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Critics worry that House Republican leaders and Senate Democrats are essentially negotiating a final deal, bypassing formal House-Senate negotiations, where conservatives had hoped to derail the process.
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In May, Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt that he fired then-FBI Director James Comey with “this Russia thing” in mind.
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For that reason alone, he should step down.
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“I’m not aware [that] any justice before has ever commented on the merits or demerits of a presidential candidate,” said Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a frequent contributor to the conservative National Review Online, where he has chronicled this episode and what he deems Ginsburg’s “remarkable record of indiscretions.”
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"I have not heard one example where business owners' religious liberty has been violated."
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Ahead of her remarks in Iowa on Sunday, her campaign said she would not be taking a position on trade until details of a deal were finalized.
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U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold resigned from Congress on Friday, following multiple allegations of sexual harassment, misconduct and inappropriate behavior.
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“We don’t want him. We reject his visit.”
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"Stay tuned -- our position has not changed on Social Security," an AARP spokeswoman said in an email to HuffPost.
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NEW YORK -- U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) set forth a foreign policy vision Wednesday that invoked President John F. Kennedy in an assertive call to project American power abroad.
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When asked about the looming sequester, he said the "best-case scenario" was a "balanced approach" of spending cuts and tax increases.
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In 2007 Mr. Huckabee was quoted as saying, “Climate change is here, it’s real.” But more recently he has minimized it as a threat, and said he opposes “cap and trade” legislation meant to curtail carbon emissions.
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It was the first time she had faced extensive questioning about her role in the episode.
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Republicans have simply put in writing their political strategy which they have pursued over the last two years: obstruct and delay action on critical matters, and then blame the Democrats for not addressing the needs of the American people.
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Ms. Tlaib is far from alone among House Democrats.
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However, The Times reports that the imposition of penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare because the National Archives has so few enforcement mechanisms.
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Shields added the image was meant to serve as art and he's aware that it could make some viewers uncomfortable.
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“As a result, in a manner compliant with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, the issuing of permits is being put on hold as the decision is being removed.”
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“It’s the one word they know in Spanish: mañana.”
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Because these recommendations require congressional approval, the administration is supplementing its proposal with 23 executive actions that will be taken immediately.
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In an interview with Axios published Monday, Dowd brought out a new defense: Trump isn’t guilty of obstructing justice because he is the president.
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The source challenged one major aspect of the story line, insisting that the White House never offered Sestak the job of Secretary of the Navy.
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The Democrats would need 25 seats in the House to regain the majority -- a very steep climb in a year when neither party is particularly popular.
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It goes back to the time of industrialization of America when people came off the farms where they did home-school or have the little neighborhood school, and into these big factories, so we built equal factories called public schools.
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Mr. Netanyahu’s decision to travel to Washington to deliver the speech two weeks before the Israeli elections has “injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship,” Ms. Rice said in an interview on the PBS television program “Charlie Rose.”
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The indictment alleges he spoke “to senior Trump Campaign officials” about WikiLeaks and “information it might have had that would be damaging” to the campaign of Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in the summer before the election.
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Rose asked Rubio what he though of Pope Francis's embrace of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
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“That could be further evidence of an attempt to interfere with the investigation,” Schiff said of Trump’s reported request to Coats and Rogers.
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He did pledge to “eradicate from the face of the Earth” Islamic terrorism.
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Gattine denied to the Portland Press Herald that he ever called the governor a racist.
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In 2008, Mr. Jackson used the money for things like a $466.30 dinner at CityZen in the Mandarin Oriental in Washington and a $5,587.75 vacation at the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat, the document said.
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It would have allowed Sestak to remain in the House of Representatives while advising the president.
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But then Certner acknowledged that AARP believes the program needs to be changed.
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Lee is a former Congressional Black Caucus chairman.
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“And it’s going to be completely useless.”
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“Coming back in for a special session will be discussed and all options around the governor’s political future are on the table,” said the Democratic leader of the Senate, Justin Alfond.
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Like Patrick, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago before attending Milton Academy, Harvard and Harvard Law, Cowan came from a poor background to Boston for education and made a career there.
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After the bruising debt-ceiling fight from 2011, Obama recently warned that he will not "play that game" again.
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The president said Schiff should be “forced” to step down from Congress entirely.
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She’s also the only woman in top House and Senate leadership.
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Strzok, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, played a prominent role in both of the investigations surrounding the Clinton and Trump campaigns during the 2016 election.
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In a letter, obtained by Fox News and signed by every Republican on the committee, the lawmakers slammed Schiff for his claims in the media that there was “more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Among the payments he did not disclose was a $45,000 fee from a Russian state-backed news organization for a speech he gave in Moscow two months before.
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“And it’s not just a few of us. There are a great many in our conference that feel pretty strongly.”
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He doesn't have a birth certificate or he hasn't shown it.
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For now, the question in the case, Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, No. 10-277, is whether hundreds of thousands of female workers have enough in common to join together in a single lawsuit.
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Before the surgery, Scalise was “in good spirits and spoke to his wife by phone,” his office said.
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AARP insisted that the Social Security trust funds should not be raided to reduce the deficit and that the two issues were separate.
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“You may have heard that Governor Romney just chose his running mate, Congressman Ryan.
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But the AARP has told Fox News that Hutchison's proposal is not acceptable.
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With two pillars of his presidential run — his record and his judgment — looking wobbly, Mr. Christie must now build a campaign around his most raw and prodigious asset: his personality, a magnetic mix of quick-witted charm, insult-trading banter, vulnerability, empathy and effrontery.
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Ms. Harris, Ms. Warren and Ms. Gillibrand also joined Mr. Booker and Senator Bernie Sanders in asking supporters to sign their petitions calling for the report’s immediate release.
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In follow-up questioning by Representative Gerald E. Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, Mr. Shulman offered what he said was one of the many plausible explanations why he would have visited the White House.
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Rubio said his priorities and those of the pope's are by necessity different.
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That position — deferring to the will of the voters on a state-by-state basis — may represent something of a compromise between total support or opposition.
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"Instead of facing these challenges and creating jobs to help American people make sure they have a roof over their head and food on their table, we are debating whether or not to affirm and proliferate a motto that was adopted in 1956 and is under no threat of attack," he said.
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Pelosi also described her upcoming role of contrasting Democrats to Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration as a “historic challenge” that goes “beyond politics.”
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On a conference call convened Sunday night by liberal groups, there was notable anger toward Ms. Klobuchar, according to two participants.
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The meeting was the first face-to-face negotiation between the president and the speaker since a session three weeks ago, when they were joined by the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California; the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada; and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
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In blunt and unvarnished terms similar to the language used during his nomination acceptance address last summer, Trump on Friday lamented the jobs lost to foreign rivals – he described “rusted out factories scattered like tombstones” across the land – and the crime in America’s cities.
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For example, if Congress doesn't act on the tax cuts, it means Republicans will be in position to enact their own, retroactive plan starting Jan. 1 without having to make any concessions to Democratic demands for upper-income earners.
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We've got a big challenge, and we've got work to do."
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On another, WikiLeaks wrote it was happy to see the elder Trump mentioning the group on the campaign trail.
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Presidents have declared national emergencies under a 1970s-era law about five dozen times, and 31 of those prior emergencies remain active.
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The report added another jolt to a chaotic week for the White House, which has had to fend off questions about recent revelations that F.B.I. counterintelligence agents began investigating Mr. Trump in 2017 and that Mr. Trump has tried to conceal the details from senior administration officials about his interactions with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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That is what transparency looks like.
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The White House proposals, even officials there admit, are not a cure-all for mass shootings.
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Mr. Sestak said no and went on to win last week’s primary against Senator Arlen Specter.
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I believe in the Golden Rule that you should 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'" Pence wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
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Bloomberg also charged that Trump had "left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies and thousands of lawsuits and angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off."
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In 2007, when Mr. Bloomberg was in the second of his three terms as mayor, the two played together in a charity event at Trump National Golf Club in the city’s northern suburbs.
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Billions of dollars are at stake if it is allowed to go forward.
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You have a bill here that's so toxic it's going to divide this Legislature.
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Some on the House Foreign Affairs Committee also called for Mr. Trump to cancel the Monday session, as did Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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"Steel is more expensive than the concrete, but I feel like we’re talking about steel because the other side feels better about it," he said.
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Listening to Michael R. Bloomberg rage about Donald J. Trump in his speech at the Democratic National Convention this week — labeling him a public menace and hinting that he was not quite sane — it would be easy to think that the two billionaires had a rift going back many years.
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The woman told the New York Daily News that she had never met Weiner, and that there had "never been any inappropriate exchanges" between her and the congressman.
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She doubled down late Monday, telling CNN: “He is a faker.”
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Trump went on to praise Gingrich and Santorum for "having the courage, conviction, and confidence" to agree to the debate.
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Mr. Morell, officials said, acted on his own and not in response to pressure from the State Department.
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Colorado’s rules have no way to prevent “criminal enterprises, gangs and cartels from acquiring marijuana inventory directly from retail marijuana stores,” the lawsuit says.
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Akin is challenging Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill in a race considered key to a GOP Senate majority come 2013.
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He said it was possible that the photo could have been sent from Mr. Weiner’s yFrog account through his Twitter password or through a yFrog password.
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He deemed Trump's economic plan "a con" and "a disaster in the making."
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Daniel Dale, a reporter for The Toronto Star, contacted multiple Republican officials in the state and kept a running report of their responses to the story.
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Mattis joins a growing list of high-profile departures from the administration.
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Senor, who served under the Bush administration as chief spokesman in Iraq and has been a major booster of efforts to escalate U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, noted that Steele’s RNC actually sponsored a conference call for his group to praise Obama’s Afghan surge last year.
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But his tone, compared with his defiant speech early Wednesday after Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination, appeared to soften.
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“There’s a natural process of everybody recognizing that this is not about any individual.”
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That to me is not helpful to him but I'm not going to ask him to resign for Congress."
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Another security review, on June 25, 2012, reported a spike in violence with "foreigners also increasingly targeted."
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"It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs," Santorum said.
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The issues raised by Michael Brown's death, Holder said, have simmered “beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.”
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“We cannot rely on empty promises from those who have already proven to play politics with the lives of Dreamers.
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The White House on Wednesday said that Mr. Obama agreed with Ms. Rice’s assessment, saying he had raised the same concerns several times.
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Stone’s indictment came after his associate Randy Credico, a radio show host, testified before the grand jury.
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The president’s concession paved the way for the House and the Senate to both pass a stopgap spending bill by voice vote.
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In addition, the president is proposing a new initiative that would incentivize police departments to hire more school resource officers and encourage schools to hire more mental health professionals.
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"Both political activity and religious activity are specifically protected by the First Amendment," he said.
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But Biden, as expected, attempted to plow him over with broadsides.
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