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At a University of Miami rally against sexual assault last week, Biden cited lewd comments that Republican candidate Trump made in a "A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, 'I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'" Biden said, according to ABC News. "They asked me if I'd like to debate this gentleman, and I said, 'No.'
Over 200 former ambassadors and veteran diplomats have signed a letter urging the Senate Foreign Relations committee to grill Mike Pompeo, who is President Trump's nominee to become the next Secretary of State. The letter, sent to Republican committee chairman Sen. Bob Corker and ranking Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, raises concerns that American diplomacy has been crippled and calls on the committee to question Pompeo on how he plans to fix it.
FEBRUARY 02: U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, a committee member, waits for the beginning of a meeting of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee February 2, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Committee chairman Sen. John Barrasso suspended the rules and passed the confirm of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to become the next administrator of Environmental Protection Agency with only Republican votes, after Democratic members have boycotted the meeting for a second day.
Shake It Up Disney Channel actress Caroline Sunshine has taken on the new role of press assistant under President Trump 's government and is expected to be working under Sarah Sanders after the completion of a White House internship. White House spokesperson Lindsay Walters told CNN that as well as Caroline being an intern, 'in college, she was involved with the American Enterprise Institute and an active member of her school's Model United Nations team.
Add Joe Biden as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Joe Biden news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Former Vice President Joe Biden regrets saying he'd "beat the hell" out of President Donald Trump if they were in high school for how he treats women.
Rep. Mike Coffman said Thursday that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin did not do enough to change the problematic structure within the agency. " Dr. Shulkin did nothing to change the culture within the Department of Veterans Affairs, and there's a calcified layer at the top at the most senior executive services levels that have failed our veterans year after year after year," Mr. Coffman , Colorado Republican, said on CNN.
Attempting a policy reset, President Donald Trump will push for upgrades to the nation's aging roads and bridges Thursday in his first public appearance since an adult-film actress claimed on national TV that they had sex months after his wife gave birth to his fifth child. Trump is visiting Richfield, Ohio, to sell Americans on his plan to use $200 billion in federal money to spur at least $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to repair or replace highways, bridges, ports, airports and other infrastructure.
It's time for Congress to show the same political courage on the opioid crisis that our colleagues showed 30 years ago for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Treat the opioid crisis like the HIV/AIDS epidemic: Elizabeth Warren & Elijah Cummings It's time for Congress to show the same political courage on the opioid crisis that our colleagues showed 30 years ago for the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., speaks at the 19th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit at Zephyr Cove, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei became the subject of national media attention this month when one of his staffers notified administrators at Robert McQueen High School that one of its students had used coarse language in a phone call to the Republican congressman's office.
The election of Donald Trump represents a new low point in the ongoing degradation of US democracy. He says and does things that even Ronald Reagan would have balked at.
There will be a lot of chest-pounding from members of Congress in the next two weeks as they take their long spring break from what they facetiously refer to as "governing." They'll be crowing about what slices of pork in the $1.3 trillion short-term budget measure they brought home - and what riders they slapped on the 2,232-page omnibus bill.
President Donald Trump's most urgent political problem doesn't involve Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin or the hundreds of thousands of voters who marched for gun control. Rather, it's that his diehard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers.
European Union ambassadors discussed on Wednesday possible new sanctions on Iran, diplomats said, under plans aimed at persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to preserve an international nuclear deal with Tehran. The EU could decide to impose the extra measures under discussion in Brussels at a foreign ministers' meeting next month, four diplomats told Reuters.
More Arkansas teachers will have access to computer science training and up to $2,000 in stipends after Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced an expansion of the continuing education program on Wednesday. The K-8 Computer Science Lead Teacher Stipend and Training Program was created in December with $500,000 in seed money; on Wednesday, Hutchinson added $300,000 to the program because interest in the initiative exceeded expectations.
Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road reached their destination Wednesday - House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf. About 50 students set out Sunday from Madison on their "50 Miles More" march.
Keegan Herrod, 6, of Denver , dressed as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, waits in line while hoping to see the justices with her mother, Maeve Felle , Wednesday outside the Supreme Court building in Washington where the justices heard arguments in a gerrymandering case. WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices wrestled Wednesday with how far states may go to craft electoral districts that give the majority party a significant political advantage, delving into an issue that affects elections across the country.
This Tuesday, March 27, 2018, photo provided by the California Highway Patrol shows a helicopter hovering over the scene where a vehicle plunged off a cliff in Northern California near Mendocino, Calif. The California Highway Patrol identified the adult victims Wednesday as Jennifer Hart and Sarah Hart, who died along with a few other children.
President Donald Trump promised during the campaign to stock his White House with "the best people in the world" -- but it's turning out more like "the best people in the immediate circle of people who I directly know." How else can you explain that within the last month or so, we've heard reports that Trump wanted to install his personal pilot as head of the FAA and then this week he installed his doctor as head of the VA? When his campaign needed some help back in 2016, he went to the Republican operative who lived nearest -- literally in Trump Tower -- to take things over: Paul Manafort.
And he recently made one particular cancer patient's day by giving her some words of encouragement via video call to her hospital bed in Idaho. Cierra Shaffer is a 17-year-old battling leukemia at St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Boise.