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The unending controversies surrounding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head MORE are exhausting Republican lawmakers, who are calling on the administrator to get a handle on the scandals. While many GOP lawmakers have maintained public support for MORE’s embattled EPA chief, a number of Republicans in the House and Senate are letting their criticisms ring out. “These other things are an enormous distraction from the important work the agency needs to do, and at some point [the EPA has] got to get its house in order.” Rep.

After nine months of empty promises to help young undocumented immigrants, House Republicans are facing a make-or-break moment on Thursday. Retiring Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) will pitch a long-awaited compromise immigration plan to rank-and-file Republicans in the Capitol basement. The meeting is one of the biggest of the Congress for House Republicans, and it could get heated. But it may be too little, too late. Even some Ryan allies are pouring cold water on the Speaker’s effort to win 218 GOP votes for the compromise legislation.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is making it all about … President Donald Trump. It's a fact of Trump's brand of leadership that all politics is personal.

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is hardly a subtle person.

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If those votes on state budget amendments seem at odds with the image that state Republicans often try to project — they are.  Capital Source Samantha Ormsby, who has served as a deputy press secretary, will replace Nicole Caravella, who left the mayor’s office last week for a job in the private sector.

For campaigns normally walled off from Washington, President Trump has loomed large across the ballot in Massachusetts this year, permeating the dialogue and messaging in races far below the federal level.  Democrats fought to shape the political battlefield in primaries across eight states yesterday, none more important than California.   Alice Marie Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.   The porn actress sued President Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, and her own former lawyer Wednesday.

For campaigns normally walled off from Washington, President Trump has loomed large across the ballot in Massachusetts this year, permeating the dialogue and messaging in races far below the federal level.  Democrats fought to shape the political battlefield in primaries across eight states yesterday, none more important than California.   Alice Marie Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.   The porn actress sued President Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, and her own former lawyer Wednesday.