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When the Tweeter of the Free World, Donald Trump, recently announced his administration would be proceeding with large corporate tax cuts, he accompanied it with a 140-character announcement that suggested it was the 'right tax cut at the the right time'. President Trump and Republicans are proposing a $5 trillion plan that would cut taxes for corporations and individuals, though questions into the cost remain.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is apologizing for taking expensive charter flights and says he'll reimburse the government for them. Price also said he would not take any more charters.
Fighting to keep his job, health secretary Tom Price said Thursday he'd write a personal check to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his travel on charter flights taken on government business and pledged to fly commercial going forward - "no exceptions." "I regret the concerns this has raised regarding the use of taxpayer dollars," Price said in a statement.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform member Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., left, speaks to a staff member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform member Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., left, speaks to a staff member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2016.
When more than 2,000 women and girls of all ages descended upon the former Willow Run bomber plant near Ypsilanti two years ago, wearing red bandanas and blue work clothes with sleeves rolled up, they set a world record for the largest gathering of "Rosie the Riveters" since World War II. Among those in costume were 43 of the "original Rosies," women who went to work in American factories producing munitions and war supplies critical to the Allied victory in the 1940s.
House Democrats are pushing a bill to reform the way banks charge overdraft fees, but recognizing that Republicans are unlikely to take up the legislation, they are hoping Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray could address the issue without Congress. "Overdraft fees hit the consumers who can afford them the least - cash-strapped hardworking Americans who are struggling to pay their bills," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said in a press release Wednesday.
Walking gingerly and on two canes, Representative Steve Scalise, the Republican whip , made an emotional return to the Capitol on Thursday, more than three months after a gunman nearly took his life during practice for a charity baseball game. "It shows you if you fight and persevere, you can overcome anything," Mr. Scalise told reporters as he entered the House chamber to thundering applause from his colleagues, who were awaiting his return.
27, 2017, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in Indianapolis. How do you pay for the president's proposed $5.8 trillion tax cut? For Trump and Republican congressional leaders, that is the most... .
Two U.S. senators said late on Wednesday that they had reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at easing hurdles to getting self-driving cars to drivers. U.S. Senator John Thune, a Republican who chairs the Commerce Committee, and Senator Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said they had reached a deal on the legislation that would be voted on by the committee on Oct. 4. General Motors Co., Alphabet Inc., Ford Motor Co.
A group of 145 House Democrats said Wednesday the Defense Department response to the disaster in Puerto Rico has been inadequate and they urged President Trump to send an aircraft carrier to help relieve the territory's suffering residents. A carrier's additional military aircraft and engineers are needed to help clear roads, rescue stranded residents and deliver emergency supplies to isolated parts of the island after it was slammed by Hurricane Maria last week, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Trump.
Rep. Steve Scalise, the House majority whip who was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball team practice on June 14, said in his first interview since the shooting that his doctors "put me back together again." When the Louisiana Republican arrived at the hospital after being hit with a single bullet in the hip, he was at " imminent risk of death ."
Sen. James Lankford said Russian trolls used social media to bolster the debate on NFL players protesting the national anthem. Russian internet trolls have been actively working to fuel the controversy over NFL players kneeling or sitting during the national anthem in a bid to stir up divisions in the United States, a Republican Senator said Wednesday.
Social media giant Twitter will visit Capitol Hill Thursday as part of the House and Senate investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Twitter's closed-door meetings with staff follow similar briefings from Facebook earlier this month, and the House and Senate panels have invited both tech giants, along with Google, to appear at public hearings this fall.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and other GOP members as they talk about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
In this March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Congress is launching a wide-ranging examination of air travel by high-ranking Trump administration officials.
When President Donald Trump announced plans to go to Indiana Wednesday to sell the GOP tax overhaul plan, party leaders cheered his engagement on the high-stakes issue. When the White House said one of Trump's traveling companions would be Indiana's Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly - a top target in next year's midterm elections - the hopes turned to head-smacking disbelief.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at podium, speaks about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington.
11, 2017, photo, jars of marijuana buds are displayed in Washington at a closed Ethiopian restaurant at a "gifted" marijuana event. In the so-called "District of Cannabis" it's legal to grow and consume mariju... .
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