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Members of Tennessee's Congressional delegation today urged President Obama to quickly approve Governor Haslam's request for a major disaster declaration for the State of Tennessee to help five Tennessee counties impacted by wildfires and severe weather in November rebuild and recover. "Governor Bill Haslam has submitted a request for Public Assistance and Individual Assistance for Sevier County, which was affected by wildfires and for Coffee, McMinn, Polk and Sequatchie counties which were affected by severe weather and tornadoes," the members wrote President Obama in a letter.
Gov. Nikki Haley will be on Capitol Hill later this week to meet with many of the senators who will determine whether she gets to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Haley's deputy chief of staff and spokesman, Rob Godfrey, told The Post and Courier that Haley would "meet some senators as a part of the confirmation process."
President-elect Donald Trump, moving to complete formation of his Cabinet and decide other key administration posts, chose former campaign rival Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump's decision, announced by his transition office, comes as the real estate mogul continues a series of interviews, meetings with aides and other deliberations aimed at forming his administration and following his announcement of several Cabinet appointees last week.
President-elect Donald Trump is expanding his pool of candidates for secretary of state, leaving unclear whether former CIA Director David Petraeus' guilty plea for leaking classified information disqualifies him to serve as the nation's top diplomat. "There's not a finite list of candidates" for secretary of state, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Sunday.
The deliberations continue for Donald Trump over who should be his top cabinet pick , Secretary of State . An announcement may not come until next week.
Donald Trump's hunt for a secretary of state is veering into dramatic terrain, with the president-elect summoning Mitt Romney back for a second look as a top aide leads a public pressure campaign against the pick. Trump has a follow-up meeting Tuesday with the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team.
Donald Trump's hunt for a secretary of state is veering into dramatic terrain, with the president-elect summoning Mitt Romney back for a second look as a top aide leads a public pressure campaign against the pick. Trump has a follow-up meeting Tuesday with the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team.
The drama, disputes and falsehoods that permeated Donald Trump's presidential campaign are now roiling his transition to the White House, forcing aides to defend his baseless assertions of illegal voting and sending internal fights spilling into public. On Monday, a recount effort, led by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and joined by Hillary Clinton's campaign also marched on in three states, based partly on the Stein campaign's unsubstantiated assertion that cyberhacking could have interfered with electronic voting machines.
President-elect Donald Trump will meet with former CIA Director David Petraeus Monday, CBS News has confirmed, furthering speculation that Petraeus is a top contender to become Mr. Trump's secretary of state. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump will meet with two others said to be top contenders, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee.
President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that "millions" voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton's nearly 2 million edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepares to enter the White House in less than two months. Trump and his lieutenants assailed an effort - now joined by Clinton - to recount votes in up to three battleground states, calling the push fraudulent, the work of "crybabies" and, in Trump's estimation, "sad."
President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet on Monday with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and former Texas governor and GOP presidential rival Rick Perry. That's according to top aide Kellyanne Conway.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has explained to members of the U.S. Congress the details of the modified peace accord reached with FARC guerrillas. The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize recipient told reporters that he had productive Thursday meetings with both Democratic and GOP lawmakers, including the chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Sen. Bob Corker, who is being considered by Donald Trump 's transition team for the secretary of state post, met privately with Vice President-elect Pence Thursday morning. Corker confirmed the meeting to the Washington Examiner but would not discuss any details of the conversation, including whether the meeting centered around his candidacy to become President-elect Trump's top foreign diplomat.
Then-presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with Sen. Bob Corker during a campaign event July 5, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Republican Sen. Bob Corker took a stroll by his lonesome along Stringer's Ridge in his home state of Tennessee Sunday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman probably wasn't shocked that at least one fellow hiker on the trail recognized him.
Washington insiders say the city is just now recovering from the shock of election night. The Trump transition team is described as a continuation of the campaign-a little chaotic, seat of the pants, at times, and the President-elect is making all the calls.
He's the ultimate outsider, so Donald Trump's Cabinet is likely to include appointees who have little or no connection to Washington. Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's most eager campaign attack dogs, is considered the front-runner for attorney general.
It took nearly eight years for Congress to override a veto by President Barack Obama. It could hardly have chosen a worse measure on which to do so - or a more stark way of exposing its most craven impulses.
A senior State Department official says the failure of a cease-fire in Syria poses serious consequences for Moscow and gives the United States leverage. During a congressional hearing Thursday, Antony Blinken says if the civil war in Syria escalates, Russia may become stuck in a quagmire and also will be seen as complicit with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the slaughter of Sunni Muslims.
The UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution calling on all states to end nuclear weapons testing, a move that came over the opposition of some Republican lawmakers in Washington. The proposal passed the Security Council on Friday with 14 votes in favour and Egypt abstaining.