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The 365- to-65 vote means the bill moves to the Senate, where GOP Senators are pushing a matching giveaway bill which is backed by Democrat Senator and presidential hopeful, Sen. Kamala Harris. Only 57 of 197 GOP legislators — and only eight Democrats — present voted against the giveaway.  The GOP’s House leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, voted for the giveaway to Indian outsourcing workers.  The bill also helps U.S.

Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez — also known as “AOC” — have feuded ever since the “democratic socialist” newcomer upset incumbent Rep.

WASHINGTON — Trying to tamp down calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he got the toughest deal he could at the time. But the former Palm Beach County state attorney is disputing Acosta’s account of why he signed off on a secret sex trafficking plea deal involving Epstein. Acosta insisted Wednesday that the deal in which Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges was the toughest he could have gotten at the time.

JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague. Larrison Campbell with the online publication Mississippi Today wrote that she requested to ‘‘shadow’’ Robert Foster to report about his campaign before the Aug.

A former top Beacon Hill Democrat has made a $48,000 payment to the state’s general fund as part of an agreement with regulators to resolve campaign finance issues including a failure to disclose roughly $175,000 in credit card expenditures made by his committee. Richard Moore, who served as Senate president pro tempore when he lost his seat to Republican challenger Ryan Fattman in 2014, forfeited a total of $90,000 in the settlement, the Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced Wednesday.

The first paragraph of H. Ross Perot’s obituary was written decades before his death: He’s a self-made billionaire who became the most successful third-party presidential candidate in nearly a century. But the legacy of Perot, who died Tuesday at 89 years old, extends well beyond what he did in the 1990s.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday hinted that it would strike down ObamaCare’s individual mandate as unconstitutional, but the three-judge panel was not as clear about whether they would overturn the entire law. Two Republican-appointed judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals grilled attorneys representing Democratic attorneys general about whether Congress intended to invalidate the entire law when lawmakers eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate. The judges questioned whether ObamaCare would be able to stand on its own if the mandate were declared unconstitu

Executives for Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will testify before Congress next week as part of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust investigation into Silicon Valley. They will appear for a hearing July 16 that will examine the "impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship," the panel's antitrust subcommittee announced Tuesday. The hearing comes as the tech giants have been put on the defensive by regulators around the world concerned over their market power and collection of personal data. The subcommittee will hear from two panels of witnesses. One

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from changing its entire legal team handling a case on the census citizenship question in federal court in the state. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

Lingering animosity among House progressives over a controversial border bill’s passage is threatening to trip up a sweeping defense policy bill that typically passes with large bipartisan majorities. Progressives are balking at the $733 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which touches on everything from the type of hardware the Pentagon can buy to a pay raise for service members to setting up a new military service for space. Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep.