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Senate Investigators Canceled An Interview With Trump’s Lawyer After He Leaked His Remarks
“The Committee expects witnesses in this investigation to work in good faith with the Senate,” the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a statement Tuesday. The committee has now invited Cohen to testify in public on Oct. 25.
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President Trump Doubled Down On Blaming Both Sides For Violence In Charlottesville — Again
Trump’s remarks come just a day after he met with Sen. Tim Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, to discuss race in the wake of Charlottesville. Scott on Thursday said it’s “unrealistic” to expect Trump to have an immediate “epiphany” on the issue.
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Paul Ryan Says “There Will Be A Compromise” On DACA
Ryan cast doubt on whether Democratic leaders had reached an “agreement” with President Donald Trump to protect DREAMers, while insisting that any deal would have to include border security.
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The Senate Just Killed An Effort To Rethink How The US Fights Terrorism
The Senate stopped Sen. Rand Paul from getting a vote to repeal the authorizations the US has used as the legal basis for the war on terror for more than a decade. It would have been the first time in 15 years that the Senate has taken a vote on war authorization.
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Trump Signs Bill Denouncing White Supremacy In The Wake Of Charlottesville
The resolution “condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack” in Charlottesville, Virginia, was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate.
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Conservatives Are Tired Of Throwing Money At “Predictable” Natural Disasters
“You can’t just throw money at a problem.”
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Donald Trump Jr. Tells Senate Investigators He “Did Not Collude” With Russia
President Trump’s son defended his decision to meet with a Russian lawyer who purportedly had “sensitive information” about Hillary Clinton in a closed-door interview with staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.
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Trump Just Signed A Bill To Avoid A Government Shutdown And Fund Hurricane Relief
The deal President Donald Trump made with Democrats earlier this week — infuriating some Republicans — is now law.
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Donald Trump Just Made A Deal With Democrats To Avoid A Government Shutdown
Trump agreed with Democratic leaders to a deal that will address Harvey relief funding, raise the debt limit, and keep the government funded until December. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he’ll support the agreement, even as some Republicans have expressed outrage.
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Five Democrats Voted Against The DREAM Act in 2010. Now Moderates Are Fighting Trump
Five red-state Democrats helped to kill the DREAM Act in 2010. Seven years later, moderates in the party are aggressively fighting Donald Trump after he moved to end DACA.
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Here Is What’s Going On With Congress’s Russia Investigation
Donald Trump Jr. is expected to testify before both the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees as early as September as Congress ramps up its investigation into Russian election interference and potential collusion.
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House Republicans Say They Can Avoid A Fight Over Harvey Relief Funding
September will be busy and hectic for Congress, but House Republicans think they can send aid to Texas without the drama that came after Sandy.
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Nancy Pelosi Calls On Republicans To Support Removing Confederate Statues From The Capitol
The states choose which statues to display in the Capitol building. Statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens are all currently on display.
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House Homeland Security Chair Responds To Democrats’ Request For Domestic Terrorism Hearing
The ranking member of the House Homeland Security committee doesn’t think the chairman’s response is “sufficient or adequate” to address Democrats’ request that the committee investigate white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
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Democrats Just Introduced A Bill To Censure Trump Over His Response To Charlottesville
It’s unclear whether there is any Republican support to censure the president, something Congress has only done three times in its history.
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DC Hotels Kept Canceling On Richard Spencer, So He Had To Hold A Press Conference In An Apartment
The white nationalist was forced to hold the event at what he called his office and a part-time residence in Alexandria, Virginia, instead.
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For The First Time, Republican Senators Are Drawing A Hard Line With Trump
“If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay.”
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While The Democratic Party Is Trying To Reinvent Itself, Tim Kaine Is Just Doing Tim Kaine
The former vice presidential nominee has no interest in 2020 and is just happy being a senator from Virginia again. Even if you don’t know who he is.
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Jared Kushner Says "I Did Not Collude With Russia" After Testifying Before Senate Investigators
“I did not collude,” Kushner said in an 11-page statement issued to congressional committees ahead of his testimony on Monday.
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Donald Trump Jr. And Paul Manafort Will Testify In Public, But It’s Not Clear When
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Friday that Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort will testify “openly,” but it wasn’t immediately clear when that would happen.
