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Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio said on Monday that Republicans had a one-in-three chance of losing control of the House in November, a surprisingly downbeat assessment from a Republican leader who until now has expressed no fears of losing the gavel. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"The AARP has a history of division between the top folks and their base on these issues. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"All through this administration, the White House has been a spear carrier for the president," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Rape is an evil act. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“That just makes my stomach sick.” | 0 | 1 | info |
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Mr. Ryan said he welcomed the back and forth. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I just want to get it done faster, that’s all.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Family dental bills paid with campaign funds were characterized as a charitable contribution to “Smiles for Life.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
He appeared to be attempting to push back against early reports that the government had direct access to the huge computer servers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and similar companies. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — Leading Democrats called Friday for President Trump to cancel his upcoming meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia after the Justice Department indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking Democrats’ emails and computer networks during the 2016 presidential race. | 0 | 0 | neu |
House conservatives — lacking a rationale to fight Mr. McCarthy, a well-liked member of leadership who has raised millions of dollars for Republican incumbents — have begun protesting that his voting record is actually to the left of Mr. Cantor’s. | 0 | 1 | info |
According to BuzzFeed, “Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
The truth is, rape has many victims. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Bush is followed in the poll by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio with 18 percent, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with 14 percent, Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul with 11 percent, Carson with 7 percent, Huckabee and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 5 percent, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 2 percent and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina at 1 percent. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Democrats countered initially with $1.3 billion for general border security, while Trump said initially he would not sign anything without wall funding. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“We know where that will lead. It will lead to a special prosecutor,” he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In his current role as whip, McCarthy's job is to round up votes from other Republicans. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans, by contrast, praised Lieberman. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And the announcement Tuesday was met with a mixed reception by lawmakers in Congress, particularly the idea that Trump might use an executive order to impose such a significant immigration change -- something Republicans blasted former President Barack Obama for doing with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. | 1 | 0 | lex |
-On a few occasions out of hundreds, Dick misspoke and he'll be the first to admit that those were mistakes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans panned the call as "ridiculous." | 0 | 1 | info |
Dmitry Bam, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law who has written on judicial recusals and ethics, said “there is little question that she has crossed a line.” | 0 | 1 | info |
“Elected representatives should jealously guard the public’s trust, not abuse their positions for personal gain,” Mr. Braverman added. | 0 | 1 | info |
It is going to be a long, hot summer. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It came after Boehner publicly chided Obama on Friday for the lack of progress to date, accusing the president of having "wasted another week." | 0 | 1 | info |
Within minutes of the indictment, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urged Trump to call off the Putin meeting. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph diGenova blasted the tactic as “outrageous.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
During the interview, Akin said he would continue campaigning because he still believed he could win. | 0 | 0 | neu |
It is sheer journalistic dishonesty," Bozell told FoxNews.com. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I’m a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution, and I think in this case, the 14th Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mr. Cowan, 43, who is known as Mo, is a former partner in the politically connected law firm of Mintz Levin and will become Massachusetts’ first black senator since Edward Brooke, a Republican, held the seat from 1966 to 1978. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"The president didn't do this because of the politics. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Holtz-Eakin said, "We were looking for efficiencies in delivery a la Managed Medicaid." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“You cannot trust a guy like this,” Mr. Fox said. | 0 | 1 | info |
“Anyone who has in any way been a critic, publicly been a critic of President Trump, needs to be on an extra alert.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
By lifting the ban, she said, Trump was “encouraging Americans to kill elephants.” | 0 | 1 | info |
In a statement Friday, Mr. Sestak said Mr. Clinton had conveyed Mr. Emanuel’s suggestion that he join a “presidential board” while remaining in the House, but he declined. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Responding to the statement from Mueller’s office on their report, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith said it stands by its reporting and asked the special counsel’s office to clarify its statement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The leadership elections, conducted by secret ballot behind closed doors, stamped out calls for new leaders. | 1 | 0 | lex |
After handing out pocket-size Constitutions at rallies, after studying the document article by article and after demanding that Washington return to its founding principles, tea party activists have something new to applaud. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“However, we would be remiss … if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few.” | 0 | 1 | info |
The meeting with Obama was private. | 0 | 0 | neu |
If not this year, he has strongly advocated for amnesty next year. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Akin's ad, and claims Monday that he's "going to stay in," defied Republican Party leaders who are nervous the controversy could imperil their chances of taking control of the Senate after the November elections. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Cleaver, D-Mo., also said he was spit on. | 0 | 1 | info |
The amended legislation mirrors the federal RFRA. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The rules issued Thursday said the policies would affect all legally married gay couples regardless of where they live. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump met on Wednesday with Lieberman and three other candidates: current acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe; Frank Keating, the former governor of Oklahoma who previously served as an FBI agent and in high-level positions in the Justice Department; and Richard McFeely, who served in the FBI for 24 years before retiring as executive assistant director in 2014. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I’m honored to get the ability to meet with him and discuss it, and I want to thank him for being such a supporter of this issue.” | 0 | 1 | info |
But Mr. Mattis also quietly slow-walked a number of Mr. Trump’s proposals, including banning transgender troops, starting a Space Force and putting on a costly military parade. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"I believe that we can win this," Akin said, citing a "tremendous outpouring of support" from individual donors even as party heavyweights freeze him out. | 0 | 0 | neu |
One of the most significant warnings was an August 2012 State Department classified cable, which has not been made public, that summarized an emergency meeting in Benghazi where the CIA briefed on the significant threat of terrorist activity. | 0 | 0 | neu |
If he’s gone soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He acknowledged that Romney’s Medicare plan would not cost seniors an extra $6,400 a year, despite the claim in a recently launched Obama campaign ad. | 0 | 0 | neu |
They pored over his testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, which is conducting its own investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“The Democrats’ talking points have been that the president is solely responsible for shutting down the government,” Marc Short, the former White House legislative director, said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
However, Democrats are thought to have far more safe seats than Republicans going into November. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The House Republican immigration principles reportedly will cover how the U.S. border should be protected, how immigration laws should be enforced inside the United States, and how many of the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants can embark on a path to legalize their status, according to various media stories. | 0 | 0 | neu |
She won by a 134-to-63 vote. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Donald Trump Jr. Communicated With WikiLeaks During Campaign | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Democracy cannot pick crazy people that doesn't know what's going on in the world today," he said. | 1 | 0 | lex |
The latest candidate to learn the hard way was Representative Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat running for Senate this year. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"This is America's war. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Wray added: “It’s too early at this stage to discuss motive.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
When the question of her role was taken up again in the afternoon hearing by Representative Ed Royce, the California Republican who is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that she had been briefed on a series of events that indicated that security in Benghazi was deteriorating in the months before the attack. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Lois Lerner, the director of the exempt organizations unit at the Internal Revenue Service, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment during her expected testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the theory about how the company discriminated — through a central policy conferring local discretion — was internally inconsistent. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The case also could affect the future of other class-action lawsuits that pool modest individual claims into a single action that creates the potential for a large judgment and increases the pressure on businesses to settle. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Justice Department said the pair used political money to pay for their children’s tuition and spent thousands of dollars at shopping malls, Washington restaurants and surf shops, among other expenditures. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Tea party activist Alex Poulter, who co-founded a Kansas City-area group called Political Chips, also disputed the allegations. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I'm going to be remaining as the chair of the Democratic National Committee as President Obama has asked me to do until January 21, 2017, and I appreciate the president’s support,” she said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The address completes Trump’s remarkable journey from political outsider written off by countless Beltway pundits to the most powerful man in the country. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith described the new Romney-Ryan ad on the subject as “dishonest and hypocritical,” considering Ryan’s own proposals for Medicare. | 1 | 0 | lex |
He added the administration can't control the conversation on cable TV or in newspapers, but the White House has had a "pretty fulsome conversation" about it and has addressed it to a "pretty full extent." | 1 | 0 | lex |
And so it was on Saturday, with lawmakers nearing a vote on the legislation that critics said would legalize discrimination against gay people, that the younger Mr. Hutchinson wrote to his father and warned that the proposal could damage Arkansas’s reputation and economy. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Known for his blunt speaking style, Christie has acknowledged that he can come off brash and confrontational. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week's issue of the National Enquirer is true or not, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it, did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Like Governor Romney has refused to specify how he will pay for his $5 trillion tax cuts weighted toward millionaires, Senator McCain would have cut $1.3 trillion from health care programs to pay for tax cuts while refusing to rule out cutting benefits or to say what he was cutting," Obama's current campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt, said in an email to The Huffington Post. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Stone has previously admitted to being in contact with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks during the Trump campaign. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose experience and stability were widely seen as a balance to an unpredictable president, resigned Thursday in protest of President Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria and his rejection of international alliances. | 0 | 1 | info |
“I think it comes down to a First Amendment issue. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And sooner or later, we basically started sharing the microphones at these town hall meetings and we just kind of developed a chemistry with one another and a mutual understanding with each other.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Show me something. Show me a policy,” Biden said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“This is the kind of trade we don’t need.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
"None of those persistent problems was caused by the Tea Party movement, yet the principles of the Tea Party are exactly what's needed to wind down the multigenerational destruction in the African-American community. | 0 | 1 | info |
With no detailed information available about the report, Ms. Warren and Mr. Booker — as well as Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris — sought to focus attention and pressure on how quickly Attorney General William P. Barr would release the full report. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But Hensarling pondered his options for a full day Wednesday, while McCarthy moved quickly to generate support. | 0 | 0 | neu |
AUGUSTA, Me. — Paul R. LePage, the embattled Republican governor of Maine, declared on Wednesday that he would not step down despite widespread criticism over a profane threat and generalizations about drugs and race that had prompted him to hint on Tuesday that he might abort his second term. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He's a good man. He's a family man. | 0 | 1 | info |
“When you see working-class people, blue-collar people, going and voting for Trump, that’s a failure of the Democratic Party because they felt like we didn’t care about them,” Ryan said earlier this month. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The Washington Post reported that Grimm is likely to turn himself in once the indictment is unsealed. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Of course the National Enquirer story is 100 percent false!,” Pierson tweeted. | 0 | 0 | neu |
On Thursday, Trump had promised that Republicans “will not cave" on border wall demands. | 0 | 1 | info |
Trump on Tuesday specifically cited Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus' concerns about his involvement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? | 0 | 0 | neu |
"It had been my intention to file cloture on both of these bills last evening," said Reid on the Senate floor on Tuesday, "however, supporters of the original bills requested that some modifications be made. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“I would not trust the president alone with Putin without some other Americans in the administration in there,” he said. | 0 | 1 | info |
“The savings his ad attacks do not cut a single guaranteed Medicare benefit, and Mitt Romney embraced the very same savings when he promised he’d sign Paul Ryan’s budget,” Smith said. | 0 | 0 | neu |