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House Republicans surveying the midterm election landscape are sharpening their message and assessing their standing with voters after watching their colleagues' wipeout in high-profile primary elections. Republican congressmen lost across the board in key races Tuesday.
A source close to Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said Wednesday that the third-term Democrat is considering running for New York attorney general in the wake of Eric Schneiderman's resignation, a surprise this week that has set off a burst of competition for an office that was not on the political radar.
Wholesale opioid distributors say they now are able to recognize and stop suspicious drug orders, telling Congress on Tuesday they're in a position to stop the kinds of mistakes that led to millions of pills flooding West Virginia towns beginning a decade ago. Yet all but one of the five companies hauled before the House Energy and Commerce Committee refused to take responsibility for fueling the U.S. addiction crisis that surged from 2007 to 2012, drawing a fierce rebuke from a West Virginia lawmaker who said his constituents are still dying.
WASHINGTON May 8, 2018; Emily Druckman writing for the RFA reported that this morning, President Trump convened a meeting at the White House with Sens. Chuck Grassley , Joni Ernst , Ted Cruz , and Pat Toomey , for yet another discussion on the Renewable Fuel Standard . As a result of the meeting, it appears consensus was reached regarding allowing the year-round use of E15, a positive step forward for the ethanol industry.
Two Democratic senators have sent a letter to telecom company AT&T demanding information on payments the company made to a consulting firm owned by Michael Cohen, Donald John Trump McConnell trolls Blankenship on Twitter: 'Thanks for playing, Don' Pittenger loses GOP primary fight Blankenship concedes GOP Senate primary in W. Va. MORE FCC chair meets Sprint, T-Mobile execs This week: Senate tees off net neutrality showdown Dem senators urge FDA to remove powerful opioids from the market MORE and Richard Blumenthal wrote to AT&T on Wednesday requesting information on the deal, which Blumenthal says could have been used to influence President Trump on his administration's policies favoring the abandonment of net neutrality.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to close out the legislative session for the last time in his gubernatorial career. For the two-term Democrat, who is not seeking re-election in November, the traditional post-legislative session address to the General Assembly shortly after midnight, early Thursday, will mark a milestone in his complicated relationship with the General Assembly.
Last month, news broke that Bain Capital invested in Sustainable Restaurant Group, the Portland-based company behind eco-friendly Japanese restaurant and its fast-casual, poke-happy compatriot Quickfish . Folks may know Bain Capital as Mitt Romney's old stomping grounds, a private equity firm that accrued a heaping pile of bad press around 2012.
Trump must craft a treaty that keeps Iran's nuclear weapons program dormant, clamps down on its support of terrorism and ends its ballistic weapons tests. President Donald Trump holds up a national security presidential memorandum on Iran after announcing plans to pull out of Iran nuclear deal.
The Trump administration signaled Wednesday that it intends to pull back on investigating potential abuses by companies in the $1.5 trillion student loan market. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will shutter its student lending office, according to a bureau-wide memo written by its acting director, Mick Mulvaney.
The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads. At stake are hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars in federal funding that would be needed to either revamp existing buildings or construct new factories to support the work.
This 1995 file booking photo taken in West Palm Beach, Fla., and released by the FBI shows Francis P. "Cadillac Frank" Salemme. Opening statements are expected Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in federal court in Boston, in the trial of the ex-mafia boss Salemme and co-defendant Paul Weadick.
Democratic Party voters turned out in larger numbers than past primaries this year - but does that signal a blue wave crashing in November? Hello, all! Did you vote yesterday? You probably want to know how that all turned out, eh? Or heck, maybe you were like me and stayed glued to the Hamilton County Board of Elections' site all night. Either way, let's take a look at how the whole thing went.
A Russian company accused of funding a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 presidential election pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court in Washington. The court appearance was the first by any of the Russian defendants accused by special counsel Robert Mueller of participating in a covert social media campaign aimed in part at helping Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun thanks supporters after winning the republican primary in Whitestown, Ind., Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Braun faced Todd Rokita and Luke Messer in the Republican primary race.
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., calls on a reporter during a news conference with House Republicans who are collecting signatures on a petition to force House votes on immigration legislation, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
In the counties shown in red, Republican Mike DeWine received more votes than Democrat Richard Cordray in their separate Ohio gubernatorial primaries on Tuesday. Yet the counties where Cordray had more votes, shown in blue, are most of Ohio's large counties.
Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday that he'll veto a House Republican's primary season attempt to chip away at abortion rights, calling it a "dangerous and unconscionable attack on women's healthcare." The legislation sponsored by Rep. Rick Saccone, of Allegheny County, would ban abortion at as early as six weeks, which is before most women even know they're pregnant.
The defeat of North Carolina incumbent U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger in his Republican primary could give Democrats a wider opening to win the seat and control the House. Pittenger became the first congressional incumbent to lose this year when the Rev.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday demanded President Donald Trump withdraw his nominee of Brian Benczkowski to head the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, claiming his ties to a Russian bank could undermine the special counsel's probe. Mr. Benczkowski , currently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis , ran the Trump transition team at the Justice Department .
Senate Republicans pressed ahead with one of President Trump's appeals court picks Wednesday despite opposition from both home-state senators, in what Democrats said marks a new low in the GOP's push to fill the courts with conservative judges. Both Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon's two Democratic senators, are opposing Ryan W. Bounds , a lawyer Mr. Trump has tapped to sit on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.