The House Ways and Means Committee voted Tuesday against a resolution led by Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., to access ten years of Trump’s tax returns. Pascrell’s resolution is one of several similar resolutions Democrats have brought to the committee for review. The committee isn’t expected to grant any of the requests.
President Trump on Tuesday called on Congress to pass legislation to pave the way for a $1 trillion public-private infrastructure project, a major announcement toward delivering on a campaign promise to fix the country’s aging highways and byways.
President Trump began his first address to Congress Tuesday by acknowledging the surge in anti-Semitism and the fatal attack on an Indian immigrant in Kansas, saying the country “stands united in condemning hate and evil.”
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday gave one of her first public speeches since losing the presidential election and criticized the much-circulated photo showing an all-male group of Republican lawmakers last month negotiating women’s coverage in health care legislation.
President Trump arrived at the U.S. Capitol for his first address before a joint session of Congress with a smile, a speech described by the White House as “optimistic” -- and a new tie, drawing the first Twitter traffic of the evening.
A staffer working for former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock secretly provided the government with a trove of emails, credit card receipts and other documents that violated the now-indicted congressman's constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure, his lawyers argue in new court filings.
President Trump declared Tuesday that a “new chapter of American greatness is now beginning” as he made economic revival the centerpiece of his first address to Congress – issuing a clarion call to “restart the engine of the American economy” through tax cuts, better trade deals, immigration enforcement and a $1 trillion infrastructure program.
No White House staff members will attend this year's White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner out of "solidarity" with President Trump, the organization said late Tuesday.
The former Kentucky governor tapped to deliver the Democrats’ rebuttal to Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress called out the president for trying to repeal and replace ObamaCare, according to excerpts of his remarks released before the speech.
President Trump will address a joint session of Congress Tuesday, and is likely to call for new measures to tackle immigration health care, taxes and the economy.
New York State's Democratic attorney general vowed Tuesday that he would "oppose any effort" to roll back former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan after President Trump signed an executive order to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost energy production from fossil fuels.
North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones on Tuesday became the first congressional Republican to call for fellow party member Rep. Devin Nunes to step aside from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign.
The White House fired back Tuesday at a report claiming former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was blocked by Trump administration officials from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
President Trump moved Tuesday to unravel a host of energy regulations imposed by his predecessor, targeting in particular the Obama administration’s signature program that was intended to curb carbon emissions – but blasted by Republicans for hurting the already-struggling coal industry.
A government watchdog will investigate the taxpayer-funded travel costs when President Donald Trump travels to the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and the security procedures surrounding those trips.
Healthcare is on hold in Washington after the first Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare failed to attract necessary support to pass, but that’s not stopping Democratic lawmakers in states across the nation as they push legislation to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding, and abortion coverage before the GOP comes up with another option.