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In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu waves as he stands with his wife Valerie, left, and Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper after taking the oath of office at the State House in Concord, N.H. Sununu set an ambitious agenda for a first-term governor, and as he marks his first 100 days in office, he's made headway on some while seeing little to no progress -- or outright losses -- on others.
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch , 202-646-5172 WASHINGTON, April 14, 2017 / Christian Newswire / -- Judicial Watch today sent a hand-delivered letter to the chairman and co-chairman of the House Office of Congressional Ethics calling for an investigation into whether Rep. Adam Schiff and Jackie Speier "disclosed classified information to the public in violation of House ethics rules."
I wrote about it for Salon this morning: The story of the regretful Donald Trump voter has already become a clichA . It started even before the inauguration, with reporters venturing out into the wilds of Real America to talk to the most fascinating people on earth and find out how they're feeling on any given day.
With the "repeal and replace" effort at an impasse on Capitol Hill, the administration released on Thursday a set of fixes to stabilize the Affordable Care Act's shaky insurance markets for next year. But the insurance industry quickly said the changes don't go far enough.
I wrote last week that President Donald Trump might be on a roll - and maybe he is. But politics is never static: Things change and often they change quickly.
This satellite image provided by Digital Globe shows an image captured on April 7 of the northwest side of the Shayrat air base in Syria following U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile strikes on Friday He told ministers in Lucca last week US missile strikes were necessary as a matter of USA national security, and indicated the Trump administration may not be done with Assad. Once that threat "has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria", he told CBS' "Face the Nation ".
As President Donald Trump seeks to cut foreign aid under the slogan of "America First," two U.S. senators are proposing making American food assistance more efficient after meeting with victims of South Sudan's famine and civil war. Following a visit to the world's largest refugee settlement in northern Uganda with the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told The Associated Press on Saturday that the U.S. "can deliver more food aid at less cost" through foreign food aid reform.
Congressman Jared Polis didn't hide his excitement Thursday when he heard about the Thompson School District's new graduation guidelines at a meeting with district staff and the Board of Education.
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern told a crowd at the Uxbridge Progressive Club Thursday night that, like pretty much all the others in the room, he was unhappy with the presidential election, the conflicts of interest, and the "tweets, the temper tantrums, the erratic behavior" coming from President Donald J. Trump. "We worry very much about our country in a way we never did before," the Worcester Democrat told some 70 people at Go Blue in the Blackstone Valley, an event hosted by the Uxbridge Democratic Town Committee to re-energize Democrats in the region. Democrats from not only Uxbridge, but Northbridge, Milford, Westboro, Douglas, Worcester, Blackstone and Charlton filled the room.
Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. Obama infuriated Utah Republicans when he created the monument in late December on 1.3 million acres of land that is sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.
"CIA Director Mike Pompeo blistered WikiLeaks in a speech Thursday, calling WikiLeaks a 'hostile intelligence service' aided by Russia and accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making 'common cause with dictators.' The former Kansas congressman was speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., his first public address since becoming director.
Joseph P. Riley, Jr.'s students from The Citadel had a front row seat at Emanuel AME Church as audience members -- including former state legislator Lucille Whipper -- asked U.S. Rep. James Clyburn questions. Clyburn was the featured speaker Thursday, April 13, 2017.
Is the Trump administration shifting away from the vision of smaller government candidate Donald Trump and the Republican platform championed in the 2016 campaign? over the weekend, President Trump said he wanted to keep the Export-Import Bank most conservatives in Congress want abolished. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told an off-camera session with reporters Tuesday the Trump administration was seeking a mass reorganization of Cabinet Departments and federal agencies and to make them run more efficiently.
Rep. Leonard Lance "walked into the lion's den Wednesday night - the third town hall he's held in his bucolic congressional district since President Trump took office," The Hill reports. "Flanked on stage by two police officers, Lance was greeted with boos, jeers and hisses.
President Trump signed a bill Thursday freeing states to withhold federal family planning grant money from Planned Parenthood, marking the first major pro-life legislation to be signed into law in more than a decade. The bill unravels an Obama-era regulation that insisted states couldn't refuse to spend family planning money with Planned Parenthood or any other organization that performs abortions.
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has decided not to follow in Republican Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's footsteps and has instead made the correct choice to help protect the property rights of its citizens. Ducey has just signed into law a bill that should seriously restrict the ability of law enforcement officers in Arizona to abuse the process of civil asset forfeiture as a way of generating revenue rather than fighting crime.
Newly elected Kansas Rep. Ron Estes said Thursday that President Trump and the Republican message remain very popular within his district despite the surprisingly close special election results Tuesday. "I think there's a lot of popularity still in the district for the president, but people did elect us to get things done, particularly with Republican majority," the Republican congressman from Kansas' 4th congressional district said on "Fox & Friends."
White House spokesman Sean Spicer tells an audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. that he made a mistake that was "inexcusable and reprehensible", when he said the day before that Adolf Hitler did not "even sink to using chemical weapons." HE was the brutal dictator who was responsible for the deaths of more than six million Jews, many of whom perished in gas chambers throughout Europe.
In a pair of interviews, President Donald Trump gave a skewed account of auto jobs and health care under his watch and flatly contradicted himself on how long he's known his right-hand strategist, Steve Bannon. "Many years," Trump said of their relationship back in August, when he made Bannon his campaign chief.
Rebuffing President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the GOP health care bill seemed like a major political misstep for Iowa Rep. David Young, who quickly was punished by a political action committee linked to Speaker Paul Ryan. Nearly three weeks later, voters in Young's southwestern Iowa district - Republicans and Democrats - say the GOP congressman made the right move.