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If Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones comes out on top in the race against incumbent Republican Will Hurd in Texas, she will be the first Filipina-American candidate. Add Midterm Elections as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Midterm Elections news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
In this Aug. 22, 2017, photo, Bert Cambron, left, and Mark Wilson, employees of Dayton National Cemetery, move the vandalized Civil War Confederate soldier statue that stood in Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. Two days later, the VA contracted with the Westmoreland Protection Agency, based in Sunrise, Fla., to provide unarmed security guards at Camp Chase and two other cemeteries.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year. The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year.
Twitter/Woody Williams Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, a World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, will be a special guest at the grand opening and dedication ceremony of the City of Logan's Shawnee Island project on Monday, Oct. 22. Twitter/Woody Williams Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, a World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, will be a special ... (more)
In Southern California's most Republican congressional district a GOP incumbent running against a first-time Democratic candidate should be a slam dunk for re-election. Rep. Duncan Hunter is under indictment as he seeks a sixth term.
The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is among several Veterans Affairs hospitals in the country that are under review for claims they are improperly canceling a large number of patients' diagnostic tests. About 300,000 canceled radiology tests at VA medical centers across the United States since 2016 has raised questions about whether some medically important tests were canceled improperly, according to USA Today.
In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., makes a point during a debate in Denver. Coffman's reputation for occasionally bucking his party has long been a selling point to voters.
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In this Sept. 19, 2017 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
President Donald Trump offered brief plaudits for the recently passed Sen. John McCain in a statement on Monday after responding only with silence to questions about the Vietnam War veteran. Full credit: Chip Somodevilla/Saul Loeb/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- Fed up with television coverage of Sen. John McCain's death and eager to continue promoting his agenda, President Donald Trump remained silent for most of Monday about the Vietnam War veteran being honored by the rest of Washington.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says Sen. John McCain will lie in state at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday, which is his birthday. The six-term Arizona senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran died Saturday of brain cancer at his ranch near Sedona, Arizona, at age 81. Republican and Democratic leaders did not give a date for the event, saying Sunday that more details would be released later.
President Donald Trump is in Ohio where he toured a hospital with wife Melania and will address state Republicans. President Donald Trump didn't mention Arizona Sen. John McCain during his speech at a Republican party dinner in Ohio Friday, hours after the family of the ailing senator said he had chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer.
Arizona Senator John McCain, 81, has decided to forgo additional treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. Since news broke this afternoon, the cable TV narrative has consistently held that "a war hero is giving up the fight."
Thomas J. Snee of Burke, Virginia has been commemorated with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide for his outstanding achievements and high level of success in the field of nonprofit associations. About Thomas J. Snee Thomas Snee retired after 31 years with the U.S. Navy.
July 23 marked a rare event in the politically and ideologically lacerated chambers of Congress. President Donald Trump's nominee for veterans affairs secretary, Robert Wilkie, won Senate confirmation by a strikingly bipartisan vote of 86 to 9. The VA borrows its mission statement from the penultimate phrase of one of the American history's loftiest documents, Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan."
President Donald Trump on Friday declared his support for Republican candidates in Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio, wading into a pair of races in Midwestern states he won in 2016 and a conservative state in which he remains popular. Trump also said he would ramp up his campaigning for House and Senate Republicans in the coming weeks, noting he has asked White House chief of staff John Kelly and other aides to draft a list of the 25 most competitive congressional races so he can get more involved.
The Senate easily confirmed Robert Wilkie on Monday as the 10th secretary of Veterans Affairs, elevating the top Pentagon official and Washington insider to lead an agency that serves a key constituency for President Donald Trump but has floundered amid political infighting. The 86-to-9 bipartisan vote, with Democrats casting nearly all of the no votes, was without the drama of other Cabinet confirmations in the Trump administration.
The Latest on the Senate confirmation vote of Robert Wilkie, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Veterans Affairs secretary : He'll lead the government's second-largest department, with 360,000 employees serving 9 million veterans. The department has been paralyzed by infighting over the role of private care for veterans.
Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 27, 2018. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 27, 2018.
After months of tumult, Pentagon official Robert Wilkie is expected to become secretary of Veterans Affairs when the Senate votes Monday to confirm him, taking on the task of fulfilling President Donald Trump's promises to fire bad VA employees and steer more patients to the private sector. The long-time public official says he will "shake up complacency" at VA, which has struggled with long waits in providing medical treatment to millions of veterans.