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Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon on Friday rejected a request for voter registration data by a White House panel studying voter fraud, joining fellow Democratic officials in several other states in refusing to comply. President Donald Trump, a Republican, established the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in May. Vice chairman Kris Kobach wrote to states this week seeking voter names, addresses, dates of birth, recent voting history and details about military status and felony convictions.
Amanda Litman pitches her organization Run For Something to an audience of prospective candidates and donors at a house party in Brooklyn Heights. Amanda Litman pitches her organization Run For Something to an audience of prospective candidates and donors at a house party in Brooklyn Heights.
John Kasich just thwarted Ohio GOP's Medicaid freeze. What's next? Gov. John Kasich vetoed GOP lawmakers' plan to cripple Medicaid expansion, but the battle is far from over.
Fresh off a committee hearing where she introduced an amendment banning transgender people from serving in the military, Rep. Vicky Hartzler called in to the anti-LGBTQ hate group the Family Research Council Thursday to discuss her concerns.
He doesn't seem impressed but the partisan rhetoric and standard GOP talking points might actually save this politico from himself in this contest among the bland leading the bland: Kevin Yoder has a secret weapon. I have seen it - or rather heard it - firsthand many times.
Congressman quits because he can't make it on $174,000. In his home state, low-income residents can't find housing In an interview published last Tuesday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, proposed a $2,500 housing stipend for members of Congress to more easily afford housing at home and in Washington.
The wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders' reportedly attempted to evict disabled group home residents living on land where she was seeking to expand the Vermont college of which she was president. This is the latest part of a sordid situation reportedly being investigated by the FBI, and one that threatens any hope of another presidential run for the socialist senator.Records obtained by Judicial Watch offer more insight into the time when Jane Sanders was president of Burlington College in Vermont, between 2004-11.
The Trump administration plans to arrest parents and other relatives who authorities believe smuggled their children into the United States. The Trump administration plans to arrest parents and other relatives who authorities believe smuggled their children into the United States.
Trump's latest twe... The Trump administration plans to arrest parents and other relatives who authorities believe smuggled their children into the United States. The Trump administration plans to arrest parents and other relatives who authorities believe smuggled their children into the United States.
The Legislature passed its $43.7 billion budget for 2017-2019 Friday, barely more than five hours before a midnight deadline. Gov. Jay Inslee quickly promised to have the budget signed before the deadline.
In this Nov. 7, 2016 file photo, a ballot box is set for residents to vote at midnight in Dixville Notch, N.H. A request for detailed information about every voter in the U.S. from President Donald Trump's voting commission is getting a rocky reception in the states. less FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2016 file photo, a ballot box is set for residents to vote at midnight in Dixville Notch, N.H. A request for detailed information about every voter in the U.S. from President Donald ... more OKLAHOMA CITY - A request for detailed information about every voter in the U.S. from President Donald Trump 's voting commission is getting a rocky reception in the states.
Before that, any senator could bring the work of the Senate on a bill to a temporary halt by filibustering i.e., by talking and talking interminably until the bill was withdrawn or a sufficient supermajority of senators voted cloture . After cloture, passing the bill would require a majority to vote in favor.
President Donald Trump's administration has dropped plans for an executive order that would require all U.S. food aid to be transported on American ships after members of Congress protested, congressional and aid sources said Friday. Reuters reported Thursday that Trump was considering issuing an order that would have increased to 100 percent the current requirement that 50 percent of such aid be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels.
TRENTON, N.J.>> New Jersey's state government has shut down for the first time under Republican Gov. Chris Christie after he and the Democrat-led Legislature failed to reach an agreement on a budget by the deadline at midnight today. Christie, a former GOP presidential candidate and adviser to President Donald Trump who is leading the White House's anti-opioid commission, announced the shutdown of the state's nonessential services in an executive order.
Sen. Mark Mullet, from left, D-Issaquah, Sen. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent, and Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood, applaud on the Senate floor after the Senate approved a paid family leave program at the Capitol Friday, June 30, 2017, in Olympia, Wash.. The measure, passed on a 37-12 vote Friday and now heads to the House, offers workers paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or the serious medical condition of the worker or the worker's family member.
Post Falls Police say 17-year-old Mari Bennett-Cooper is an endangered runaway and boarded a flight from Spokane to Seattle. Nobody has heard from her since.
Three days after Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed his staff to find ways to give a boost to coal and nuclear power, the rival wind industry kicked its lobbying response into action. The American Wind Energy Association would tap allies in Congress willing to weigh in with Perry and buy advertisements on "news channels closely followed by the Trump administration," according to a memo its leader sent to board members.
This June 18, 2014, file photo shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. A new "surge initiative" aims to identify and arrest the adult sponsors of unaccompanied minors who paid coyotes or other smuggling operations to bring young people across the U.S. border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed Thursday, June 29, 2017.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, created by Trump in May, received little attention until this week, when at least 20 states rejected a request to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data. "As the president continues to press his blatantly false claim that voter fraud cost him the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election, he endangers the sanctity of our nation's democracy," Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, said in a statement Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to the audience at the Lincoln Day Dinner, Friday, June 30, 2017, in Elizabethtown, Ky. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to the audience at the Lincoln Day Dinner, Friday, June 30, 2017, in Elizabethtown, Ky.