COURTS/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “The likelihood of a court fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns grew on Wednesday [4-10-19] when the U.S. Treasury Department said it would not meet a deadline set by Democratic legislators to provide them and Trump himself stuck to his refusal to publicly release the documents. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven […]
Category: House of Reps
4/9/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats are demanding the Trump administration turn over documents related to its refusal to defend Obamacare in court, in an escalation of the political battle over a case that has put health care at risk for millions. The chairmen of five House committees sent letters to the White House, […]
4/9/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/STEVEN MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday [4-9-19] that Treasury Department lawyers had held discussions with the White House about an expected request from House Democrats for President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Mnuchin, at a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing, said the ‘informational’ conversations had taken place before House […]
4/5/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The House sued members of President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday [4-5-19] over his emergency declaration to force funding for a border wall. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., asserts Trump’s emergency acts in direct disregard of Congress’ will and disputes the president’s ability to access certain […]
4/5/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “An attorney for President Donald Trump on Friday [4-5-19] blasted U.S. House Democrats’ request for six years of Trump’s tax returns as ‘a misguided attempt’ to politicize the tax laws, accusing lawmakers of harassment and interference in IRS audits. In a statement that mapped out the legal battlefield ahead, William Consovoy […]
4/4/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Three powerful House committee chairs asked Capital One for documents last month related to President Donald Trump’s business empire — and the financial giant said it was already preserving documents but needs a subpoena in order to comply, according to letters obtained by POLITICO. The March 11 request from House Oversight and […]
4/4/2019
BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will join a growing list of organizations mounting legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the border, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday [4-4-19]. The lawsuit was approved with a 3-2 vote along party lines by the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. The […]
3/4/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in the House of Representatives are gearing up to issue subpoenas to try to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and President Donald Trump’s actions related to the inquiry. The question is: how successful will they be? Attorney […]
4/4/2019
FOREIGN POLICY/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “The House on Thursday [4-4-19] approved a measure to cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s bloody civil war, in yet another harsh, bipartisan rebuke of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Trump is expected to veto the measure, which passed with support from Republicans and Democrats […]
4/3/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee has asked one of the top contractors to President Trump’s inaugural to provide it with documents about the event, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday, opening up a new line of inquiry into the planning and financing of the ceremonies. The committee asked […]
4/3/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House voted Wednesday [4-3-19] to condemn the Trump administration for pushing a federal appeals court to obliterate the Affordable Care Act, and it urged the Justice Department to defend the law in court. The vote, 240-186, was nonbinding, but it documented the House’s support of the health […]
4/3/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, using a little-known provision in the federal tax code, formally requested on Wednesday [4-3-19] that the I.R.S. hand over six years of President Trump’s personal and business tax returns, starting what is likely to be a momentous fight with his administration. Representative […]
4/3/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “After months of promises and amid growing frustration from even some of his Democratic colleagues, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal formally requested six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns on Wednesday [4-3-19] — a move that will likely trigger one of the biggest political and legal showdowns of […]
4/3/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “The House’s top tax writer formally requested President Donald Trump’s tax returns on Wednesday [4-3-19], escalating a bid by Democrats to unmask the long-hidden documents that’s likely to ignite a precedent-setting legal showdown between Congress and the administration. Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.), citing an arcane law […]
4/3/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “More than half of the House Judiciary Committee’s 81 targets in its obstruction of justice and corruption investigation into President Donald Trump have declined to produce documents, according to a POLITICO analysis. Two weeks after committee chairman Jerrold Nadler’s March 18 deadline, 14 witnesses contacted by POLITICO indicated through […]
4/3/2019
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House on Wednesday [4-3-19] overwhelmingly voted to condemn the Trump administration for backing a lawsuit seeking to throw out all of Obamacare, with eight Republicans joining a near-unanimous Democratic caucus. The non-binding resolution is one of is one of several steps Democrats are taking to try to link vulnerable […]
4/2/2019
BUDGET/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats formally punted on releasing a budget blueprint on Tuesday [4-2-19], instead unveiling a bill that would increase military and domestic spending caps by more than $350 billion over the next two years. The proposal frustrated fiscal hawks on both sides of the aisle and Democrats on the party’s […]
4/1/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on Wednesday [4-3-19] to authorize a subpoena that Democrats can use to try to force the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted copy of the special counsel’s report and underlying evidence. The move on Monday [4-1-19] by Representative Jerrold […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Adam Schiff was poised to take over the House Intelligence Committee late last year, he spoke about his desire to restore comity to the panel after two years of infighting over the Russian investigation. Three months into the new Democratic Congress, the committee’s partisan warfare is more intense […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee’s first hearing since Robert S. Mueller III completed his report had barely begun when the panel’s Republicans moved en masse to demand the resignation of the committee’s chairman. It went downhill from there. The acrimony on display Thursday [3-28-19] as the intelligence committee tried to […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tore into his Democratic House investigators on Thursday [3-28-19] night, perpetuating a verbal assault he launched after Robert Mueller’s Russia probe concluded without finding a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. — Trump’s first since the special counsel […]
3/27/2019
BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETO: “The House failed Tuesday [3-26-19] to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a congressional resolution aimed at halting his emergency declaration for the southern border. The battle continues in the courts where opponents of the wall, including the American Civil Liberties Union and 20 states, are challenging Trump’s authority to declare a national […]
3/26/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to the House Republicans for sticking together and the BIG WIN today on the Border. Today’s vote simply reaffirms Congressional Democrats are the party of Open Borders, Drugs and Crime!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 26, 2019 4:31 pm […]
3/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [3-26-19] unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump. In a surprising show of bipartisanship, days after U.S. Attorney General William Barr told Congress he did […]
3/26/2019
DEMS/HEALTHCARE/HOUSE OF REPS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s decision to ask a federal appeals court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act has given House Democrats a new opening to pursue what they see as a winning political strategy: moving past talk of impeachment to put kitchen-table issues like health care front and center. The […]
3/26/2019
BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETO/WALL: “The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday [3-26-19] failed to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, leaving in place the ‘national emergency’ he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded. Democrats who control the House did not attract enough Republican support, falling some […]
3/25/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House counsel Don McGahn, White House strategist Steve Bannon, and Trump’s former chief of staff Reince Priebus will not turn over records to Congress from their period at the White House without the administration’s approval, their lawyer Bill Burke told lawmakers, according to a person familiar with […]
3/20/2019
DEMS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and long-time confidante of President Donald Trump, plans to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into potential obstruction of justice. Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent Hicks a detailed […]
3/14/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives on Thursday [3-14-19] passed a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be released to the public once it is completed. The vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, with 420 members voting in favor of the resolution and zero voting against it. Four Republicans […]
3/13/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NAFTA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s trade chief Robert Lighthizer will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday [3-13-19] to entice House Democrats into supporting the new North American trade pact, but already it’s becoming clear that outreach alone won’t get the votes needed. In the latest show of disapproval to the deal, leaders of […]
3/13/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats can’t escape Trumpmania. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues are living under a harsh new reality fueled by the rise of Donald Trump — a scandal-driven climate with a five-minute news cycle that has proved impossible to control…Since the start of their majority, House Democrats have largely struggled […]
3/12/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Democrats grilled T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday [3-12-19] for staying at the Trump International Hotel while his company seeks government approval for a merger with Sprint. Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law to answer questions […]
3/12/2019
BUDGET/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDICARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats on Tuesday [3-12-19] zeroed in on ‘malicious’ proposed cuts to health care and other social programs, reviving their winning midterm message in a first attack on President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.7 trillion fiscal 2020 budget proposal. Cuts by the Trump administration to programs like Medicare and Social Security, […]
3/11/2019
BUDGET/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Presidential budgets are by tradition declared dead on arrival even before the details reach Capitol Hill, and President Trump’s $4.75 trillion budget for the 2020 fiscal year received that greeting in spades on Monday [3-11-19]. But with a new Democratic majority in the House, the release of Mr. Trump’s budget […]
3/7/2019
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Republican on a U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee that is investigating President Donald Trump blasted the Democratic-led probe on Thursday [3-7-19] as a ‘draconian inquisition’ and an abuse of congressional power. The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Doug Collins, said the panel’s investigation into obstruction of justice, […]
3/7/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When they won the majority last year, House Democrats promised a barrage of investigations into President Trump and those around him. It now looks more like a continuous bombardment. This week alone, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee sent 81 document requests seeking information on potential obstruction of justice, abuse of […]
3/6/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen on Wednesday [3-6-19] provided new documents to the House Intelligence Committee that he said illustrated changes made at the request of President Trump’s lawyers to a knowingly false written statement that he delivered to Congress in 2017, according to three people familiar with the matter. Mr. […]
3/5/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP TAXES: “Rep. Richard Neal, the only Democrat on Capitol Hill who can formally request Trump’s tax returns using IRS rules, said Tuesday [3-5-19] evening that he is not clear on when he will request President Donald Trump’s tax returns and that Neal will do it only after his committee has built his […]
3/5/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/JARED KUSHNER/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House rejected a demand from the House Oversight Committee to turn over documents and comply with interviews concerning the security clearances of some of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The refusal to provide the documents increases the likelihood […]
3/5/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats plan to formally demand President Donald Trump’s tax returns in about two weeks, a key lawmaker said Tuesday [3-5-19]. They intend to seek his personal tax returns covering a decade, but will not at this time request his business filings, said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), a senior member of […]
3/5/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SEAN SPICER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday [3-5-19] that he plans to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee’s probe into President Donald Trump…He is one of 81 individuals and entities that the committee sent letters to Monday requesting documents relating to the President’s campaign, businesses, transition and […]
3/1/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The chairman of the House Oversight Committee issued a stark warning Friday [3-1-19] to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, demanding that the White House turn over documents and comply with interviews related to how the White House handled security clearances of some of the President’s closest advisers. Democratic […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump criticized the congressional testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen as ‘shameful’ and accused Cohen of lying ‘a lot.’ Trump’s remarks Thursday [2-28-19] came just hours after Cohen, during extraordinary testimony before a House committee, branded Trump as a ‘con man’ and a racist and accused […]
2/27/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen said on Wednesday [2-27-19] that Trump has not released his tax returns because he feared that public scrutiny would lead to an audit and tax penalties. In congressional testimony that could aid efforts by House Democrats to obtain Trump’s […]
2/27/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, lodged a series of explosive accusations against the president in his prepared testimony before the House Oversight Committee, further incensing the man he once claimed he’d take a bullet for. While many of the accusations are ones long posited […]
2/26/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Oversight Committee has instructed its Democratic members not to deviate from agreed upon lines of questioning at Michael Cohen’s public hearing Wednesday [2-27-19], prompting grumbling from several Democrats on the panel who want to press President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney about a range of matters related […]
2/25/2019
DONALD JR/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization fired back at investigations into its business Monday [2-25-19], demanding a House panel end its probe because of ethical conflicts. Separately, President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., accused federal prosecutors in a ‘Fox & Friends’ interview of resorting to ‘Stalinist’ tactics as they investigate the […]
2/25/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Democrats are planning to cross one of President Donald Trump’s red lines: investigating his personal finances. With special counsel Robert Mueller expected to wind up his probe soon, Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend The Trump Organization money when other banks […]
2/22/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats will move early next week to block President Donald Trump from circumventing Congress to build a border wall, kicking off a weeks-long battle to pressure Republicans to rebuke the president over his national emergency declaration. Speaker Nancy Pelosi detailed her party’s strategy Friday [2-22-19], one week after […]
2/20/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen will testify publicly before Congress on February 27 on an array of topics linked to his former boss and client, President Donald Trump, the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday [2-20-19]. Cohen was initially scheduled to testify in front of the committee on February 7, but that appearance […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Democrats will file a resolution Friday [2-22-19] aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and the Constitution’s separation of powers. Though the effort seems […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce a resolution on Friday [2-22-19] to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on border security, according to aides to Representative Joaquin Castro. So far, 92 lawmakers have joined Castro in backing the legislation, which under House rules could advance […]
2/19/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/NUCLEAR/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Trump administration officials have pushed to build nuclear power plants throughout Saudi Arabia over the vigorous objections of White House lawyers who question the legality of the plan and the ethics of a venture that could enrich Trump allies, according to a new report by House Democrats released […]
2/7/2019
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “House Republicans on Thursday [2-7-19] signaled how they plan to fight back attempts by Democrats to obtain President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns, describing the effort in a hearing as a ‘waste of time’ and ‘weaponizing’ the law to target a political foe. Throughout a more than two-hour hearing on Capitol […]
2/7/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump responded Thursday [2-7-19] to the first waves of oversight investigations into his administration launched by the new Democratic majority in the House, alleging that he is being unfairly subjected to ‘unlimited presidential harassment’ that no previous president has faced. On Wednesday [2-6-19], House Intelligence Chairman Schiff (D-Calif.) […]
2/6/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democratic leaders aren’t in a rush to demand President Donald Trump’s tax returns, despite pressure from more progressive members of the caucus…Trump himself escalated the debate over the Democrats’ efforts in his State of the Union address, just ahead of a Thursday hearing at a Ways and Means […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A House panel is requesting additional documents from the Department of Health and Human Services related to the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border, after an earlier request went unfulfilled…The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the House offered a border security plan on Wednesday [1-30-19] that would not provide a penny for Donald Trump’s border wall, ignoring — for now — an early-morning warning from the president that they’d be ‘wasting their time’ if they don’t come up with wall money. The Democratic […]
1/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats who have been itching to get their hands on President Donald Trump’s tax returns are growing impatient with leadership for not moving fast enough to access and release the documents. Digging into Trump’s personal finances was supposed to be one of the top priorities under the House […]
1/23/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen is trying to delay his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee, with Cohen’s lawyer citing ‘ongoing threats against his family’ and his continued cooperation with investigators. Cohen had been scheduled to testify on Feb. 7 at the highly anticipated hearing, which his […]
1/23/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democratic investigators launched a probe on Wednesday [1-23-19] into the Trump administration’s use of security clearances and temporary security clearances, accusing the White House of playing fast and loose with the nation’s most guarded secrets. Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings laid out several lines of inquiry on the matter […]
1/23/2019
GOVERNMENT/HOUSE OF REPS/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has declined to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday [1-24-19] to testify on 36,000 Internal Revenue Service employees being called back to work without pay, a committee aide told CNN on Wednesday. Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, had called […]
1/22/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a warning to President Donald Trump not to try to withdraw the United States from the NATO military alliance, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday [1-22-19] approved legislation aimed at preventing such a move. The Democratic-led House approved the measure by a bipartisan 357-22 vote, with the only […]
1/18/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A House panel sent a letter Friday [1-18-19] to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting he turn over documents related to the administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border. The letter from the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on […]
1/17/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday [1-17-19] to block the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Vladimir Putin. The effort, a joint resolution of disapproval, would overturn the Treasury Department’s December decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Oleg Deripaska, […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, which sprawls across four states and nine House districts, a single seat is held by a Republican: Representative Will Hurd of Texas. And Mr. Hurd, a former undercover C.I.A. officer who barely won re-election in Texas’ 23rd District, the largest of the nine, […]
1/17/2019
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In what was most likely a largely symbolic vote, 136 House Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday [1-17-19] in an overwhelming show of disapproval of the Trump administration’s policy toward three Kremlin-aligned companies. The House voted 362 to 53 to block the Treasury Department from lifting sanctions against the companies, […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Wednesday [1-16-19] that his panel would subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report if William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, does not release it to the public…Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and possible collusion between […]
1/11/2019
DEMS/ETHICS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has hired a former White House lawyer to handle inquiries from the Democrat-led House, two people familiar with the situation said on Friday [1-11-19], part of the strategy by the White House and the company to counter an expected onslaught of requests and subpoenas. The lawyer, […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Democrats are weighing a lawsuit if President Donald Trump pulls the trigger on a national emergency declaration to build his border wall, with party leaders eager to stop the president from doing an end run around Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to lay out exactly how House Democrats would […]
1/10/2019
BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is GREAT unity with the Republicans in the House and Senate, despite the Fake News Media working in overdrive to make the story look otherwise. The Opposition Party & the Dems know we must have Strong Border Security, but don’t want to give ‘Trump’ another one of many wins!” […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump has run into a wall. It’s the new Democratic House. In the first Oval Office address of his presidency, Trump argued Tuesday [1-8-19] night that a dire security and humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border has made it imperative for Congress to approve his immigration proposal, including […]
1/9/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IRS/SPENDING/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House passed a financial services spending bill on Wednesday [1-9-19], the first of four appropriations bills the House will vote on this week in an attempt to reopen shuttered parts of government, despite the fact that the measures are not expected to go anywhere in the Senate and face […]
1/7/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats want to investigate the Trump Hotel deal and President Donald Trump’s taxes. They want to haul up conflicted Cabinet officials and dig into controversial changes to the census and food stamps. They want to put Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under oath and investigate child detentions at the border. The […]
1/6/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: As I have stated many times, if the Democrats take over the House or Senate, there will be disruption to the Financial…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2019 7:41 am […]
12/21/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republican Vote, 217-185.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 21, 2018 7:27 am […]
12/21/2018
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No matter what happens today in the Senate, Republican House Members should be very proud of themselves. They flew back to Washington from all parts of the World in order to vote for Border Security and the Wall. Not one Democrat voted yes, and we won big. I am very […]
12/19/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday [12-20-18] to send the transcript of its 2017 interview with Roger Stone to special counsel Robert Mueller, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Rep. Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican on the panel, said the committee approved it unanimously by voice […]
12/19/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Democrats still have two weeks until they take control of the House, but a top Democratic investigator is already putting President Donald Trump on notice. Incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Wednesday [12-19-18] sent more than 50 letters to multiple agencies and departments as […]
12/18/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats are carefully laying the groundwork to obtain President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns in the new Congress, hoping to build public support for their effort as they prepare to confront a defiant President. Incoming House Ways and Means Committee Chairmen Richard Neal, the only Democrat who has […]
12/13/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP TAXES: “Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday [12-13-18] that members of congress from her party will seek to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns when they take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January – a move the White House is likely to strongly resist. The House Ways […]
12/13/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGISLATION/REGULATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the House’s major bipartisan achievements this year — a sweeping financial deregulation package negotiated by Democrat Maxine Waters and Republican Jeb Hensarling — may be doomed. As Congress prepares to leave town in the coming days, Democrats are opposing efforts to attach the legislation to a year-end government […]
12/10/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows wrote a secret memo last month about how House Republicans could counter Democratic plans to investigate and potentially impeach Donald Trump. Now, the president is eyeing the North Carolina Republican — one of his closest allies on Capitol Hill — […]
12/5/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democrats taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January plan to send Special Counsel Robert Mueller the transcripts of testimony by some of President Donald Trump’s closest associates so they can be reviewed for evidence and possible falsehoods, said three sources familiar with the matter. […]
11/30/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is planning to propose a fully independent Department of the Space Force as a sixth branch of the military next year, according to a draft presidential directive POLITICO obtained on Thursday [11-29-18]— despite the expected pushback from a Democratic-controlled House and continuing Pentagon efforts to study alternatives […]
11/29/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [11-29-18] denied pursuing a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which his former lawyer Michael Cohen said they had continued until June 2016, during the presidential campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the project, putting fresh […]
11/28/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said that if Democrats ‘want to play tough’ when they control the House of Representatives next year, he will declassify documents that will be ‘devastating’ to them…Democrats are poised to launch a series of investigations after winning a majority in the House in November. Democratic-controlled committees are […]
11/23/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/CRIME/HOUSE OF REPS/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Really good Criminal Justice Reform has a true shot at major bipartisan support. @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell and @SenSchumer have a real chance to do something so badly needed in our country. Already passed, with big vote, in House. Would be a major victory for ALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/23/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/CRIME/HOUSE OF REPS/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Really good Criminal Justice Reform has a true shot at major bipartisan support. @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell and @senchuckschumer have a real chance to do something so badly needed in our country. Already past, with big vote, in House. Would be a major victory for ALL!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/23/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats preparing to take over the House are aiming to roll back what they see as President Donald Trump’s overly aggressive nuclear strategy. Their goals include eliminating money for Trump’s planned expansion of the U.S. atomic arsenal, including a new long-range ballistic missile and development of a smaller, battlefield nuclear […]
11/21/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the days after the midterm elections, executives at President Donald Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, huddled on calls to discuss the possible implications of Democrats winning back the House of Representatives and the potential risk that poses to the company. While the Trump Organization has a long history of […]
11/19/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP TAXES: “Sometime next year, we may know a lot more about President Donald Trump’s personal taxes. House Democrats are bent on getting their hands on his returns and some want to publicly air them. While it’s true that Trump’s tax practices are largely a black hole to the public, some information has […]
11/17/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I can get Nancy Pelosi as many votes as she wants in order for her to be Speaker of the House. She deserves this victory, she has earned it – but there are those in her party who are trying to take it away. She will win! @TomReedCongress” –Donald […]
11/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/HOUSE OF REPS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threw his support behind a substantial revision of the nation’s prison and sentencing laws on Wednesday [11-14-18], opening a potential path to enacting the most significant changes to the criminal justice system in a generation. The tentative legislative package, developed by a bipartisan group of senators and […]
11/14/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is set to formally sign a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement in just two weeks — but the Republican loss of the House in the midterms means he’ll need Democratic support to get the deal through Congress next year. Administration officials have expressed optimism […]
11/13/2018
DEMS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The incoming Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee intends to investigate President Donald Trump’s impact on the integrity of the Justice Department and the FBI, according to a letter sent to top federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday. Representative Jerrold Nadler, now the […]
11/12/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Half of voters say the new Democratic-controlled House should not begin impeachment proceedings next year, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. But even though overall public support for impeaching Trump is tepid (33 percent) and 51 percent don’t support impeachment, House Democrats could find themselves squeezed by a restive […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California said she and President Donald Trump talked about finding common ground when he called her Tuesday [11-6-18], but added that it was difficult to hear the President over the loud celebrations. Pelosi is positioning herself to once again become House speaker following Democrats […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-18] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-17] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation of […]