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Republican leaders are already signaling a compromise on plans to erase a nearly $2 trillion break for state and local taxes, backing down in the face of fierce criticism from Democrats and some blue-state Republicans whose constituents would suffer. It marks the first retreat on the tax reform framework that Republican leaders released last week, but a compromise could quell the furor among party holdouts whose support will be critical to a final deal.
An anti-abortion congressman asked a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to get an abortion when he thought she might be pregnant, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said it obtained text messages between Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania and Shannon Edwards.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during a 2016 trip to Moscow, a previously undisclosed tAate-A -tAate that sheds additional light on the extent to which Moscow-based political operatives sought to influence American officials in the run-up to last year's presidential election. with a pro-Russian Crimean news service, Veselnitskaya said she met with Rohrabacher - a California Republican and arguably the most prominent advocate in Congress for closer relations between Washington and Moscow - in April 2016 to discuss issues surrounding the Magnitsky Act, the punitive American sanctions measure responding to Russian human rights abuses that she has lobbied against.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Confronting Puerto Rico's devastation nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump highlighted the island's relatively low death toll compared with "a real catastrophe like Katrina" as he opened a tour of the island Tuesday by focusing on the best of the reviews he and his administration are getting for the ... (more)
The SIU testified today at a hearing conducted by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. The oral statement of SIU Political and Legislative Director Brian Schoeneman appears below.
Insurance coverage for more than 390,000 Texas children and pregnant women is in jeopardy after Congress failed to renew authorization for a federal program. Congressional authorization for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides low-cost health insurance for children from low- and middle-income families, expires Sept.
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II released the following statement in regards to the mass shooting that took place last night in Las Vegas, Nevada. 'This latest incomprehensible act of mass murder has once again shaken this country to its core.
President Donald Trump is calling upon the "bonds that unite us," following the mass shooting in Las Vegas. He says "our unity cannot be shattered by evil."
Natalynn Rivis, a student at University of Nevada Las Vegas, right, takes part in a vigil Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. A gunman on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel rained automatic weapons fire down on the crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival Sunday.
On September 29, Politico published an article claiming that Bernie Sanders Supporters have opted not to primary Democratic Party incumbents. "Democrats have long been terrified that the Sanders-Clinton slugfest of 2016 would set off a prolonged civil war in the party, forcing incumbents to fight off primary challengers from the left in Senate and gubernatorial races," Politico reported.
Trump administration allows more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons. Trump administration allows more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons.
Wisconsin Republicans have two credible and likely well-funded candidates vying to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin. But strategists are keeping their eyes on at least one other possible competitor.
The father of a California congressman has been released from federal prison after serving most of his sentence for illegally funneling nearly $270,000 in contributions to his son's campaign. Babulal Bera was released Thursday, seven weeks shy of his full sentence of one year and one day behind bars.
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Arizona radio talk show host and Power Line friend Seth Leibsohn has decided to run for Congress in Arizona's 9th district. The Democratic incumbent, Krysten Sinema, is stepping down to run against Jeff Flake for the Senate, so it is an open seat.
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said Monday that the Las Vegas massacre, which unfolded Sunday night, was "the big downside of American freedom" on "gruesome display." "This is the price of freedom," O'Reilly wrote on his website Monday after suspect Stephen Paddock killed at least 58 people and injured another 500 when he opened fire on the Las Vegas Strip during the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Republicans praised Pai ahead of the vote as someone who promoted market-based, pro-growth policy decisions who improved openness and transparency in the FCC. Trump named Pai as chairman of the FCC in January, and renominated him to a new five-year term in March.
Hartford - Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has ordered flags lowered to half-staff until Friday to honor the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas. Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal on Monday both criticized their colleagues in Congress for failing to act to prevent gun violence, while also expressing their sorrow.
The CIA is advising caution on "jumping to conclusions" after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Las Vegas shooting. Agency spokesman Jonathan Liu says U.S. intelligence agencies are aware of the claim of responsibility.
Three members of Congress are demanding answers after a St. Louis scholar's book revealed details of how the U.S. government sprayed, injected and fed radiation and other dangerous materials to countless people in secret Cold War-era testing. St. Louis sociologist Lisa Martino-Taylor wrote "Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans."