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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a letter Saturday that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday to address matters former FBI Director James Comey brought up last week in testimony to the same panel. In a letter seen by Reuters, Sessions told U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, that the Intelligence Committee is the "most appropriate" place to address matters that came up during Comey's hearing on Thursday.
In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Washington. Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign has sparked questions, agreed Saturday, June 10, to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign have sparked questions, agreed Saturday to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election. Sessions recused himself in March from a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump after acknowledging that he had met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
USA Today reports that Sessions' testimony is expected to be behind closed doors and to target the Feb. 14 meeting in the oval office in which, according to former FBI Director James Comey, Sessions was asked to step out of the room to leave Comey and the president alone. In addition, he's likely to be questioned about meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and his involvement in the president's decision to fire Comey.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign have sparked questions, agreed Saturday to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election. Sessions recused himself in March from a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump after acknowledging that he had met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
Former Alabama House Minority Leader Craig Ford says he is not running for U.S. Senate in 2017. The lifetime Gadsden resident announced Monday he would not seek the position, but he did not rule out seeking another higher office like Alabama governor in 2018.
"On Wednesday, a jury convicted a 61-year-old female activist who had laughed during [US Attorney-General Jeff] Sessions's January confirmation hearing in the Senate," Vanity Fair said on May 3. Desiree Fairooz, a long-time protester affiliated with the anti-war group Code Pink, had been escorted out of the room for laughing in response to Senator Richard Shelby's assertion that Sessions had a "clear and well-documented" history of "treating all Americans equally under the law". Vanity Fair noted that Sessions had, in fact, been denied a federal judgeship in 1986 because of a history of racially charged remarks, and Shelby had once run a campaign ad suggesting that Sessions was a Klan sympathiser.
It's been another week in a world in which Donald Trump is president. None of what's happened over the past seven days is very pretty, but let's figure out what's important.
Gov. Robert Bentley named Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to fill the U.S. Senate ... . Newly appointed Alabama Sen. Luther Strange looks at Gov. Robert Bentley before Bently signed the document officially appointing Strange to the U.S. Senate during a press conference, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala... .
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is set to appear before the Senate Banking Committee at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday to answer question about fraudulent accounts opened by Wells employees. 2 million checking and credit card accounts were opened from 2011 onward by Wells Fargo employees without the knowledge of customers.
Wells Fargo chairman & CEO John Stumpf is interviewed by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network, Dec. 7, 2015, in New York. Wells Fargo is in the spotlight after its employees allegedly created up to 2 million bank and credit card accounts, transferred customers' money without telling them and even created fake email addresses to sign people up for online banking in an effort to meet lofty sales goals.
Republican lawmakers are bracing for a slew of last-minute rules and regulations, as well as more executive actions to place swaths of land under federal protection, during President Barack Obama's final months in office. "Midnight regulations" are a feature of any lame-duck administration and represent a president's last opportunity to lock in rules on legacy issues.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan agrees that conservatives don't have much leverage in upcoming government funding battles, which might mean that conservatives get rolled. WASHINGTON - Thirty-six conservative advocacy groups warned on Friday that a potential Export-Import Bank provision in the upcoming bill to keep the government funded could provide Congress with unexpected controversy as lawmakers look to get out of Washington and back to the campaign trail.
Tim Sloan, the bank's president and chief operating officer, has spent most of the week reaching out and meeting with members of Congress and their staffs in Washington, as the lender confronts blowback over allegations it opened more than 2 million accounts without customers' approval, said people with direct knowledge of the discussions. With the Senate Banking Committee preparing to hold a Sept.