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The writers acknowledge that the teaching indeed calls for local-level solutions to problems but say it is “not a free pass to dismantle government” and requires higher levels of government. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Close to three dozen House Democrats have signed a letter from Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, calling the tax deal “fiscally irresponsible” and “grossly unfair.” | 0 | 1 | info |
The First Daughters join President Obama at the ceremony every year, where they can hardly contain their disdain for the lame dad jokes that predictably follow. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Former President Barack Obama had nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia’s seat practically one year to the date before Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Brad Woodhouse, said Mr. Steele was “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan.” | 0 | 1 | info |
The memorabilia includes a football signed by U.S. presidents, a Michael Jackson fedora, and memorabilia of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee -- all from a company called Antiquities of Nevada. | 0 | 0 | neu |
After his meeting with Reid, Mr. Sanders made a quick exit through a back hall on his way to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Morell, administration officials said, deleted a reference in the draft version of the talking points to C.I.A. warnings of extremist threats in Libya, which State Department officials objected to because they feared it would reflect badly on them. | 0 | 1 | info |
The GOP chairman is known for off-the-cuff and occasionally troublesome comments, but the Afghanistan remarks were too much to bear for some war-supporting Republicans. | 0 | 1 | info |
The bill cleared the House earlier this month, also by voice vote. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This president has gone longer in his tenure in the White House than just about any other president in modern history before facing the prospect of having his veto overridden.” | 0 | 1 | info |
This is not the first time Newsweek has caused a stir with its cover choices. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In a letter to Sasha and Malia posted on her website, Ms. Davis recalled being criticized by a reporter decades ago for the outfit she wore to a cocktail reception her parents held for Queen Elizabeth II when Mr. Reagan was president. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The New York Times also chimed in: “Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit." | 0 | 1 | info |
“If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? | 0 | 0 | neu |
While he did not directly address the question of possible cuts in benefits in his statement, Mr. Rand said his group would be working to evaluate any proposed changes in Social Security “to determine how each might — individually or in different combinations — impact the lives of current and future retirees.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Last year, Mr. Trump also criticized the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not pursuing investigations of his political opponents. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“It’s great that public outrage has forced Trump to reconsider this despicable decision,” said Tanya Sanerib, a senior lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, “but it takes more than a tweet to stop trophy hunters from slaughtering elephants and lions.” | 0 | 1 | info |
The right decision is to step aside," they said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
At the same time, same-sex couples will also be able to file amended returns for certain prior tax years, meaning that many couples might be eligible for refunds. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The partial closure of the government has led to hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed or working without pay, with groups representing the workers increasing their calls for D.C. to end the deadlock and get workers paid again. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Perry was widely criticized within his own party for backing a state plan that gives some children of illegal immigrants the same lower-cost in-state college tuition that is enjoyed by American citizens who attend the state’s public universities and who have been Texas residents at least three years. | 0 | 0 | neu |
That review showed that many changes were made to the original talking points -- drafted by a senior officer -- over concerns about accuracy, an FBI investigation and other bureaucratic matters. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Illinois and New York could be a problem for Mr. Boehner’s party, but Republican-run redistricting in North Carolina and Indiana would appear to counter those Democratic gains. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Minnesota congresswoman and now-GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and other members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus piled on weeks later, penning a letter to Obama chastising him for his alleged failure to the use the word "God" and "Creator" more in his public speeches, especially abroad. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And I didn’t come here to do politics.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
In the ensuing days, Mr. LePage also reiterated his insistence that blacks and Hispanics were the vast majority of those arrested for dealing heroin in Maine. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Regardless, Mr. Trump’s frank embrace of the issue was another astonishing development: a president of the United States talking openly about his potential impeachment at a White House news conference. | 1 | 0 | lex |
And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t, because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf***er.’” | 0 | 0 | neu |
He has what's called a certificate of live birth. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"I believe this would not only have been the most watched debate, but also the most substantive and interesting debate." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Today’s charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result,” said Lindsay Walters, the deputy White House press secretary. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Today’s cave by most Senate Democrats was … a stunning display of moral and political cowardice," said Democracy for America, just one of several such groups bashing Schumer for the stand-down on Monday. | 0 | 1 | info |
Posting on Facebook on Friday evening, Mary Cheney, who is gay and married her longtime partner last year, wrote: “For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” Mr. Issa said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — The lawmakers trotted from their dugouts at Nationals Park, together in a near-summer air that never quite felt swampy, united in a certainty that the game must go on, just not exactly as it had before. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The special counsel’s investigators spent months encircling Mr. Stone, and the indictment unsealed on Friday detailed how he relied on several longtime associates to get information about the timing and content of WikiLeaks’ document releases in the months before the election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"I wish I didn't have to do it," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Beck wrote "Progressivism" on it to underscore his belief in what America is suffering from. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Nuland said in a Sept. 14 email that she didn't want that information included because it "could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned ..." | 0 | 0 | neu |
But one of them shouldn’t be the chairman of the Republican party.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
And Mr. Cruz had finally had enough. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Beyond its symbolic power, however, it is unclear what impact the new rule will have upon the nation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I want to put this behind us,” Mr. LePage said, during a meeting with a select group of reporters in his office on Wednesday morning, adding, “I will never talk about it again.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Congress passed a government funding bill Thursday evening. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But they are not big enough where they can't be challenged in a court of law. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Liberal groups such as MoveOn.org began urging members to sign up on Monday for rallies aimed at pressuring Republicans to protect the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A number of the Internet companies issued statements Thursday night saying they only complied when legally bound to do so. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It was all part of his ambition to become speaker of the House, having begun his career as the driver to his predecessor, Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The members were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game, a D.C. tradition dating back to 1909. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. McConnell, who viewed the shutdown as unnecessary from the start, found Mr. Trump eager to end the impasse, and in a series of calls, they ironed out the details. | 0 | 1 | info |
New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm's attorney confirmed late Friday that federal prosecutors plan to file criminal charges against the congressman. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He is set to face Doug Jones, a Democrat, in a special election next month. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the original called for the NAACP to "educate its membership and the community that this movement is not just about higher taxes and limited government." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“If Scalise was not there, he’s the one with security detail, we wouldn’t have had any protection and God knows how bad that might have been,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, told "Fox & Friends." | 0 | 1 | info |
Trump has said that $5 billion in funding for the wall is non-negotiable, while Democrats have said they will fund more general border security -- but not the wall. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"But they are walking backwards now." | 0 | 1 | info |
"Dick Cheney a couple days ago... says it is going to be a good year for conservative ideas," he declared at one point, wiping the sweat from his brow. | 0 | 1 | info |
“We even talked about that today,” he told reporters in the Rose Garden, referring to an exchange with Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a meeting earlier Friday to try to negotiate an end to the shutdown of the government, which Mr. Trump threatened to keep closed for years if he did not get money from Congress for a wall on the southern border. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“Let me be as clear as I can be,” Sanders said in a statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
I hope he is [reassured]," Axelrod said, adding that he had "high regard for [Sullivan] by the way." | 0 | 0 | neu |
The administration plans to give private sellers guidance on how to run background checks as soon as possible. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Senate confirmed two cabinet nominations — James N. Mattis as defense secretary and John F. Kelly as secretary of homeland security — but Democrats temporarily held up Mike Pompeo’s confirmation as C.I.A. director. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"We negotiate the whole thing, and we walk to our movie. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In return, Democrats would get extended jobless benefits for people who have been unemployed for long stretches. | 0 | 1 | info |
Judges and former prosecutors, not elected officials, have frequently been chosen. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Obama vetoed the measure last week, telling lawmakers the bill would make the U.S. vulnerable to retaliatory litigation in foreign courts that could put U.S. troops in legal jeopardy. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The career Marine was respected among allies and adversaries and on Capitol Hill, and he was beloved in the Pentagon as a protector against a president with scant understanding of his own role as commander in chief. | 0 | 1 | info |
When Beck asked what America is suffering from, someone shouted "President Obama," though Beck, an outspoken critic of the president, said it's "not that simple." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump met with Democratic and Republican leaders of both chambers. | 0 | 0 | neu |
His discussion of the idea comes after the administration announced it was streaming more than 5,000 active-duty troops to the southern border, part of an election-season rash of executive action Mr. Trump has undertaken as he works to energize his anti-immigrant base. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But an examination of his remarks at the ceremonies shows that he does not volunteer that his service never took him overseas. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The New Jersey state legislature is also investigating the lane closures. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I cannot envision him sitting in that chair, that was the chair of President Washington, President Jefferson, President Kennedy, President Reagan,” Mr. Fox said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“He should have never been here in the first place,” she said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But as protests against Chick-fil-A swelled across the country, dozens of groups and prominent individuals joined in support of the company. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But that was one reason many Democrats considered it unacceptable. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Boehner is heading back to Ohio for the weekend. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Critics say the policy encourages illegal immigrants to come to the country, give birth and then try to claim residency themselves as a result. | 0 | 0 | neu |
This was after Trump’s account tweeted Saturday: “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump Jr. later on Monday confirmed his correspondence with WikiLeaks, posting several screenshots of the Twitter messages. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And I don’t want that to be the headline.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON ― In a stinging blow to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted Wednesday to override his veto of a bill to let 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the terrorist attacks. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“A SWAT team, searching the house, scaring his wife, scaring his dogs—it was completely unnecessary,” Stone’s attorney said. | 0 | 1 | info |
The decision to ask Mrs. Clinton for her emails went all the way to Secretary of State John Kerry’s chief of staff, who, along with officials working on the response to the Benghazi requests, signed off on it. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Finally, in December, dozens of boxes filled with 50,000 pages of printed emails from Mrs. Clinton’s personal account were delivered to the State Department. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In all, Mr. Clinton earned $13.17 million in 2013, also for 41 speeches, the most lucrative of these, at $750,000, for addressing Handelsbanken Capital Markets in Stockholm that May; Mr. Clinton listed a second payment of $100,000 from the same company the same day. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Pic of your wife not from us,” Cruz said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Clapper also said that on Wednesday night he had taken precautions after the first packages were discovered. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that he understands why many black Americans distrust the police as he made a one-day swing through the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., where a black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer almost two weeks earlier. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The packages were sent about two weeks ahead of the midterm elections. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Updated: Rick Santorum on Sunday tried to clarify his comment that President Obama subscribed to a “phony theology,” saying he was referring not to the president’s faith but to his view of man’s relationship to the world. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Democrats were intent Thursday night to steal back any edge Romney might have deprived them of in being the party who can appeal to working class and blue-collar voters, and to any voter who considers themselves middle class, which is a large number. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Today's story unfortunately distorts Dick Blumenthal's record of service by implying that he did not serve. | 0 | 0 | neu |
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors recommended that Mr. Jackson receive a sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The subpoenas were disclosed Thursday, the same day the Republican governor's campaign announced it had hired the Washington, D.C., law firm Patton Boggs in the case. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This is a recommendation for solutions, real solutions that will make our kids safer. | 0 | 1 | info |
Hutchinson's chief complaint was that some provisions do not "precisely mirror" the federal law, and he wants that addressed. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Hmmm...nothing like the courage of the anonymous protester. | 0 | 1 | info |
Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, an architect of the bill, issued a news release calling attacks on the legislation “politics at its absolute worse,” and saying, “Instead of having an honest discussion about the true meaning of religious liberty, opponents of the bill have hijacked this discussion through lies, personal attacks, and irresponsible reporting.” | 0 | 1 | info |
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