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Rep. Don Young , shown in July 2014 at the Capitol in Washington, secured more than $200 million in earmarks for the so-called Bridge to Nowhere a decade ago, which would have connected a small town in Alaska to its airport. Despite declaring a moratorium on pork-barrel spending more than five years ago, members of Congress secured 163 earmarks in the 2017 federal budget worth $6.8 billion, according to a new report by Citizens Against Government Waste.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., followed by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn Texas, leave the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, to speak to members of the media following a luncheon with President Donald Trump and other GOP leadership. WASHINGTON - Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an "Obamacare" repeal bill to sign.
The Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump's eldest son during the 2016 election campaign says she is ready to give evidence before the US Senate. Natalia Veselnitskaya said in an interview that she is "ready to clarify the situation behind the mass hysteria, but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate".
The Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump's eldest son during the 2016 election campaign said she's ready to testify before the U.S. Senate and "clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria.' ' Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with Natalia Veselnitskaya, , in the expectation of receiving incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hi... The Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump's eldest son during the 2016 election campaign said she's ready to testify before the U.S. Senate and "clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria.'
I like Ohio Senator Rob Portman quite a bit. But there's no getting around the fact that his campaign web site in 2016 said thisa Senator Rob Portman believes that Obamacare must be repealed and replaced with reforms that will actually lower costs and improve the quality of our health care.
Pausing briefly from the press's never-ending Trump-Russia obsession, both Politico Magazine and USA Today decided earlier this week to focus on the state of President Donald Trump's health. The driving force behind issuing "breaking news" alerts used to be - and still should be - the need to communicate some dramatic new event or development.
President Donald Trump has said that a bill to overhaul the Obama health care law will "get even better" during a White House lunch with Republican senators. President Donald Trump has said that a bill to overhaul the Obama health care law will "get even better" during a White House lunch with Republican senators.
California's Obamacare exchange scrubbed its annual rate announcement this week, the latest sign of how the ongoing political drama over the Affordable Care Act is roiling insurance markets nationwide. The exchange, Covered California, might not wrap up negotiations with insurers and announce 2018 premiums for its 1.4 million customers until mid-August - about a month later than usual.
'Was he for real?': The internet erupts as a US congressman asks a senior Nasa panel if aliens lived on Mars 'thousands of years ago' California Republican Dana Rohrabacher queried whether an alien civilisation lived on Mars 'thousands of years ago', asking Nasa officials 'would you rule that out?' After he was told by a panel member that an ancient colony on Mars was 'extremely unlikely', the internet erupted with responses to the bizarre exchange, with one commenter asking: 'Was he for real?' Mars was far wetter and warmer billions of years ago, and scientists have spent decades studying its soil and atmosphere to determine if it once held life.
President Donald Trump says a bill to overhaul the Obama health care law will "get even better" during a White House lunch with Republican senators. Trump is hosting Republican senators Wednesday after a bill to repeal President Barack Obama's law collapsed in the Senate this week.
President Donald Trump's is pulling out all the stops - and props - to try to shift the subject to more positive messages. Trump posed in a fire truck, waved a custom baseball bat and donned a white Stetson at the kickoff of a weeklong focus on American-produced goods.
U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the White House said on Tuesday. The job, all the more high-profile because of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, requires confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman speaks at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S., January 16, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the White House said on Tuesday.
Republicans are expressing embarrassment, fear and frustration as party leaders concede that their years-long promise to erase much of Barack Obama 's Affordable Care Act is all but dead. Conservative activists blamed establishment Republicans who control Congress.
In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. He has emerged as one of Russia's biggest defenders on Capitol Hill, and Democrats are using that position to argue he's not focused on the district.
Republicans are pressing ahead with a budget plan designed to help the party to deliver on a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code. The plan before the House Budget Committee on Wednesday also features promises to cut more than $5 trillion from the budget over the coming decade, though Republicans only appear serious about actually enacting a relatively modest $203 billion deficit cut over the same period The importance of the effort has been magnified by the cratering in the Senate of the Trump-backed effort to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, leaving a rewrite of the tax code as the best chance for Trump to score a major legislative win this year.
Now that it appears the Republican Party's seven-year crusade to repeal Obamacare and replace it with their own mysterious alternative is finally dead the GOP is on the hunt for someone to scapegoat. As New York 's Jonathan Chait argued , the real reason for Trumpcare's defeat is that "it was never possible to reconcile public standards for a humane health-care system with conservative ideology."
Speaking publicly for the first time since the deadly officer-involved shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Jane Harteau said Thursday the killing of Au... -- President Donald Trump told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that "ISIS is falling fast." As he and Vice President Mike Pence arrived at the Pentagon for a... The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is investigating about two dozen complaints from farmers about dicamba herbicide drift.