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Democrats are pushing to make the annual defense policy bill a referendum on President Trump, with plans to introduce a series of amendments as the legislation makes its way through committee. Rep. Jim Langevin will take the lead on introducing an amendment on climate change in an effort to throw Defense Secretary James Mattis's words back at the administration.
A group of senators including Maine's Angus King is asking for at least $5 million in federal money to support maple syrup producers around the U.S. King, an independent, is joining with Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy , Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow and others on the request. The senators say the Acer Access and Development Program helps maple syrup producers increase production, but President Donald Trump didn't include funding for it in his budget proposal.
President Donald Trump questioned former President Barack Obama's response to Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election in an interview airing Sunday morning, saying Obama didn't do enough to address the situation. "Well I just heard today for the first time that Obama knew about Russia a long time before the election, and he did nothing about it," Trump said in an excerpt of his interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" released Friday.
'Please god just let the man sleep': Outrage as airline passenger posts racist Snapchat story of Sikh man whom he mistakenly believed to be a terrorist Joe Biden shuts down 'wiseass' hedge fund manager Bill Ackman after he 'disrespected the memory' of his dead son Beau First pictures of five people electrocuted in Turkish water park horror - including three children and the owner and his son who died trying to save them Trump may soon get to pick ANOTHER Supreme Court justice as rumors abound that Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement Texas mom, 25, charged in deaths of her two young children after she 'left them in a hot car to punish them while she smoked pot and took a nap' Sixteen-month-old Brooklyn toddler dies five days after she 'was viciously beaten unconscious by her dad during a visit on Father's Day' 'Build bridges not walls': UK Leader of the Opposition party Jeremy ... (more)
'Please god just let the man sleep': Outrage as airline passenger posts racist Snapchat story of Sikh man whom he mistakenly believed to be a terrorist Joe Biden shuts down 'wiseass' hedge fund manager Bill Ackman after he 'disrespected the memory' of his dead son Beau First pictures of five people electrocuted in Turkish water park horror - including three children and the owner and his son who died trying to save them Trump may soon get to pick ANOTHER Supreme Court justice as rumors abound that Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement Texas mom, 25, charged in deaths of her two young children after she 'left them in a hot car to punish them while she smoked pot and took a nap' Sixteen-month-old Brooklyn toddler dies five days after she 'was viciously beaten unconscious by her dad during a visit on Father's Day' 'Build bridges not walls': UK Leader of the Opposition party Jeremy ... (more)
A Yemeni child suspected of having cholera sits outside a makeshift hospital in the capital, Sanaa, earlier this month. World health authorities say that of the more than 1,300 people who have died of the disease, a quarter have been children.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo told MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt that President Donald Trump is "incredibly demanding" of the intelligence community during an interview that aired Saturday morning. Pompeo said he spends over 40 minutes a day talking to Trump, and that the president is a "serious consumer" of the intelligence community's product.
Vice President Mike Pence met privately Friday evening in Colorado with Charles Koch as a weekend summit of donors led by the billionaire industrialist convened at a time of angst and uncertainty about the early months of President Donald Trump's administration. Pence, who has long ties to Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, also attended an evening fund-raiser for Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado at the resort where the network will hold a three-day conclave starting Saturday.
The hot new thing from conservative tone police today is to complain that Democrats are being too mean in describing the health care bill proposed by Republicans. To recap: The bill would strip health insurance from 24 million plus Americans.
The final votes had yet to be counted when CNN cast its verdict on Georgia's hotly contested special Congressional election Tuesday night. "Democrats Depressed," the network's homepage blared.
Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly. Job One has been settling in 11-year-old son Barron - the first boy to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. more than 50 years ago.
The latest "Real Time With Bill Maher" served devastating criticisms of Democrats and Barack Obama . But Donald Trump and the Republicans came in for the harshest criticism - from two of TV's most cogent conservative pundits.
US indices have been ruled by mega-cap technology companies and financial firms for much of the period since the presidential election in November. But after some bullish news last week, drug developers now look poised to give them a run for their money.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party's banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama 's health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless some of them can be brought aboard. Echoing the other four, Heller said he opposes the measure "in this form" but does not rule out backing a version that is changed to his liking.
Pelosi rallies Democrats to fight Senate health bill: 'The next few days are critical' Washington Times, by Tom Howell, Jr. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Democrats Friday to dig up and air stories about the "devastating impact" that a GOP plan to replace Obamacare could have on the most vulnerable, as Republicans try to pin down votes and fulfill their repeal promise before the July 4 holiday. "No argument against Trumpcare is more eloquent than the grave consequences it means in people's lives, especially for our children, veterans, seniors, people with pre-existing conditions and rural hospitals," the California Democrat said in a "dear colleagues" letter.
Xavier Becerra, California's combative attorney general, has become the Golden State's face of resistance to the Trump administration's domestic initiatives, the blunt voice rejecting the president's attempts to roll back the progressive immigration and environmental policies so central to California's sense of itself. At a June 16 press conference, for example, Becerra pushed back against stricter immigration enforcement, saying his office would review conditions at immigrant detention facilities in conjunction with a legislative measure that prohibits local governments from renting out jail beds to U.S. Immigration and Customs.
After James Hodgkinson shot Republican congressman Steve Scalise and four other people at the Republican congressional baseball team practice last week in Virginia, it did not take long for right-wingers to start blaming the left. Hodgkinson, who had an anger management problem and a history of violence - yet no trouble getting his hands on an assault rifle and handgun - had also been a supporter of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, which was more than enough for partisans on the right to denounce the entire left for violence.
A Republican senator is building support to change budget rules in order to make temporary tax cuts last for two decades or more, but he has yet to convince a critical figure -- House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan says he wants permanent tax cuts, a goal he repeated this week in response to questions about Senator Pat Toomey's proposal to relax time limits on any cuts that would increase the federal deficit.
The proposed Republican health care bill released by Senate leadership this week will "kill Massachusetts" without addressing any of the real flaws in Obamacare, Congressman Stephen Lynch said yesterday. "The two plans I've seen so far, they don't reduce the cost of health care, unfortunately," Lynch said during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" program, referring to the GOP plans passed by the House and proposed in the Senate.
Bolton s... Despite Trump's rosy post-summit declaration that the North no longer poses a nuclear threat, Washington and Pyongyang have yet to negotiate the terms under which it would relinquish the weapons that it developed over decades to deter the U.S. Despite Trump's rosy post-summit declaration that the North no longer poses a nuclear threat, Washington and Pyongyang have yet to negotiate the terms under which it would relinquish the weapons that it developed over decades to deter the U.S. . James Gutierrez, 15, and his sister, Lilah, 8, wore chains during a demonstration against the Trump administration's immigration policies Saturday, June 30, 2018.