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Senate Republicans are trying to avoid a high-profile fight with the White House as they plot their impeachment trial strategy.  Divisions have erupted between MORE and the GOP Senate on everything from witnesses, how long the trial should last and whether senators should wait until January to start it.  Now GOP leaders and the White House are stepping up their efforts to get in sync, with a Senate trial just weeks away. Senate Majority Leader MORE (D-Conn.) tweeted, reacting to McConnell’s Fox News comments.  Rep.

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Senate Minority Leader MORE. In the letter, the Senate's top Democrat wrote that other witnesses should be called as well should they be identified by the Trump administration or members of the House who have been designated as impeachment managers.

Progressive lawmakers and some labor unions are facing internal divisions over whether to support MORE's proposed update to a North American trade agreement. House Democratic leaders this past week announced a deal to pass Trump's revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after six months of intense, secretive negotiations. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democrats touted victories in securing tougher labor law enforcement procedures in Mexico, tightening environmental restrictions and eliminating legal protections for certa

Michigan’s Democrat Party chairwoman says to claim that the city of Detroit registers dead people to vote is a “direct attack on people of color.” The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit in federal court this week against the city of Detroit for allegedly failing to maintain their voter rolls, including keeping more than 2,500 dead Americans aged 85 and older on the rolls, as Breitbart News reported. In response, Michigan Democrat Party Executive

A report from WDBJ7 shows that more than 90 Second Amendment sanctuary declarations have been made by counties and municipalities in Virginia. WDBJ7 reports that Rockingham County was one of the most recent sanctuary declarations.

Freshman swing district Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) said Sunday that he will vote for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Rep. Pappas revealed in a statement Sunday that he will back articles of impeachment against Trump. The House will vote on two articles of impeachment, charging President Trump with obstructing Congress and abusing the office of the presidency. Pappas revealed in a statement Tuesday: Rep.

Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-NY) said Sunday that he will vote for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-NY), a swing district Democrat representing New York’s 19th congressional district, said that he will back impeachment against Trump. Citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he said: Rep. Delgado represents one of the 13 congressional districts that President Trump won by more than six percentage points during the 2016 presidential elections and that Democrats flipped during the 2018 midterm elections.

NEW LONDON, Wis.—After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.