Category: U.S. House of Representatives

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Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Gets Absolutely Nothing For The Wall

Before she walked into the meeting with Trump, soon to be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said that Trump would get absolutely nothing for his wall.

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Ted Lieu Tells Trump He Can Take His ‘Stupid Vanity Wall’ And Shove it

Rep. Ted Lieu and other leads in the Democratic party aren’t caving to Donald Trump’s ridiculous and unpopular demands.

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Ex-GOP Rep Predicts Selfish Trump Will End Shutdown So He Can Golf With His Billionaire Buddies

Trump will soon get bored of his shutdown stunt, and it will become more important to him to end it so he can resume his usual golf regimen.

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Senate Democrat Pledges To Donate Her Salary To Charity Until The Trump Shutdown Ends

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said she can’t take a salary when so many federal workers will be hurt by the Trump shutdown over the holidays.

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Schumer And Pelosi Tell Trump He Can Tantrum All He Wants But He’s Not Getting His Wall

Members of both parties have already agreed on a bipartisan plan without wall funding that would keep the government open.

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Pelosi says House Democrats will begin process to obtain Trump tax returns

By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nancy Pelosi said Democrats will begin to seek President Donald Trump’s tax returns – a move likely to prompt outrage from the White House – when they take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January. The House Ways and Means Committee will “take the first steps,” said…

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Pelosi says Trump has not responded to Democrat budget offers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that President Donald Trump has not answered Democrats’ budget compromise proposals on measures to keep the federal government open. Trump said on Tuesday he would be proud to shut down the federal government if Democrats don’t agree to fund border security, namely…

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Democrats Slam The Door On Trump Cover-Up And Vow To End Comey Investigation “Nonsense”

Democrats will be immediately putting an end to yet another Republican, wasteful, stupid, partisan, conspiracy-based “investigation” – this one the investigation into fired FBI Director James Comey.

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Ari Melber Destroys Paul Ryan For Ending His Political Career As A Trump Sellout

In the Trump era, we’ve seen Paul Ryan for who he is: a spineless political hack who stood silently by while the president trampled on American democracy.

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Ted Lieu Claims Mueller Could Build A Criminal Case Against Trump Based On Tweets Alone

All of this goes without mentioning the rest of the Trump dirt that special counsel Robert Mueller has that the public isn’t yet aware of.

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House Democrats Will Not Give GOP The Power To Cover-Up For Trump

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the incoming chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, will not give subpoena power to the Republicans on his committee.

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House Dem Reminds Her Party That Nancy Pelosi Is The Reason For Obamacare And Wall Street Reform

Republicans may enjoy using Nancy Pelosi as a political punching bag, but that’s likely because even they recognize how effective she is.

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Joy Reid Tells Democrats To Stop Taking The GOP’s Bait On Nancy Pelosi

Instead of continuing to take the GOP’s Pelosi bait, Democrats should stick to the issues that got them elected in massive numbers earlier this month.

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Democrats seek hearing on Trump’s ouster of Sessions

Congressional Democrats on Thursday demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

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Factbox: Democrats to pick up net 28 seats in U.S. House – media/data provider DDHQ

The Democratic Party needed to pick up 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. The Democrats were seen picking up 28 seats although votes were still being counted on Wednesday to determine the outcomes of as many as 13 more races.

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Pelosi: Democrats won U.S. House on healthcare

“Healthcare was on the ballot and healthcare won,” Pelosi, the House’s top Democrat, said of the Tuesday elections that gave her party a controlling majority in the House. “We won because from the beginning we focused on healthcare.”

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Factbox: Democratic critics of Trump set to lead U.S. House committees

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives will likely put the leadership of many congressional committees into the hands of some of Republican President Donald Trump’s most prominent adversaries on Capitol Hill. Democratic party leaders in the House will decide on the heads of committees, with seniority…

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Nancy Pelosi Tells Trump, “It’s Over.”

While speaking to reporters, Speaker-elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi sent a message to Trump that the House will no longer be a rubber stamp for his agenda.

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Turnout Is At Presidential Levels In County That Could Decide Which Party Wins The House

The reason that Republicans should be concerned about high turnout is that, historically, the more people who vote, the better Democrats do.

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Congressional Democrats seek more action on far-right domestic extremists

Congressional Democrats on Monday called on U.S. law enforcement authorities to do more to track and prosecute far-right extremists after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue and the mailing of bombs to critics of President Donald Trump.

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U.S. House office building evacuated: congressional official

An office building adjacent to the U.S. Capitol that houses lawmakers’ offices was evacuated on Thursday, according to a congressional official who did not cite a reason for the action.

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Ari Melber Obliterates GOP For Running On Healthcare After Voting To Kill Coverage For Millions

Every step of the way, the GOP has been fighting to take health care away millions of Americans. Now they want you to forget it ever happened.

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Trump Is Already Making Excuses For Why Republicans Will Lose The House In November

What’s clear is that Trump knows his party is in for a rude awakening in November, particularly in House races, and he’s trying to get out from under it.

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Trump Complains That The Me Too Era Is Making It Harder For Him To Be A Sexist Pig

At a rally on Wednesday, the president whined that he can no longer just spew the same sexist garbage that he might have in the past.

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House committee to vote on release of Trump Russia transcripts

A U.S. House of Representatives committee will vote on Friday on whether to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump.

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House speaker: Trump to back spending bill, avert shutdown

Paul Ryan on Wednesday said he is confident that President Donald Trump would approve a congressional spending bill to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown when spending runs out on Sept. 30.

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Republicans Have Become So Toxic 6 Siblings of AZ Rep Paul Gosar Back His Democratic Opponent

Republicans have become so toxic in the age of Trump that six of Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings are endorsing his Democratic opponent, Dr. David Brill, in ads.

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GOP Disaster: RNC Internal Poll Shows America Believes Tax Bill Screwed The Middle Class

With their tax proposal off the table, Republicans have nothing to run on with less than two months until the midterm elections.

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House Democratic Leader Pelosi warns Trump that NAFTA should include Canada

House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday warned the Trump administration that the NAFTA trade agreement should be maintained as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada and not just a U.S.-Mexico arrangement.

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Thousands Rally In Ohio As Obama Brings Buckeye State Beatdown To Trump And GOP

Obama’s presence in Ohio didn’t just energize voters in the state, but it offered a stark reminder of just how far the country has fallen in the Trump era.

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House panel backs bill to make Trump tax cuts permanent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to make permanent individual tax cuts from President Donald Trump‘s 2017 tax overhaul, a move widely seen as a partisan ploy to help Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 congressional elections. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee…

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House Speaker Ryan doesn’t dispute Puerto Rico death toll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday he had “no reason” to dispute Puerto Rico‘s official death toll of 3,000 from last year’s Hurricane Maria, speaking after his fellow Republican President Donald Trump accused Democrats of inflating the death toll to make the president look bad. “Casualties don’t make a person…

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Democrats Move To Save America with Bill to Protect Mueller Probe

House Judiciary Democrats are trying their best to protect the country from President Trump’s ongoing mental health and incompetency issues. Today they are trying to get three Judiciary Republicans to sign a notice to force a vote on the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, which they say is needed due to Trump’s “unhinged behavior toward law enforcement.”

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Adam Schiff Promises To Investigate Trump-Russia Money Laundering If Dems Flip The House

Donald Trump may have run on draining the swamp during the 2016 presidential campaign, but Democrats plan to fulfill that promise.

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Congressman Nunes unsuccessfully sought meeting with UK spy chiefs in London

By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) – Congressman Devin Nunes, chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee and a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, sought unsuccessfully to meet chiefs of Britain’s three intelligence agencies on a recent visit to London, according to two sources familiar with his itinerary. The sources said representatives of the British…

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Yes, Democrats, It’s Absolutely Time To Start Running On Impeachment

If the GOP wants to be the party that refuses to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, that’s their decision. But Democrats can and must do better.

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The Media Is Wrong: Democrats Have a Platform and It’s Even Titled ‘For the People’

If I had a dime for every time some pundit claimed Democrats didn’t have a platform or some try-hard, Kool Kid commenter claimed Leader Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a platform for the people, I’d be rich.

Because she does. It’s even titled…

FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Pelosi Terrifies Trump By Vowing To Get The Russia Truth If Democrats Take Back The House

If Democrats take back the House, Leader Nancy Pelosi is ready to hit the ground running to get the truth on Russia while working to advance the Democratic “For the People” agenda on health care, better wages and cleaning up the corruption in D.C., she told Sarah Jones in an exclusive interview.

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Sexism in Action: The False Notion that Nancy Pelosi is ‘Polarizing’ But Mitch McConnell Is Not

Why is Leader Nancy Pelosi labeled “polarizing” when Republicans, with whom the majority of the public does not agree, are not? I asked her this in an exclusive interview and she told me “They’re afraid of me, they’re afraid of women.”

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Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi Blasts Trump And The GOP, “They’re Afraid Of Women.”

In an exclusive interview with PoliticusUSA, House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi shreds Republicans for resorting to sexist attacks because they are bankrupt of ideas and afraid of her and women.

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Rep. Chris Collins Runs From Reporters After Refusing To Resign Over Insider Trading Charges

Rep. Collins may have avoided questions after giving what amounted to campaign speech hours after he was arrested – but he won’t be able to hide for long.

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Arrest Of Trump Ally Chris Collins Could Take Down More Than A Half-Dozen Other Republicans

The arrest of Rep. Chris Collins put gasoline on the GOP dumpster fire – and it could get even worse in the weeks to come.

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Steve Kornacki Warns GOP That Unpopular Trump Could Cost Them An Easy Win In OH-12

With the Trump presidency falling deeper into chaos and scandal, parts of the country that used to be reliably red no longer are.

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Trump Bear Hugs Jim Jordan And Touts His Wrestling Skills While Ignoring OSU Sex Abuse Scandal

To a known womanizer like Donald Trump, there is likely nobody he would respect than Jim Jordan, a man who looks the other way.

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Rep. Jim Jordan Is Privately Pressuring Sex Abuse Witnesses To Take Back Their Allegations

Despite Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s desperate lobbying efforts, the former wrestlers are sticking to their stories.

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No Way, No How: Why Jim Jordan Shouldn’t Even Be In Congress, Let Alone Speaker Of The House

Jim Jordan shouldn’t just be denied a chance to be second in line to the presidency; he should be forced to resign from Congress altogether.

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Nancy Pelosi Rips Shameless Republicans For Rosenstein Impeachment Stunt

Pointing out that Rod Rosenstein is a Republican appointee, Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted the Republicans for having no shame. The Democratic Leader said that attack on Rosenstein is an attack on the Mueller investigation and attempt by Rep. Jim Jordan to deflect from the scrutiny he’s under in Ohio.

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GOP Goes All In On Obstruction By Filing Impeachment Articles Against Rod Rosenstein

If Republicans are truly interested in filing articles of impeachment against someone, they should look toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Republicans might not even bother with passing new Russia sanctions before midterms

Unlike a year ago, when Congress worked with lightning speed on a sanctions law targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran, some lawmakers said on Tuesday the Senate and House of Representatives were carefully weighing their response to growing fears that Moscow is plotting to interfere in November’s congressional elections.

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Spineless Paul Ryan Dances For Russia With Claim That Trump Will Be Strong With Putin

Against all evidence, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he didn’t have a problem with President Donald Trump sitting down with Putin, claiming that what matters is the message that Trump might send to stop meddling in our country.

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House Democrats To Introduce Bill To Make Two Year College Degrees Free

House Democrats are set to introduce the Aim Higher Act, which would reduce student debt and make community college degrees free through state and federal partnership.

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Adam Schiff Wipes The Floor With Devin Nunes For Repeatedly Lying To Protect Trump

At the end of the day, Devin Nunes is to Trump what Trump is to Russian president Vladimir Putin: an obedient lapdog.

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Carter Page FISA Surveillance Docs Discredit Republican Devin Nunes and GOP Memo

The 412 pages released this Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the Trump Russia 2016 probe discredit Devin Nunes (R-CA) and the GOP memo, which claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele.

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Nancy Pelosi Demands An Apology for the American People From Putin Puppet Trump

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be U.S. President Trump’s “puppeteer” and demanded an apology for the American people on Thursday.

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Democrats Erupt Into Chants Of USA On The House Floor In The Faces Of GOP Trump Traitors

After a passionate speech by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer for more funding for election security, Democrats on the House floor erupted in chants of “USA!” on Thursday. Video: Hoyer and the House Democrats are protesting against the spending bill that eliminates new funding for election security grants to states. “It would be inaccurate to…

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Ari Melber Fights Back Laughter As GOP Rep Defends Trump’s Surrender To Russia

MSNBC host Ari Melber fought back laughter before quickly shutting down Republican Rep. Bill Johnson for defending Trump’s latest spin job.

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Here Are The 5 Things That Paul Ryan Should Be Doing To Protect America From Trump And Russia

Republicans have broad powers to check this President, but they are choosing not to use them.

Here are five things Paul Ryan could do to protect his country if he really wanted to.

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After Trump stands with Putin, House Republicans discuss further tax cuts

President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday discussed another possible round of deficit-financed tax cuts, highlighting an initiative seen by some tax experts as an election-year effort with little chance of becoming law.

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House Republicans Spend the Day After #TreasonTrump Whining About Being Discriminated Against

House Republicans spent the day after Treason Trump Helsinki debacle whining at Facebook, Google and Twitter about conservative content being discriminated against content for political reasons.

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Trump must demand that Putin stop Russia election meddling: Pelosi

President Donald Trump must seek a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end Moscow’s interference in American elections, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives said on Friday after fresh indictments against Russian military officers.

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House Speaker casts doubt on Congress acting to stop trade tariffs

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that while he does not support President Donald Trump’s moves to impose tariffs on major U.S. trading partners’ goods, he questioned the wisdom of Congress taking legislative action to stop such sanctions.

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GOP Rep Exposed For Buying Multi-Million Dollar Yacht On Same Day He Voted To Cut His Own Taxes

Rep. Vern Buchanan isn’t an outlier in the modern GOP. He is just more brazen in his disregard for the middle-class Americans.

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Republicans need an even stronger U.S. economy to hold onto House

Every two years, a small league of political scientists and economists fire up computer models they’ve developed to predict who will win the U.S. congressional elections in November.

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Maxine Waters Cancels Events After Trump Twitter Attacks Lead To ‘Very Serious Death Threat’

After Trump suggestively told Maxin Waters to “be careful,” it’s no surprise that she can’t even hold events without having her life threatened.

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Battle for control of U.S. Congress advances in seven states

A bitterly personal matchup in New York between a convicted felon seeking to reclaim his congressional seat from a former prosecutor is among dozens of key races in seven U.S. states on Tuesday, as voters pick candidates for November elections that will determine control of Congress.

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U.S. House approves farm bill with major food stamps changes

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a massive farm bill renewal on Thursday with changes to the government food stamps program that make it unlikely to become law in this form.

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U.S. House votes to defeat conservative immigration bill

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday defeated a Republican bill designed to significantly reduce visas for legal immigration into the United States and to temporarily protect illegal “Dreamer” youths from deportation.

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House Republicans short of votes to pass immigration bill: lawmaker

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have not yet rounded up the votes needed to pass immigration legislation they plan to take up later on Thursday, a member of the House Republican leadership said.

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Democrats Turn Up The Heat By Demanding Hearings On Trump Child Separation Policy

House Democrats have sent a letter demanding hearings in all relevant committees on Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border.

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Blue Wave Strengthens As Dems Nearly Double Midterm Lead In Fox Poll

Not even Fox News could hide the blue wave building on the horizon as the November elections inch closer.

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House Republicans offer ideas but no solutions yet on ‘Dreamer’ immigration

Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday struggled to agree on immigration legislation that could be voted on before November’s congressional elections, as party members disagreed on key issues such as the future of illegal “Dreamer” immigrants.

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U.S. Congress has few options to stop Trump from saving China’s ZTE

There is little Congress can do to stop President Donald Trump if he wants to relax penalties on ZTE Corp, despite strong bipartisan opposition to easing restrictions on China’s No. 2 telecommunications equipment maker.

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Republican House Speaker says Trump shouldn’t pardon himself

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should not pardon himself, becoming the second Republican leader in Congress to balk at the president’s assertion that he had “absolute” power to do so.

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John Boehner Slams Republicans For ‘Taking A Nap’ As Trump Wreaks Havoc On America

When the history books document this era of American politics, they will not be kind to the throngs of GOP politicians who stood by as this reality TV president used the federal government as his play toy.

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Trump Cabinet Member Breaks With WH, Tells Adam Schiff Dems Can Attend FBI Informant Briefing

Adam Schiff was given a commitment by at least one member of Trump’s cabinet that the controversial briefing will be bipartisan.

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DHS Secretary Claims She Is Unaware Russia Interfered With 2016 Election Ensuring Trump Victory

On January 6, 2017, between Donald Trump winning the presidential election and his being sworn in, our nation’s intelligence community issued a document clearly outlining how Russia, at the directive of the President of that nation, interfered with our election, favoring Donald Trump. When asked by a reporter yesterday, whether the Department of Homeland Security…

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Trump And GOP Roll Back Obama’s Bank Regulations, Pushing America Toward Another Economic Crisis

It’s no longer a question who Trump stands for. It’s the same wealthy interests to which all Republican administrations cater. The real question is: Will his supporters notice?

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Slurring And Rambling Trump Praises GOP Congressman Who Assaulted Reporter: ‘Great Job’

The president’s praise of Greg Gianforte isn’t all that surprising. After all, Trump’s own campaign style was similar, as he frequently bullied his critics and incited violence at his campaign rallies.

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Pennsylvania primaries could herald shift of power to Democrats in U.S. House

The state offers Democrats the opportunity to pick up as many as five seats from Republicans in congressional elections in November, analysts said. Democrats need a net total of 23 to assume the House majority, which would likely derail Republican President Donald Trump’s policy agenda.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell Exposes GOP Effort To Give Trump The Keys To Mueller’s ‘Evidence Locker’

This GOP effort is about one thing: Discrediting Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, thus giving Donald Trump an opening to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

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Rep. Ted Lieu Calls For Hearings ‘Next Week’ On Trump’s Campaign Finance Crimes

Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California said that if his party had control of the United States House of Representatives, they would hold hearings “next week” on Donald Trump’s violation of campaign finance laws.

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As Mueller Closes In On Trump, House GOP Drafts Impeachment Articles – Against Rod Rosenstein

Republicans continue to undermine Robert Mueller’s investigation and do severe long-term damage to American instititutions.

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Pruitt Might Have Violated the Law by Making False Statements to Congress

Pruitt testified that the EPA was not planning to revoke California’s Clean Air Act waiver that enables it to set more stringent fuel economy standards days ago, and then did exactly that.

It is a violation of the law to knowingly make false statements to a Congressional committee.

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Devin Nunes’ House Seat Is No Longer Safe For The GOP, Top Election Forecaster Says

If there is one election cycle in which being the president’s shameless lapdog is a bad look, it’s this one.

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House Democratic leader says House Dems will continue Russia Probe

Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday that House Democrats will continue to investigate alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections despite a report on the matter released by the House intelligence committee.

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Another GOP Predator Bites The Dust As Rep. Patrick Meehan Resigns

Married father of three Representative Patrick Meehan (R-PA) resigned Friday to put an end to an ethics probe into sexual harassment after reportedly using taxpayer dollars in settlement with aide who alleged sexual harassment. Meehan says he will repay U.S. Treasury for the $39,000 payment.

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Another Democratic Victory As Six-Term GOP Congressman Is Kicked Off Ballot In Colorado

Rep. Lamborn’s sloppiness is just a small part of the overall chaos unfolding within the Republican Party with the midterms just months away.

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Push for ‘Dreamer’ immigration bill gains steam in House

A bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday urged Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule debate on bills to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, in a move aimed at reviving a push that sputtered in the Senate in February.

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GOP Rep. Charlie Dent Announces He Won’t Bother Completing His Term Before Retiring, Will Leave In May

The Republican Party’s exodus from Congress continues as Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent announced on Tuesday that he plans on leaving office in May. This is earlier than previously expected. Dent is among the 43rd House GOP member to say they won’t be running for re-election — some have opted to retire, some have resigned, and some…

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Struggle to replace Ryan could blow up Congress budget deal

A six-month budget truce stitched together by Congress in March could unravel if Republican leaders vying to replace U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan indulge party conservatives who want to renege on critical parts of the pact.

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Rachel Maddow Skewers Paul Ryan’s Failed 20-Year Career As A Deficit Fraud

“This is the founding mythology of Paul Ryan over his 20 years in Congress,” Maddow said about the claim that Speaker Ryan is a fiscally responsible budget expert.

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The Collusion Between Fox, Trump, And Republican Lawmakers

During Mr. Trump’s meltdown on Monday night, prior to his meeting with his security team regarding the issue of Syria, the reader might recall a reporter asking Mr. Trump quite an unusual question: “Why don’t you just fire Mueller?” If you find this unusual, it might be because it is. Taunting a sitting president to…

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House panel investigating Pruitt’s condo rental from energy lobbyist

The House of Representatives Oversight Committee, chaired by Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, has begun looking into Pruitt’s housing arrangements, according to the aide, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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GOP Rep Goes Full Trump And Claims YouTube Shooter Is Probably An Undocumented Immigrant

This type of language used to be isolated to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party. Now it is standard campaign talking points. For that, we can thank the man in the Oval Office.

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Pelosi, Schumer Say They’ll Fight Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

The Democrats see the issue as one that is vital to their electoral strength. They believe the question will frighten census respondents who think that they might be deported by the Trump Administration. And of course, they believe the Republicans are doing this solely to give themselves more political power.

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Factbox: What is in the $1.3 trillion spending bill before the U.S. Congress

The U.S. Congress is aiming to pass a $1.3 trillion spending bill and send it to President Donald Trump before a midnight Friday deadline to fund the U.S. government until Oct. 1 and avoid a shutdown.

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Rick Saccone concedes to Conor Lamb In PA U.S. House race

The Republican candidate in a close U.S. House of Representatives special election on March 13 in Pennsylvania conceded to his Democratic opponent on Wednesday, cementing a Democratic upset in a long-time Republican area that President Donald Trump handily won in 2016.

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Congress unveils $1.3 trillion spending bill as shutdown looms

By Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress late on Wednesday unveiled a $1.3 trillion bill to fund the government through September, which includes an additional $80 billion in national defense spending but fails to fund some of President Donald Trump’s immigration initiatives. If passed by…

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Democrats accuse Republicans of stalling on Trump administration records

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats on a congressional oversight panel accused Republicans on Thursday of failing to insist that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration comply with requests for records in an investigation of security clearance practices, use of private jets and private email accounts. Democrats said that at a committee meeting on Thursday,…

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School safety bill passes House, no action on gun control

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to help schools and local law enforcement prevent gun violence, one month after the mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.