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House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Monday he will continue to investigate Hillary Clinton's use of a primary email server while leading the State Department, but claimed he "won't be a cheerleader" for President-elect Donald Trump. "Just because there was a political election doesn't mean it goes away," the Utah Republican said of the Clinton investigation.
Former House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bowed out of a potential race for agriculture commissioner on Tuesday, leaving the 2018 campaign for the Cabinet position without a clear front-runner. Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, comes from a family with deep roots in the state's citrus industry and had made no secret of the fact that he was considering a bid for agriculture commissioner.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife Karen arrive for the inaugural ceremony for Indiana's statewide office holders, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Indianapolis. Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife Karen arrive for the inaugural ceremony for Indiana's statewide office holders, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Indianapolis.
There are several reasons why Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler, a member of the court's five-justice conservative majority, will not be challenged in the April 4 election for a second 10-year term. She will be the first justice in 11 years to be unopposed.
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has made an unexpected trip to New York to meet with members of US president-elect Donald Trump's transition team, according to the Foreign Office. Johnson met with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday, just hours after prime minister Theresa May described the incoming president's comments about groping women "unacceptable".
In a direct contradiction to his campaign promise, President-Elect Donald Trump recently said that he will ask congress for funds to build a wall across the U.S. - Mexico border. The move breaks with Trump's repeated campaign promise that he would make Mexico pay for the wall by October 2017.
The Senate is a beast of its own, and some of Trump's fiercest enemies there are fellow Republicans like Lindsey Graham and John McCain. So let's focus in this column on Republicans in the House.
A hoax news article falsely reports that the House Minority Leader was involved in a collision with a bus in Los Angeles. On 7 August 2017, the disreputable web site OurLandOfTheFree.com posted a story falsely reporting that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was involved in a serious car accident with a city bus in Los Angeles: Democrat Senator Nancy Pelosi was involved in a car crash yesterday in her home state of California after a town hall event where she once again accused Donald Trump of "colluding with Russia."
A potential solution to a troublesome sand shortage off Southeast Florida is tucked away in a massive water resources funding bill President Barack Obama signed into law last month. The 2016 Water Resources Development Act authorizes the Army Corps of Engineers to study the potential of using foreign sand, such as from the Bahamas, to widen shorelines and protect coasts from hurricanes like the ones that lashed the Big Bend and northeastern Florida last summer.
When Donald Trump stands at the podium to take the oath of office and give his inaugural address, one local official will be watching from the audience. Myers would like to see Trump's speech give a clear indication of the direction that the first-term president wants the country to go.
"We can't turn back the clock on labor rights and the Labor Department," U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Tom Perez told Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC's "Politics Nation" Sunday morning.
President-elect Donald Trump accepts the conclusion by US intelligence agencies that Russia tried to interfere in the election that will soon put him in the White House, a top aide said Sunday. ''He's not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular campaign,'' incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus said.
Perched on a podium on the U.S. Senate floor, Vermont's Bernie Sanders suggested this week that Republican president-elect Donald Trump was a liar. Gesturing at a cardboard cutout of a Trump tweet in which the billionaire businessman promised not to cut federal health care programs, Sanders took aim.
The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," McConnell said: "There ought not to be a great gap" between repealing the act and replacing it and that Republicans would be "replacing it rapidly after repealing it."
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a member of President-elect Trump's transition team, sided with Trump on Sunday in criticizing the leak of an intelligence report to the press last week, saying that it appeared to be a political swipe at Trump by the Obama administration. The release of information about hacks into the Clinton campaign's emails, and intelligence agencies' tying it to Russia "looks like a political roll-out of a narrative just a couple weeks before Donald Trump 's inauguration, and it bothers me, and I don't think it's good," said Devin Nunes, a California Republican, in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace.
Gov. Jerry Brown will release a proposed state spending plan this week without knowing the answers to key questions that will have a massive effect on the state's finances.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted Sunday that any hopes President-elect Trump has to get along with the Russians and President Vladimir Putin will be "dashed pretty quickly" into his first term in office. Appearing on "Face The Nation," McConnell argued that it is not unusual for a new president to seek an improved relationship with the Russians, citing former President George W. Bush's efforts upon taking office in 2000.
Rep. Tom Price's nomination to be the next secretary of health and human services has thrown a monkey wrench into Republican efforts to pass a major reform of federal labor laws. The Georgia Republican for several years was the main House sponsor of the Employee Rights Act, the GOP's main effort to rein in union power.
Bob Goodlatte, the first ethics casualty of the new Congress - and by his own hand - is supposed to be the political heir to M. Caldwell Butler, the Virginia Republican who, as a newcomer to the House of Representatives in 1974, voted to impeach President Richard Nixon for Watergate crimes.