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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, two Capitol police officers and at least one other person were shot Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire on a GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. President Donald Trump spoke several hours after the shooting, saying that the shooter, identified as James T. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, has died after being shot by law enforcement during a gun battle at the baseball field.
In this May 23, 2017, photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney holds up a copy of President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 federal budget as he speaks to members of the media in the Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Trump's $4.1 trillion plan for the budget year beginning Oct. 1 generally proposes deep cuts in safety net programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly known as food stamps.
The self-organized Citizens Oversight group rallied residents' support to move San Onofre spent nuclear fuel off site as soon as possible. Information on the dangers of the nuclear waste and delays in moving it were shared at a town hall meeting May 4. A civil lawsuit by Citizens Oversight challenged state Coastal Commission approval of a permit to move the nuclear waste from its on-site cooling pools into in-ground storage containers.
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff was the top vote-getter last Tuesday in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in a special election to replace Tom Price, who is now the secretary of health and human services. A wave of first-time candidates eager to fight President Trump and his young administration plan to challenge House Republican incumbents, giving Democratic Party leaders hope that they can capiA talA ize on the anger and intensity at grass-roots protests and town hall meetings across the country this year.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "Issa wouldn't protect us from a bill that raises premiums and causes 24 million to lose their insurance." - new "Save My Care" ad attacking Rep. Darryl Issa Seven vulnerable Republican lawmakers are being targeted with $1 million in television spots by a liberal group backed by labor and progressive interests.
There is a battle going on to swing House votes on Obamacare repeal while lawmakers are at home for their two-week recess. The dueling ads from outside political groups are intended to magnify the pressure members of Congress are facing from their constituents at town hall meetings.
Last month, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., voted against a bill in committee that would overturn the District of Columbia's Death with Dignity Act that authorizes medical aid in dying as an option for terminally ill adults to end unbearable suffering. Yet, Rep. Issa said he opposed medical aid-in-dying laws, including Colorado's End-of-Life Options Act, and urged Congress to develop additional "national safeguards" for these laws.
An advocacy group, American Action Network ran ads thanking some House Republicans for replacing the Affordable Care Act. The GOP-led repeal bill was pulled Friday because it didn't have the votes to pass.
The movement to save Medicaid from the Republican chopping block continued on Tuesday, with actions happening on the ground and on social media, just days before the House of Representatives votes on the American Healthcare Act , the GOP's answer to the Affordable Healthcare Act , or Obamacare. Hundreds of Medicaid supporters held a "die-in" outside of Rep. Darrell Issa's office to express concerns that Republicans are angling to gut Medicaid as part of the replacement bill.
At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel's balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak - well-done, with ketchup - while chatting up British Brexit politician Nigel Farage.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins other Democrats in calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. She says there should be an independent special prosecutor named to oversee an investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. election.
Trump uttered some 5,000 words and spoke for 60 minutes, but not one of those words was "Russia," and not one of those minutes was devoted to the so-far successful effort by our geopolitical adversary to undermine American democracy. The FBI and intelligence community have unanimously charged that Vladimir Putin's government interfered in the U.S. elections in its successful attempt to get Trump elected.
Former President George W Bush speaks during a preview of an exhibition of his paintings of U.S. military veterans in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. NEW YORK -- Former President George W. Bush said he didn't intend to criticize President Donald Trump when he said recently that a free press is essential to democracy Bush said Tuesday that he was simply responding to a reporter's question about the role of journalism.
Rep. Darrell Issa doubled down on statements he made over the weekend urging for an independent investigation of communications between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russians known to US intelligence. "The American people need a clear-eyed view of the nefarious actions of the Russian government," the California Republican said in a statement Monday.
California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said a special prosecutor is needed to investigate into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Bill Maher asked Issa during an interview on his show Real Time about reports that members of President Trump's campaign had contact with Russian officials.
Former President George W. Bush said Monday "we all need answers" on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump's team and the Russian government, and didn't rule out the idea that a special prosecutor could be necessary to lead an investigation. The Republican also defended the media's role in keeping world leaders in check, noting that "power can be addictive," and warned against immigration policies that could alienate Muslims.
The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Monday downplayed the need for a special prosecutor to probe contacts between the Russian government and members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, after a fellow Republican called for an independent investigation. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told reporters in Washington that there was no evidence of serious crimes with regard to contact between Trump associates and Russian intelligence.
If the television-obsessed President Donald Trump watched Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night on HBO, he got a jolt of reality from Congressman Darrell Issa, the slippery Republican conservative from California. Issa was asked by the host whether Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III should recuse himself from the FBI investigation of Trump's campaign and its contacts with Russian operatives.
The big story: Of all the bubbling questions and potential scandals of the early Trump administration, the one that now appears likely to hold is about Trump campaign contacts with Russians. There are sufficient questions surrounding these communications to merit a serious investigation, many in Washington believe.