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Congress has given themselves a little more breathing room to get through their 2017 to-do list, passing a continuing resolution Thursday on a spending bill that gives them two more weeks to get a final budget to the President's desk. Budget negotiations will continue behind the scenes, and although no resolution is expected this week, those involved want a clear outline for the final deal locked in before lawmakers go home for the weekend.
Rather than celebrating the diversity and expansion of Oklahoma City, former Mayor Kirk Humphreys appears to hang on to old stereotypes.? In the December 10th episode of Flashpoint, Humphreys and Oklahoma State Representative Emily Virgin joined moderator Kevin Ogle. In discussing the #MeToo movement, increased allegations of sexual harassment nation-wide and the resignation of US Senator Al Franken, the subject of homosexuality arose.
Rep. Adam Schiff is dismissing the GOP's accusations of bias in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, saying they're partisan efforts to discredit the significance of the investigation's potential findings. On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning, host Jake Tapper asked the California Democrat about the GOP's accusations of bias within the investigation into allegations of collusion by the Trump campaign in Russia's efforts to influence last year's election.
Here are the stories our DC insiders are talking about in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines today. President Trump has taped a robocall for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Alabama Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell warned of dire consequences if voters send Roy Moore to the Senate because he "will only take us backward." On Sunday, Sewell was a guest on ABC's "This Week" when she claimed Moore "harkens us back to the days of segregation."
Alabama's race for U.S. Senate settled into church for worship on Sunday, with the minister at a historic black congregation calling the race a life-or-death matter for equal rights, conservatives standing by Republican Roy Moore and others feeling unsettled in the middle. Speaking at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963, the Rev.
When Democrats asked for Al Franken's resignation the Minnesota Senator found support from unlikely people and now they are defending him as a victim of a puritanical witch hunt. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has more.
GOP split on Alabama judge's candidacy persists, however; state's senior senator, Republican Richard Shelby, says it 'deserves better' WASHINGTON-A top political adviser to U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore said Tuesday's special election in Alabama would serve as a referendum on President Donald Trump after the president repeated his support for the Republican candidate during a rally on Friday in Florida. "This is Donald Trump on trial in Alabama," said Dean Young, the top political adviser to Mr. Moore.
In this Dec. 5, 2017 photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, in Fairhope Ala. Alabama voters pick between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday.
A woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House. There is lots of talk about whether Democrats will try to shut down the government, after the two-week funding bill runs out, in order to get relief for young people affected by President Trump's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., continues his efforts for small businesses in the GOP tax reform conferencing between the House and Senate, saying the "Committee on Taxation is completely in La La Land" on potential revenue losses that will "hemorrhage" from federal tax rolls. "I'm really concerned that if we don't close that widened disparity between pass-throughs and C corps, we will incentivize pass-throughs to convert to C corp status, and we will hemorrhage revenues of the federal government," Sen. Johnson told "The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970-N.Y. "A lot of my colleagues aren't really focusing on that, and the Joint Committee on Taxation [JCT} is completely in La La Land denying that potential reality."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., spoke out against Democratic efforts "jumping the gun" to impeach President Donald Trump, saying Sunday it "does nobody any good." "I think there is a process that has to be followed," Sen. Sanders told NBC's "Meet the Press."
Maine's Republican senator says Roy Moore wasn't fit to serve in the U.S. Senate even before sexual misconduct allegations came to light. Sen. Susan Collins made the comments on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning.
After calls for Trump to skip his planned appearance at the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, protesters greeted him wearing Confederate flags over their mouths. As civil rights activists and African-American leaders including Rep. John Lewis boycotted President Donald Trump's visit to Mississippi's brand-new Civil Rights Museum in Jackson on Saturday, hundreds of protesters greeted the president to condemn his record on race relations and civil rights.
Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby says he decided to cast a write-in ballot in the state's upcoming Senate election because of allegations that GOP nominee Roy Moore molested a girl when she was 14. Shelby told CNN in an interview Sunday that the accusation was the "tipping point" in his decision not to vote for Moore. He says he wrote in the name of a "distinguished" Republican instead.
As Alabama's special senate election finally approaches, most state Republicans have circled the wagons around Roy Moore, the alleged sexual predator and twice-disbarred former judge who maintains a polling-average lead against Democrat Doug Jones in the highly unpredictable race . The 83-year-old told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning that he couldn't bring himself to pull the lever for Moore, and has already voted for a write-in candidate.
It's far too soon for anyone to get their hopes up, but the autopsy of the Democrats' 2016 election disaster just may lead to one badly needed improvement. Politico reports that a commission tasked with cleaning up the process has unanimously endorsed a proposal to remove a majority of the so-called superdelegates from the primary circus.
The White House says President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham are discussing tax legislation and upcoming budget talks during a golf game at one of Trump's Florida clubs. Trump tweeted about the tax bill Sunday before heading to the club in West Palm Beach.