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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced on Monday she had helped secure more than $170,000 to cover the renewal fees for people in her state covered by the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals policy. The status of the program, better known as DACA, is in question after President Donald Trump said he would scrap it , potentially leaving in limbo 800,000 people living in the US illegally after migrating to the country as children.
Hillary Clinton said she was surprised Trump was elected based on his demeanor at the presidential debates, and said she purposefully held her tongue on the assumption that voters wanted someone more "composed." "You know, I sort of thought at the end of the day people would say, 'Yeah.
Hillary Clinton called President Trump and his administration a "clear and present danger to the future of our country" because of their desire to change reality and facts to fit their message. Clinton said that feeling first started during the inauguration when then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer took to the podium to lie on Trump's behalf about the inauguration being the most attended and most watched inauguration in history.
Hillary Clinton said she had a misconception of how her ideas would be covered by the media during the 2016 election and she did not respond quickly enough to make appropriate adaptations to her messaging. "You know, I really believed that - I think in retrospect it was a misconception or certainly out of sync with the time in which we're living and the candidate I ended up running against," Clinton said Monday at Warner Theater during a promotional event of her new book, What Happened .
The front door of Comet Ping Pong pizza shop, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. A fake news story prompted a man to fire a rifle inside a popular Washington, D.C., pizza place as he attempted to "self-investigate" a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from there, police said.
Former President Barack Obama checked in with Hillary Clinton during last year's campaign to see if she was sleeping and eating properly, Clinton said Monday night. "He was an extraordinarily supportive and helpful friend throughout the whole campaign," Clinton said at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. "He would call me periodically and he would say, 'Are you getting enough sleep? Are you, you know, eating well?' I'd say 'Oh, I think I'm getting enough sleep.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he wants to ban states from setting up a government-run healthcare system in a GOP bill to overhaul Obamacare that would allow states to set up their healthcare systems. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he wants to ban states from setting up a government-run healthcare system in a GOP bill to overhaul Obamacare that would allow states to set up their healthcare systems.
"I personally believe I was doing well enough with white women before the Comey letter but it stopped my momentum and played into the concerns that women have about whether they are making a mistake with their vote." Hillary Clinton said Monday the letter former FBI Director James Comey sent 11 days before the election stating an investigation was being reopened into her emails cost her the white female vote.
A second Senate committee has scheduled a hearing for next week to discuss a last-ditch Republican effort to overhaul Obamacare. The hearing, scheduled for Monday, will be led by the Senate Finance Committee, which holds jurisdiction over healthcare bills along with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
California has the most people and more registered voters than any other state, the world's sixth-largest economy and often, little influence over who Republicans and Democrats nominate for president. State lawmakers want to change that.
Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana last week released a bill that would eliminate or overhaul major sections of the health reform law. The duo had been trying to garner interest in earlier versions of their bill for months, but hadn't gotten much traction.
Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the massive data breach at Equifax , which potentially exposed the personal information of up to 143 million Americans, including their Social Security and driver's license numbers. United States Attorney John A. Horn, the federal prosecutor in Atlanta, said in a statement that his office was working with the F.B.I. to investigate the cyberattack.
The question has dogged Chelsea Manning ever since she walked out of prison four months ago - nearly three decades short of a 35-year sentence, courtesy of a commutation from Barack Obama in the last days of his presidency. Is she a traitor? Had the Army private betrayed her country in 2010, when she passed tens of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks? Or had Manning, as many believe, demonstrated loyalty to the American public by exposing its government institutions? At least once, the question was put to Manning herself.
Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said last week the investigation into whether President Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia during the election could be bigger than the Watergate scandal. Hillary Clinton says she won't rule out questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election if Russian meddling is deeper than previously thought.
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II announced the Department of Veteran Affairs has awarded a grant of $1.882 million for the expansion of the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville. "This is welcoming news for families of our fallen soldiers in the Fifth District of Missouri," Cleaver said.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be banned by the Trump administration from purchasing weapons from a U.S. manufacturer. The cancellation drew immediate applause from Congress, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers have demanded that Trump punish Erdogan.
The Congressional Budget Office said it would provide a "preliminary assessment" by early next week of the latest proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. The proposal, offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and Bill Cassidy, R-La., would give states control over the fate of Obamacare and its accompanying federal funding.
Today, Congressman John Garamendi , Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, received the Vincent T. Hirsch Maritime Award for Outstanding Leadership from the Navy League of the United States. The ceremony occurred at the California State University Maritime Academy.
Several dozen young immigrants shouted down Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, on Monday during an event in San Francisco, following her recent conversations with President Donald Trump over the future of a program that grants many of them legal status. "We are immigrant youth, undocumented and unafraid," they shouted as they overtook an event Pelosi was holding to encourage passing legislation that would give many young immigrants legal status.
In this July 13, 2017, file photo, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, talk while walking to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans are planning a final, uphill push to erase President Barack Obama's health care law.