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The legislation was immediately dismissed by Republican leadership.
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“But now I think the president and his team could have a chance to drive a harder bargain, because they are now in the position of saying to all of these other countries ‘we need to maximize the number of winners.’”
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At 11:25 a.m., Mr. Rhodes changed a reference to the United States “consulate” in Benghazi to “diplomatic post.”
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In a letter dated Thursday, the GOP committee members accused Schiff of standing “at the center of a well-orchestrated media campaign” about a possible Trump-Russia connection.
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UPDATE: 7:19 p.m. -- The Washington Post now reports that Grimm has already "been secretly indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, according to people familiar with the case.
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Earlier in the day on Saturday, Santorum had also said that health insurance plans shouldn’t be required to cover prenatal testing, because that testing results in more abortions, as well as contending that government-run public education was “anachronistic.”
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Stabilizing the housing market, however, is not on the current congressional docket.
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Both Facebook and Twitter have been under fire for allegedly censoring accounts, while ignoring rules violations by liberal and left-wing users.
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After Mr. Horowitz uncovered the texts, Mr. Mueller, who had by then taken over the investigation, removed Mr. Strzok from his team.
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Obama ran as an antidote to Bush's policies in 2008, but the reports reveal that he has continued many of them, leading to concerns over the reach of the national security state.
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Instead, Trump spent the first hour and a half of it complaining about a variety of issues, such as former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ performance and the late Sen. John McCain’s vote against Trump’s repeal of Obamacare, as well as offering his musings on such things as the utility of wheels and his desire for Russia to invade Afghanistan again.
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He worked within that role to raise money and contribute to the campaigns of Republican governors across the U.S., many of whom won in the 2014 midterm elections.
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Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is expected to announce his bid Thursday for the seat.
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The House voted later on Wednesday to override the veto, causing the bill to become law.
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Boehner was back at the Capitol soon afterward, but said nothing new as he passed reporters eager for a readout.
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Meanwhile, the statement on her health, from Dr. Lisa Bardack, an internist and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group in Mount Kisco, New York, said the former secretary of state has seasonal pollen allergies and listed "deep vein thrombosis," an elbow fracture and her 2012 concussion in her recent medical history.
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As a possible victory in the 2018 elections loomed, they made it clear that the reforms would be their No. 1 priority.
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On Thursday, he told reporters in Washington that the Justice Department would thoroughly investigate the case, and would "continue to stand with Ferguson."
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Asked about the current debate in Congress over gun control legislation, Hutchinson said he had "not dealt with the separate debate" because he had been too busy considering school safety issues.
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"Shame on the House for ... failing to adequately fund the administration's request," Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said
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Evangelical Christian voters helped Huckabee win the Iowa caucuses in 2008 and finish a strong second in South Carolina, the largest of the early-voting states.
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I always believed that kid could go from hope to higher ground."
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But Mr. Akin on Tuesday refused to step down from his race despite loud calls from his party’s leaders to abandon his bid.
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The approach is so sweeping that what would have otherwise been a headline-grabbing announcement received second billing.
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But Brat unseated the House majority leader with 56 percent of the vote.
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“It’s a desperate move and I don’t see how it can work at all.”
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The Republican demand and the barbed response of the committee’s chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff, echoed well outside the wood-paneled House hearing room.
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“This is her caucus, clearly.”
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Mr. Etheridge, a seven-term House member, can be seen on the video repeatedly asking the young man to identify himself.
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Two of Judge Gorsuch’s former colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver — Deanell Reece Tacha, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and Robert Harlan Henry, appointed by President Bill Clinton — praised his intellect and temperament.
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"I'm not going to talk about this anymore," Weiner told reporters on Capitol Hill.
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WASHINGTON ― In recent years, the opposing party approached Supreme Court nomination hearings by honing in on the nominee’s character and temperament or on one particular case that could possibly derail the nominee.
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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.”
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Dave Brat celebrated his stunning victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) for the Republican nomination on Tuesday night in a phone interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
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Ms. Pelosi and her deputies have repeatedly made the case that it is too early to consider impeachment.
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He said the threat of the "occasional deranged person" should not change that.
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Huckabee ran for president in 2008.
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"You can address assault weapons, but it doesn't stop violence in schools.
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Republican Senate leaders so far have refrained from using the term – but their exasperated rhetoric shows they’re at least kicking the tires of a legislative Enola Gay.
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It simply mirrors federal law that President Bill Clinton signed in 1993."
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Mr. Biden’s visit and the president’s comments come as the administration’s message machine started churning out statements of support.
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Maggie Haberman in the New York Times today explains why, “More than any other candidate, Mr. Christie is poised to run a race that sells his personality -- brash, challenging and often combative -- as his main asset.
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Other senior administration officials made it clear that part of Mr. Trump’s strategy was to try to drive a wedge within the party between those who want to hold out for a much more generous solution and those who may feel enough political pressure to end the shutdown that they will feel obliged to support it.
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Republican lawmakers, at the opposite end of the reaction spectrum, praised the president for his willingness to negotiate.
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Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that his panel would investigate the BuzzFeed report and was “already working to secure additional witness testimony and documents related to the Trump Tower Moscow deal and other investigative matters.”
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Arizona hasn't been the only state pushing a bill that would allow open discrimination against same-sex couples; similar bills have been popping up in states including Tennessee, Kansas, South Dakota and Maine.
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A Labrador bid helps all parties regardless of the outcome -- including Labrador himself, since a run will elevate him as a leader inside the House GOP.
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They say it has also forced law-enforcement agencies to spend more time and dedicate more resources to handling marijuana-related arrests.
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The packages were addressed with a computer-printed address label and six stamps.
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But Mr. Royce, of California, called Friday for Mr. Trump to “use today’s indictments to challenge”
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'Jail!' Trump slams 'crooked' Hillary aide Huma, calls on 'Deep State' DOJ to act
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And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology," the tech giant said in a statement.
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From December 2007 through December 2008, the Jacksons spent $313.89 on “stuffed animals and accessories for stuffed animals” from Build-A-Bear, according to the documents.
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Mr. Jones has had his posts and videos on his personal account and on Infowars severely restricted or removed by Apple, Facebook, Google and Spotify.
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It’s a decisive win, and it (barely) clears the two-thirds majority support that Pelosi predicted she had.
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Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was campaigning in Iowa on Sunday, has opposed the trade deal and questioned Clinton's refusal to say where she stood.
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In a letter released by Mr. Durbin’s office, Mr. Netanyahu said such a meeting “could compound the misperception of partisanship regarding my upcoming visit.”
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The European Union and former top executive branch officials have urged Obama to stop it, in the name of protecting sovereign immunity.
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And he was the state’s lieutenant governor from 1993 to 1996.
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His remarks were the latest in a string of controversial statements that he has made as party chairman.
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As my colleagues Kim Severson and Robbie Brown report from Atlanta, where Chick-fil-A began in the 1940s, the president, Dan T. Cathy, made comments last month about the biblical arguments against homosexuality.
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Mr. Trump also said he expected to announce his choice of a running mate by Friday, winding down a process that has been closely watched as in all likelihood the most significant decision he will make in his campaign.
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"I can't help but think that those remarks are well over the line.
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Shields tweeted a link to a YouTube video called "Behind the scenes with Kathy Griffin" but the video has since been removed.
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By March 2017, when the Justice Department opened its criminal investigation, Mr. Hunter was already being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.
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“We have such a broad membership, Mr. Rother said.
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"You said this is a culture where Arkansas knows, the headquarters knows, everything that's going on," Kennedy said to Joseph Sellers, the women's lawyer.
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“The goal of the conspiracy was for Duncan Hunter and Margaret Hunter to enrich themselves, and others at their direction, by converting campaign funds for their own personal benefit and enjoyment,” the 47-page indictment says.
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He also said that he favored term limits for individuals in all branches of the federal government -- including the judiciary.
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Budget numbers, though, actually show the overall diplomatic security budget has ballooned over the past decade.
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And any boycott would have the potential to cut much anticipated revenue for Indianapolis-area hotels, restaurants and other businesses.
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The first speaker who preceded him to the stage had no microphone, causing a delay; later on, she was booed when she disclosed that she was a Democrat.
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“This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” Mr. Steele said in a speech Thursday night in Connecticut in which he offered a strong critique of President Obama’s military strategy.
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“On it! has a robust protective intelligence division that monitors open source reporting & social media to evaluate threats,” the tweets read.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is taking heat from some of the most influential and deep-pocketed groups in the liberal base for caving to Republicans in the shutdown standoff.
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Trump Jr. replied, “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around.
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Mr. Trump made only passing efforts to reach out to Democrats beyond thanking Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, for their handling of the transition.
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If Democrats band together, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has threatened to pursue the so-called nuclear option eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court selections.
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Ryan referred to the weight on Biden's shoulders about mid-way through, as the two talked over each other on Medicare.
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They added that “multiple senior officials have stated that U.S. intelligence agencies do not collect information or dossiers on ‘millions of Americans,’ ” assertions that they believe have been contradicted by revelations of Internet data mining and a court order asking a Verizon subsidiary to turn over logs of telephone calls.
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Had they been a heterosexual couple, Windsor's tax burden would have been zero.
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Couples do not have to file amended returns if they do not want to, a senior Treasury official said, meaning that couples who might pay the marriage penalty would not owe back taxes.
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In August 2012, the staff member sold the elk head for $5,300 to an interior designer and had the money wired to one of Mr. Jackson’s accounts.
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Rubio’s foreign policy agenda – often hawkish in approach – has been a hallmark of his service in the Senate, and now in his campaign.
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The bad guy sometimes wins."
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But we know the Constitution is far from perfect because it does not guarantee women's equality," NOW President Terry O'Neill said in a statement.
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The Senate’s “cloture” rule requires a supermajority of 60 votes to overcome such a filibuster.
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“We are looking at options to clarify that that's the case.”
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“Folks cannot seem to get ahead or even stay even,” he said.
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The Safari Club’s political action committees donated a collective $24,500 to Trump’s presidential campaign and Zinke’s 2014 and 2016 congressional campaigns, according to Federal Election Commission data.
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As a result, Mr. Trump appeared by himself in a video — which he tweeted Wednesday evening — announcing victory over the Islamic State.
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“We will be more proactive and not back down.”
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“It is a tabloid smear, and it has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen.”
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"We would have done very well.
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Mr. Labrador tried on Friday to at least engage the Republican conference in a debate over ideas.
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Trump overruled the defense secretary and unilaterally ordered the military assault.
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“The Committee has been contacted by Ms. Lerner’s lawyer who stated that his client intended to invoke her 5th amendment right and refuse to answer questions,” Oversight and Government Reform Committee spokesman Ali Ahmad said in a statement.
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"I'm endorsing Rick Perry because we need a tough-on-crime president who will champion and fund full-time border security operations from Brownsville to San Diego," Arpaio said.
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He said he had never been more clear in his life, and had read the documents thoroughly and had understood the consequences of his actions.
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But he also spoke with emotional power, as when he recalled his father’s early job in an ice cream factory in Newark.
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