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His family has been a household name in California politics for decades, and his father, also named Duncan Hunter, served in the U.S. House for nearly 30 years until handing the reins to his son. | 0 | 0 | neu |
I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Flynn stepped down in February, saying that he had misled the transition team, including then Vice President-elect Mike Pence, about the extent of his contacts with Russian officials, which included discussing sanctions and the creation of a backchannel with the Kremlin. | 0 | 0 | neu |
During a press conference Monday, President Obama even acknowledged that the country now knows that "clearly (the staff in Benghazi) were not in a position where they were adequately protected." | 1 | 0 | lex |
Dempsey said: "I would call myself surprised that she didn't." | 1 | 0 | lex |
Kevin Sabet, president of anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, applauded the action by Nebraska and Oklahoma. | 1 | 0 | lex |
That day, Mr. Trump defended his role in the Trump Tower Moscow discussions, brushing aside concerns that he was advancing his business interests at the time he was hoping to become president. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Braley's remarks were released Tuesday by America Rising, a conservative political action committee which conducts opposition research on Democrats. | 0 | 1 | info |
Combined, Obama's clarification and Reid's opposition represent a double dose of bad news for progressives and even Republicans who believed that a strong case could be made in favor of Cordoba House. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"I believe we must do more than simply paper over the cracks," said Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, one of a handful of House Democrats to endorse Ryan. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The article omits key information regarding how a classified intelligence collection program is used to prevent terrorist attacks and the numerous safeguards that protect privacy and civil liberties," he said of the Guardian story. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Shanahan is a former Boeing executive who joined the Pentagon in July 2017. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I have five candidates, plus two, two that are unknown to anybody,” Mr. Trump said from Chicago, where he was raising money for his campaign. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Strzok exchanged texts with former FBI official Lisa Page that disparaged Trump as well as other politicians, including various Democrats. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Like most Americans, the president believes we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case one from many years ago, to destroy a person’s life," Sanders said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He obtained his weapons legally, despite having been investigated by the FBI several times. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The world laughs at us. They won't be laughing if I'm elected president." | 0 | 0 | neu |
A series of explosive reports over the last week have heightened the appearance that Trump interfered with the investigation. | 1 | 0 | lex |
"To not read the full document, including all the text that was later amended, is to fail to acknowledge the struggle our nation has constantly fought, within and without, to 'keep' our Republic," he said in a written statement. | 1 | 0 | lex |
On Sunday, Ms. Zimmer issued a statement saying prosecutors in Mr. Fishman’s office had interviewed her about her accusation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
While in Ferguson, Holder met with federal officials investigating the case, as well as Brown's parents. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This decision should be deeply troubling to all Americans,” Mr. Goelman added. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I think we need to be very, very careful not to let partisanship undermine the integrity not only of the committee but our investigation and our work product,” he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This bill is a massive federal government takeover that would undermine the integrity of our elections,” Mr. McCarthy said in a speech on Friday, in an attack on “this new, Democrat, socialist majority.” | 0 | 1 | info |
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mrs. Clinton sought to put the events in Benghazi in a regional context, noting the presence of a group in northern Mali affiliated with Al Qaeda. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Intelligence Committee Republicans’ letter concluded, “Your actions both past and present are incompatible with your duty as Chairman of this Committee, which alone in the House of Representatives has the obligation and authority to provide effective oversight of the U.S. intelligence community.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trying to regain momentum after losing a grinding two-month battle with lawmakers over funding the wall, Mr. Trump asserted that the flow of drugs, criminals and illegal immigrants from Mexico constituted a profound threat to national security that justified unilateral action. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Republicans won control of the House in 2010 partly by arguing that Democrats had raided Medicare to pay for Mr. Obama’s health care law. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Most Americans oppose Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration, according to polls. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“These terrorizing acts are despicable and have no place in our country,” he said. | 0 | 1 | info |
How are we gonna have verification of that?" McCain said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The line was an unscripted addition to a speech in which Bloomberg criticized Democrats, but argued that Trump was a “dangerous demagogue” and a bad businessman who would be a disastrous president. | 0 | 1 | info |
BuzzFeed’s original reporting sent Democrats on Capitol Hill into a furor as it suggested that Trump may have obstructed justice, thus providing grounds for impeachment or criminal charges. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the public relations offensive is being met with public expressions of outrage from Mr. Obama’s base, including the most liberal members of Congress and spokesmen for interest groups on the left. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He and Mrs. Trump, a former model from Slovenia who became the first foreign-born first lady since John Quincy Adams’s wife, Louisa, started the day with a service at St. John’s Episcopal Church adjacent to Lafayette Square, then joined the Obamas, Bidens and Pences for coffee at the White House. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He told the newspaper that he expected legislation clarifying the law to be introduced in the General Assembly this week, but offered no details. | 0 | 1 | info |
The provisions — “one on roving authority for electronic surveillance and the other on the acquisition of business records that are relevant to investigations to protect against international terrorism or espionage” — were added to the 1978 law by the Patriot Act. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump told NBC News in an interview that plans to decide by June whether to run. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Using hand gestures, multiple impersonations and his infamous chalkboard, he took the usual swipes at Democrats. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I feel very badly for Gen. Flynn,” Trump told reporters before leaving for a trip to Utah, saying that Flynn’s life has been “ruined.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
For the country, it could be four years. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“She has committed no crime except to follow me on Twitter.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Her outburst ran counter to all Democratic talking points. | 1 | 0 | lex |
He was also expected to be charged with obstruction of justice, for allegedly lying under oath in a federal lawsuit. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republican Whip Steve Scalise called on Democrats to match Trump's willingness to negotiate. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In a 30-minute speech that focused on his humble beginnings, Huckabee vowed to end “stagnant wages,” protect Medicare and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The solution to this impasse was to separate funding the government from our disagreements over border security,” Schumer said, adding that “we can never hold American workers hostage again.” | 0 | 1 | info |
But it does not extend to civil unions, registered domestic partnerships or other legal relationships, the Treasury said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"You talk about magnets -- you put in place a magnet." | 0 | 1 | info |
At the time, he repeatedly said he would not allow the incident to distract him from his job, as he likened what he described as a "prank" to somebody shouting out an insult or throwing a pie during a speech. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I think politics needs to be set aside here, and I hope this doesn’t lead to name-calling,” said Mr. Mattioli, who joined Mr. Hutchinson at the news conference. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The New Haven Register on July 20, 2006, described him as “a veteran of the Vietnam War,” and on April 6, 2007, said that the attorney general had “served in the Marines in Vietnam.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
In the meantime, about 800,000 federal employees ― about half furloughed, half deemed “essential” and required to work anyway ― face real problems with their household finances. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Summers said that he doesn't think that Congress would take a step that "materially increases the risk that this economy will stall out." | 0 | 0 | neu |
"My son Seth signed the petition asking me, Dad, the governor, to veto this bill," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He kept a home in suburban Richmond and sent his children to school there, but he spent much of his time in recent years traveling across the country to raise money and campaign for Republican candidates. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the members of Congress, their staffs, Capitol Police, first responders, and all others affected,” he said in a statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But fellow Republicans suggested that he had not. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And, Mr. Rubio will offer his greater vision of the country’s broader role in the world. | 1 | 0 | lex |
During that trip, he was photographed at a gala sitting next to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. | 0 | 0 | neu |
She doesn’t smoke, drinks occasionally and eats a diet rich in protein. | 0 | 0 | neu |
While the document dump does soften some of the more critical theories that have arisen with respect to the White House's handling of the events in Benghazi, it could also embolden critics who now see an administration willing to accommodate demands for documents. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Earnest also said the Indiana law was a "significant expansion" of current law. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Trump told Axios that while he initially believed he needed a constitutional amendment or action by Congress to make the change, the White House Counsel’s Office has advised him otherwise. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I’m distressed to hear you think that judges of the Supreme Court is an organ of a party,” Gorsuch told Whitehouse. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Mr. Ryan compared the idea of doing so to Barack Obama’s 2012 action to grant work permits and deportation reprieves to some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, which Republicans, including Mr. Trump, vociferously protested as a naked abuse of presidential power. | 0 | 1 | info |
Sasha, 13, wore a maroon dress, a cardigan sweater, a pair of white midcalf-high socks and black ankle boots. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Thibodeau said many Senate Republicans were still deciding whether or not Mr. LePage’s apology and promise to seek “spiritual guidance” had allayed their concerns about the governor — a process that could deepen their divide with Republicans in the House and pull the controversy into a second week. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The White House did not offer Mr. Sestak a full-time paid position because Mr. Emanuel wanted him to stay in the House rather than risk losing his seat, so he considered “uncompensated advisory board options.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
The debate cast a shadow over preparations in Indianapolis for the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, which will take place in Indianapolis on Saturday and next Monday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It also follows action by the Trump administration to try to discourage legal immigrants from using public benefits through a new federal rule that would deny green card status to people who use social safety net services, like food assistance and Medicaid. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Sestak's opponent in the general election for the Senate seat, Republican Pat Toomey, questioned why it took so long for this explanation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mrs. Clinton’s decision leaves it to the State Department to determine whether parts of her correspondence should be redacted if they contain information that could be damaging to national security, or for other reasons. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Rubio repeated his characterization of Obama as a president so concerned with softening any perception other nations has of the United States as a bully that he erred in acting in the other extreme, eager to acquiesce to foreign governments that have thumbed their noses at the U.S. and international laws. | 0 | 1 | info |
"It is very important to me that the right Republican candidate be chosen to defeat the failed and very destructive Obama administration, but if that Republican, in my opinion, is not the right candidate, I am not willing to give up my right to run as an independent candidate," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Lieberman is probably the only person who can get 100 votes in the Senate," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said on Capitol Hill on Thursday after the closed Senate briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. | 0 | 1 | info |
Mr. Boehner facetiously said that Mr. Obama, as a former Democratic senator, could help: “I’m sure he has great influence over there in terms of getting them to take up these bills that really will help put the American people back to work.” | 1 | 0 | lex |
When Cantor lost his seat in a shock result Tuesday, conservatives in the House were not prepared to unite behind a standard-bearer, much less wage an organized effort to whip up votes in support of a candidate for majority leader. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I don’t know her,” he said before quickly correcting himself. “I hardly know her. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Representative Michael G. Grimm, a former F.B.I. agent and Marine who capitalized on his straight-arrow image to win a seat in Congress, was expected to be indicted on federal fraud charges after a lengthy corruption investigation, people with knowledge of the case said on Friday. | 0 | 1 | info |
He said he had tried to stick to a consistent way of describing his military experience: that he served as a member of the United State Marine Corps Reserve during the Vietnam era. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Ryan first told a humanizing story about Romney caring for a family whose children were in a car crash, a story clearly prepared to push back against the portrait of Romney as out of touch and uncaring. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Asked Wednesday about the possibility of Sanders seeking her removal, Wasserman Schultz said she’s not worried about her job. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans challenge Clinton claims on budget cuts, Benghazi cable | 0 | 0 | neu |
At that March 2 event, which can be found here on You Tube, Blumenthal, advocating for troops returning from war, clearly says, "We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam... | 1 | 0 | lex |
Mr. Cantor, 51, who is in his seventh term, had sought to counter Mr. Brat’s accusations that he was too willing to compromise on immigration. | 0 | 0 | neu |
I’m not going to do that.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
“We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” said NCAA President Mark Emmert. | 0 | 1 | info |
Democrats have been pounding LePage, saying that he needs to step down and questioning his mental abilities. | 0 | 1 | info |
He grew frustrated when he saw older workers enduring financial hardships in low-paying jobs. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Mitt Romney should do the right thing and denounce this dangerous language.” | 1 | 0 | lex |
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., meanwhile, lamented the increasing politicization of Supreme Court nominations and implored his Democratic colleagues to vote on the man – not the party of the president who nominated him. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump promised hundreds of times during his campaign that the wall would cost taxpayers nothing because he would get Mexico to pay for it. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“I’m protecting my wife, who every day is waking up to these insane stories that are getting so far from reality,” he told CNN. | 0 | 1 | info |
Tradition dictates that political parties out of power do what they can to expand their coalition. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald Reagan, could relate. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have introduced legislation to amend their laws. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The statute of limitations, though, has long since passed. | 0 | 0 | neu |
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