Tag: Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant…
WASHINGTON A meeting of top White House officials and congressional leaders broke up Wednesday without agreement on topline funding allocations for appropriators, raising fresh doubts over their ability to avert another fiscal crisis later…
WASHINGTON (AP) A long-delayed $19.1 billion disaster aid bill has sailed through the House and headed to President Donald Trump for his expected signature, overcoming months of infighting, misjudgment and a feud between Trump…
WASHINGTON (AP) Reality has set in during the three weeks since President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package to invest in roads, bridges and…
WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday introduced a bill to raise the federal age for purchasing tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21, increasing the chances that Congress will clear a significant smoking-related…
Let me tell you what is probably not going to make this column go viral: Me writing about infrastructure. But you know what Im about to do? Write about infrastructure. Thats because, even though a…
After more than four hours of opaque testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr made one thing quite clear. Only special counsel Robert Mueller can give the nation the honest answers it…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress, abandoning his previous declaration that he would leave that decision to his attorney general. Escalating tensions with…
WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing this morning on special counsel Robert Muellers Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trumps Justice Department. Barrs decision,…
WASHINGTON Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III complained to Attorney General William Barr that Barrs initial letter to Congress about the Russia investigation did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this…
