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In an interview Tuesday evening, Rep. Darrell Issa confirmed he received a letter from Rep. Mike Turner last week seeking a deposition in Turner's divorce from Majida Mourad. "He's looking to do discovery for something I don't know or understand, and I think a little bit of it's been blown out of proportion," Issa, R-California, said.
Joining the growing list of Democrats and Republicans jumping into the race for Rep. Darrell's Issa's Congressional seat since he announced his retirement is Navy veteran and businessman Paul Kerr. Kerr says he's running for office because he's faced the struggles many Americans are going through today, including not having health care, working a minimum wage job and transitioning from the military to civilian life.
In this Oct. 12, 2017, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., presides over a markup of a bill to expand sanctions against Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Royce says he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term.
On December 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1, the tax bill. There are eighteen Republicans in the U.S. House from the two states that use the top-two system.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors members, from left, Sheila Kuehl, Kathryn Barger, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Janice Hahn and Hilda L. Solis represent parts of the sprawling county. As Senate leaders move closer to taking a floor vote next week on their version of the Republican tax reform measure, Los Angeles County leaders have directed their lobbyists in Washington, D.C. to oppose provisions of their proposal.
WASHINGTON >> Three California Republican members of Congress broke ranks on Thursday to vote against the Republican tax reform bill that passed the House of Representatives. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, all voted against the bill, which passed 227-205.
As it has so often in the past, Congress is making the end of the year difficult for accountants and tax practitioners, dragging tax legislation out to the last minute with a maximum of confusion and a minimum of advanced warning. The simultaneous release on Thursday of the Senate's proposals for tax reform and the House Ways and Means Committee's markup of an earlier House bill may bring the tax reform process closer to some kind of end, but they provide few, if any, actionable items for tax professionals to bring to their clients, and in fact may end up threatening the entire reform effort.
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon wants to oust Republican senators he feels are disloyal to President Donald Trump. But when he comes to Southern California on Friday, he'll be in a state Trump lost by over 4 million votes and where Republicans have become largely irrelevant in state politics.
California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an emergency proclamation Friday that will allow the state to increase its supply of vaccines amid a hepatitis A outbreak that has killed more than a dozen people. The outbreak involves more than 570 of cases in San Diego, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties.
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency to combat a hepatitis A outbreak that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego. Brown said the federally-funded supply of vaccines is inadequate.
Vice President Mike Pence traveled up California on Monday to raise money for endangered Republican congressional candidates and tout the Trump administration's proposal for cutting taxes. It was the first visit to the heavily Democratic state by a member of the Trump-Pence ticket since the November election, when Democrat Hillary Clinton won the state by more than 4 million votes.
The majority owner of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County announced Monday that it is committed to moving spent nuclear fuel to another site. The commitment by Southern California Edison settled a lawsuit filed by an anti-nuclear group nearly two years ago, which opposed the California Coastal Commission's approval of expanded nuclear waste storage at the seaside plant.
As President Donald Trump's policies and rhetoric have put him increasingly at odds with the national Republican party, a leading progressive organization is kicking off a new grassroots campaign to link vulnerable GOP House members to Trump's troubled brand. Organizing for Action, the group spawned by former President Barack Obama's national campaigns, is beginning the program by focusing on 34 seats in GOP-held congressional districts around the country where Trump received less than 50% of the vote last November.
For Democrats hoping to turn President Donald Trump's unpopularity into an opportunity to take control of the House next year, this Orange County community is ground zero. Their target here -- Rep. Ed Royce -- is like several other established Republican incumbents in California who progressives hope can be toppled in a wave of anti-Trump backlash.
For those of us concerned about the current state of our government, it's time to look past the Trump Show and focus on the 2018 elections. As long as the Republicans remain in control of the House and Senate, President Trump's outrageous indiscretions will remain unchecked.
Rep. Jeff Denham, center, faces constituents angry about his vote to repeal Obamacare during a town meeting held in Riverbank, Calif., on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. On the surface, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision this week to delay a vote on the Senate's health care bill might seem frustrating to the House Republicans who backed a measure to rip up Obamacare.