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The Senate approved legislation to temporarily fund the government, a key step toward averting a federal shutdown after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money for a border wall with Mexico. Senators passed the measure, which would keep government running to Feb. 8, by voice vote without a roll call Wednesday night.
Republicans, in the waning hours of their eight-year reign in the House, are using this precious time to do what they love best: investigating Hillary Clinton's emails.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, after a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. WASHINGTON Former FBI Director James Comey was back on Capitol Hill Monday for the second round of closed door questioning in as many weeks.
House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., shown talking to Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., during a press conference September 13, thinks Republicans are in a good position to secure wins in a December funding fight. House Republican leaders patted themselves on the back last week for appropriating a large portion of discretionary spending before the start of the fiscal year today, but they've also set themselves up for messy spending fight come December over border wall funding that could complicate GOP leadership elections and potentially lead to a partial government shutdown.
Committee Democrats have been clamoring for the release of the Russia investigation documents for months, but it was only in recent weeks that Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., also began to opine that the transcripts should be made public - adding that it should be done before the midterm elections. That has not resolved political tensions, however, as Republicans and Democrats on the already fractured committee argued over why the panel had omitted five interview transcripts from the release.
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Thursday for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's memos as well as the supporting documents the FBI used in its application to conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans requested McCabe's memos from the Justice Department over the summer and were told they would not be shared, according to several lawmakers.
President Donald Trump said he would "certainly prefer not" to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and that he may delay a highly anticipated meeting with the Justice Department's No. 2 official.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was reportedly convinced that he'd be fired following a bombshell New York Times report that described comments he apparently made about President Trump privately last year. But whether or not Rosenstein emerges from a meeting with Trump on Thursday with his job intact, House Republicans are salivating at the thought of exploiting The Times' story to tighten the noose on the Justice Department.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that Congress "shouldn't step in the way" ahead of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Ryan's comments Wednesday came after the conservative House Freedom Caucus pushed for Rosenstein to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said Tuesday morning demanded Mr. Rosenstein appear before lawmakers to explain reports he discussed secretly taping President Trump and advocated removing him from office. "You can't have the number two official at the Department of Justice making comments about wiring the President and not address it," Mr. Meadows , North Carolina Republican, tweeted.
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On Wednesday night Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan and Freedom Caucus founder Mark Meadows joined Sean Hannity to discuss the latest Peter Strzok - Lisa Page text messages that show a coordination between the FBI and DOJ in their efforts in 2017 to detroy the sitting US President Trump. The latest text messages from the anti-Trump officials show how they were feeding anti-Trump articles to the press.
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Rosenstein impeachment push by GOP, Congress goes on recess, Jordan runs for speaker and the latest on the Kavanaugh nomination. Ryan, McCarthy and Pelosi have a full slate of fundraisers planned for the summer recess, which begins Thursday - With control of the House up for grabs this fall - and their own political futures on the line - GOP and Democratic leaders will be frantically crisscrossing the country in August to raise money and rally the faithful.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he does not support an effort by Republican House conservatives to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He also says Rosenstein's back-and-forth with congressional Republicans over document requests doesn't rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that would warrant impeachment under the Constitution.
"Conservative Republican House members introduced articles of impeachment Wednesday evening against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, accusing him of trying to stymie congressional oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of alleged interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and nine co-sponsors, alleges that Rosenstein has withheld documents from and made misleading statements to Congress.
A handful of conservative members of Congress officially introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday in a move that had been threatened for weeks. The articles were introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, along with 9 cosponsors.
Do You?" > >" addthis:title="Trump Supporters Really Don't Care About the Russian Indictments. Do You?" > The hardcore followers of Donald Trump-the ones who consume nothing but right-wing media, including social media-really do think the indictments of twelve Russian operatives for meddling in the 2016 presidential election is just so much fake news, just another effort by the "deep state" to discredit the 45th President.
You may recall that Lisa Page was originally scheduled to testify to a closed House committee on Wednesday. That didn't happen but the testimony was rescheduled for today with a second session scheduled for next Monday.