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Posted at 10:15 pm on June 19, 2017 by Neil Stevens Donald Trump did a great job with the Federal Communications Commission, putting in someone who won’t make big giveaways to the far left.

Posted at 4:00 am on June 20, 2017 by Jay Caruso Voters go to the polls today in Georgia’s sixth congressional district for a special election. Polls heading into voting day show the race is a dead heat. Karen Handel or Jon Ossoff will win at the end of the day, and the results may be a harbinger of things to come. The district has a long history with Democrats owning the seat from 1845 all the way until 1978 when thirty-five-year-old Newt Gingrich won the seat. He held it until 1999 when he retired.

Sen. MORE (D-Mass.) said her office has gotten a barrage of phone calls as Republicans prepare to force a vote this summer on repealing and replacing ObamaCare.   "[We've gotten] an avalanche of voicemails and phones ringing off the hook.

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director appointed to serve as the special counsel on the Russia probe, will reportedly meet with lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee this week to safeguard against conflicts between the committee’s investigation and his own. Reuters, citing two congressional aides, reported on Monday evening that Mueller will meet with Judiciary Chairman <

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Sen. MORE (I-Vt.) said that it is “unprecedented” in the history of modern America for legislation as massive as the GOP healthcare overhaul to be written and discussed entirely behind closed doors without any input from the minority party. “We’re talking about, in terms of healthcare, one sixth of the American economy — trillions of dollars,” Sanders told MSNBC Monday night, shortly after speaking against the bill on the Senate floor.

Longtime Washington lawyer and lobbyist Jack Quinn is joining Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as leader of the firm’s federal regulatory and government practice. Quinn is making the move after stepping away at the beginning of this year from QGA Public Affairs, a firm he co-founded in 2000. “Jack is a Washington legend,” said Douglas Boggs, the managing partner of Manatt’s Washington office. “A definitive Capitol insider, he knows the executive and legislative realms from the inside out.

I’m never going to die. I’m sorry I can’t say the same for you. My role models for how to do death are Jesus and Wile E. Coyote. Yours are other dead people. However, because I’m never going to die, I’m super comfortable with the entire topic, and the fact that I’m late turning in this column on books about death and dying has nothing to do with avoiding the subject. So an author who suggests the dead are not howling in the abyss but rather hanging out in what she imagines as a pretty “waiting area” — well, that’s an author who’s easy for me to love.