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Objections from the House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat are stalling efforts to pass a two-year intelligence authorization bill that would include provisions for election security and Russian aggression, sources tell The Hill. Rep.

People who legally use food stamps or housing vouchers could be denied green cards under new proposed rules announced Saturday by the Trump administration. The proposal, called “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds,” represents the latest effort by the administration to crack down not only on illegal immigration, but legal immigration as part of a strategy to tighten the border.

Democratic insurgents hoping to topple House Minority Leader MORE (D-Calif.) lack a key ingredient in their master plan: a formidable challenger. Pelosi’s detractors have argued for years that Democrats need an image overhaul by empowering newer members at the very top of the party. But they suffered a big setback when Rep.

A longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, says she does not know the Supreme Court nominee or remember attending a party with him. Leland Keyser, who characterized herself as a friend of Ford's, said through a lawyer that she "does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has reached a tentative agreement for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, to testify next week. The tentative deal struck during a call between Judiciary Committee staff and Ford's lawyers would have her testify on Thursday, a person briefed on the conversation told The Hill.  The source added that the call was "productive," lasting 15 to 20 minutes and that all parties on the call, which included staff from both parties, tentatively agreed on the date. Negotiations on a hearing are expected to con

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The TAKE with Rick Klein "There shouldn't even be a little doubt," President Donald Trump declared Tuesday, referencing the allegation that has enveloped his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Good luck with that. The uncomfortable truth around the Kavanaugh nomination is that no one can know how things will turn out.

The TAKE with Rick Klein It may be that – again, and for now – Brett Kavanaugh has a path to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. But it wasn’t supposed to play out like this. Thursday was supposed to be the day Kavanaugh was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee – a marker that promised to rally GOP voters, and put red state Democrats in the awkward positio