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Senator John McCain will make a return to the U.S. capitol on Tuesday to play what could be a crucial role in keeping Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare afloat. McCain, who is battling brain cancer at his Arizona home, is set to help decide whether the repeal push will move forward or perhaps be abandoned entirely.
Top Democratic lawmakers complain that Republicans are rushing to pass it without open debate at a time when intelligence committees in both chambers are investigating Russian meddling in last year's election. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she had no problem with the bill itself, but rather the expedited procedure for approving it.
President Donald Trump turned a Boy Scouts event into a campaign-style rally Monday, starting off his remarks by saying he'd put aside the "fake news" and other issues in Washington while addressing the Boy Scouts of America 2017 National Scout Jamboree. "I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I'm in front of the Boy Scouts?" Trump said.
A raft of regulatory questions may delay the $13.7-billion mega-merger between Amazon and the supermarket chain as Democratic lawmakers and government officials raise antitrust concerns. Whole Foods told its investors in June that the deal was expected to close late this year, but the companies reportedly warned that it could take until May of 2018.
The Kush sat before investigators in Congress on Monday to talk about his meetings with Russian folk leading up to last year's election, and he wanted the committee to know that at no point was he colluding with Moscow to elect Donald Trump. He may not have disclosed some of the meetings he had with Russians when he filed for his security clearance , but this does not mean the meetings were nefarious.
President Donald Trump will nominate former Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands. Hoekstra previously served as chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was the ranking Republican on the Committee until 2011, the White House said.
President Donald Trump took a remarkable new swipe at his own attorney general on Monday, referring to Jeff Sessions in a tweet as "beleaguered" while privately musing about whether he should fire his longtime ally. Fuming about the ongoing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion with foreign officials, Trump again directed his displeasure at Sessions.
Former US Congressman Pete Hoekstra speaks at the Ottawa County Republican Party headquarters in Holland Twp., MI in this file photo. WASHINGTON Pete Hoekstra is apparently going to be rewarded for his support of Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Campaign after all.
The Ohio Republican Party's state dinner this weekend brought in hundreds of party faithful, and included two leaders with different perspectives on the Senate health care bill. And that puts the person who'll actually be voting on it in a tough position.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at the Boy Scouts of America's National Jamboree on Monday and it was all boos for Barack Obama when Trump asked if Obama ever came to this event. U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed his 2016 election victory, his dislike of Obamacare , Hillary Clinton and "fake news" to an unlikely audience.
Amnesty-loving Rep. Luis Gutierrez delivered a fiery speech Saturday at Chicago's Lincoln United Methodist Church where he promised that Democrats would "eliminate" President Trump after they reclaim the majority. The Lincoln United Methodist Church is a sanctuary church and according to Gutierrez's website , he "spoke to a packed house about the need to defend DACA and other forms of legal immigration status that are under attack from Republicans and Donald Trump."
President Donald Trump is threatening - perhaps jokingly - to fire Health Secretary Tom Price if a crucial vote to repeal "Obamacare'" fails. Trump tells thousands of Boy Scouts at a national gathering in West Virginia that Price "better get" the votes to begin debate on the legislation Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner answered questions from Senate investigators for hours behind closed doors Monday, acknowledging four meetings with Russians during and after Trump's victorious White House bid and insisting he had "nothing to hide." He emerged smiling to publicly declare, "All of my actions were proper."
The Republican-led House is moving to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to shift $2 billion from other programs to cover a sudden budget shortfall in its Choice program of private-sector care. But the plan was meeting resistance from many Democrats following stiff protests from veterans' groups.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is putting public pressure on her Republican counterpart to invite Attorney General Jeff Sessions to testify before lawmakers to answer questions about his interactions with the Russian ambassador. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Monday asked committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley to invite Mr. Sessions before the committee to address discrepancies between his accounts of meetings with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in which he has said he did not discuss the Trump campaign, and reports that indicate Mr. Kislyak told his superiors in Moscow that the two had discussed campaign matters.
One of the caucuses at the Saturday, July 22, local Democratic Party convention. The caucuses to pick the party's new governing body were selected by Shelby County Commission districts.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows , center, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on July 12. Conservative hard-liners in the House are hoping to gut the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan scorekeeper whose analysis has recently bedeviled Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by amending a massive spending bill set to be debated later this week. An amendment filed Monday by Rep. H. Morgan Griffith would eliminate the agency's Budget Analysis Division, cutting 89 jobs and $15 million of the CBO's proposed $48.5 million budget.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday that White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is also President Trump's son-in-law, should testify to Congress in public and under oath. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Monday that White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is also President Trump's son-in-law, should testify to Congress in public and under oath.
President Trump had some remarkable things to say at the inaugural meeting of his Commission to Promote Voter Suppression and Justify Trump's False Claims, which is formally known as the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. He also asked a question that deserves an answer.
A number of funding bills have advanced through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in the past two weeks. Lawmakers are eager to make progress on fiscal year 2018 spending before leaving the Capitol for their annual summer recess.