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Donald Trump, then president-elect, shakes hands with then-President Barack Obama during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 10, 2016. WASHINGTON - When he was Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA's disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon.
Bay State lawmen are taking note after President Trump's no-nonsense approach to illegal immigration appears to have had a major impact on the southern border, where arrests have plummeted by 40 percent in the past month. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, a vocal hardliner against illegal immigration locally, said the drop may indicate that coyotes - or human smugglers - will now be looking for new routes into the U.S. "You know they are thinking now how to beat the system.
ICE COLD: After four decades in public office, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey may see his political career end in 2020. Actually, that would be 2020, which is the year Markey next has to face the voters of the state he used to live in, which is Massachusetts.
CONSTITUENT SERVICES? Three months ago, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren voted against a health bill that had Massachusetts as a major beneficiary. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the GOP plan to replace Obamacare will hurt sick people yet she was among just a handful of senators to vote against a bipartisan Obama-sponsored health measure that's targeting billions at medical research, including for her home state.
FRIEND ME: President Trump, seen yesterday at a meeting with leaders of small community banks, is trying to forge alliances with former campaign opponents. President Trump has launched a charm offensive to rope in erstwhile rivals whose help he needs as he focuses on governing and passing legislation.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan uses charts and graphs to make his case for the GOP's health-care bill. It's time to put an end to the myth that Republicans believe in fiscal responsibility.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan explains the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. The draft legislative texts that will make up the American Health Care Act cleared two House committees this week amid vociferous complaints about the legislation, seemingly from all quarters.
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The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act authorized $178 million for heroin and opioid abuse efforts, including expanded access to naloxone, an overdose antidote, promotion of alternatives to incarceration and state assistance for the development and maintenance of prescription drug databases. Although the bipartisan bill garnered 92 Senate votes, Republicans blocked funding, saying they would look at boosting drug treatment and prevention programs separately in future spending bills.
Lee Anne Sgro writes to complain that people are unable to get through by telephone to Sen. Pat Toomey and Rep. Tim Murphy and that they have not attended "town hall meetings organized by their constituents" . Let's stop the pretense.
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate." - Friedrich Nietzsche It was a hot summer in 1987, and there I sat at 2 a.m. on the floor of a semi-air-conditioned government office listening to about 30 aging hippies sing, "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events THOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMP'S opening weeks have been chaotic and dispiriting, the nation's new chief executive has still managed to make a few good choices. One of his best was nominating Rod J. Rosenstein to be the No.
Democrats denouncing the new House GOP health-care bill should actually be dancing in the streets. Perhaps, in the privacy of their own homes, the savvier ones are popping the champagne corks.
President Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 3. We shouldn't blithely move on to other matters until we deal with the institutional carnage inflicted upon us by President Trump. The current president of the United States has accused former president Barack Obama of committing a felony by having him wiretapped.
David C. Frederick is a lawyer at the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick who specializes in Supreme Court and appellate practice. As a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates and progressive causes, I understand the anger at the Republicans' mistreatment of Judge Merrick Garland after he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.
Last weekend, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama - without any evidence - of ordering Trump's phones to be wiretapped during last year's presidential campaign. It was only the most recent in a bewildering number of conspiracy theories the president and his circle have embraced over the past year.
Excerpts from opinions written by Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver: Addressing a long-running boundary dispute involving the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservations in Utah, August 2016:. "We're beginning to think we have an inkling of Sisyphus's fate.
President DonaldTrump has no evidence for his incendiary claim that Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower, and denials have come not just from the former president and his director of national intelligence but from Jim Comey - the man Trump has showered with praise and retained as his FBI director. "The president firmly believes that the Obama administration may have tapped into the phones at Trump Tower," Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared on NBC's "Today" show Monday morning.
The long awaited "replace" has arrived. The battle is now joined. A mainstream media wholly invested in the political failure of a replacement to Obamacare will not be helpful.