Tag: Minusextra

President Trump said Wednesday his executive order needs to be maintained to provide security to Americans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump: Immigration order must stand to provide ‘security and safety’

Kyle Feldscher · February 8, 2017 12:26 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Why we need a doctor running HHS

Brad Wenstrup · February 8, 2017 12:00 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan along with Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce following a GOP strategy session. According to Foxx, the teacher preparation rule is "yet another example of Obama overreach." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House moves to quash Education Department, Bureau of Land Management rules

Nicole Duran · February 8, 2017 11:44 am

Sen. Jeff Sessions will pledge to protect the most vulnerable Americans, including blacks and members of the LGBT community. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Police organizations can’t wait for Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Susan Crabtree · February 8, 2017 5:41 am

The report, headed by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., is expected to serve as a guide for House Democrats as they look to work their way out of what will be at least eight years as the minority House party. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Democrats to study election ‘autopsy’ at Baltimore retreat

Al Weaver · February 8, 2017 5:01 am

Democrats have shifted attention from defeating Betsy DeVos' nomination to defeating Sen. Jeff Sessions and other nominees. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Progressives push Democrats to fight Trump’s picks even harder

W. James Antle III · February 8, 2017 5:01 am

President Trump signed an order Friday to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which could pit banks against retailers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dodd-Frank replacement bill brings big lobbying battle over swipe fees

Joseph Lawler · February 8, 2017 5:01 am

Republicans have set a cooling off period of sorts for Andy Puzder. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GOP scrambles to save Trump’s labor nominee

Susan Ferrechio · February 8, 2017 5:01 am

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz is a quintessential odd couple on healthcare, but the two senators did agree on one issue: drug re-importation. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Cruz, Sanders find common ground on drug prices

Robert King · February 8, 2017 3:57 am

Ted Cruz shied away from taking away Obamacare's mandate for insurers to cover all of birth control. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cruz objects to ‘these mandates’ for birth control, Obamacare

Robert King · February 8, 2017 3:48 am

A TV sportscaster in Chicago was suspended on Thursday for tweets he posted on Sunday that compared President Trump to a "cartoon lunatic" and alleged the election was not fair. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

National Security

Yemen bans US from more special ops against terrorists

Anna Giaritelli · February 8, 2017 3:34 am

Former 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina won't rule out a Senate run against Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine in Virginia in 2018. (AP Photos)

Will it be Carly Fiorina vs. Tim Kaine in 2018?

Anna Giaritelli · February 8, 2017 2:58 am