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Pay-as-you-go, or PAYGO, requires all new spending to be offset by equal cuts or tax increases and has been the target of newly elected House Democrats.   For many female Democrats in Iowa, it is thrilling to see another woman candidate take the stump after the disappointment they felt when Hillary Clinton lost.   Yvonne Abraham There seem to be so many reasons to write the senator off. None of them would have anything to do with her being a woman. Right?

Sen. MORE (R-Kan.) announced Friday that he won’t seek a fifth term in 2020, marking the end of a decades-long career in Congress and setting up a likely crowded open-seat race. Roberts, who has served in Congress since the 1980s, made his retirement announcement at the Kansas Department of Agriculture. He will be 84 by the 2020 election. “I am announcing I will serve the remainder of this term as your senator, fighting for Kansas in these troubled times,” he said.

The Senate has sent hundreds of nominations back to the White House, throwing their fate into limbo.  Senators sent back more than 270 nominations from the previous session on Thursday, which marked the official start of the 116th Congress.

Special counsel MORE’s Washington-based grand jury has been granted an extension days before it was set to expire by the head judge on the federal district court for the District of Columbia. Lisa Klem, special assistant to Chief Judge Beryl Howell, confirmed for The Hill that the grand jury has been extended and can continue to sit, but she did not provide any length of time for the extension. CNN reported Friday that that the federal grand jury had been extended by six months, but Klem said the court has not confirmed an end date or length of extension, including to

MORE said Friday that he is considering calling a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. “We can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. We can do it. I haven’t done it, I may do it.

MORE on Friday threatened to keep roughly a quarter of the federal government closed for years amid a dispute over border-wall funding, the latest sign the president and congressional Democrats remain far apart on resolving the two-week-long shutdown. Trump confirmed after a heated, closed-door meeting that he “absolutely” told Democrats the shutdown could last more than a year, which was first revealed by Senate Minority Leader MORE (D-N.Y.) following the negotiation session inside the White House Situation Room. “We told the president we ne

In December 2018, foreign-born worker employment increased 5 percent compared to the same time last year, adding an additional more than 1,300 workers. Meanwhile, native-born Americans saw an employment increase of only 1.2 percent year-to-year, five times less job growth as their foreign worker competitors. The foreign-born workforce — those who are employed and looking for work — also had sharply higher gains than native-born Americans. Last month, the number of foreign-born workers in the labor force increased 4.5 percent.

So far, marches are canceled in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington state, and California, with the latter now defending itself after claiming one of the reasons it halted the event was too many white people were involved. The Times-Standard in Northern California reported on the canceled march in the mostly white Humboldt County: As Breitbart News

So far, marches are canceled in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington state, and California, with the latter now defending itself after claiming one of the reasons it halted the event was too many white people were involved. The Times-Standard in Northern California reported on the canceled march in the mostly white Humboldt County: As Breitbart News

“Some of those present did not want to hear the presentation at the time, and so I have instead decided to make the presentation available to all Members of Congress,” Trump wrote in his letter released moments prior to a second meeting with Democrats at the White House. According to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Democrats interrupted Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen’s Wednesday briefing in the Situation Room. The White House released