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The head of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back on the White House's demands that his panel end its sprawling investigation into the Trump administration. Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE's investigative findings. "As a threshold matter, your failure to comprehend the gravity of the Special Counsel’s findings is astounding and dangerous," Nadler wrote. "The Mueller Report found that Russia interfered in our elections and outlined our nation’s acute vulnerability to another attack.

At a 2013 conference Vitter appeared to back a brochure that linked abortions to breast cancer and taking birth control to an increased likelihood of violent relationships.  "Go to Dr. Angela's website, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, download it, and at your next physical, you walk into your pro-life doctor and say, 'Have you thought about putting these facts or this brochure in your waiting room?' Each one of you can be the pro-life advocate to take that next step.

Prosecutors have unsealed new details in the case involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn, revealing that he provided information to special counsel MORE relevant to his obstruction inquiry.  “The defendant informed the government of multiple instances, both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation,” the filing states. “The defendant even provided

MORE on Thursday rolled out a new immigration plan that would move the U.S. toward a “merit-based” system favoring highly skilled workers over migrants with family members living here, saying it would make the nation “the envy of the world.” But the president made it clear he views the plan, which has little chance of passing Congress, as a political cudgel against Democrats as much as a serious legislative proposal. “Today we are presenting a clear contrast,” Trump said during a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House.

MORE unveiled a new immigration plan on Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, only to be met by outrage from liberals and ambivalence from conservatives. The reaction underscored how troublesome the politics of immigration is for the administration, especially when it departs from the simpler — if polarizing — path of the president’s calls to build a border wall. The new proposal urges a shift from an immigration system based primarily around family relationships to one based around education and job skills.

Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates, the Alabama chapter of the ACLU, and Emerge Alabama, a group that promotes women Democrat leaders, are joining several other organizations Sunday in Montgomery for a “march for reproductive freedom.” Democrat candidate for Alabama secretary of state Heather Milam announced the march on Twitter: Actress and political activist Alyssa Milano, who recently said, “We are all pro-life,” promoted the Alabama march on Twit

The exception would be when a pregnancy poses “a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.” As expected, the national media have been critical of the Alabama law and have given little attention to the Alabama legislature’s goal, which is to challenge the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision by establishing personhood for a baby inside the womb. With personhood, the Constitution affords certain rights and protections, as explained by the bill’s sponsor in the Alabama Senate, Sen.

The argument erupted into the open with a Brennan surrogate being quoted in the news media opposing Comey not long after Attorney General William Barr appointed a U.S.

“Democrats are proposing open borders, lower wages and, frankly, lawless chaos,” Trump said. “We are proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs, wages and safety of American workers first.” The president spoke about the proposal during a speech from the Rose Garden at the White House. Trump stressed that the plan was not a plan developed by politicians, but by border enforcement professionals. “Our proposal is pro-America, pro-immigrant, and pro-worker,” he said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren is pledging that if she’s elected president, her secretary of education ‘‘will be a former public school teacher who is committed to public education.’’ Warren made the vow in an email to supporters on Monday ahead of remarks at a town hall with members of the American Federation of Teachers union. The Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts senator is a former special education teacher who often talks about her early hopes to work in education. “Let’s get a person with real teaching experience.