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“Party and politics will never come before the country I bled to protect — and would unquestionably do so again,” said Rose, an Army veteran whose district Trump carried by 10 points.
“I don’t think the Republicans are going to have protracted delay tactics,” he said, citing conversations he had with the minority.
That was my baby,” he said, as the crowd cheered wildly.
“I watched numerous senators last night,” the cable news-obsessed president said. “I think we’re equally well-united. They know it’s a witch hunt.”
But as 2019 comes to an end without legislation, the industry isn’t even expecting action in 2020. And for that, they’re feeling relieved, not disappointed.
“The reason why I know we’ll stay united is because the facts are on our side … the process has been failed, [Democrats] picked a timeline and they stuck to their timeline without having any facts for
The complaint that generated this referral came from a right-wing group with a long history of attacking Democrats, and is without merit,” McDevitt said.
This is not a decision I came to lightly, but I must do my part to ensure our democracy remains strong,” she said in a statement. Trump won Horn’s district by 14 points in 2016.
“If I wanted to do what was easy politically, I would just vote no and move on,” Cunningham said. “But it’s about doing what’s right for our country.” Utah Rep.
“I was not supportive of impeachment for many, many months,” Slotkin said. “I thought the election in 2020 should take care of it.
“I think on a case-by-case basis I obviously want to support the chair,” Costa said while rushing through a Capitol corridor without elaborating.
In fact, staffers I spoke with last week said the entire impeachment spectacle has had the strange side effect of allowing, and even incentivizing, the kinds of compromises that members might otherwise
The fate of a package of tax extenders, backed by members on both sides of the aisle and traditionally renewed without much controversy, was still up in the air as of Monday evening, however.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had been pushing for a package of refundable tax credits to help lower-income-workers and families, which Republicans said were a deal-breaker.
In brief but animated remarks, the president defiantly declared of the shape and length of an expected Senate trial: “I’ll do whatever I want.”
That left the Education Department without an effective system to process the claims, including some 64,000 left over from the Obama administration, she said.
“I’ve only heard of that in the press,” Blanton said. “So I have to get briefings on it and figure out what the root cause is for the issue and come up with a plan for how we would address it.”
“I see some leaks in the dam every now and then,” Shelby said. “We need to break it. It’s crucial right now because of the time, you know, the calendar.”
“I expect Iran will take further provocative actions in the coming weeks,” Thornberry said on a C-SPAN “Newsmakers” program set to air Friday night.
the House are pushing for their own home-state projects in this year’s final spending bills — a spectacular park overlooking San Francisco Bay and a dam across the largest reservoir in California — but without