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Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, center, President Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, walks down a stairwell to avoid reporters and cameras as he leaves a Senate office building after meeting individually with some members of the committee that would vet him for the post, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
'It would be unfair to simply call Mike Pompeo a raging Islamophobe, because he's also a raging homophobe,' the 'Full Frontal' host said. "I guess Logan Paul and the 'Cash Me Outside' girl were busy?" Bee asked of this "typical" Trump nominee, who has the support of every Republican but just a handful of Democrats in the Senate.
Republican senators are growing increasingly frustrated with the White House for foisting upon them a parade of controversial cabinet nominees whom they believe haven't gone through a proper vetting process. Throughout much of the Trump presidency, those frustrations have been shielded from public view out of deference to the president's right to pick his own team.
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Rep. Doug Lamborn filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday in a last-ditch bid to get his name back on the GOP primary ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he must be kicked off it because his campaign did not gather petitions correctly. Colorado law requires congressional candidates to gather signatures from 1,200 party members in their district.
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: HARTFORD - Connecticut's Democratic U.S. senators are introducing federal legislation to help state homeowners with concrete foundations crumbling due to the presence of an iron sulfide.
President Donald Trump's legal team, led by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, is once again in talks with the special counsel Robert Mueller about an interview with Trump. Trump was reportedly "champing at the bit" to sit down with Mueller, but he soured on the special counsel following the FBI raids of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's property.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump's right to pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Bush administration official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Both of those pardons were issued by Trump and bypassed the involvement of the Justice Department and its pardon attorney, which historically reviews petitions for clemency.
FILE PHOTO: Chief Executive Officer of Apple Tim Cook and Lisa Jackson arrive for the State Dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File photo Cook, who has urged calm during the recent flare in U.S. trade tensions with China, held private talks with Trump in the Oval Office.
From his perch atop the White House Office of Management and Budget, Mulvaney defunded Obama-era initiatives to transform the president's rhetoric into reality. The intricacies of his role are understood by few outside the D.C. beltway and remain masked behind government's labyrinth of regulations, restrictions and wonkiness.
Former Tennessee governor and Democrat Phil Bredesen holds a narrow lead over Republican Marsha Blackburn in the race for the Tennessee Senate seat being vacated by Bob Corker. In a new poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy, Bredesen holds a 46 percent to 43 percent lead over Blackburn.
Although the Department of Homeland Security has consistently said 21 states' election systems had been targeted by Russian hackers, a DHS official acknowledged more states could have been affected. In an April 24 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Claire McCaskill pointed out that number reflects only the number of states that had sensors or tools in place to capture the scanning activity.
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it has declined an invitation to testify at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Thursday on filtering practices by social media companies, a company spokesman said. A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy today announced introduction of the Crumbling Foundations Small Business and Homeowners Assistance Act to provide $100 million in direct federal relief to property owners in Connecticut with crumbling foundations. The bill, introduced by Blumenthal and co-sponsored by Murphy would establish a grant program through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award funding up to $20 million annually over a five year period.
For the past several years, researchers have compiled the Bipartisan Index to figure out who actually is the most bipartisan. Who is the most bipartisan in Congress? Ohio Sen. Rob Portman near the top, report shows.
If you think the fighting among Republicans seeking Indiana's U.S. Senate seat is childish, wait until you get a load of this. This is, quite literally, the most childish attack in Indiana's Senate race If you think the fighting among Republicans seeking Indiana's U.S. Senate seat is childish, wait until you get a load of this.
That's the message the Trump administration is pushing, at least, in what on the surface seems like a minor tweak to the name of the federal consumer watchdog agency created after the Great Recession to protect consumers against banks, credit card companies, debt collectors and other financial companies. But critics see it as a not-so-subtle effort to telegraph the abrupt ideological turn the bureau has taken since Trump-appointee Mick Mulvaney became acting director last year.
Gov. Greg Abbott is demanding that former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold "cover all costs" of the special election to fill his seat using the $84,000 the Corpus Christi Republican used to settle a sexual harassment claim years ago.
Civil rights groups are turning to churches and community groups to pressure Congress to undo a decision to add a question about citizenship to the Census. Civil rights groups turn to locals to ramp up pressure on Congress to undo citizenship question Civil rights groups are turning to churches and community groups to pressure Congress to undo a decision to add a question about citizenship to the Census.
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