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And more to the point, it is not as if there is no one else qualified to do this job. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“After careful deliberation I have concluded that I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court,” Mr. Schumer said, citing concerns over Judge Gorsuch’s record on workers’ rights and his degree of independence, adding, “My vote will be no, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
“WikiLeaks has such chutzpah that it allegedly tried to convince Trump Jr to leak his father’s tax returns & his own “Russian lawyer meeting” emails (he did),” Assange wrote. | 0 | 1 | info |
“He should pay for it. He’s got the money.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
"He’s going to take them to the desert, and if they think that they will benefit with an administration led by Donald Trump, they’re wrong. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Akin apologized for his remarks Monday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. | 0 | 0 | neu |
President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine general who was one of Trump’s first Cabinet picks, would be retiring at the end of February. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Until then, he will continue to serve his constituents with the same dedication and tenacity that has characterized his lifetime of public service as a member of Congress, Marine Corps combat veteran and decorated F.B.I. special agent.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Authorities have heightened their search in Florida, as several of the packages may have passed through the state. | 0 | 0 | neu |
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) admitted there's a "1 in 3" chance that the Republicans will lose their majority in the House of Representatives in an interview Tuesday on Fox News' "America’s Newsroom." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Eric is a good friend and I have tremendous respect for him. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on the Senate floor moments before Wednesday's vote in that chamber, pushed back hard on Saudi government objections to the legislation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the president, nor will I make up lies.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
He also referred to past reports that the White House asked allies on Capitol Hill to refute negative press stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Cowan will become the second black senator from Massachusetts, after Edward Brooke, who served from 1967 to 1979. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He praised his home state during his speech, sharing how working as governor inspired him to run for president. | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — Representative Duncan Hunter was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego on Tuesday after a monthslong criminal investigation into allegations that he spent tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds on family trips to Hawaii and Italy, private school tuition for his children and even a $600 airl... | 0 | 1 | info |
The filibuster threat increases pressure on the White House to offer a more realistic agenda for the remaining weeks of the year. | 0 | 0 | neu |
When the audience finished laughing, he asked: “What made us sit there at the john making us vomit for four hours? | 0 | 0 | neu |
“[Putin’s] actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point, but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals,” Mattis told U.S. Naval War College graduates at a commencement ceremony in June. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In Wednesday's speech the senator also took a swipe at Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, calling her tenure as secretary of state "ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst." | 0 | 1 | info |
"Today" show host Meredith Vieira asked Trump, "You've been privy to all of this to know this?" | 0 | 0 | neu |
If you find financial success on the road to happiness, he said, conservatives believe “you shouldn’t be demonized or penalized by it.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Over the years, its philanthropic wing, WinShape, has donated millions of dollars to outside organizations that actively lobby against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump said when he started seriously considering a presidential bid a few weeks back, he thought the president was native-born, but now he's not so sure. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Representative Kurt Schrader of Oregon, who backed Mr. Ryan, said after the vote that unless Democrats changed course and adopted “a working man and woman’s agenda,” they should expect defeat. | 0 | 0 | neu |
After the mayors of Chicago and Boston heaped scorn upon the company, the mayor of Washington, DC, suggested it was peddling “hate chicken.” | 0 | 1 | info |
Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, said Thursday on Twitter that she did not understand how the decision would not “INCREASE the gruesome poaching of elephants,” while the comedian Ellen DeGeneres started an online campaign, using the hashtag #BeKindToElephants, to raise funds for elephant conservation efforts. | 1 | 0 | lex |
“WikiLeaks loves its pending publications and ignores those who ask for details,” Assange continued. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Facebook users are also signing up to participate in a “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” planned for Friday at Chick-fil-A restaurants. | 0 | 0 | neu |
David Bailey, a Capitol Police officer who was wounded while helping to stop the attack, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In short, both Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have adopted the favored position of their ideological base on a subject that profoundly animates both of those camps. | 0 | 0 | neu |
After DOMA was overturned, it was reported that the IRS owed Windsor $363,053. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"The president should listen to and work with his allies in Congress, starting with Nancy Pelosi, who had expressed their concerns about the impact that a weak agreement would have on our workers to make sure we get the best strongest deal possible," Clinton said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But he said they need to consider “the dangers” that come with public forums. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Newsweek's latest issue features a Michele Bachmann cover that's sure to stir up controversy. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Mueller’s team is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and rarely issues statements about the state of the investigation or disputing reports in the press. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"While it's commendable that Senator Reid now agrees with Republican Sharron Angle that we should respect the wishes of 9/11 families, it's regrettable that he hasn't demonstrated this same independence from President Obama on the critical issues facing America during the last 19 months," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The president's full-throated defense of the programs, albeit with the qualification that he welcomes debate, is unlikely to quell the outrage over the revelations. | 0 | 1 | info |
"I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday. | 0 | 0 | neu |
In a policy statement last year, the U.S. Justice Department noted it doesn't have the resources to police all violations of federal marijuana law. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Some residents of Aventura reported seeing a similar white van covered in pro-Trump stickers often parked in the lot of a local strip mall, the Aventura Waterways shopping center. | 0 | 0 | neu |
White House officials and Democratic lawmakers said that there are clear limits to what the president can and cannot do, and that Mr. Obama has no plans to push beyond what he would need Congressional authority to accomplish. | 0 | 0 | neu |
That truthfulness was a departure from Mr. Cohen’s pattern of deception throughout his professional life, according to a separate sentencing memo by federal prosecutors in New York, filed at the same time as Mr. Mueller’s. | 0 | 1 | info |
In comments delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations, the conservative senator vying for the GOP presidential nomination said the world would be safer if the U.S. military had a bigger budget and America asserted itself more aggressively across the globe. | 1 | 0 | lex |
Trump originally was planning to deliver a speech Monday in Manchester, N.H., focused on the Clintons. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Griner and David Bailey, the other officer hurt, are in stable condition, according to Chief Matthew R. Verderosa. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Perry also opposes a full border fence, although he calls for more enforcement along the southwest border with Mexico. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Arpaio is a hardliner on immigration, leading a push in Maricopa County for more enforcement. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But DOJ’s inspector general was “deeply troubled” by texts Strzok sent that “potentially indicated or created the appearance that the investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations,” and particularly focused on one anti-Trump text that implied a willingness “to take official action to impact t... | 0 | 0 | neu |
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official who first disclosed that the agency had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, and in doing so ignited a controversy that has ensnared the White House, denied on Wednesday that she had ever provided false information to Congress. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Later in the day, LePage took to Twitter, though, to push back on media reports about a possible resignation. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“For a court that cares a great deal about appearances, this certainly creates the appearance that justices take sides in elections,” Bam wrote in an email. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He raised the issue of Romney’s comments at a fundraiser in May in which he talked disparagingly about people who receive government benefits, claiming that he could “never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Trump also met Wednesday with current acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating and FBI official Richard McFeely. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Twenty-three minutes later, Ms. Nuland sent White House and intelligence officials an even more pointed e-mail, objecting that the talking points could be “abused” by lawmakers “to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why do we want to feed that either? Concerned ... ” | 0 | 0 | neu |
That person could order the attorney general to enforce federal prohibition regardless of state law." | 0 | 0 | neu |
"In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office." | 0 | 1 | info |
Trump, though, has talked for weeks about taking executive action to divert money from other programs for wall construction, without congressional sign-off—despite his criticisms of former President Barack Obama for using executive action. | 0 | 1 | info |
Ms. Zimmer’s account, however, was supported in some measure by two of the mayor’s aides, who were interviewed by F.B.I. agents and told them that Ms. Zimmer had recounted the threat to them around the time she said it occurred, two people briefed on the matter have said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republicans and Democrats stand ready to work toward a solution, but the fact remains that there is no reason to have large parts of the federal government shut down while we debate appropriate border security and immigration policies." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Republican leaders tried to rally their members during a closed policy luncheon before Thursday’s votes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
His age, 75, could be problematic, they said, given that F.B.I. directors serve 10-year terms. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But don’t write him off. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He’s led a very strong life and I feel very badly. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Those restrictions won’t apply to the portions built with national emergency money, a senior administration official said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Teachers should teach, but if there is personnel that has interest and is willing to go through 40 to 60 hours of [firearms] training, then schools should be willing to [arm them]," Hutchinson said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Scotto, who was asking about fundraising during Grimm's first campaign, protested, saying he was asking "a valid question." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Bloomberg considered making a third-party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Gowdy asked that Clinton agree to a "transcribed" interview -- and repeated a March 16 request for her to surrender her server so it can be examined by the State Department’s inspector general. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"We're not going to be distracted from securing the release of the full Mueller report and the underlying evidence, and we will continue to pursue legitimate oversight because that's what the Constitution requires." | 0 | 0 | neu |
“My guess is still that we will reach a deal, but I do not think that anything is either certain or imminent,” Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and Boehner lieutenant, said Sunday night. | 0 | 0 | neu |
He did not, however, say specifically whether he would still be an active candidate by then, taking no questions from the press before heading over to a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"We're talking about getting a foot in the door," Ginsburg said, a standard she called not hard to meet. | 0 | 0 | neu |
A terse response from the GOP only said: “No collusion.” | 0 | 0 | neu |
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican leaders are expected to release a one-page statement of immigration principles this week at their annual retreat in Cambridge, Md., according to aides with knowledge of the plan. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Representatives Brad Sherman of California and Al Green of Texas formally introduced an article of impeachment on Thursday, charging that Mr. Trump had obstructed justice in firing James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate,” said the spokesman, Peter Carr. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Despite that, Democrats have long thought they could make a play for Mr. Hunter’s seat, especially if he were indicted. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The committee’s chairman, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, said this week that he aimed to finish witness interviews in the coming weeks and issue the last in a series of reports on the panel’s findings in the coming months. | 0 | 0 | neu |
They argued that by making an opening statement, she had waived her Fifth Amendment right and could be compelled to testify, a contention Ms. Lerner’s lawyer disputed. | 0 | 0 | neu |
While it is against the law to take legally purchased marijuana across state lines, Nebraska and Oklahoma said that Colorado does not require consumers to smoke or eat their marijuana where they buy it, and said that despite purchasing and possession limits, anyone can easily visit several dispensaries and stock up. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Lawmakers at the scene of Wednesday’s baseball practice shooting described themselves as “sitting ducks” and said the violence would have been a “massacre” if not for Majority Whip Steve Scalise's detail -- spurring new questions over whether congressional security practices should be overhauled. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The existence of the account was discovered by the House select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and was first reported by The New York Times. | 0 | 0 | neu |
And they said the deal was a nonstarter because it did not offer any permanent protections for Dreamers. | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Throw out the threat of a boycott to attempt to defeat a bill, and you might just be able to be successful. | 0 | 0 | neu |
On Thursday, as Democrats and Republicans in the House traded recriminations, the Senate panel quietly called back for another interview with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“So much for balls and strikes. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But the legislation could lead to the public disclosure of American secrets and even undercut counterterrorism efforts by sowing mistrust among U.S. partners and allies, according to Carter. | 0 | 0 | neu |
“In his opening comments at the meeting, President Trump brought up impeachment,” Ms. Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, wrote on Twitter. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Many states currently prohibit anyone but a law enforcement officer from possessing guns in a school. | 0 | 0 | neu |
The criticism has resulted in an array of challenges or potential challenges for Steele's job from Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, former RNC Co-Chairwoman Ann Wagner, longtime Republican official Maria Cino, former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis and former RNC Political Director Gen... | 0 | 0 | neu |
It's going to be polarizing the entire state. And that's exactly what happened." | 0 | 0 | neu |
Federal law makes it a crime for anyone “who directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or any other benefit” to someone else “as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in... | 0 | 0 | neu |
"Because neighboring states have expressed concern about Colorado-grown marijuana coming into their states, we are not entirely surprised by this action," he said. | 0 | 0 | neu |
Ryan smiled, and continued to work through a data-filled argument, mentioning the $831 billion stimulus, an 8 percent unemployment rate for 43 months, the 1.3 percent growth rate of the economy, the $90 billion for green energy programs in the stimulus, and the 12 million jobs he and Romney say their economic program w... | 0 | 0 | neu |
Ramos pointed out that Trump likely won among Hispanics during Tuesday’s Nevada caucus -- a statistic that has a few caveats. | 0 | 0 | neu |
FreedomWorks, which has provided financial support for Tea Party candidates, immediately began trying to generate support for Mr. Labrador through its websites and email lists. | 0 | 0 | neu |
But it took little more than 24 hours this week for a freshman House Democrat’s exuberant, expletive-laden impeachment promise to upend the bonhomie of a new Congress and prompt President Trump, by his own telling, to ask the newly elected speaker if Democrats planned to impeach him. | 1 | 0 | lex |
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