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Congressman Frank LoBiondo, NJ-02, back row, fourth from left, recently met with his 10th Annual Congressional Youth Advisory Council at the Millville Airport, for a quarterly conference to discuss current events in government. The meeting was hosted by the Millville Army Air Field Museum.
WASHINGTON U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban.
Those were among questions from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee during Tuesday's confirmation hearing for Coats, who was part of the panel before leaving office in January.
US President Trump addresses Joint Session of Congress - Washington, U.S. - 28/02/17 - US President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks in front of Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Reuters/Jim Bourg Washington: President Donald Trump pledged a "renewal of the American spirit" Tuesday, as he tempered his most inflammatory rhetoric while fleshing out his nationalist agenda during a landmark speech to Congress.
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency last year, Tom Perez, the freshly elected Democratic National Committee chair, might well be entering his second month running her Justice Department. Instead, Perez was welcomed into his new job on Saturday by jeering progressive activists, who for the second time in a year, saw their preferred pick to lead the party defeated after a protracted and unexpectedly feisty campaign.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth , an Iraq war veteran who lost both legs in combat, criticized President Donald Trump 's comments that Americans "don't fight to win" wars, saying the remarks show he isn't fit to be commander in chief. Trump made the comments to U.S. governors at the White House on Monday.
House Republicans have rejected a Democratic effort to require the Justice Department to provide Congress with information about President Donald Trump's finances and possible campaign ties to Russia. The GOP-led Judiciary Committee on Tuesday defeated the resolution on a party-line vote of 18-16.
President Donald Trump's first address to Congress gives him a welcome opportunity to refocus his young administration on the core economic issues that helped him get elected - and, his allies hope, to move beyond the distractions and self-inflicted wounds that have roiled his White House. Trump's advisers say he will use the speech to declare early progress on his campaign promises, including withdrawing the U.S. from a sweeping Pacific Rim trade pact, and to map a path ahead on thorny legislative priorities, including health care and infrastructure spending.
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday rejected a Democratic attempt to request information on President Trump's possible conflicts of interest and potential ties to Russia. The panel voted on party lines to send a resolution from Rep. Jerrold Nadler to the House with an unfavorable recommendation, making it unlikely to get a vote by the full House.
"In a nutshell, for reasons we cannot fathom, Republican leadership is putting forth a so-called Obamacare 'repeal' that is not a repeal at all," Debbie Meadows said in an email to North Carolina Republicans Politico first reported on Tuesday. "Leadership is selling it as a full repeal and has convinced many in the White House that it's terrific," she added.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at signaling his commitment to historically black colleges and universities, saying that those schools will be "an absolute priority for this White House." HBCU presidents are hoping Congress will bolster Trump's actions to strengthen the schools with dramatically increased funding in the upcoming federal budget.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had been scheduled to release draft results of a study begun in April 2015 on possible structural or technological upgrades at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois, a few miles downstream of a network of electrical barriers intended to repel the carp. A final version of the plan was to be released in early 2019.
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she expects to meet face to face Wednesday with members of U.S. President Donald Trump's government as she continues a visit to Washington, D.C. "I'm not going to get into specific names until those meetings are finally confirmed, but, yes, we do anticipate meeting with people in the Trump administration," Notley said Tuesday in a conference call from the U.S. capital. Trump is contemplating changes to the trade relationship with Canada, including a new border tax.
"I think we have to deal with this in the utmost dignity. We cannot become them; we don't like what they did to our president," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday morning.
"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated," the president mused to a group of 46 governors at the White House yesterday. Except everyone in his audience has long known exactly how complicated this issue is.
A presidential address to Congress is always part policy speech, part political theater. With President Donald Trump, a former reality TV star, there's extra potential for drama as he makes his first address to Congress.
This last weekend , I stated that the election of Thomas Perez as Chairman of the DNC and Keith Ellison as Deputy Chair, was the official beginning of an all out war between President Trump and the leftist Democrats. Trump is addressing the American people tonight and the Democrats' nifty little plans have been revealed.