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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has declared a state of emergency for 30 counties ahead of any potential impacts of Major Hurricane Irma. The 30 counties under a state of emergency are: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Glynn, Jenkins, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Pierce, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne and Ware Counties.
This week, the Senate will do something it hasn't done in seven years: hold bipartisan hearings on the future of the Affordable Care Act. Serious and creative ideas will be presented.
The Latest on U.S. Rep Colleen Hanabusa's plans to challenge Gov. David Ige in the Hawaii gubernatorial race : Former Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie says a Democrat attempting to unseat a Democrat governor isn't unique in the state's history. But being successful at it is.
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
An immigration advocacy group, AKIN, said there are more than 8,000 people covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, in Tennessee. They are commonly known as dreamers.
With Congress back in session, its GOP leadership and the Trump Administration clearly want to move the focus to tax reform after a tumultuous summer that yielded no action on health care. And, while Congress and the White House mull their strategies on how to cut the corporate and individual rates, Americans must pay attention to how the GOP might proffer to pay for these cuts.
Virginia's federal legislators split along party lines in their response to the Trump administration's decision Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to remain in the country.
President Donald Trump speaks as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan listen during a meeting with House and Senate leadership in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, June 6, 2017. Faced with a stalled agenda and weak poll numbers, President Donald Trump has resorted to a familiar presidential tactic: running against Congress.
The Latest on reaction to the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation : Washington state's attorney general says he plans to sue the Trump administration over the decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation, an act he said was "a dark time for our country." Bob Ferguson, who earlier this year sued Trump over the travel ban affecting mostly Muslim nations, said at a news conference Tuesday he would file a lawsuit "very soon."
In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier, the FBI's relationship with dossier author Christopher Steele, and the bureau's possible role in supporting what began as an opposition research project against candidate Donald Trump in the final months of last year's presidential campaign. The subpoenas are an indication of growing frustration inside the committee over the FBI and Justice Department's lack of cooperation in the Trump-Russia investigation.
Republican leaders in Congress and the Trump administration met at the White House on Tuesday to discuss tax reform initiatives that are "pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, and pro-America." "The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to reducing the crushing burden of the Nation's self-destructive tax code, which hurts our companies and our workers, and discussed their desire to make the tax code simple, fair, and easy to understand," the White House Office of the Press Secretary said in a statement.
The move is opposed by fiscal conservatives who want to pair spending reform to the debt ceiling increase, which will push the nation's borrowing limit well about $20 trillion. The Senate will tie a critical hurricane relief measure to legislation that would increase the nation's borrowing limit, after theHouse planned to take up the two bills separately.
Eastern Washington's Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the most powerful Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. And now, she's speaking out against President Donald Trump's decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -or DACA.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana returned to Washington Tuesday saying that they still had hope that an amendment they are working on could act as a vehicle to repeal and replace portions of Obamacare. The amendment , which has not been fully written and has not been scored by the Congressional Budget Office, would transfer Obamacare's revenue from taxes to states so they can come up with their own plans.
An Easton Area High School graduate has been accepted into the United States Military Academy Preparatory School at West Point. U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright nominated Matthew Horace to attend the academy.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., will try to force a vote on legislation to protect the dreamers, an end-run around House Republican leaders. As Trump rescinds DACA, GOP lawmaker plans to force vote on bill to protect DREAMers Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., will try to force a vote on legislation to protect the dreamers, an end-run around House Republican leaders.
Not long ago, a supporter of mine, visiting from California, dropped by my Capitol office. A retired military officer and staunch conservative, he and I spent much of our conversation discussing the Republican agenda.
WASHINGTON -- As U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez prepares to stand trial this week on federal corruption charges , the Republican National Committee on Tuesday launched an online ad campaign to force him out immediately if convicted. The goal is to allow Gov. Chris Christie , a Republican, to fill the seat until the 2018 election, giving the GOP a 53rd vote in a 100-member chamber.
Putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation and triggering a furious political battle, U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to eliminate a Barack Obama program that protects young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday. Trump's decision jeopardizes the futures of 800,000 people, many of whom are university students or professionals familiar with no other country and largely indistinguishable from their American-born peers.