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If Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema vacates her 9th District seat to run for Senate, there could be no LGBTQ women in the House in the next Congress. It's been almost 20 years since Tammy Baldwin 's historic election, yet just one woman has followed her through the LGBTQ glass ceiling.
Supporters waved signs Wednesday as Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2017. As more and more Democrats come out in favor of some form of "Medicare for all" legislation, Republican campaign strategists are salivating.
Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders bashed special interest groups when introducing the so-called Medicare for All Act of 2017. The seismic shift in support for Sen. Bernie Sanders ' plan to transform the U.S. health care system into a single-payer program indicates the reach the Vermont independent has within the Democratic Party.
Later, Baldwin heard from constituents concerned about President Donald Trump's proposed cuts to the very same USDA program. She vowed to fight those and other suggested funding reductions from her perch on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
President Donald Trump's rocky relationship with lawmakers has made Congress free enough to act in the country's best interests, Murphy writes. If you were a member of Congress, especially a Republican member of Congress, you could be forgiven for having at least some contempt for President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Janesville, Wis., in March 2016 A Republican primary is officially underway in the Wisconsin Senate race, with candidates facing off over who should take on Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next year. President Donald Trump won the Badger State by less than one point in November, the first time a Republican presidential nominee had won Wisconsin in more than 30 years.
Chief Justice Warren Burger with Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., talking over a book at the Capitol Hill Reception for the New Washington Guide Book in 1975. Speaker Paul D. Ryan was a Senate staffer back when Sen. Pete V. Domenici wielded the gavel of the Senate Budget Committee.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady talks with reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday after a meeting of the House Republican Conference. Republican lawmakers for months have been talking about a tax overhaul with a sense of urgency, but those words have yet to translate into action.
The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some border security enhancements - not including Trump's long-sought border wall. The agreement, the latest instance of Trump ditching his own party to make common cause with the opposition, was announced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi following a White House dinner that Republican lawmakers weren't invited to attend.
This Saturday in Normal is the Rally to Ratify, a rally to ask Illinois legislators to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment . The event will have numerous speakers, from state representatives to McLean County officials to Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University students.
Breaking Bad-obsessed 15-year-old 'school gunman' simulated shootings on YouTube: Teen posted videos 'before killing hero best friend who tried to stop him and wounding three girls in rampage' Trump does a deal with Democrats on Obama's 'Dreamers': The President agrees to protect young immigrants from deportation in return for enhanced border security that DOES NOT include the wall 'It was strange for me': Harrison Ford breaks his silence on Carrie Fisher revealing they had an affair while filming Star Wars in 1976 'They run away when they see us': Clowns plan rally outside movie theater because horror movie It is destroying their livelihoods Top Obama official ADMITS she 'unmasked' Trump team's names from intelligence and says she did it because they had a secret meeting with an Arab prince Boyfriend is charged with murdering missing pregnant teacher just two days after he tearfully ... (more)
Democratic lawmakers said on September 13 that are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn secretly promoted a U.S.-Russian project to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the Middle East.
Upending the political order in the nation's capital for the second time in a week, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and her Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer of New York, said Wednesday night that they had reached an agreement with President Trump to shield undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children from deportation and to increase border security, but without building a wall. The two Democrats made the announcement after dining on Chinese food with Trump and Republican congressional leaders at the White House.
While promoting her new memoir on the contentious 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday offered her thoughts on the assessment that Russia had interfered in the election and potentially colluded with the Trump campaign. This is a different kind of theft," Clinton said to CNN's Anderson Cooper.
In this Feb. 10, 2016, file photo, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha testifies about lead contamination of the Flint, Mich., water supply during a hearing of the U.S. House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation announced five individuals Thursday, Sept.
Former congressman Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, have appeared before a New York City judge to ask for privacy in their divorce case. Lawyers for disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner say a 15-year-old North Carolina girl he sexted had hoped to influence the presidential election.
Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday expressed optimism that President Trump might break a legislative logjam with his six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children. Carter told Emory students that the "pressures and the publicity that Trump has brought to the immigration issue" could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.
When Sen. Ted Cruz's official Twitter account "liked" a pornographic video late Monday night, many delighted in the fact that as a Texas state attorney, he had once argued that there is no Constitutional right "to stimulate one's genitals." In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Cruz clarified that he doesn't actually think about the subject very often - and explained that when he made the genitals argument, he was just doing his job.
A judge jailed former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli on Wednesday after finding that he violated his bail on a securities fraud conviction with a social media posting she agreed posed a threat to Hillary Clinton. Defense attorneys had argued at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the post by Shkreli, offering a $5,000 bounty to anyone who could grab him one of Clinton's hairs while she's on a book tour, was political satire.
The request for a U.S. Air Force jet was considered "highly unusual," people familiar with the matter told ABC. An Air Force spokesman estimated the value of the flight at an eye-popping $25,000 per hour.