Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent of Vermont) makes remarks as the BiCameral Democratic Leadership meets reporters after their gathering with US President Barack Obama to strategize on how to counter Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (Photo: Ron Sachs/CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is welcomed at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, by House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. following a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
(ANALYSIS) — The Republican party appears to be employing a strategy wherein the public—and even lawmakers—will be too distracted to place much needed scrutiny on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, meets with Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (REPORT) – After a day of meeting with the elected officials who hold his political future in their hands, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry left the Capitol with one thing in mind.
A sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Debris of a Palestinian building demolished by Israeli forces in annexed East Jerusalem on December 01, 2014. (Photo: Anadolu/Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu)
(REPORT) — Republican senators have introduced a bill to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, a move backed by President-elect Donald Trump but one that Palestinian leaders say will deal a fatal blow to prospects for peace.
In this 2015 photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, voted to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics. Under the ethics change pushed by Goodlatte, the independent body would fall under the control of the House Ethics Committee, which is run by lawmakers. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
Donald Trump describes how he was ready to punch a person who rushed the stage during an election rally earlier in the day, as he speaks to a crowd in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
(REPORT) — A political action committee that backed Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency is continuing to flout campaign finance laws.
