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I was beginning to wonder if our Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was simply a phantom, spoken of in hushed tones, occasionally spotted, but rarely heard from. Then he pops up on NBC's "Face the Nation" and talks about the recent U.S. tomahawk missile strike on Syria, and all the events surrounding that particular bit of international turmoil.
President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system. The administration's first attempt to write legislation is in its early stages and the White House has kept much of it under wraps.
First, Bashar Al-Assad will have to think twice about using chemical weapons again. Donald Trump has drawn his own red line in Syria, and there is now a price to be paid -- assuming Trump keeps his word -- for dropping sarin gas on civilians.
A big issue in the campaign was whether the U.S. should get involved in what was turning into a nasty war in Vietnam. Democratic incumbent Lyndon Johnson campaigned as the peace candidate against Republican Barry Goldwater .
Republican Senator John McCain said on Friday that more airstrikes were needed to put a stop to the killing in Syria. McCain made the comments during an official visit to Slovenia.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is giving President Donald Trump a big "eff you" by flying jets out of Shayrat Air Base shortly after this week's missile attack on it with or without delivering chemical weapons Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday. "I will say this, if you kill babies with conventional bombs it is still a moral outrage," Sen. Graham told NBC's "Meet The Press."
Sen. John Cornyn said Sunday he doesn't think there'll be a government shutdown later this month despite fractious issues like proposed cuts to federal programs, and funding for a border wall. "I'm confident that we'll come up with something that everybody can live with," he said in answer to whether a shutdown would come to ensure funding for a border wall and increased defense spending at the expense of domestic programs.
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's surprise strikes on Syria, his allies and adversaries have searched for some broader meaning in his decision.
Samantha Power should send a thank-you note to Donald Trump. Power made her reputation as the author of "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide."
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But... Back in 2009, the Tea Party did not speak for the American people-but they showed up at Town Halls in droves, and intimidated... Let's first acknowledge that Syria is not an easy problem for any American president to deal with.
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So much for the Senate being the wise, mature and deliberative body of the U.S. Congress. So much for the Senate being the adults and the House being the teenagers.
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As an AmeriCorps alumnus, I am deeply concerned about the president's proposal to eliminate AmeriCorps. Simply put, AmeriCorps changed my life and has helped provide a pathway out of poverty for countless other young people like me.
Congressional Republicans returned this weekend to their districts to get another earful about ObamaCare, while giving mixed statements about how close they are to replacing the health care law and suggesting that avoiding a looming government shutdown is now the priority. California GOP Rep. Tom McClintock again held a town hall event in which residents expressed concerns about the GOP-led Congress repealing and replacing ObamaCare with more expensive and less comprehensive coverage.
These American strikes in Syria came as President Trump, as we have reported , was hosting the president of China for their first summit - the chief issues, North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and trade between the world's top two economies. "They agreed to increase cooperation and work with the worldwide community to convince the DPRK to peacefully resolve the issue and abandon its illicit weapons programs", Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after the two-day summit in Florida, referring to the acronym of North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
It was during the 1988 presidential election. Like many conservative and libertarian students of the day, my friends and I at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill were looking for a leader to follow in the footsteps of the president we all revered, Ronald Reagan.
The eyes of the nation have been on Georgia's District 6, where 18 candidates are competing to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom Price, who resigned his seat to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.