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Legislators, some of whom got raises of tens of thousands of dollars this year, trumpeted a modest list of accomplishments.  Some Boston residents received a poll in recent days asking questions about a hypothetical matchup between Ayanna Pressley and Michael Capuano.  NEWS ANALYSIS The Tea Party class of 2010 vowed to roll back government spending.  The House approved the measure Tuesday, but a procedural mistake will likely require another vote. It passed in the Senate, 51-48.  The bill passed the House 227-203.

Jill Harth’s statement to The Hill concerning her efforts to get Donald Trump to hire her as a makeup artist and pitch her cosmetics products at the start of the 2016 race before her sexual assault allegations against him emerged during the campaign.  “The Hill's malicious attempt to malign me because I came out in support of Lisa Bloom is reprehensible.  “The Hill has insisted I explain how I could accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, sexual harassment and attempted rape in a 1997 federal lawsuit, then send him an email volunteering to do his makeup during the 2016 election campaign. Well,

Democrats in the House and Senate are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was banned from using some words and phrases in official documents. On Friday, The Washington Post reported that senior CDC officials in charge of the budget told the agency’s policy analysts of a list of words they shouldn’t use in documents they are preparing for next year’s budget.

Republicans racing for the finish line said they could hold final votes in the House and Senate on their tax-cut bill as early as Tuesday, finishing off the first major legislative victory for MORE. Senate Majority Whip MORE of Maine, said they would back it. While both were expected to support the bill, their public declarations added to the sense of inevitability surrounding the bill.   The pre-Christmas votes will follow new reports that say the tax plan’s costs could exceed $2 trillion over 10 years before factoring in economic growth if

Senate Republicans are showing no signs they will wrap up their Russia investigations soon despite pressure from the White House.  They’re also pushing back on the prospect that MORE will fire special counsel Robert Mueller, which they fear would spark a backlash that could hurt the GOP in next fall’s midterm elections.  “Everybody knows that if Trump fired Mueller it would be interpreted by everybody who writes about this as evidence that he’s done something wrong,” said a strategist close to the Senate GOP leadership. Senate Republican Whip MORE

WASHINGTON — One of President Trump’s federal judge nominees has withdrawn after he was unable to answer basic questions during his confirmation hearing about the courtroom process, showed little familiarity with federal trial rules and acknowledged that he had never prosecuted or defended a case. A clip of the exchange between the nominee, Matthew Petersen, and Senator John N. Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, became a viral sensation and drew ridicule across the internet. Mr. Petersen’s withdrawal over the weekend was the third nomination by Mr. Trump to collapse in recent days.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police detail won’t be the only officers from the New York Police Department in Iowa on Tuesday. New York’s biggest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, is sending about a dozen officers to protest Mr.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio deplanes in Des Moines on Tuesday, it will mark the first landfall of a New York politician in the presidential proving grounds of Iowa ahead of 2020.

Punctuating America’s increasing international isolation, the United Nations Security Council demanded on Monday that the Trump administration rescind its decisions to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to put the United States Embassy there. The demand, in a resolution that its backers knew would likely offend the United States, was vetoed by the American ambassador, Nikki R. Haley. She was alone. Even America’s staunchest allies on the 15-member Council, the most powerful body in the United Nations system, voted for the resolution. They warned that Mr. Trump’s Dec.

WASHINGTON — President Trump presented a blueprint for the country’s national security on Monday that warns of a treacherous world in which the United States faces rising threats from an emboldened Russia and China, as well as from what it calls rogue governments, like North Korea and Iran. To fend off these multiple challenges, the report says with Cold War urgency, the government must put “America First,” fortifying its borders, ripping up unfair trade agreements and rebuilding its military might. But in his speech announcing the strategy, Mr. Trump struck a much different tone.