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In October, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Mattis of being a Democrat — a charge akin to treason in the current Republican administration.
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“I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man," Holder said.
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Despite Mr. Trump’s promises that Mexico will pay for his border wall, Mr. Fox vowed in February that it would never happen.
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However, they did read the 21st Amendment, which repealed prohibition in 1933 and is still in force.
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But Congress often scales back the administration's requests, and not just for the State Department.
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"The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with Nancy Pelosi, who have expressed their concerns about the impact that a weak agreement would have on our workers, to make sure we get the best, strongest deal possible and if we don't get it, there should be no deal."
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And the responses to Mr. Trump’s comments among news media critics, over time, have been far more subdued.
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“If there is a human involved, there is a high probability you’re going to get somewhere investigatively,” he told The Associated Press.
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“I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize," Trump said.
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The U.S. Capitol Police so far have not opened an investigation into the matter.
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Patrick said it was important to have black elected officials, adding, "the commonwealth and the country [are] changing."
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After reporter Michael Scotto finished his report, Grimm stormed back, leaned into him and said, "Let me be clear to you.
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It is from that sizable collection of House Democrats that she draws her picks for smaller leadership posts, making her a powerful ally and, for those like Mr. Ryan who have challenged her, a formidable opponent.
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Ms. Lerner then left the hearing room with her lawyer to a whir of camera shutters.
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Corker suggested that Republicans instead focus on extracting entitlement cuts as part of the debt-ceiling negotiations.
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He continued: “You might think that it’s O.K. that the national security-designate secretly conferred with the Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions.
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It is much rarer for a member of the congressional leadership to lose a primary.
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... And, for the sake of the security of the free world, our country must give our troops the support necessary to win this war."
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Trump later confirmed in the Rose Garden, "Absolutely I said that," while clarifying he hopes the partial shutdown doesn't last more than a few more days.
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Mr. Doyle did not hold the trophy for long.
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The announcement prompted a flurry of responses, from Democrats praising his statements to Republicans decrying them.
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Straightforward, fair, reasonable and common sense with lots of compromise.”
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A Cuba policy that is stuck in the Cold War.
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Republicans and Democrats, in their reactions to the president’s support for same-sex marriage, said they saw a newly wide, and seemingly unbridgeable, gap between the two leaders on the issue.
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His appointment makes Mr. Cowan the second black member to be seated in the current Senate, after Tim Scott of South Carolina was appointed by Gov. Nikki R. Haley.
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Dennis accused the NAACP of playing the "race card" and called the organization "irrelevant."
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One Strzok text in particular vowed to "stop" Trump from becoming president.
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F.B.I. agents were also seen carting hard drives and other evidence from Mr. Stone’s apartment in Harlem, and his recording studio in South Florida was also raided.
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As HuffPost reported Wednesday, the administration optedto lift the 2014 ban after determining that sport hunting of elephants in those African countries would “enhance the survival of the species in the wild,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
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"The Supreme Court is not the supreme being," he said.
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The real-estate developer also reacts defensively when his success is questioned.
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Ryan, in his first one-on-one interview since being named Saturday as Mitt Romney’s running mate, told Fox News on Tuesday he thinks Medicare can be a winning issue for their campaign.
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It would dramatically expand voting access, create publicly funded House elections, enhance the transparency of money in politics, restore voting rights to millions of ex-felons, strengthen executive branch ethics law and end partisan gerrymandering.
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"So I think this is serious. And I'm willing to give her or anyone who defends her the benefit of defending it or explaining it, but on its face, it seems to be rather serious."
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“The Mueller report needs to be made public, the underlying investigative materials should be handed over to Congress, and Barr must testify.
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And notably, the word "wall" does not appear once in the 1,768 pages of legislation and explanatory materials.
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He also praised the campaign that Mr. Sanders ran.
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That created a fight among Republicans in Congress, with some – including conservatives such as Sen. Marco Rubio, a Tea Party lawmaker from Florida – arguing that deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants was not a realistic option, and that not doing anything to bring them onto the radar amounted to an amnesty.
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The changes came amid immense national backlash, with dozens of politicians, business leaders and celebrities speaking out against the bill.
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But none of the emergencies have involved the president of the United States spending money that had not been specifically appropriated by Congress.
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"The time for political games has long passed.
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He also vowed to protect Medicare and give states more of a say in government and education.
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“What the president is interested in is working with Congress to achieve a deal that avoids the fiscal cliff and, beyond that, addresses our long-term fiscal challenges in a balanced way.
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He chuckled and smirked through many of Ryan's responses.
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President Trump’s immigration compromise package to end the partial government shutdown drew sharp reactions from Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike.
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“Each of the plaintiffs have very different stories,” he said.
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Signing the letter were over a dozen Georgetown Jesuit priests, numerous members of the Theology and other departments including History, Government, Philosophy, School of Foreign Service and School of Nursing & Health Studies.
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That the administration wavered over its public declarations of the cause of the assault -- repeatedly citing the video before eventually confirming that it was clearly an act of terrorism -- was widely interpreted among critics as evidence of a desire to suppress or conceal the truth.
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For the same reason, some leading business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Associated General Contractors of America, have withdrawn support for the infrastructure spending bill, though Mr. Obama cited the Chamber as a supporter in his remarks.
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The Post reporters talked to more than 30 sources in the course of their investigation.
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He accused Obama of carrying out a confusing policy on the civil war in Libya, saying "nobody knows what's happening, and now it looks like (Libyan strongman Moammar) Gadhafi is going to beat the United States."
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“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States,” the commentator Ann Coulter, who has aggressively pushed Mr. Trump to keep his campaign promise on the wall, wrote on Twitter.
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Ryan, since introducing the budget last month, has talked about the doctrine in several interviews including one a couple weeks ago on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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Mr. Schiff said he hoped the committee would issue the subpoenas this week, before Congress leaves for a one-week recess.
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Max Richtman, executive vice president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, an advocacy group in Washington, said the timing of AARP’s statements was particularly bad because it came in the midst of deliberations between the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans about the debt ceiling and overall deficit reduction.
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The real problem, he said, is progressivism, scrawling the word with chalk on his signature blackboard. “This is the disease in America,” he said.
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But members of Mr. Trump’s staff — alarmed by his rapid embrace of Mr. Lieberman, a charming 75-year-old political operator with no federal law enforcement experience — have quietly urged him to take more time to make such a critical hire.
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Cornyn, according to the source, told him the party is concerned his presence in the race could hurt Republicans' chances of winning the Senate majority.
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Outside the White House, the search for a way out is getting more urgent.
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It has been prosecuted by the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama.
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Lawmakers and other officials said that the president could use a public event as soon as Wednesday to signal his intention to engage in the biggest Congressional fight over guns in nearly two decades, focusing on the heightened background checks and including efforts to ban assault weapons and their high-capacity clips.
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The president has said he will not meet with Mr. Netanyahu during his visit to avoid any appearance that he is trying to influence the Israeli elections that are scheduled for mid-March.
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Brat is married and has two children, an 11-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son.
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In the film, the character testifies and “claims not to know critical information that he does in fact know,” the indictment recounts.
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On Monday, Mr. Priebus said in an appearance on Fox News that Mrs. Clinton’s decision to delete her emails “is criminal in nature.”
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“They were really nice and they were really listening.
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Shortly after their meeting, Mr. Obama endorsed Mrs. Clinton in a video.
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(The lawsuit) certainly was a surprise to me given the movement at the federal level, which seems to be in favor of allowing states to experiment."
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As he announced the deal, Mr. Trump paid tribute to the federal workers who have endured five weeks without pay, expressing sympathy for them in a way he had not until now.
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The surge of support for the fast-food chain came after Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy said the Atlanta-based company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family."
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It would require presidents and vice presidents, as well as candidates for the nation’s highest offices, to release at least 10 years of federal tax returns — Mr. Trump has released none — and it stipulates that inaugural committees must disclose their expenditures.
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Mr. Collins, who is accused of passing insider information to his son about a drug company on whose board he served, has said he expects to be “fully vindicated and exonerated.”
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They have raised their offer on border security funding considerably and toughened their rhetoric on stopping illegal immigration.
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The continuing controversy over the attack, which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, has cast a cloud over Mrs. Clinton’s final months at the State Department.
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The president argues that fights over the debt ceiling merely shake global confidence in the country's ability to pay its bills, and as part of talks over the looming fiscal crisis has called for a de facto permanent increase in the debt limit.
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“Putting aside the question as to why or by whom such documents, provided to Congress under promises of confidentiality, have been selectively leaked, we can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents and any questions raised about them have been easily answered in the appropriate forum.”
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Democrats want them extended for all but the wealthy, while Republicans want them extended for everybody.
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The pushback crested with Bill Kristol — still an influential voice among Republican lawmakers — writing a letter to Steele on his Weekly Standard site calling for the RNC leader’s resignation.
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And I said, ’Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re going to go in there, and we’re going to impeach the motherfucker.”
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Based on the fact that Strzok was in charge of the Witch Hunt, will it be dropped?
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They maintain that that giving those immigrants any kind of break would amount to amnesty, or rewarding law-breakers.
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The tea party group has pulled other legislators to the right on a host of issues, including many related to government spending and debt.
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“Already did that earlier today,” Mr. Trump said in response.
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Glenn Beck Rips Progressivism at CPAC
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"If any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to Medicare, it's Barack Obama."
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Rubio responded that the Kennedy statements represented "timeless" truths.
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A grand jury in San Diego indicted the Hunters on charges of filing false campaign finance records, saying the couple misused more than $250,000 after a two-year investigation.
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Twitter, which initially said Mr. Jones and Infowars had not violated its policies, later suspended the two accounts for a week for violating rules against inciting violence.
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The moment now turns to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. The country is watching."
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tweeted about her opposition to the restaurant, and West Hollywood bar The Abbey introduced a "Chick-for-Gay" sandwich as a protest against the chain.
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But the address was stitched together, more broadly, by an appeal for a “new national pride” and a rediscovery of American patriotism, as he described this as a salve for the country’s divisions.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) met for nearly an hour on Thursday evening in their latest attempt to break the impasse on impending tax hikes and spending cuts.
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Mr. Holder’s first stop was at a community college, where he met with people who told him about their own personal experiences with the local police, some of which they said helped fuel the rage that was ultimately ignited by the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer on Aug. 9.
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Little Rock's mayor, the city's Chamber of Commerce and Arkansas-based data services company Acxiom all urged the governor to reject the measure in recent days.
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"It's incredibly unusual for a state to be suing another state.
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Clinton has not yet announced a presidential bid.
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But, he added, “if we can make some compromises here for the good of the country, I think we have a very good chance for the first time in a long time of changing something that is really damaging all of us.”
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"As I said yesterday, Todd Akin's comments were offensive and wrong and he should very seriously consider what course would be in the best interest of our country," said Romney in a statement.
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Everything but immunity, he added.
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Even before the speech, Huckabee was trying to position himself as the GOP candidate best equipped to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner.
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