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“Just because you’re only getting 30 percent of the vote in some area doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go there,” said Representative Cedric L. Richmond of Louisiana.
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One of them, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, is among only a handful of Republicans who have broken with the president and called for the government to reopen without a border security deal.
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"We brought this to their attention five weeks ago," said Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix.
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Mr. Strzok became emblematic of Mr. Trump’s unfounded assertions that a so-called deep state of bureaucrats opposed to him was undermining his presidency.
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The shutdown left more than 800,000 federal employees and contractors furloughed or working without pay.
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Democrats must put their personal dislike of the president aside, end their obstruction, and finally come to the negotiating table.
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She won despite her proposals doing little to ensure new blood at the very top or changing the seniority system that has key committees led by lawmakers in their 80s at a moment when the party needs to be defending ObamaCare and other initiatives by President Obama.
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But the president's budget director told Fox News that even when the trust funds run out, both Social Security and Medicare would still have some income.
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Bush’s brother Jeb, who has all but formally announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, raised eyebrows Monday after telling Fox News he supported the invasion even now that he knows Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. Stone told Mr. Credico he should “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’” before the House committee, the indictment said, a reference to a “Godfather” character who lies to Congress about his interactions with the Mafia.
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Mr. Mattis had repeatedly told friends and aides over recent months that he viewed his responsibility to protect the United States’ 1.3 million active-duty troops as worth the concessions necessary as defense secretary to a mercurial president.
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Among the study’s central conclusions is that “the presence of armed security personnel adds a layer of security and diminishes response time” in a shooting, Mr. Hutchinson said.
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While conservatives have complained for years about what they say is discrimination by the tech giants, the controversy escalated last month when Vice News reported the issue, saying that accounts from top Republicans including GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel were being given limited visibility on Twitter.
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“Tell me who you are,” Mr. Etheridge said. “Tell me who you are.”
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The National Guard was finally brought in to try to temper the unrest, but its role was not exactly clear.
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The Obama-era program that protected young undocumented immigrants — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — is an important issue, he said, but “it isn’t the bread and butter of successful Democrat politics.”
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Now that President Obama, long a supporter of civil unions, has publicly embraced same-sex marriage, the question of precisely what legal status and protections should be granted to gay couples is emerging as an issue of the starkest possible contrast between the two presidential candidates.
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For Beck and the surrounding CPAC crowd, however, ideological purity was the path to redemption and recovery.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal email account to exclusively conduct official business during her time at the State Department, a move that raises questions about access to the full archive of her correspondence, as well as the possibility that she violated federal law requiring official messages to be retained for the record.
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"We need to keep it that way. We want it that way. I think Israel wants it that way. The American people want it that way.
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The only announced candidate for the general election is Markey, who has received a flood of endorsements from Democrats -- including Kerry -- and has a $3.1 million war chest.
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The chorus of opposition has grown each day, with the business community, the state's Super Bowl Committee and both Republican U.S. senators calling for a veto.
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“Your tenure has, of course, been marked by gaffes and embarrassments, but I for one have never paid much attention to them, and have never thought they would matter much to the success of the causes and principles we share,” Mr. Kristol wrote Friday.
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""We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam," Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008.
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"[Clinton] was the chief architect of a foreign policy that was a disaster," he said during an interview with Charlie Rose following the speech.
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A pillar of their grass-roots movement will become a staple in the bureaucracy that governs Congress.”
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The case started a decade ago when Wal-Mart worker Betty Dukes said the management at her Pittsburg, Calif., store was bypassing her for promotions.
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Etheridge, a Democrat, is seen in an amateur video grabbing the wrist and neck of an unidentified young man after the man approached the congressman and asked if he supported the "Obama agenda."
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” He continued the theme at his news conference by asserting that “you can’t impeach somebody who is doing a great job.”
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There was nothing to hide!”
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Three days after an Internet video surfaced showing North Carolina Rep. Bob Etheridge in a physical confrontation with a young man, the lawmaker said he is "profoundly" sorry for the tussle on a Washington street.
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One State Department official said that if many lawyers were dedicated to the project, it could be completed in several weeks.
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Republicans have expressed concern that a Democratic commander in chief could cite Mr. Trump’s move to declare a national emergency over gun violence or climate change without legislation from Congress.
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But he but did not apologize for statements he made last week that linked trafficking in the drug to blacks and Hispanics.
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These are two standout changes on a long list of new rules Republicans will institute in the House when they assume the majority on Jan. 5.
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“The basic perspective that I have over this whole thing, dating back to the shooting incident itself, what we had were largely peaceful vigils and protests that were met with police tactics that were highly aggressive and militaristic,” he said.
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But little is known about these “students.”
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Mr. Issa and all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor.
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Lerner's decision to plead the Fifth comes as the Department of Justice has initiated an investigation into whether laws were broken at the IRS, according to Taylor's letter to the committee.
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The comment comes less than 48 hours after it was first announced that the Trump administration would reverse a 2014 ban made under President Obama on permits for elephant trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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"You've been debating a commemorative coin for baseball.
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He said he's asked an Internet security firm and a law firm to take a "hard look" at the incident and find out what happened, though he suggested he doesn't want to make a federal case out of it.
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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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During Thursday’s meeting at the White House, officials said that Mr. Trump again asked Mr. Mattis to publicly endorse the Syria decision.
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The mayors of Minnesota's Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, have also condemned the measure.
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Her views were widely circulated and eventually posted on Twitter by a reporter for The Root, a news, opinion and culture site aimed at African-American audiences.
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"The leverage is going to shift to our side, where hopefully we'll do the same thing we did last time."
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He has vowed to “open up” the nation’s libel laws, even though those statutes are in fact state, not federal, laws.
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On Capitol Hill, Mr. Obama’s legislative effort will face intense opposition from gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, and the lawmakers they support with millions of dollars at election time and who see gun rights as a defining issue in their districts.
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House Democrats rejected Obama's trade agenda Friday by blocking a measure that would have granted him the power to fast-track sweeping, secretive international agreements through Congress.
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An angry Trump lashed out at Cruz on Twitter, calling the senator a liar, as he has alleged before in the campaign, and threatening to “spill the beans” about Cruz's wife Heidi.
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn? “A patriot.”
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It only energizes my base even more.
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The White House has also not committed to sending a representative next week to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s conference, where Mr. Netanyahu is also scheduled to appear.
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But Mr. Gingrich showed no sign of backing down on Monday.
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He made national headlines for losing more than 110 pounds from 2003 to 2006, and he publicly addressed his struggles with weight.
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At a time when Gen. Petraeus has just taken over command, when Republicans in Congress are pushing for a clean war funding resolution, when Republicans around the country are doing their best to rally their fellow citizens behind the mission, your comment is more than an embarrassment.
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“We’ve got a big challenge, and we’ve got work to do.”
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Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson responded to claims that she is one of the mystery women referred to in the article, stating on Twitter that the allegation is “stupidity on all levels.”
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“I came here to govern, not engage in partisan politics at the expense of hardworking Americans,” she said.
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In a statement on Thursday, the N.C.A.A. president, Mark Emmert, said the organization was “deeply concerned” about the legislation.
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“If the Republicans in Congress or people at large in the country feel this is simply a way to nullify an election that others didn’t agree with, then you’re not going to meet the practical standards necessary,” Schiff said.
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Never has the oath been administered to a president who had never served either in public office or as a general in the military.
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A Frank representative did not respond to interview requests from The Huffington Post.
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Here's an excerpt from the Times report:
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“I have been working hard for the people of Minnesota, and I think the people of Minnesota understand that, including in my party,” Ms. Klobuchar said.
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Citing two federal law enforcement officials involved in the investigation, BuzzFeed’s Thursday night report claimed that Trump directed Cohen to lie about negotiations over a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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Larry Summers, the outgoing chairman of the National Economic Council, just told a group of reporters that failure to pass a package like the tax deal announced by President Obama this week “would significantly increase the risk” of a double-dip recession.
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"I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage," Cruz said Friday in a statement posted on Facebook.
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But ultimately, supporting him could hurt more conservative members with the House leadership.
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After 2036, the program will only be able to pay 77 percent of promised benefits.
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But by nightfall, the decision was clear.
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Some lawmakers questioned whether his run was really a quest to win the majority leader’s post or merely to raise his own profile.
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“There seemed to be some frustration on his part at times, and sometimes I got the impression that he couldn't defend the facts as they were, [so] raise your voice a little louder,” Gillespie said.
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Bruning, along with Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, argue that under the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause, Colorado's legalization of recreational marijuana is unconstitutional because marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-K.Y., took calls for additional security a step further on Thursday by re-introducing legislation that would allow those who have concealed carry permits in their home states to carry in Washington D.C.
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The self-titled America's Toughest Sheriff, who famously re-instituted chain gangs in 1995 and has also been a major supporter of his state's controversial SB1070 immigration law, said that Perry has done more to combat illegal immigration along the U.S. border then any of the other candidates.
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Mr. Steele is expected to disclose his intentions during a conference call with committee members on Monday evening.
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Senate Democrats’ Vote to End Shutdown Infuriates Some on the Left
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In the face of widespread public backlash, Tump announced late Friday that he has suspended — at least for now — his administration’s decision to reverse an Obama-era ban on the importation of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.
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At 7:51 p.m., the F.B.I. offered only minor changes to the draft, the bureau’s only suggestions during the contentious process.
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In the note, he asked members to join him "for a private conference call" Monday evening.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Thursday that when it comes to taxes, it will recognize same-sex couples' marriages even if they live in a state that does not.
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"Today marks a watershed moment in American politics," Cowan said.
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Matt Kibbe, the group’s president and chief executive, said that he did not have great qualms with Mr. McCarthy’s ideology, but that he was more about politics than ideas.
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He also supports expanding foreign worker visa programs.
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"I went too far and I was wrong," she said.
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He won re-election, and two years later further angered Democrats when he endorsed John McCain for president against eventual winner Barack Obama, even speaking at the Republican National Convention.
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The lawsuit was brought by attorneys general in Nebraska and Oklahoma, and asks the United States Supreme Court to strike down key parts of a 2012 voter-approved measure that legalized marijuana in Colorado for adult use and created a new system of stores, taxes and regulations surrounding retail marijuana.
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But Justice Antonin Scalia was unconvinced.
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Mr. Cooper distanced himself, as well.
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The White House disputed Republican claims that the conversations might be illegal or improper.
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In particular, they pointed to the fact that references to al Qaeda and previous security warnings were removed.
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"You are not supposed to worship your Constitution," he told the newspaper.
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"We need to have the courage to choose, we need to have the courage to stand up and say 'enough,'" Christie added.
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The President works for the people, and he is not above the law.”
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"AARP's new and welcome position is a positive step towards the type of reforms I've championed, and I look forward to working with the organization to shape the changes in a way that makes the least detrimental impact to present and future retirees," she said in a statement.
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In October 2016, Mr. Stone exchanged emails with Stephen K. Bannon, then the chief executive of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
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The federal subpoenas are due Feb. 5.
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America is an idea. America is an idea that sets people free."
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