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An outside group affiliated with President Trump is going after Democrat Jon Ossoff ahead of the Georgia House special election, as the GOP seeks to avoid losing a longtime red district. The new campaign ad released Tuesday is the first time that America First Policies - the nonprofit started by former Trump campaign advisers Nick Ayers, Marty Obst and Brad Parscale - has gotten involved in the high-stakes special election, which is already the most expensive congressional race in history.
President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president's power to invoke executive privilege is "well-established."
It was a losing proposition right from the get-go. Shreveport Rep. Thomas Carmody was successful in the House of Representatives, but it was a different story in the Senate.
Then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and then-House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speak May 21, 2010, to reporters outside the White House in Washington after their meeting with President Barack Obama. House Republicans are targeting the financial regulations established by a Democratic-led Congress after the Great Recession.
I referenced this Trib story in last Friday's post about the state declining to do a special session on redistricting, which at least some members of Congress from Texas would have liked. There was more to this story, which I want to focus on in this post.
Christine Lui Chen, a 36-year-old health care executive in New Jersey and mother of two small children, had never considered entering politics, focusing instead on her family, her career and her community. That all changed in January, 13 hours after she attended the Women's March on Washington.
Earlier this year, former CIA Director James Woolsey and Dr. Peter Pry, head of a new congressional panel, were tasked with the job of studying the threat and aftereffects of an electromagnetic pulse event or attack on the power grid and infrastructure it supports throughout the United States. Their assessment was grim: They opined that 90 percent of Americans would perish within one year of an EMP event.
Just days after launching a new political action committee, former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden will join Republican officials and donors at a weekend retreat hosted by former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Biden will be interviewed by Romney during a Friday evening event in Park City, Utah, at the invitation-only summit, according to a Biden spokesman and participants briefed on the schedule.
U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Monday more than $390,000 in funding for airports in Bluefield and Logan. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the grants to the Mercer County and Logan County airporty authorities, which will be used to restore and repair airport and runway areas.
In the first salvo in a week-long push to overhaul America's infrastructure, President Donald Trump on Monday announced a plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. In what he called an "air travel revolution," Trump promised the "really monumental reform" would deliver "cheaper, faster, and safer travel" as well as an economic boost that could be worth $25 billion to the economy.
Latino voters appear poised to power one of their own, California Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, to victory Tuesday in a special congressional election that has turned into a test of the power of two ascendant minority communities. Both finalists for the seat are Democrats who emerged from the April primary as the top two vote-getters in this decidedly blue district in Los Angeles County.
His tweets have the power to shape international relations, send stock prices up - or down - and galvanize the American public. We're watching how Donald Trump is using this platform of unfettered communication now that he's commander in chief.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to sign a memorandum of agreement with Trump's Justice Department that would include an independent monitor of the Chicago Police Department but no court enforcement. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to sign a memorandum of agreement with Trump's Justice Department that would include an independent monitor of the Chicago Police Department but no court enforcement.
President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi charged that President Trump's grounds for withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement "was totally not factual." "What the president based his decision on is a memo that is totally false," Pelosi said Monday on ABC's The View .
Germany's largest bank has asked for more time to respond to a request from Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives panel for details about U.S. President Donald Trump's possible ties to Russia, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. external counsel sent a letter dated Friday June 2 to the Democrats saying it needed additional time, the source told Reuters.
The Republican-led Congress returns to work this week, and once again, the Russia investigation will overshadow the ambitious legislative agenda that includes major overhauls of the health care system and tax code. Former FBI Director James Comey is slated to testify publicly Thursday and is expected to discuss President Donald Trump's request that he end his probe of a top aide's ties to Russia Against the backdrop of the highly anticipated hearing, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will tackle a critical summer list of high-priority issues and bills that GOP leaders are anxious to complete - or at least make significant progress on - before the long August recess.