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Activist Zephyr Teachout, who ran for governor in 2014 and Congress in 2016; she lost both times, is troubled by Sen. Al Franken's resignation. Mind you, the Minnesota Democrat has not packed up his bags and left.
House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is tantalizingly close to achieving one of his top remaining cybersecurity goals - a year before he gives up the gavel after six years of running the committee - in creating a prominent, stand-alone cybersecurity agency within the Department of Homeland Security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act was unanimously approved by the House on Dec. 11, and the fate of McCaul's bill is now in the hands of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and other senators, who apparently want to make some last-minute tweaks to the measure.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio declared Thursday he will vote against the GOP'S sweeping tax package unless negotiators expand its child tax credit, jeopardizing the Republicans' razor-thin margin as they try to muscle the $1.5 trillion bill through Congress next week.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio declared Thursday he will vote against the GOP'S sweeping tax package unless negotiators expand its child tax credit, jeopardizing the Republicans' razor-thin margin as they try to muscle the $1.5 trillion bill through Congress next week. Rubio wants to increase the portion of the basic $2,000-per-child tax credit that would go to low-income families.
As the 2018 farm bill continues to take shape, the House Agriculture Committee has launched a landing page on its website with information and updates related to the process. Available through the committee's current website at agriculture.house.gov/farmbill, the new resource offers users videos, facts, background and news updates.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Leonard Lance has been tapped to lead an ethics investigation against a Texas lawmaker accused of sexual harassment. It will be the first such case against a sitting member of Congress since the high-profile resignations of several lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Al Franken.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters to answer questions on the tax bill and sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017.
Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold won't seek re-election next year, two Republicans said Thursday, adding his name to the list of lawmakers leaving Congress amid sexual harassment allegations that have cost powerful men their jobs in politics, the arts and other businesses. The accusations against Farenthold first surfaced in 2014, when a former aide sued him over sexually suggestive comments and behavior and said she'd been fired after she complained.
Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post took time recently to accuse Republicans, specifically Representative Barbara Comstock of Virginia and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina of sounding "altogether too complacent, too passive and too resigned" to Roy Moore's failed U.S. Senate candidacy. Moore, of course, spent the last several weeks giving conflicting answers in response to accusations that he is a child molester.
The top House Democrat says a Nevada lawmaker should resign after a second woman accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi first said Rep. Ruben Kihuen should resign on Dec. 2, one day after a former staffer said Kihuen sexually harassed her during his congressional campaign in 2016.
The Minnesota Democrat's remarks on Thursday marked the culmination of exactly three weeks during which eight women -- half of them anonymous -- alleged sexual misconduct by the former "Saturday Night Live" star.
Rep. Peter King, R-NY, is frustrated with the former Trump adviser, saying he looks like a 'disheveled drunk that wondered onto the political stage.' (Source: CNN)
Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus said Thursday they support a sweeping tax package speeding toward votes in Congress next week, giving GOP leaders a boost from a key faction as they work to deliver a major legislative victory to President Donald Trump. "I think it's going to pass.
The French interior ministry says a school bus and a regional train have collided in southern France, killing four children and critically injuring seven other people on the bus, the French interior ministry said 21st Century Fox says it will continue to pursue its 11.7 billion takeover offer for Sky, even though Disney is buying a large part of the company owned by Rupert Murdoch's family The developer that wanted to build three new skyscrapers, one 80 stories tall, off the downtown lakefront has been told no by the neighborhood alderman.
Dan Johnson , a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, died in an apparent suicide, the county coroner said. Bullitt County Coroner Dave Billings said Johnson died of a single gunshot wound Wednesday night on Greenwell Ford Road in Mount Washington, Kentucky.
All higher education institutions in California, with the sole exception of the California Community College system, will beginning with the 2018-19 academic year have to provide their students an annual summary of their total borrowing to pursue their education and an estimate of their future monthly payments. Majority Leader Ian Calderon, the author of the new law , describes its purpose as ensuring that college students have up-to-date information about their cumulative student loan debt when they are making borrowing decisions.