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Rep. Don Young , shown in July 2014 at the Capitol in Washington, secured more than $200 million in earmarks for the so-called Bridge to Nowhere a decade ago, which would have connected a small town in Alaska to its airport. Despite declaring a moratorium on pork-barrel spending more than five years ago, members of Congress secured 163 earmarks in the 2017 federal budget worth $6.8 billion, according to a new report by Citizens Against Government Waste.
'Was he for real?': The internet erupts as a US congressman asks a senior Nasa panel if aliens lived on Mars 'thousands of years ago' California Republican Dana Rohrabacher queried whether an alien civilisation lived on Mars 'thousands of years ago', asking Nasa officials 'would you rule that out?' After he was told by a panel member that an ancient colony on Mars was 'extremely unlikely', the internet erupted with responses to the bizarre exchange, with one commenter asking: 'Was he for real?' Mars was far wetter and warmer billions of years ago, and scientists have spent decades studying its soil and atmosphere to determine if it once held life.
Republicans are expressing embarrassment, fear and frustration as party leaders concede that their years-long promise to erase much of Barack Obama 's Affordable Care Act is all but dead. Conservative activists blamed establishment Republicans who control Congress.
In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. He has emerged as one of Russia's biggest defenders on Capitol Hill, and Democrats are using that position to argue he's not focused on the district.
Republicans are pressing ahead with a budget plan designed to help the party to deliver on a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code. The plan before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday also features promises to cut more than $5 trillion from the budget over the coming decade, though Republicans only appear serious about actually enacting a relatively modest $203 billion deficit cut over the same period The importance of the effort has been magnified by the cratering in the Senate of the Trump-backed effort to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, leaving a rewrite of the tax code as the best chance for Trump to score a major legislative win this year.
Now that it appears the Republican Party's seven-year crusade to repeal Obamacare and replace it with their own mysterious alternative is finally dead the GOP is on the hunt for someone to scapegoat. As New York 's Jonathan Chait argued , the real reason for Trumpcare's defeat is that "it was never possible to reconcile public standards for a humane health-care system with conservative ideology."
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday it's time to "let Obamacare fail" after the latest GOP health care plan crashed and burned in the Senate, a stunning failure for the president, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a party that has vowed for years to abolish the law. In a head-spinning series of developments, rank-and-file Republican senators turned on McConnell and Trump for the third time in a row, denying the votes to move forward with a plan for a straight-up repeal of "Obamacare."
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote early next week on trying to move ahead on a straight-up repeal of Barack Obama's health care law. McConnell made the announcement Tuesday night.
People line up to cast their ballots at poll station during a symbolic referendum in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday. Venezuela's opposition called for a massive turnout Sunday in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's escalating tensions in a nation stricken by widespread shortages and more than 100 days of anti-government protests.
OTTAWA, Ontario - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry in talks about revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement. A U.S. House subcommittee raised the long-standing trade irritant at its hearing on NAFTA negotiations Tuesday, suggesting Canadian measures to protect the industry will be a sticking point.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah talks on his cellphone outside a Senate Republican meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and "a few Republicans" over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law.
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, right, reports to the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., to begin serving a sentence in a hush money case. Federal Bureau of Prisons records on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, show that Hastert has been released from the Minnesota federal prison and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump's declaration that he and the Republican Party won't take the blame for the health care system's problems is "small and petty."
President Donald Trump's ambitious agenda appeared to take a severe hit Monday night when the Senate healthcare bill hit a wall and threw into doubt Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump was caught off guard by the move from Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran to oppose the Better Care Reconciliation Act , which ultimately doomed "I was very surprised when the two folks came out last night because we thought they were in fairly good shape but they did," Trump told reporters Tuesday .
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Hundreds of residents of two rural northeast Nevada communities were being allowed to return to their homes Tuesday to assess damage from a raging wildfire that destroyed several residences in Elko County and shut down a stretch of Interstate 80 for several hours. No serious injuries have been reported.
Senate Republicans were scrambling to pick up the pieces Tuesday after their attempt to repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law collapsed a second time. After working for months on a new health package, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced Tuesday that the Senate would vote to simply repeal Obama's health care law "sometime in the near future."