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Blanche returns to Capitol Hill for second day of hearings in quest to become attorney general
The acting attorney general will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose members will vote after the question-and-answering sessions whether to recommend to "advance" his nomination for a final, full chamber vote.
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Watch Live: Blanche appears before Senate panel for second day of vetting for Attorney General post
Todd Blanche is now the acting U.S. attorney general. He is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Senators will demand spending offset with cuts elsewhere in reconciliation bill: Ron Johnson
Johnson, who will take over as chair of the Senate Budget Committee following Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, will inherit the management of the budget reconciliation process that Republicans intended to use to avoid Democratic opposition to their newest legislative proposals.
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Stefanik, Cotton urge Bessent to open funding probe on Council on American-Islamic Relations
The Republicans also claimed CAIR's leadership attended a Philadelphia meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee in 1993 where members discussed supporting Hamas, despite its label as a foreign terrorist organization.
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Senate fails to advance Republican continuing resolution in eighth vote
The government entered a shutdown at the beginning of the month, after the Senate failed to pass the House's continuing resolution, or a competing one from Senate Democrats. The Senate needs 60 votes to invoke cloture on the resolutions.
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Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data in Trump J6 probe, raising civil liberty concerns
More details continue to emerge about the collusion between Democrats in Congress and Biden's weaponized DOJ in targeting Trump.
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Arizona AG threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to swear in new lawmaker
Grijalva won the House seat in a special election last month to fill her father's post. Her father, the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva died in March.
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Jim Jordan demands interview with Jack Smith
Your misdeeds were so flagrant that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed to the Committee in November 2024 that it had opened an inquiry into the tactics of your office," he said.
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Speaker Johnson warns government shutdown is on track to be longest in history
The current record is 34 days, which occurred during President Donald Trump's first term in 2019. The ongoing shutdown is on its 13th day, making it the fifth longest shutdown on record.
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Speaker Johnson tries to rein in MTG following lawmaker’s criticism of GOP on healthcare costs
Greene has given sharp criticism of fellow Republicans for failing to come up with a plan to prevent Obamacare subsidies from expiring amid rising healthcare costs.
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Massie proposes bill to stop ‘taxpayer-funded propaganda’ being used against the American people
The bill seeks to prohibit the domestic dissemination of U.S. government-funded media content intended for foreign audiences.
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Trump administration builds Smart Wall along southwest border, $4.5 billion in contracts doled out
Ten new construction contracts have been awarded through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to add hundreds of miles of Smart Wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
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US Senate unanimously approves repeal of 2002 Iraq war resolution
The repeal passed in a bipartisan 65–33 vote.