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I'm Sally Rinker's campaign manager, and I'd like to tell you some things you may not know about Sally. Although she had filled a vacant seat the prior November, in January 2010 Sally began her term as Vernon's mayor, having been "elected" by the sitting council under the Faulkner Act manager/council form of government.
The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to repeal a banking rule that would let consumers band together to sue their bank or credit card company to resolve financial disputes. Vice President Mike Pence cast the final vote to break a 50-50 tie.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake's decision to bow out of a re-election fight could spur a rush of other Republican candidates who hope to take on his only announced challenger in the 2018 Arizona primary. An open letter alleging widespread sexual harassment in Illinois politics and urging women and their allies to come forward is circulating around the state Capitol.
A Broadway producer who admitted scamming friends and others into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a nonexistent play about opera star Kathleen Battle has been sentenced to six months in jail. A Broadway producer who admitted scamming friends and others into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a nonexistent play about opera star Kathleen Battle has been sentenced to six months in jail.
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Members of Congress from both parties on Tuesday called for an investigation into a $300 million contract awarded to a small company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown of Whitefish, Montana. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority awarded the contract to Whitefish Energy Holdings to help crews restore transmission and distribution lines damaged or destroyed during Hurricane Maria.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) discusses what happened when Republican senators met with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill Tuesday to talk about tax reform. On Tuesday, President Trump tried to build a consensus over his tax reform agenda during a luncheon with Senate Republicans.
American Center for Law and Justice executive director Jordan Sekulow discusses the new controversy surrounding a 2010 uranium deal between the Obama administration and Russia. Republicans on Capitol Hill launched several investigations Tuesday into an Obama-era deal with Russia, during which the U.S. sold uranium, a key component to developing nuclear weapons, to its on-and-off adversary, despite a discovery by the FBI into a Russian bribery plot.
On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake, often an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, announced he would not seek re-election for the Senate in 2018. As Sen. Jeff Flake made his stunning announcement on Tuesday that he will be retiring from the Senate, Jay Heiler, a Treasurer of the Arizona Board of Regents, made it clear that he's leaning toward running for the soon-to-be-vacant congressional seat and that he recently spoke with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon about jumping into the 2018 midterm election battle.
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump's connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said. Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C., firm, to conduct the research.
Democratic congressional challengers have posted very impressive fund-raising tallies so far this year. In the last quarter, nearly three dozen Republican incumbents were outraised by at least one Democratic challenger - an astonishing number against sitting members of Congress.
A federal appeals court handed the U.S. government a victory Tuesday in its fight against lawsuits opposing a decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan directed Brooklyn judges to expeditiously decide if a court can properly review the decision to end in March the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
The Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign helped pay for opposition research that resulted in the salacious intelligence dossier that contained allegations about Donald Trump's connections to Russia, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. According to the report, the firm paid to conduct the research was retained in April 2016 by Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
President Trump has decided to repeal President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which focused on phasing out coal-powered electricity generation. He has the authority to do that, since the Clean Power Plan was an act of a president, not Congress.
Callista Gingrich was sworn in Tuesday as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican during a low-key ceremony at the White House. Mrs. Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, took the oath in an Oval Office ceremony attended by President Trump and others, including her husband.
US Senator Edward Markey Tuesday joined the chorus of elected officials calling on the Veterans Affairs secretary to speed up the investigation into the death of a Vietnam veteran who died at the Bedford VA while a nurse's aide was allegedly playing games on her computer. Markey asked Shulkin to "rectify" the systemic problems at Bedford and other VA facilities around the country to ensure that health care workers are adequately trained and supervised.
Once again, little Andy Cuomo is kicking sand in little Bill de Blasio's face, this time over an East Harlem playground named, aptly enough, for the Marx Brothers. The mayor wants to let a developer, Avalon Bay, put up a 68-story tower on the site .
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the Alaska mountain came up during an hourlong meeting he and fellow Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski had with Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in March. Sullivan said during a weekend speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives that Trump asked if the senators thought the name change from Mount McKinley to Denali should be reversed, the Alaska Public Radio Network reported .
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to reauthorize a key, widely used foreign surveillance law that is set to expire at the end of the year. The vote was 12-3 to advance the measure to the full Senate.