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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker Paul Ryan urging him not to allow the House Russia investigation to be shut down. Pelosi's letter says Democrats are "deeply concerned by the Majority's efforts to curtail the House Intelligence Committee investigation and its overall failure to address Russia's meddling in the 2016 election."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., discusses the GOP agenda for next year. He said he would still like to revisit the Senate's botched efforts to dismantle Obamacare.
Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, joined at left by Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., speaks about funding for the CHIP program as the House Rules Committee meets to work on a government funding bill, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., discusses the GOP agenda for next year and touts his accomplishments in the first year of the Trump administration. McConnell said on Friday he's changing his mind, at least over the most recent string of tweets from the White House, which have touted the GOP's recently-passed tax cut bill and other Republican legislative accomplishments.
Trump said Friday that he believes Democrats and Republicans will soon embrace bipartisanship "for the good of the country" and work together. Trump said Friday that he believes Democrats and Republicans will soon embrace bipartisanship "for the good of the country" and work together.
Christmas came early for the Trump family and their fellow One Percenters with the passage of the GOP tax bill. President Trump said the tax bill "is going to be one of the great gifts to middle-income people of this country they have ever gotten for Christmas."
In this June 7, 2017, file photo, FBI acting director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans and Democrats are scrambling in the final days of 2017 to establish an enduring narrative on multiple Russia investigations and the integrity of the investigators.
In the Fox & Hound sports bar, next to a shopping mall in suburban Philadelphia, four Democrats are giving speeches to potential voters as they begin their journey to try to unseat Republican congressman Pat Meehan in next year's elections. Winning this congressional district - Pennsylvania's 7th - is key to Democrats' hopes of gaining the 24 seats they need to retake the U.S. House of Representatives next November.
WASHINGTON – Congress passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, averting a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday but pushing into January showdowns on spending, immigration, health care and national security. Among the issues still to be resolved is federal aid for victims of recent hurricanes and wildfires.
Looking west across a portion of Banning Lewis Ranch from Highway 24 Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette As reported in Dec. 18 Gazette, there is a move underfoot to change the terms of the Banning Lewis Ranch annexation agreement.
Democratic leaders in Congress are facing criticism from progressive groups for failing to secure legislative protections for young undocumented immigrants in the year-end stopgap spending bill.
The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill Thursday to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on a 231-188 vote over Democratic opposition and then cleared the Senate, 66-32, with Democrats from Republican-leaning states providing many of the key votes.
WASHINGTON - Congress Thursday appeared poised to effectively evade the last-minute threat of a government shutdown, with the House passing a bill to keep the government open through Jan. 19 and the Senate poised to follow suit later Thursday or early Friday. The spending bill - which included a $2.85 billion down payment aimed at keeping the federal Children's Health Insurance Program operational as well as reauthorizing federal surveillance powers - passed after House leadership was able to convince a group of Defense hawks including Rep. Mike Turner, R–Dayton, to overcome their reservations about the spending bill.
What a dumpster fire of a year, especially for those who reside and operate in the world of politics and policy. Who will mourn the passing of 2017? Not, presumably, President Donald Trump.
In the end, the calendar won -- and that has some recalculating who will have leverage in January for negotiations on immigration. Congress finished up its business for the year Thursday night and left town without resolving major outstanding issues -- including a resolution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which lawmakers had repeatedly pledged to fix before the end of the year.
The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill Thursday to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on a 231-188 vote over Democratic opposition and then cleared the Senate, 66-32, with Democrats from Republican-leaning states providing many of the key votes.
In this May 3, 2017, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra answers a question during a news conference, in Sacramento, Calif. Becerra is suing the Trump administration in federal court for allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming moral or religious objections.
The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown Thursday, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on a 231-188 vote over Democratic opposition and then cleared the Senate, 66-32, with Democrats from Republican-leaning states providing just enough votes.
Today, following President Donald J. Trump's executive order to break America's dependence on foreign minerals, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed a secretarial order directing the initial steps to producing the first nationwide geological and topographical survey of the United States in modern history. The order also directs Interior bureaus to begin work on identifying immediate domestic sources for critical minerals.
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