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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers. AP Photo/J.
In this Sept. 9, 2009, photo, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., center, listens during President Barack Obama's speech on health care to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A presidential address to Congress is always part policy speech, part political theater. With President Donald Trump, a former reality TV star, there's extra potential for drama as he makes his first address to Congress.
The House sergeant-at-arms will stand at the rear of the House of Representatives on Tuesday night and announce the arrival of Donald Trump before a joint session of Congress by intoning: "Mister Speaker, the President of the United States" just like always. Trump will stride down the center aisle to lusty cheers and hearty handshakes from his Republican supporters.
This Dec. 8, 2008, file photo shows the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum.
In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on The Flint Water Crisis. Dr. Hanna-Attisha came to the U.S. with her parents, who were fleeing the regime of Saddam Hussein, has been invited by Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich.
Democrats have invited immigrants and foreigners to President Donald Trump's first address to Congress in an effort to put a face on those who could be hurt by the Republican's policies. Lawmakers typically get one guest ticket apiece for presidential addresses, as they will for Tuesday's prime-time speech, and the invites often go to family, friends or someone from back home.
London, Feb 7 - House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has got embroiled in a controversy after insisting US President Donald Trump should not be allowed to address the lower house of parliament during his state visit. Bercow's extraordinary attack on late Monday reignited controversy over the invitation to Trump, provoking applause from MPs who oppose the US President, and drawing accusations that the Speaker was insulting Britian's closest ally, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
Nikki Haley isn't be the first tough-talking ambassador to the United Nations. But she was direct and candid about how she and the new Trump administration will deal with U.S. allies and enemies.
Barack Obama took to the podium in the press briefing room on Wednesday, the second-to-last day of the first black presidency, and after eight years of that becoming increasingly normal, the moment made it all start to seem strange again. So this whole black leader-of-the-free-world thing really happened, huh? It wasn't that long ago that the idea of a black man in the White House was a side detail in a movie about the apocalypse , a righteous fantasy in an implausible TV thriller , or the high-concept premise of Dave Chappelle skits .
Talking to Valerie Jarrett about her time as senior adviser to President Obama and specifically about that time he sang "Amazing Grace" in Charleston, S.C., on June 26, 2015, got me to thinking about other amazing moments of the Obama presidency. So, before Obama nostalgia hits full-tilt after New Year's Day, here are nine "amazing" moments from his presidency.
The letter titled “Trump is no angel but neither is Clinton,” sent in to the Aiken Standard Oct. 12 by Gregory J. Topliff, missed the mark a little. It seems the writer wanted to say we learned to curse when we were kids, probably from our parents, kids at school or others and we've been cursing ever since and now Donald Trump does it, we came down on him.
Patti LaBelle is running late. But no one here seems to mind. The crowd of staffers, members, Walmart execs and the lucky legislative aide who happened to get "the email," are too busy rubbernecking the passed trays carrying slices of sweet potato pie to notice that the woman of the hour is missing.
Republican-leaning South Carolina probably won't be a major factor in the presidential race, so attention is turning to the 2018 campaign for governor. Incumbent Nikki Haley is constitutionally prevented from seeking a third term, but lots of Republicans are jockeying to succeed her, even with the filing period still 18 months away.
South Carolina Democrats are blasting the decision by S.C. Education Television not to broadcast any political debates this year, saying the public network is cutting off the voice of a rising minority party that's getting stronger. “It is regrettable that SCETV has apparently decided to focus on political punditry rather than informing the public about the choices facing voters this November,” the party said in a statement Friday.
Graham seems to change attitude on Trump: "I like what I see" - WTOC-TV: Savannah, Beaufort, SC, News, Weather & Sports For a while now, Senator Lindsey Graham has let Trump hear it and vowed he would not vote for Trump. For a while now, Sen. Lindsey Graham has let Trump hear it and vowed he would not vote for Trump .
This week a federal judge rejected a third party wanting in on the legal battle between the state of South Carolina and the U.S. Department of Energy over the construction of the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site. And just one day after the judge's order, a scathing letter obtained by the Aiken Standard sent from the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz outlined a number of concerns with the lack of progress over MOX.