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NOVEMBER 30: A Planned Parenthood office is seen on November 30, 2015 in New York City. A gunman killed three people November 27, including a police officer, at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
House Republicans face opposition to their plan to overhaul the way corporations pay federal taxes from a powerful group of lawmakers - other Republicans. "I'm not very enthused about it," said Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman of the Finance Committee and the Senate's top tax writer.
Two influential conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives urged lawmakers on Thursday to get moving with a repeal of Obamacare, reflecting concerns that the process is getting bogged down amid disputes over how to replace the healthcare law. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans campaigned on a promise to dismantle Obamacare, which they consider federal government overreach.
President Donald Trump and his administration, along with congressional Republicans, are reportedly thinking of implementing massive tax cuts that aren't revenue neutral - ones that would cause the deficit to rise dramatically. "A number of Trump advisers in recent weeks have privately questioned whether tax reform needs to be 'revenue neutral,'" Politico reported on Wednesday , citing people involved in the early discussions.
You can view the complete video of the event here . We had a tremendous line up: Congressman Jim Jordan , who is a member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Edwin Meese III, former United States Attorney General and Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at The Heritage Foundation; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center for Immigration Studies; Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow for the National Review Institute and former chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Ramona Cotca, senior attorney at Judicial Watch.
Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state. Soon he'll be the one responsible for protecting America's diplomats, but he's offered virtually no insight into how he'll do that.
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 10, 2016. The House on Tuesday voted to bottle up articles of impeachment filed against Koskinen by hard-line conservatives upset about the agency's targeting of political groups.
House conservatives intend to re-launch an effort Tuesday afternoon to force a vote to impeach Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen this week in the final days of this congressional session. The impeachment drive, confirmed by Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and his office, comes after he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus had agreed to delay such action in September, at the urging of Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders.
President-elect Donald Trump has offered the CIA director job to Mike Pompeo, a hard-line Republican congressman from Kansas who heavily criticized the Iran deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya and believes Edward Snowden is a traitor. Before starting the job, Pompeo would have to be confirmed by the Senate.
North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows will reportedly run for chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, to succeed Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan. According to The Hill , Meadows said he would run if he's re-elected to Congress and Jordan steps down from the position.
SLUG: CTY PENCE08 10/7/2016 The Blade/ Amy E. Voigt Rossford, OH CAPTION: The bus for Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence arrives in to Rossford on October 7, 2016. About 500 people saw Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence at the Rossford Community Recreation Center.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen expressed regret to Congress on Wednesday for his agency's past mistreatment of tea party groups, but said he has cooperated with congressional investigators and does not deserve to be impeached. The IRS chief made the remarks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a drive by hard-line conservatives to oust Koskinen.
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 10, 2016. Koskinen has agreed to testify under oath Wednesday before the Republican-run House Judiciary Committee.
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.
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Conservative House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a resolution to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, something they hope can get a vote this week before Congress leaves for an extended summer break. The resolution was introduced by Reps.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi released its long-awaited findings Tuesday and concluded that well, it looks as though they're going to have to empanel another select committee to iron out the dueling conclusions reached by various members of the committee. The panel members spent two years and $7 million to come up with the last word on what happened in Libya in September 2012, when four Americans were killed.
Prior to the House Select Committee on Benghazi releasing its report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed four Americans in an embassy in Benghazi, Libya, a few Republicans and Democrats sent out their own report previews.
House Republicans on Tuesday concluded their $7 million, two-year investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with fresh accusations of lethal mistakes by the Obama administration but no "smoking gun" pointing to wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state and now the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee. In this Sept.
Two top Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee blasted Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration Tuesday for "a tragic failure of leadership" in the runup to the deaths of four Americans in the U.S. outpost in Libya in 2012. Reps.