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From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, make statements to reporters as work gets underway on the Senate's version of the GOP tax reform bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. less From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, make statements to reporters as work gets underway on the ... more US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, holds up talking points from the Republican Senate tax reform bill during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 9, 2017.
On Tuesday, Maine became the first state in the nation to expand Medicaid through a ballot initiative. Just after 10 p.m., the Associated Press called the race in favor of the measure expanding government health insurance to more than 80,000 low-income residents.
Keith Heard, a DC lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies, is often mistaken for Steve Bannon. Keith Heard, former chief of staff for Sen. Thad Cochran, is a lobbyist and president of Key Impact Strategies.
Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee work to shape the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017.
In this Oct. 26, 2017, photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, whose panel is charged with writing tax law, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are promoting their tax-cutting plan as needed relief for the stressed American middle class and a catalyst for job creation.
Rep. Frederica S. Wilson has avoided Washington, D.C., in recent days because sheA a a s received A a A"racist and rudeA a A threats following her clash with President Donald Trump and members of his administration. Wilson was the congresswoman riding in a limo alongside Myeshia Johnson when Trump called the widow to issue condolences on the death of her husband, Sgt.
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It's one thing to read about the United States in the news every day, or hear about the growing sociopolitical insanity from friends via the Internet. It is another thing altogether to come back to the land of one's birth and citizenship for a few weeks, and to observe it all directly.
Lawyers representing 18 states and the District of Columbia will ask a federal judge in California to block the Trump administration from terminating cost-sharing subsidies aimed at helping lower income individuals afford health insurance. Judge Vince Chhabria of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, could rule on the motion for a temporary restraining order as early as this week.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a call as senators arrive for votes at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, leaves the Senate floor after a vote, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump successfully pushed to get a family-focused tax credit included in the Republican tax overhaul proposal.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao had planned to fly commercial to Detroit in early June for events on the future of American roads. Then days before, the White House derailed her plans, organizing an "infrastructure week" speech in Washington alongside President Donald Trump.
Chalk it up to crisis legislating, which is the new normal on Washington, D.C., where every issue is taken right to the deadline and beyond. Funding expired Sunday for the Children's Health Insurance Program, a program that ensures children in low- to moderate-income families have access to health care.
A protestor shouts at cops with a bullhorn on Wilshire Boulevard, outside the Federal Building in Westwood, Calif., as DACA supporters square off with LAPD on deadline day for DACA renewals Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. less A protestor shouts at cops with a bullhorn on Wilshire Boulevard, outside the Federal Building in Westwood, Calif., as DACA supporters square off with LAPD on deadline day for DACA renewals Thursday, Oct. 5, ... more Gustavo Andrade, left, and activists from United We Dream, an immigrant youth-led organization, leave the Senate Hart Office Building after taking their advocacy message to Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.
Trump has at times appeared to undercut Tillerson's message on some of America's most sensitive national security challenges, including Iran and North Korea The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented: a sitting US secretary of state took to the microphone to pledge his fealty to the president - despite his well-documented unhappiness in the job and the growing presumption in Washington that he is a short-timer. Rex Tillerson said Wednesday he would stay as long as US President Donald Trump wants him to , and Trump said he has "full confidence" in the former ExxonMobil chief executive.
11, 2017, photo, jars of marijuana buds are displayed in Washington at a closed Ethiopian restaurant at a "gifted" marijuana event. In the so-called "District of Cannabis" it's legal to grow and consume mariju... .
Opinion: For some Americans, Canadian health care is a source of envy. But the 'Medicare for All' plan shows that our system could use a shake-up, too Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017.