Tag: Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats are vowing to investigate whether President Donald Trump directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, calling that possibility a concern of the…
WASHINGTON Weighty high-tech issues are likely to flummox Congress again this year, just as they did last year, when lengthy hearings with chief executives of Facebook and Google drew a spotlight to the deep unfamiliarity…
Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proportion had dwindled to fewer than one in five. The number of veterans on Capitol Hill will dip slightly again next…
Kansas Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids hoped to spend her first day in Congress helping to end a partial shutdown of the federal government. Instead, she got a first-hand look at the gridlock that has…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, the longest-serving member of Congress in Kansas history, announced Friday that he wont run again in 2020, setting up a scramble to replace him in a GOP-leaning…
WASHINGTON (AP) Nancy Pelosi knew this moment would come, even if others had their doubts or worked to stop her. Pelosi is poised to be elected today as House speaker, the only woman…
WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are expected to attend a briefing on border security at the White House as the government remains partially shut down and President Donald Trump asks in a…
WASHINGTON (AP) The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to…
Recent agreement on a new farm bill was encouraging at a time of troubling uncertainty for the nations producers. After much legislative wrangling, Congress passed a five-year, $867 billion farm bill with bipartisan support, and…
WASHINGTON (AP) Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border despite lawmaker resistance from…
