ask for in a First Lady.
"The Freedom Caucus is prepared to exact a price from Kevin McCarthy if he wants to be the next speaker of the House - three years after foiling his first bid for the job," Politico reports. "A survey of about 20 of the conservative group's three dozen members found varying degrees of openness to the California Republican known as a deal-making pragmatist.
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy has made major profits off of the federal government's response to the opioid crisis, Politico reported Wednesday. Mr. Kennedy, Rhode Island Democrat, has had his own battle with both addiction and mental illness and sits on the board of eight companies currently working with the Trump administration and Congress to combat the opioid epidemic.
A federal appeals court in Chicago will hear oral arguments in the corruption case of U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock as his lawyers seek to have all his charges dismissed. Wednesday's hearing at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes amid signs parts of the case against the Peoria Republican may be at risk of unraveling.
Donors with ties to President Donald Trump are contributing to the campaigns of vulnerable California House Republicans running in districts where Trump is not considered popular. Reps.
Donald Trump's re-election campaign has demanded that Rep. Todd Rokita take down yard signs it says give the false impression the president endorsed the Indiana Republican's Senate bid, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press. The rebuke came after two volunteers who led Trump's bare-bones 2016 campaign in Vice President Mike Pence's home state endorsed Rokita during an Indianapolis news conference last week.
Former first lady of the United States Barbara Bush, wife of former president George H.W. Bush, has died at the age of 92. She is being remembered as the matriarch of an American political dynasty spanning decades. She was the second American to be both the first lady and the mother of a president.
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock , beneficiary of a GOP-oriented super PAC's commitment to spend millions of ad dollars in the 2018 election. Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock , beneficiary of a GOP-oriented super PAC's commitment to spend millions of ad dollars in the 2018 election.
On Tax Day, President Donald Trump and a chorus of Republicans announced that Tuesday's filing deadline marked the last time that figuring out taxes will drive Americans crazy. Not so.
The two Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who last year backed Mike Pompeo as CIA director have publicly refused to support his nomination to be secretary of state, making it highly unlikely that he will have the panel's endorsement when the full Senate votes on his nomination. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who voted to confirm Pompeo as CIA director, said in a statement Tuesday evening that she could not do the same for his bid to be top diplomat, citing concerns with Pompeo's positions on gay rights, Muslim Americans and women's reproductive rights.
Democrat Jacky Rosen raised more than twice as much campaign cash as Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller in recent months, closing in on the GOP incumbent considered one of the most vulnerable to seek re-election in the Senate this year. A partial copy of Heller's fundraising report provided to The Associated Press on Monday shows Heller raised about $1.1 million from January 1 through March 31. Rosen, a congresswoman from Nevada's 3rd District who is challenging Heller this year, reported late last week having raised almost $2.6 million during the same time frame.
On Tax Day, President Donald Trump and a chorus of Republicans announced that Tuesday's filing deadline marked the last time that figuring out taxes will drive Americans crazy. Not so.
Democrat Rosen raised more than twice as much campaign cash as Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller ... /Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP). FILE - In this June 23, 2017, file photo, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., attends a news conference at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building in Las Vegas.
The Indiana Debate Commission's April 30 televised U.S. Senate Republican primary debate now includes a three-candidate field in what will be the only statewide debate offered live to hundreds of Indiana media outlets. U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita had initially declined, while Indiana businessman Mike Braun and U.S. Rep. Luke Messer had confirmed the hour-long time slot to debate.
U.S. Congressman Charlie Dent, a leader of a moderate group of Republicans and a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he would resign from Congress next month. "After discussions with my family and careful consideration," I have decided to leave Congress in the coming weeks," Dent said.
When House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he would step down from his position and not run for reelection, the news didn't come as that much of a surprise. Of course, it is a big deal to learn that the most powerful person in Congress is relinquishing their authority.