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WASHINGTON — The top Democrats on 16 House committees sent a letter to all members on Tuesday condemning Republicans’ recent push to expand the power of committee chairmen to unilaterally…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s political action committee has drawn the ire of Democrats over a new staffer’s history of offensive remarks on Twitter. – Here are some of Czahor’s…
SANA, Yemen — Leaders of the Houthi rebels announced on Saturday that they had appointed four key ministers from the government they ousted to a national security committee. The move…
Harvard released a statement saying a specially appointed committee “determined that the existing language on relationships of unequal status did not explicitly reflect the faculty’s expectations of what constituted an…
WASHINGTON — If House Republicans want to pursue a “seriously misguided” lawsuit against the president over immigration, they shouldn’t do it by pushing through a resolution without going through a…
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana legislators on Wednesday considered whether to join every other state in the nation in putting anti-bullying policy into law. A bill introduced by Rep. Kimberly…
Paul is the first Republican outside the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn who is seeking to become the first African-American woman to serve as…
Joe Biden visited the offices of VICE Magazine, which makes sense because we could totally see him starring in video features on the strange world of Slovenian strippers’ bridge tournaments….
WASHINGTON — The first bills promoted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as the new chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee would add nearly $100 billion to the deficit…
WASHINGTON — The Senate Parliamentarian has vindicated former Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein against charges that the California Democrat violated committee rules by sending the full, classified version of…
Colorado Republican leaders have begun a legislative push to repeal recently passed gun control measures, reigniting one of the most intense political debates in recent history. The first advance came…
The new chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Jason Chaffetz, told CNN he will probably haul the commissioner in front of his panel to justify the league’s non-profit status….
Someone get Chuck Hagel a frame for his government ID card. If some members of Congress get their way, that might be the only official portrait taxpayers will pay for….
Dartmouth College will roll out a number of new policies in an effort to address binge drinking, hazing and sexual assault on campus, Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon announced in a…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, struck back at the CIA Tuesday, blasting the spies for failing to hold personnel accountable for…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who’s speech to activists in Iowa last weekend drew strong reviews, has taken the first formal step toward a presidential candidacy in 2016, establishing a committee…
WASHINGTON — From the Department of Predictable Outcomes: The House select committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, appears to be falling apart. At…
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said this week that threats against Muslims and Arabs have soared following the release of “American Sniper,” a hugely popular and hugely controversial film. Threats reported…
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are gearing up to fight their new Republican chairman’s attempts to reclaim the panel’s report on the CIA’s torture program, setting the…
The result of that redrafting process is a significantly watered-down version of the Nuclear Free Iran Act of 2013, also known as Kirk-Menendez, that addresses much of the criticism the…
At the end of every school year, Stephen Lazar, a New York City social studies teacher, would stand in front of his students and apologize to them for turning into…
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed deep skepticism that negotiations between six world powers, known as the P5+1, and Iran are…
“When we entered words like National Day, China and the Red Flag with Five Stars, nothing happened,” complained the Fujian provincial committee of the Communist Youth League in its official…
WASHINGTON — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) went on a subpoena-issuing bonanza during his four years as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Other Republicans appear ready to…
However, the committee concluded, for the government to know everything, it has to collect everything. The committee suggested putting automatic controls that limit who can access the data collected by…
RNC sets 2016 presidential convention date “Dave Agema’s history of harmful and offensive rhetoric has no place in our party, which is why the RNC Executive Committee acted in the…
The California Democrat and former Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman’s comments, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” come on the heels of the Paris attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo….
Along with the image, posted Wednesday to the Facebook page of the Fatah party, are the words “lingering on your skulls.” When contacted by CNN on Friday, a member of…
China’s former top domestic security official, Zhou Yongkang, has been arrested as part of a corruption probe, the country’s state-run Xinhua news agency reports. Zhou — who had been one…