Politics · 115th Congress
Plenty of Pitfalls for Hill Staffers Doing Campaign Work
Senators can designate three official staffers to solicit and handle campaign funds, but they must still do so on their own time without using government resources.
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Politics · 115th Congress
Sunshine State Senator Seeks More Sunshine
Following a 33-2 vote by the Florida state Senate and a similarly lopsided vote in the state House to push for federal authorization to set the clocks on Daylight Saving Time without “falling back
Politics · 115th Congress
Tillerson Termination Adds New Priorities to Senate Calendar
“I think we need a chief diplomat before the North Korea meeting,” the Texas Republican said.
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Rooney Adopts New GOP Line: House Investigations Have ‘Lost All Credibility’
Congressional committees can no longer conduct credible investigations without poisoning them with partisan politics, Rep. Tom Rooney said.
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Congress Could Split Payments to Broadcasters Over Two Years
“I don’t think there’s agreement on that, not in year one anyway,” Thune, said, referring to the authorizers’ request for $1 billion for broadcaster compensation.
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Ryan’s Piecemeal Approach May Keep GOP Infrastructure Push Afloat
“I certainly would be happy if we could, but we’ve got a lot of things to do, that being one of them, and I don’t know if we will have time to get to that,” the Texas Republican said in a recent Bloomberg
Politics · 115th Congress
Sergeant-At-Arms Prepares for New Role as Advocate for Veterans
I was very proud of him and his service,” he said. “He’s somebody that the system left behind, and he fell through the cracks.”
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Trump Intensifies War on California’s Immigrant ‘Sanctuaries’
“I think it’s clear they’ve put a target on the back of California,” said the state’s junior senator, Democrat Kamala Harris.
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Ryan Says Infrastructure Overhaul Will Be Done in 5 to 6 Bills
Rather, Ryan said the infrastructure overhaul will be tackled in five to six bills. “We think it’s easier to break it into pieces,” he said.
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Shelby Expected to Assume Appropriations Panel at Prime Time
That effort ultimately failed, but it ate up floor time in a year without many other legislative initiatives, and allowed Republicans to tout the return to regular order under a GOP-controlled Congress
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Ryan Pushes Trump to Take ‘More Surgical’ Approach to Tariffs
“But I think the smarter way to go is to make it more surgical and more targeted.”
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House GOP Preps Response to Florida Shooting, Democrats Want More
John Rutherford, called the STOP School Violence Act, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said.
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Trump-GOP Marriage Sours Again Amid Tariff Tussle
“Tariffs should be narrow, targeted and focused on addressing unfairly traded products, without disrupting the flow of fairly traded products for American businesses and consumers,” Aronson said,
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Border Wall Funds Elusive Without a Deal on ‘Dreamers’
Trump is asking Congress for $1.6 billion in fiscal 2019 to construct 65 miles of new barriers in southern Texas, even though he is still without the $1.6 billion he requested for 2018.
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Trump: ‘Trade Wars are Good’
“I wouldn’t expect those to change,” she said, according to a pool report, “but some of the other details need to be finalized.”
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Companies, Nonprofits Put Brakes on Foreign Lobbying Bills
without disclosing a thing about those relationships.”
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Fed Chairman Weighs in on Financial Deregulation Bill Set for Senate Debate
Powell said it would not, and added, “I think it gives us the tools that we need to continue to protect financial stability.”
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When Allies Attack: Friction Between Democrats, Immigration Advocates
I very much appreciate the frustration, the fear, the anger that they have. But they needed to direct it to the people that are stopping this from happening, and it’s not Democrats,” said Sen.
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Klobuchar Open to Fining Social Media for ‘Bots’
“I think that would be a great idea,” Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
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Feinstein’s Team Isn’t Worried About State Party Snub
“I think we’re in good shape,” said longtime Feinstein adviser Bill Carrick. “Nothing’s changed in the fundamentals.” Feinstein’s primary challenger, state Sen.