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It took several months and a few debates, but the Democratic candidates for governor finally delivered something that's been sorely lacking in the race - an actual debate. The candidates mostly did what they needed to do.
Democrat Conor Lamb, right, talks with some of his campaign volunteers at a campaign office in Carnegie, Pa., Wednesday, March 7, 2018. A special election in western Pennsylvania next week is shaping up as a test of the strength and loyalty of the modern-day labor movement.
Republican Andrew Zelt has ended his campaign for a seat held by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine. Andrew Zelt, the first Republican to mount an intra-party challenge against Rep. Duncan Hunter of Alpine for this year's midterm elections, is ending his campaign.
State Treasurer John Chiang files to run for governor of California at the Los Angeles County Registrar's office in Norwalk on March 7. Several of California's Republican representatives are openly challenging President Trump's plans to impose steel and aluminum tariffs. The tariffs are a rare source of disagreement between congressional Republicans and the White House, and the opposition in California comes from several lawmakers who face difficult reelection bids this fall.
The Trump administration on Tuesday sued to block Californ... . California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, accompanied by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, responds to remarks made U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif.
Katherine Clark and Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro today introduced the Tip Income Protection Act, legislation to protect tipped workers from having their tips taken by their employers. In a House Appropriations Committee hearing yesterday, Clark and DeLauro pressed Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on the recent DOL proposal allowing restaurants and other employers to keep workers' tips.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., arrives for a procedural vote as the Senate moves to pass legislation that would roll back some of the safeguards Congress put into place after a financial crisis rocked the nation's economy ten years ago, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's encouraged the White House may reconsider blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum as he urges President Donald Trump take a more "surgical" approach on China and other countries.
Sen. Ted Cruz smiled Wednesday when an interviewer raised the obvious point about his deriding an opponent for using a nickname: Cruz uses a nickname too. Shortly after the polls closed Tuesday in Texas' first-in-the-nation primary, Cruz tweeted a 60-second country jingle targeting his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso.
FEW people beyond Texas's seventh district had heard of Laura Moser before her own party tried to discredit her. Late last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took the rare step of publishing embarrassing opposition research on the journalist and activist who wants to take on John Culberson, a Republican, in the mid-terms in November.
In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, speaks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington. Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy.
Mayor Emanuel and Governor Rauner appeared together this morning for a ribbon cutting for AT&T's renovated Call Center on the North Side. The mayor used the occasion to put the governor on the spot on the issue of gun control.
Gov. Nathan Deal held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to announce that the social media giant's 9th U.S. data center will be built in Newton County, about 45 miles east of downtown Atlanta. Deal says the data center will lead to the creation of more than 100 full-time jobs.
State Rep. Ann M. Williams gives a thumbs-up to the gallery while Rep. Cynthia Soto applauds after the House voted to pass legislation to license gun dealers during a session Feb. 28, 2018, in Springfield. State Rep. Ann M. Williams gives a thumbs-up to the gallery while Rep. Cynthia Soto applauds after the House voted to pass legislation to license gun dealers during a session Feb. 28, 2018, in Springfield.
This year's midterm elections officially began on Tuesday as Democratic and Republican primaries were held in Texas. Democrats are hoping Texas could become a key state in the party's effort to retake control of the Senate and the House.
This Jan. 4, 2007, file photo shows then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi waving the Speaker's gavel, while surrounded by her own grandchildren and the children of other members of Congress, after being elected as the first woman Speaker at a swearing-in ceremony for the 110th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the first female elected to House speaker, helped celebrate Women's History Month by donating her suit and gavel to the Smithsonian on Wednesday.
Two members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet suggested Wednesday that Canada and Mexico might escape new tariffs on steel and aluminum, a potential bargaining chip in North American trade talks that heeds the 'surgical approach" advocated by House Speaker Paul Ryan. "The president indicated that if we can work something out with Canada and Mexico they will be exempted.
In the midst of a speech to boost Democrat Conor Lamb ahead of next week's special election, the former "It makes me angry when we're not respected - when you're not respected," Biden tells scores of carpenters who packed into a suburban Pittsburgh union hall on Tuesday. "Everything unions do is done well."
Two prominent Republican lawmakers want a special counsel to investigate potential government surveillance abuse as well as possible bias and conflicts of interest at the U.S. Justice Department and FBI. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy made the request Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
H.R. 1409, co-sponsored by Representative Leonard Lance and Representative Brian Higgins ensures that any health plan covering cancer care offer patients the same level of cost-sharing for all forms of cancer medicine. "Bipartisan support for the Cancer Drug Parity Act has grown to 136 cosponsors, reflecting the strong momentum in Congress to pass this piece of meaningful cancer treatment legislation, said Congressman Lance.