House Republicans, on the verge of a Washington takeover as the new Congress convened Tuesday, couldn’t stop themselves from trying to dilute the power of a despised ethics watchdog as their first order of business.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, in red, who was elected to the House from Wyoming. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times.
In the current session of Congress, 291 of the 293 Republicans identify as Christians. (The two others are Jewish.) Democrats are significantly more diverse: While 80 percent identify as Christian, others are Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim.
Republicans have long said that they would move toward repealing the health law on Day One if they returned to power, arguing that the law is collapsing as some premiums surge and many insurers on the exchanges created by the law stop writing policies …
Trump’s message, consistent with his campaign promise to keep the facility open and even increase the number of detainees, came shortly after the President-elect criticized House Republicans for prioritizing a vote to gut Congress‘ independent ethics …
Jeff Sessions by the president of the NAACP and other demonstrators resulted in several people being handcuffed and escorted into a police van, according to the NAACP and a live social media broadcast.
Conservatives worried about President Obama’s plans for imposing so-called midnight regulations on his way out of the White House say they now have a new …
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will host a goodbye party for close friends and major donors Friday, according to a person with knowledge of the marquee affair.
The Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
Vice President Joe Biden completed one of his final duties in office by swearing in newly elected and re-elected members of the Senate on Tuesday. Biden, of course, delivered signature antics and banter during the ceremony. From kissing the wife of Sen.
His nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, which sat gathering dust in the Senate for that long, expired at noon Tuesday – just as the 115th Congress was …
Barack Obama recognised almost from the start of his presidency in 2009 that he would never be able to meet the high expectations raised by an election campaign in which he had electrified voters with rolling, honeyed rhetoric and a slogan based on hope.
Jovenel Moise has been declared the winner of Haiti’s November 20 presidential election, ending a protracted electoral process that has paralysed the Caribbean country’s politics for more than a year.
Exxon Mobil Corp. has awarded former Chief Executive Rex Tillerson a $180 million retirement package as the company moves to break financial ties with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state. If Mr. Tillerson is confirmed, Exxon …
President-elect Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday that his classified briefing on Russian political hacking is slated for Friday, while continuing to cast doubt on the U.S.
… in the courts of law or in the heads of departments.” “Inferior” does not mean unimportant, but instead that the Senate need not approve the appointment so long as Congress designates an official who has been appointed by the president to fill the …
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