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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks with DREAMERS who are holding a 4-day fast on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept.
The way President Donald Trump talked about the meeting with congressional leadership Wednesday, it would be easy to forget Republicans were even there. It's too early to tell whether Trump's willingness to strike a deal with Democrats to fund the government in the short-term was a sign of a new strategy to work across the aisle, or simply an impulsive decision from a president already frustrated with his own party.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is rejecting a Democratic idea to tie Harvey aid to a three-month increase in the debt limit. A day after they returned to work from their summer recess, congressional leaders met with President Trump at the White House Wednesday on issues from tax reform to hurricane Irma preparedness and disaster aid for Harvey affected areas.
President Donald Trump turned to Democrats for a second straight day on Thursday to try to resolve the fate of so-called Dreamers brought illegally into the United States as children, a day after stunning his fellow Republicans by striking a deal with the opposition party on U.S. debt and federal spending. The Senate was expected to vote on Thursday afternoon on the deal Trump hammered out with Democrats on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump will host Speaker Paul Ryan at the White House residence Thursday evening, according to the president's daily schedule, the day after Trump took a deal that may favor the Democrats on debt ceiling negotiations. Trump met with congressional leaders of both parties Wednesday, and decided to back a three-month lift of the debt ceiling, combined with funding for Hurricane Harvey relief and a continuing resolution to fund the government.
Last fall, amid the smoldering ruins of the 2016 presidential election, defeats in Congress, statehouses and governor's mansions across the land, Joe Hoeffel had one urge: To put his fellow Democrats on the couch, to diagnose their problems, and to help them find a way out of the wilderness. "I was so disappointed in so much of what's happened lately," said Hoeffel, who represented Montgomery County's 13th Congressional District in Washington for three terms between 1999 and 2004.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.
President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with, from left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have a packed schedule when Congress returns this week. Lawmakers have less than two weeks of legislative days to head off a government shutdown, raise the nation's borrowing limit and provide financial assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities President Peter McPherson today sent the following letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan , Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer expressing strong support for swift congressional action that would, at a minimum, codify the provisions of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy into law. On behalf of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities I write to strongly support swift congressional action which will, at a minimum, codify the provisions of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy into law.
Affirming its disdain for "Obamacare," the Trump administration on Thursday announced sharp cuts in programs promoting health care enrollment under the Affordable Care Act for next year. Advertising will be cut from $100 million spent on 2017 sign-ups to $10 million, said Health and Human Services officials.
Democrats have a clear vision for how they'd lead the country if in power, and the Republican president has been in office for less than eight months. A Better Deal - the Democrat's new economic development and job creation manifesto - was presented to us Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a meeting at The Denver Post.
" Hundreds of masked, black-clad anarchists who overwhelmed a peaceful California protest and assaulted at least five perceived political enemies have reignited the debate over ensuring free speech while protecting public safety in the city where the U.S. free speech movement was born in the 1960s. After planned weekend rallies were violently disrupted or canceled, supporters of President Donald Trump and other politically conservative activists complained their free speech rights were blocked by liberal politicians who they say incited left-wing extremists.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that the Department of Defense is spending five times more on Viagra than it would on "transition-related care" for transgenders had President Donald Trump not ordered the Pentagon to bar transgenders from the military. "A study commissioned by the Department of Defense itself found that the cost of providing medically necessary care for transgender troops would be miniscule," Pelosi said in a press release put out Friday .
Rep. Tim Ryan speaks to reporters after the House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill on Nov. 30, 2016. Rep. Tim Ryan , whose aggressive campaigning for local and congressional Democratic candidates has drawn attention this summer, is the star of a new ad from a Republican group - one that recasts him as a supporter of tax reform.
Protesters opposing a right-wing "freedom rally" in liberal San Francisco have claimed victory after the event was cancelled when city chiefs walled off a park. The rally organiser claimed the draconian move was more about silencing his group's message than preventing a violent clash, but civic leaders in San Francisco, a cradle of the free speech movement that prides itself on its tolerance, repeatedly voiced concerns that the Patriot Prayer event would lead to a clash with counter-demonstrators.
A former U.S. attorney will lead an independent review of Charlottesville's response to three white nationalist rallies, the largest of which ended in deadly violence, the city announced Friday.