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There is a battle going on to swing House votes on Obamacare repeal while lawmakers are at home for their two-week recess. The dueling ads from outside political groups are intended to magnify the pressure members of Congress are facing from their constituents at town hall meetings.
The White House and Republicans expect to begin the serious work of tax reform when Congress returns from a two-week break at the end of April. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee plan hearings on the tax reform plan that committee Chairman Kevin Brady and House Speaker Paul Ryan have been advocating since June.
An olive branch to get centrists on board with making Obamacare's insurance regulations optional could mean a higher price tag. An amendment to Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill, advanced by a House panel, to create high-risk pools to cover the sickest patients may not have enough money, healthcare experts say.
Increasing tensions with Moscow over U.S. strikes on Syria have complicated the Democrats' argument that President Trump is too close to Russia, even as congressional committees continue to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election and any collusion with the Trump campaign. None of this is likely to lessen the vigor with which Democrats pursue the Russia probe.
At the risk of being accused of stating the obvious, the what-ifs of history become increasingly significant when considered in the context of globalization and power politics. One doesn't have to go back to the end of World War I when the mistakes were made in the Treaty of Versailles that led to the rise and ultimate devastation just 20 years later of Nazi Germany to realize that if the allied parties had been more generous in their victory settlement, Hitler and the Third Reich and World War II might have been avoided.
UT ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: The description of the University of Tennessee Electroacoustic Ensemble is deceptively simple: The group "performs contemporary improvisational music that incorporates electronics alongside acoustic instruments," if you stop digging at the "About" section of the ensemble's Facebook page.
A trio of motions aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants and others threatened with deportation, including putting $1 million into a legal defense fund, are scheduled to be voted on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. City and county officials first proposed the ideas late last year in response to President Donald Trump's pre-election remarks about deporting people who live in the country illegally.
Bentley vowed again he won't resign even as his political... . Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley speaks during a news conference on Friday, April 7, 2017, outside the Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez raised alarm Monday over the potential Russian takeover of a large American-based oil firm that controls numerous terminals and infrastructure in the United States. "We can't play Russian roulette with national security and energy independence," the Democratic senator from New Jersey tweeted on Monday.
Students were able to ask him questions, and he gave advice on what it takes to thrive after high school. His message to the students was clear: your goal doesn't have to be college, but it is vital to find your niche and work hard to make your dreams happen.
President Donald Trump stepped into a surprisingly competitive special congressional election in Kansas Monday, recording a get-out-the-vote call on behalf of Republican candidate Ron Estes. The robocall from Trump came as the contest also pulled U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to Wichita to campaign for Estes and amid a flood of out-of-state GOP money ahead of Tuesday's election in the 4th Congressional District of southern Kansas.
Last week's cruise-missile strike against a Syrian air base in response to Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons has reopened debate about the wisdom of Barack Obama's decision to forgo a similar strike, under similar circumstances, in 2013.
The past 11 weeks of the Trump administration have looked anything but normal, except for one thing: the nomination of judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. That announcement was rolled out with the traditional pomp by a President who followed the script, and a silver-haired nominee who spoke well and looked the part .
A group of U.S. lawmakers said on Monday they had requested more information from President Donald Trump's administration about the potential sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, expressing concern about civilian casualties in Riyadh's campaign in Yemen that delayed the deal last year. Thirty mostly Democratic lawmakers signed the letter to U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, citing expectations that the administration plans to go ahead with the sale.
The 2017 Pulitzer winners were announced today and among the winners awarded was the New York Times. One of the three articles they were awarded for was their ' Russia Dark Arts Series ' which included the 'Russian Hacking the DNC' hoax in the 'international reporting' category.
Jared Perkins is a visiting instructor in the Texas Tech University Department of Political Science who specializes in judicial politics. His After being one justice shy for more than a year, the U.S. Supreme Court is finally full again with the swearing in of Neil Gorsuch this morning .
President Trump is going back to square one on tax reform. For the champions of his original tax plan - perhaps also for the president himself - this may be disheartening.
A third-term Illinois state representative says he's considering a run for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018. Scott Drury said Monday he wants to stop the "partisan bickering, public corruption and uncontrolled violence" in Illinois.
US military forces patrolling the country's southern approaches are under-resourced and overwhelmed by the flow of drugs and contraband coming north, military and Coast Guard leaders said in recent weeks. Both US Southern Command, which oversees military operations beyond Mexico's southern border, and the US Coast Guard, have been strained by the scope of their duties and limitations on their budgets.