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Texas governor wants former Rep. Blake Farenthold to pay for special election
WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is asking former Rep. Blake Farenthold to pay for the June 30 special election to fill the seat the congressman vacated when he resigned earlier this month.
Abbott wrote a letter to Farenthold on Wednesday to "demand" that he "cover all costs" for the June 30 special election in Texas' 27th District.
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Trump gamble for quick trade deal with China seen as a long shot
BEIJING -- President Donald Trump is dispatching two of his top economic deputies to China in hopes of a quick deal on trade. They may find the reality on the ground more daunting.
Trump said on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will depart for China within days. Mnuchin is expected to be accompanied by U.S. Trade Representative ...Read more
GOP baseball returns to scene of last year's shooting
WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional baseball coach Roger Williams was hitting infield practice Wednesday morning as Rodney Davis played catcher and Williams staffer Zack Barth backed them up around a flooded batters box.
In the outfield, lobbyist and former Hill aide Matt Mika was fielding balls with teammates.
It seemed like a normal ...Read more
Trump's travel ban goes before Supreme Court in test of presidential power
WASHINGTON -- More than a year after President Donald Trump issued a travel ban that set off the first legal controversy of his presidency, the Supreme Court is set to consider whether the chief executive has the power to bar most immigrants and travelers from five heavily Muslim countries.
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday from ...Read more
'Year of the woman'? Not so much in California
WASHINGTON -- The numbers are eye-popping. On Monday, EMILY's List, a political organization dedicated to electing Democratic women to office, announced that over 36,000 women had contacted them about running for office since Donald Trump was elected president in Nov. 2016. By comparison, just over 900 women reached out to the group over the ...Read more
Why the Hill's Quitters Caucus keeps growing
WASHINGTON--There are really just three ways to give up a seat in Congress on your own timetable: retire, resign or quit. And the method with the least attractive connotations has become particularly popular in the last decade, especially among Republicans.
Those who use the term "retirement" properly are lawmakers who decline to run for re-...Read more
Republican Debbie Lesko wins Arizona special election
Former Republican state Sen. Debbie Lesko won the special election in Arizona's 8th District on Tuesday night, but by a relatively slim margin in a district that President Donald Trump easily carried in 2016.
With most of the votes counted, Lesko had 53 percent of the vote to 47 percent for Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, according to the Arizona ...Read more
Rep. Duncan Hunter sets up legal fund amid criminal investigation
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has filed paperwork to establish a legal expense fund amid an ongoing federal criminal investigation into whether he misused campaign cash.
Hunter filed the required paperwork March 27, seeking a rarely granted "Legal Expense Fund" through which members of Congress under investigation or being sued in...Read more
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The Shekhinah is Coming
Valjean TchakiridesThe Shekhinah is Coming: Secrets of the Divine presents a circular study of what Tchakirides calls "the divine plan that ends where it begins - 'in LIGHT'". This work bridges the gap between religion and science, offering explanations of recent NASA discoveries and suggesting what they might ...
Trump says there's a 'great shot' at a new Iran deal, as Macron suggests. Or maybe not
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he would consider a plea from visiting French President Emmanuel Macron to renegotiate and expand the multinational Iran nuclear deal rather than tear it up, as Trump has long pledged to do.
Macron, who came to Washington intent on salvaging the 2015 accord that dismantled Iran's ...Read more
Trump is pushing hard to reach NAFTA agreement, both with trading partners and with Congress
WASHINGTON -- With critical political deadlines fast approaching, the Trump administration is racing to strike a deal on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement by early May -- with an eye toward forcing a congressional vote on a new pact by the end of the year.
After months of making little progress, recent statements from high-level ...Read more
Sessions declines to recuse himself from probe into Trump lawyer
WASHINTON-- Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.
By contrast, Sessions recused himself from the ...Read more
Election year history belies ambitious talk on appropriations
WASHINGTON -- November might seem far away, but the midterm elections' impact on spending bills is already on display, amplified by internal Republican jockeying for leadership positions in the House.
Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills -- especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both ...Read more
Who can fill Paul Ryan's shoes in the House GOP?
WASHINGTON -- The brain drain from departing House Republicans with policy expertise had sparked worry among party insiders even before Speaker Paul D. Ryan announced his plans to retire.
Now, the extraordinary attrition, along with a potentially brutal upcoming midterm campaign, is enough to send the GOP into panic mode.
Ryan's exit won't ...Read more
For Melania Trump, the shroud of invisibility lifts during a week of public attention
WASHINGTON -- She is either complicit in her husband's worst instincts or a victim of them, either struggling in an anachronistic job or confidently doing precisely what she wants to do with it. Fifteen months after she became first lady, Melania Trump remains a mystery.
In the span of several days ending Tuesday, Melania Trump will have been ...Read more
President's hiring and firing power at issue in Supreme Court case over SEC judges
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in an arcane dispute over administrative judges that poses a potentially far-reaching question about the president's power: Can such executive branch officials have independent authority to act or must they be subject to control and removal by the president?
The justices sounded split on ...Read more
GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn does not qualify for Colorado primary ballot, state court rules
WASHINGTON -- The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn has not qualified for the GOP primary ballot.
The court ruled Lamborn violated state rules when collecting the 1,000 GOP signatures needed to qualify for the primary ballot. State law says the signature collectors must be Colorado residents, and the state Supreme ...Read more
Texas attorney general gives governor OK to suspend election law
AUSTIN, Texas -- To the extent election law prevents or delays the recovery of Texas' coastal areas in the long aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Texas governor can suspend that law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday.
Tying the ravages of Hurricane Harvey with the abrupt resignation of scandal-ridden U.S. Rep. Blake ...Read more
Congress sets modest to-do list amid polarized election campaign
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are showing little appetite for big action in what may be their last months in full control of Congress.
The House took much of last week off and doesn't get back to Washington until Tuesday. The Senate is bogged down in confirmation hearings. And many lawmakers are already focused on their first election campaigns ...Read more
Trump's EPA argues that more people will die in car accidents unless California fuel rules are weakened
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is embracing a curious -- and some would say dated -- argument as it builds its case to weaken federal rules championed by California that require cars and SUVs to average 55 miles per gallon by 2025.
It is warning that the fuel-efficiency targets, seen by most as key to meeting climate and air quality ...Read more
Stormy Daniels' former lawyer cooperates in Michael Cohen investigation
NEW YORK –– The former attorney for two women who claim they were paid to keep quiet about having sex with Donald Trump before he was elected president is cooperating with a criminal investigation of Trump's lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.
Keith Davidson, who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, ...Read more
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- Trump says there's a 'great shot' at a new Iran deal, as Macron suggests. Or maybe not
- Trump is pushing hard to reach NAFTA agreement, both with trading partners and with Congress
- Rep. Duncan Hunter sets up legal fund amid criminal investigation
- For Melania Trump, the shroud of invisibility lifts during a week of public attention
- Sessions declines to recuse himself from probe into Trump lawyer
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