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Last year Romney had signed a pledge sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage promising to support a federal ammendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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The letter said the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had been briefed “on these operations multiple times and have had access to copies of the classified” orders and opinions of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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"Today the Congress regulates our lives and redistributes our wealth in ways that would shock the Founders," he said.
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On Thursday, the state's general assembly passed new language explicitly stating that the law does not allow discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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One, Diana Durand of Houston, was charged with illegally funneling more than $10,000 into his campaign.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is defending himself against a report he misstated his military service in Vietnam.
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Asked about the possibility of Social Security entering budget talks at some point, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reiterated past statements in saying President Obama does not see Social Security as a "driver" of the country's near-term deficits.
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"You are supposed to govern your government by it."
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“The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again,” Mr. Brat said, speaking on Fox News.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Cruz repeatedly quoted from the movie “The American President” to defend his wife, as she held an event and faced questions about Mr. Trump’s threats.
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Last month, he joined with prominent conservatives who have seized on the heightened enforcement of guidelines and the concept of shadow banning on Twitter — making social media posts invisible to everyone except the posters themselves — as proof of biased attacks on their views.
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“And we’ll win in the Supreme Court,” he predicted.
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On Thursday night, Pence said on Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the terms of the negotiations were clear: "Bottom line, if there's no wall, there's no deal."
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In a series of tweets, Trump Jr. produced “the entire chain of messages with (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak.
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He added, “A lengthy investigation and multiple rounds of Congressional testimony failed to produce a shred of evidence that Special Agent Strzok’s personal views ever affected his work.”
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And Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York also chimed in, demanding that the “Mueller report must be made public.
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At her most recent physical on March 21, her blood pressure was 100/65 and her heart rate was 72.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Sanders sent out a fund-raising email asking for contributions of $2.70, and at 7 p.m. he will hold a rally outside of R.F.K. Stadium in Washington, where he will discuss his plans for getting big money out of politics and making public universities tuition free.
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Mr. Flynn’s rejection of the subpoena put him at risk of being held in contempt of Congress, a rarely invoked process that, should lawmakers choose to pursue it, could result in a criminal citation.
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He said he wants to use an executive order to end the practice by which children born in the U.S. of non-citizen or illegal immigrant parents are immediately a citizen.
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She consulted with Schiff and other committee leaders over the weekend as Barr notified Congress of Mueller's report and summarized the details.
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It's a very touchy subject... but this is not real.
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California and New York likewise announced that they will sue over what Gov. Gavin Newsom of California called the president’s “vanity project,” and a roster of other groups lined up to do the same.
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He also noted that the president’s ability to declare a national emergency was “absolutely” still a tool available to Mr. Trump to find funds to build the wall if a legislative agreement could not be reached.
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"My view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman and that's my own preference," Romney told reporters in Oklahoma.
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"We can confirm that the Christie for Governor re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican State Committee received subpoenas for documents from the U.S. Attorney's office, in addition to the subpoena the campaign previously received from the state legislative committee," he said.
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"I'm not everybody's cup of tea, but I'm not in this business to get elected to prom king.
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On point after point, the president insisted that he would be proved correct.
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“I kind of grew up on the campaign trail,” he said.
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The most controversial elements of the president's plan, though, continue to be the proposals he wants Congress to pass.
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In a post to Twitter, Wayne Pacelle, the CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, said he was “grateful” that Trump would reconsider.
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"I would if I knew who they were," he said.
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It's a long time coming and we're thrilled the president's putting the full weight of his office behind this," said Josh Horowitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
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"If you help me win this race, you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice ... on the Senate Judiciary Committee," Braley said.
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It was known for several years that Mr. Farenthold, already notorious for a heavily circulated photograph of him in duck pajamas, had been accused of sexual harassment by Lauren Greene, his former communications director.
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That tracks a comment she made in a separate interview with The Associated Press, when the justice stopped short of noting she’d rather have presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton making future appointments to the Supreme Court.
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She admitted that “looking back,” it would have been better to carry the second phone.
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“I am not pro-gay marriage,” Liz Cheney said in a statement responding to an apparent push poll against her in Wyoming.
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The timing of Tuesday’s announcement was not a coincidence: Congress will wrap up its spring recess after this week and is expected to consider gun legislation after lawmakers return.
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Grimm's lawyer, William McGinley, said in a statement that the U.S. attorney's office "has disclosed its intent to file criminal charges."
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Speaking earlier on ABC's "This Week" about Santorum's remarks, Obama campaign aide Robert Gibbs called his rhetoric "well over the line."
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Aside from the tax rates, lawmakers must pass this week a continuing resolution to keep the government functioning.
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But, starting when he was about 15 and working as a dishwasher at a diner, Mr. Hutchinson’s views began to change as he shuffled through other jobs, including stints at Chuck E. Cheese’s and Sears.
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But some observers said Cantor’s tough stance toward the end of the primary – one he’d seemed confident he’d easily win – was too little too late.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Wednesday night visited Scalise in the hospital, bringing flowers and offering support to the lawmaker’s family.
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Mr. Lewis, now 77, stared straight ahead for a moment.
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God help us," said Bloomberg, who added that "the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy."
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"I applaud those companies and organizations that have spoken out against the law and said they would not locate or expand operations in Indiana.
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New York – In his first major foreign policy speech since launching his presidential campaign, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said if elected, he would prioritize a strong military, take aggressive steps to fight nations that undermine global commerce and ensure that U.S. is a world moral leader.
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Businesses in the Phoenix area were also especially worried, with the Super Bowl set to be held in Glendale, Ariz. in 2015.
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Even some justices who seemed sympathetic to the plaintiffs expressed qualms about how to administer a lawsuit involving as many as 1.5 million women seeking back pay that could amount to billions of dollars.
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The controversy, which has galvanized the state, started last Wednesday when Mr. LePage made sweeping statements linking minorities to the state’s drug crisis.
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“We can confirm that the Christie for Governor re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican State Committee received subpoenas for documents from the U.S. attorney’s office, in addition to the subpoena the campaign previously received from the state legislative committee,” the lawyer, Mark D. Sheridan, said in an email.
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Obama went on to defend those who operated the programs as "professionals."
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And I think the point the president is making is that, you know, we should -- we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people.
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Some on the right also pushed back, describing the proposal as amnesty.
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“I had no idea how to run a congressional office,” the four-term congressman said in December.
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Republicans who back such changes, he said, “are embracing a government that lied to its people — that took money from its people under one pretense and then took it away at the time when they started wanting to actually get what they have paid for all these years.”
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Mr. Schumer interjected, calling on Ms. Pelosi, who disputed Ms. Nielsen’s statistics, two of the officials said.
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Americans who want a great businessperson in the White House should look for someone who isn’t Trump, Bloomberg said.
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In a video in December announcing his resignation, Mr. Farenthold continued to deny the allegations, but he acknowledged running an “unprofessional” workplace and said he was “profoundly sorry” for his actions.
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The House Republican leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, also criticized the legislation.
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The Obama campaign, of course, relished in Republicans’ focus on Biden’s behavior instead of the substance of his remarks.
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Although there were extended portions of the debate that focused on Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, Biden and Ryan did engage in a lengthy back-and-forth in the middle of the debate on Medicare and tax policy.
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Mr. Ryan is to deliver the prestigious Whittington Lecture, named for an associate dean who was killed on the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
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#MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/tBp5aXWhBj — Morning Joe ( ) December 4, 2017
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Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a key vote on the high court, said the women's argument points in apparently conflicting directions.
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One released this week by Fox News found 56 percent against it, including 20 percent of Republicans.
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“What’s the half-life?” asked Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, appraising how long the comity might last.
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That judges do not, as Chief Justice John Roberts once famously said, only call “balls and strikes.”
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“We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we’re going to do it one way or the other,” he said in a televised statement in the Rose Garden barely 13 hours after Congress passed a spending measure without the money he had sought.
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Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), a vocal supporter of drug policy reform who has sponsored multiple bills seeking protection for state-legal marijuana businesses and advocated full-scale federal legalization of the drug, told HuffPost that Nebraska and Oklahoma attempting to overturn the will of Colorado's voters is "outrageous."
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The Clintons have previously released their tax returns dating back to 1977.
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But for most people who Fox News spoke to today, it is about free speech.
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Call it Cheney versus Cheney.
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It’s the first time a chamber of Congress has had the votes to overrule Obama on a veto.
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Trump tweeted that “too many voices are being destroyed, some good and some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen.” So, he added: “Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!”
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He need not have gotten physical with the students who asked him the provocative question regarding his support of the “Obama Agenda” (honestly, that sort of opening question is straight from the Jason Mattera school of inflammatory interview techniques.)
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Administration officials described the search as fluid and said the president and his team were keeping the decision-making process closely held to avoid the leaks that Mr. Trump believes are endemic to the West Wing.
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Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was the only person to publicly campaign for the interim appointment, announcing his desire to fill the seat on MSNBC and doing subsequent interviews about it.
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Earlier Friday, Liz Cheney revealed her position on same-sex marriage, a topic she has kept relatively quiet about since declaring her candidacy in July against incumbent Senator Mike Enzi, Republican of Wyoming.
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“I won’t stop,” he said.
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"The president thinks that it's his obligation to speak out when ... issues of the Constitution arise.
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He made reference to his previous threats to declare a national emergency, calling it a “very powerful weapon,” but saying he didn’t want to use it.
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“We’ve worked very hard to have that,” she said, “and we will work very hard to maintain that.”
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The law aims to protect individuals or companies from being forced to take actions that impose a substantial burden on their religious beliefs.
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Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges that he spent $750,000 in campaign cash on personal items.
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It wasn’t the best example to use, because it prompted Mr. Biden to describe his own tragedy, when his wife and young daughter were killed in a car crash.
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The change marks a shift in efforts to stop the importation of elephant tusks and hides, overriding a 2014 ban imposed by the Obama administration.
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Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming are looking to put a similar law on their books.
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The billionaire ex-Republican, who has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, made the case that Trump’s career is characterized by a litany of collapses and missteps, and that the Republican presidential nominee’s boasts don’t match reality.
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Obama will meet with Sanders in Washington on Thursday, the same day the Vermont senator plans to hold a rally there.
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At times, Biden repeatedly butted in on Ryan's answers, refusing to let Ryan finish his thought.
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The missive accused the NAACP of resorting to political tactics and urged the IRS to reconsider whether it can continue to qualify for tax-exempt status.
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Citing details in emails and other forms of communications, the indictment suggested that Mr. Trump’s campaign knew about additional stolen emails before they were released and asked Mr. Stone to find out about them.
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“No president would be a tougher negotiator on behalf of American workers with either our trading partners or Republicans on Capitol Hill than I would be,” Mrs. Clinton said.
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“They originated, some of them, from Florida.
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Last week, Sarah Palin posted a photo of her visit to a Chick-fil-A in California on her Facebook page.
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Shortly after he spoke, Mr. Obama ordered that flags at the White House and other federal sites around the world be lowered to half-staff. Again.
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Hutchinson also faced pressure from Walmart, which is headquartered in the state.
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