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A Senate panel has voted to approve President Donald Trump's nominee to lead Veterans Affairs. The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee agreed on voice vote Tuesday to back Robert Wilkie, currently a Pentagon undersecretary.
DUBUQUE, Iowa -- President Donald Trump's trade policies don't have anyone jumping out the window, according to U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, "but I've got the window open a little bit looking out there, which means I'm concerned."
Vice President Mike Pence and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee, arrived at the U.S. Capitol for meetings with Republican leaders on Tuesday as the advise-and-consent process began. Yale Law Prof.
During a visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence, right, spoke about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, center, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listened. Judges, particularly those on the Supreme Court, are expected to sit above the partisan fray.
Because publicity had surrounded Kavanaugh's nomination, activists were able to print and distribute "Stop Kavanaugh" signs for the Supreme Court protests shortly after the announcement, as documented by , the Center for American Progress convened a rally at the Supreme Court, where several high-profile Democratic senators spoke following the announcement. Senators Elizabeth Warren , Bernie Sanders , Cory Booker , and Kirsten Gillibrand were among those voicing their opposition to Kavanaugh.
NBC 5 spoke to Texas Senior Senator John Cornyn about President Trump's decision to nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. NBC 5 spoke to Texas Senior Senator John Cornyn, about the nomination of DC Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Former Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson, a defender of Rep. Jim Jordan, says he told the team doctor that he was making some athletes 'uncomfortable' Ex-OSU coach defends Jordan in abuse scandal but says team doctor made athletes 'uncomfortable' Former Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson, a defender of Rep. Jim Jordan, says he told the team doctor that he was making some athletes 'uncomfortable' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2L0raWX Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arrives for a Republican conference meeting June 7, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Jordan denies allegations that he ignored sexual abuse when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University decades ago.
The Latest on President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court : Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley says speed isn't the goal when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. The Iowa Republican says the judicial record of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee is about to be inspected "by every lawyer, at least on the committee."
Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert Wilkie testifies during a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is asserting that President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because Kavanaugh would protect Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Kavanaugh wrote in a 2009 Minnesota Law Review article that it would be appropriate for Congress to enact a statute that would allow civil lawsuits against a sitting president to be deferred until the president's term ends.
A Senate panel voted Tuesday to approve President Donald Trump's nominee to lead Veterans Affairs, a department beset by political infighting and turmoil over providing health care. The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee agreed on voice vote to back Robert Wilkie, currently serving as a Pentagon undersecretary.
President Donald Trump's remarks about tossing a DNA test at U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a hypothetical debate have not sat well with some top Bay State Republicans, including one who is running to defeat the Cambridge Democrat. For years Warren has faced controversy over identifying herself as of American Indian heritage, including listing herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools legal directory.
President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday night. Born in Washington, D.C., Kavanaugh has served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since 2006.
Trump's Monday night prime-time announcement of the nomination of Kavanaugh, a former attorney and top aide to President George W. Bush, would move the high court in a more conservative direction for decades to come. The president described Kavanaugh as "one of the finest and sharpest legal minds" of the modern era and called on the U.S. Senate to move quickly to confirm him.
Parents prepare to reunite with children under 5 years old as court-ordered deadline arrives, weeks or longer after being separated at the border. Harvey Weinstein is due in a New York court for arraignment on charges alleging he committed a sex crime against a third woman.
In his last act as EPA Administrator on Friday, Scott Pruitt vacated an Obama-era ruling that dramatically restricted sales of polluting "glider" trucks. Pruitt's earlier efforts to repeal the ruling were opposed by a broad, bipartisan coalition of environmentalists, public health advocates, truck makers, and some Republican representatives from states with other manufacturing interests.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine has stepped aside from a hot-button case over how Ohio calculated funding for a now-defunct online charter school. DeWine filed his recusal in the case of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, five months after it was argued.
Boris Johnson's resignation as foreign secretary intensified Downing Street's crisis after Brexit Secretary David Davis quit over Theresa May's plans to depart the European Union. Before taking charge at the Foreign Office, Mr Johnson had been repeatedly criticised for using racially-charged or offensive language.
That's just the title -- "The President is Missing" -- of Bill Clinton's novel co-authored with best-selling mystery writer James Patterson. It is a thriller about a U.S. president who goes missing during a cyber-attack on the U.S. What also reads like fiction is Clinton's testimony about his secret meeting with then U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac in Phoenix.