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Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the " State of Religious Liberty in America ." What was perhaps most striking about the hearing was how dated many of the speeches and arguments felt-as if an Obama-era hearing was being held nearly a month into the Trump administration.
A former Donald Trump associate and campaign official is blaming the bumpy start of the billionaire's presidency on mixed loyalties in the White House. A former Donald Trump associate and campaign official is blaming the bumpy start of the billionaire's presidency on mixed loyalties in the White House.
Congressional Republicans, anticipating confrontations with angry Affordable Care Act supporters during the upcoming February recess, have been given talking points by party leaders to counter and deflect the growing public rancor. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday provided an outline of the ACA repeal legislation that Republicans will introduce after Congress returns on Feb. 27. But former Obama administration health advisers said the document and its strategy recommendations for GOP lawmakers couldn't hide the fact that Republicans still hadn't produced a definitive plan to replace Obamacare.
Vice President Mike Pence swears in Mick Mulvaney as Director of Office of Management and Budget in the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as Pamela West Mulvaney holds the Bible. Vice President Mike Pence swears in Mick Mulvaney as Director of Office of Management and Budget in the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, as Pamela West Mulvaney holds the Bible.
Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., They are asking U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos when a popular website explaining the federal Individuals With Disabilities Act will again be available to the public. It has been down for three weeks, supposedly for technical difficulties.
Stephen Feinberg is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2008. The Trump administration has asked the Feinberg, the founder of a New York-based private equity firm to lead a review of the U.S. intelligence community as President Donald Trump vows to crack down on what he describes as "illegal leaks" of classified information.
Tourists in a old American car pass by Russian Vishnya class warship CCB-175 Viktor Leonov, docked, on February 26, 2014, at Havana harbor. The Vishnya class ships are used for gathering intelligence.
Former U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman says he did a great deal of work with northern Indiana's orthopedics industry while he was in Congress and he's now taking a job with one of those companies. Stutzman has been named president of WishBone Medical in Warsaw.
Congressional Democrats on Tuesday tried but failed to pressure Republicans into seeking President Donald Trump's tax returns, saying the scandal over Michael Flynn made it imperative to find out whether the president has business ties to Russia. A day after the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee dismissed the idea, the panel's Democrats proposed an amendment demanding that the committee ask the Treasury Department for copies of Trump's returns by March 1. "Unless this amendment is adopted, we will never see the president's tax returns while he's in office," Representative Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, told committee Chairman Kevin Brady at a public hearing.
Michael Flynn's resignation as President Trump's national security adviser might have closed the retired general's brief, tumultuous chapter at the White House - but it raised new questions and concerns Tuesday on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers of both parties called for congressional inquiry into Flynn's role. More significantly, it raised alarms that the country's essential national security apparatus is in disarray.
Joe Scarborough might be the host of "Morning Joe," but as a former Republican House member, he can provide insight into the inner workings of Congress. Wednesday he was at a loss to understand why Rep. Jason Chaffetz and other members of Congress were denouncing investigations into Gen.
President Donald Trump's handling of U.S. security information at his Florida resort came under congressional scrutiny on Tuesday as a watchdog panel asked the White House to explain reports that Trump dealt with a sensitive foreign policy issue in view of club guests. Representative Jason Chaffetz, head of the House of Representatives oversight committee, sent a letter asking the White House for details on how Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to a North Korean ballistic missile test while visiting the Mar-a-Lago golf resort over the weekend.
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is expected to apologize during his Senate confirmation hearing for derogatory statements he has made against liberal Jews. Representatives of the nominee told Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., who is the senior Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee that will hold the confirmation hearing, that Friedman will apologize for use of the term "kapo" to attack J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Explosive phone records and intercepted calls show 'Trump aides and campaign staff were in constant communication with Russian intelligence officers before the election'... and Donald WAS briefed Is there a conspiracy inside Washington to destroy Trump's inner circle? Top Republican claims Flynn was the appetizer - Kellyanne will be next and Trump is 'the entree' 'This is a colossal scandal': Clinton campaign officials slam alleged Trump ties to Russia after 'records show his staff contacted intelligence officers prior to election' Rantings of the brilliant general who lost the plot: How Mike Flynn went from one of US's most respected intelligence officers to the country's 'angriest general' Pictured: Female assassin sent by Kim Jong-un to murder his playboy half brother at a Malaysia airport as taxi driver who helped poison hit squad escape is arrested Inside the drug ring run by ... (more)
When President Donald Trump spoke to ... . FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump and Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., pause during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, flanked by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., pauses as he answers... . Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, flanked by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, left, and Rep. John Conyers, ... .
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., left, and Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., right, watch as House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. pats President Donald Trump on the back after the president signed the House Joint Resolution 41, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Letters from rabbis, Holocaust survivors decry David Friedman's use of term against J Street ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for the position of US ambassador to Israel. President Donald Trump's nominee for US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman , was expected to apologize at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for contentious past remarks he made about the liberal Jewish lobbyist group J Street, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Russia has deployed a cruise missile in violation of a Cold War-era arms control treaty, a Trump administration official says, a development that complicates the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations amid turmoil on the White House national security team. The Obama administration three years ago accused the Russians of violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by developing and testing the prohibited cruise missile, and officials had anticipated that Moscow eventually would deploy it.
Th... WASHINGTON - The Republicans' ardor for investigations and oversight, on display throughout the Obama administration, has cooled off considerably with Donald Trump in the White House. Each day seems to bring a new headache or near-crisis from Trump, the latest being the departure of his national security adviser under questionable circumstances involving Russia.