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The Farm Bill conference committee should make an announcement this week about whether or not there will be a work requirement attached to food stamp benefits. The Foundation for Government Accountability has long promoted work requirements for food stamp recipients: able-bodied people under age 59 who aren't caring for small children should work or volunteer 20 hours a week for their benefits.
Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018. Leaders of warring House Republican factions searched for an immigration compromise on May 21 as some conservatives warned of consequences for Speaker Paul Ryan if he allowed party moderates to push a bipartisan bill through the chamber without strong GOP support.
NORBERT RICHTER, an engineer whose business is the construction of ultra-light turbine helicopters, has a knack for getting innovative contraptions off the ground. That skill may prove handy as he attempts to gain altitude for a different sort of vehicle: a scheme to disrupt the shield of incumbency that makes it almost impossible to dislodge a sitting member of Congress.
With issues surrounding international trade now on the forefront of various countries' economic agendas, American proponents of free trade are finding themselves having to explain their viewpoints and defend the economic benefits of trade, including to a Republican White House. China is imposing tariffs on US fruits, nuts, pork and wine in retaliation for President Trump's steel tariffs.
Rep. Ron DeSantis Wednesday called on the Department of Justice to investigate several key Obama-era officials, as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey, for crimes, pointing out Comey's recommendations on Clinton. "Remember, he testified to Congress that he did not make any decision regarding Secretary Clinton until after she was interviewed," the Florida Republican, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
WASHINGTON: Pakistan continues to give a pass to extremists who seek to destabilise Afghanistan or attack India, top US lawmakers have said as they backed President Donald Trump's decision to suspend security assistance to the country. The lawmakers said that the counter terrorism cooperation had been been central to the US-Pakistan relationship, but Islamabad did not fulfil its commitments.
As Irma churned toward the Florida coast, two Republican lawmakers from the state voted against a $15 billion hurricane relief bill, saying that although they want aid to storm victims, they have concerns about other provisions of the measure. The relief package, which sailed through the Senate and the House and was signed by President Donald Trump on Friday, boosts funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of two Florida Republicans to vote against $15 billion in hurricane relief. He called the relief money, which was attached to a short-term limit of the nation's debt ceiling, as "generational theft."
Protestors and supporters alike gathered to voice their opinions to their representative, District 3 Rep. Ted Yoho , Saturday morning, an event that ended with one man on the ground. Yoho and Gainesville Indivisible, the local chapter of the national group Indivisible Guide aimed at resisting President Trump's agenda, hosted a town hall Saturday morning at Countryside Baptist Church in Gainesville, his first of the year .
"I'm so angry at the Republicans," he says, eyes slitted in a mocking grimace. He's riffing off the leaked email that shows that allies of Hillary Clinton gave her a question in advance of a town hall broadcast by CNN in March.