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In a speech accepting the speaker’s gavel on Thursday, Ms. Pelosi said the bill would “restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government works for the people, not the special interests.” Leaning on constitutional authority to determine the parameters of House elections, the bill would effectively outlaw the gerrymandering of congressional districts, a practice employed by both Republicans and Democrats to maximize one-party control of individual…

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi reclaimed the gavel of the House of Representatives on Thursday and has already signaled to a new wave of liberal members that she mainly plans to give them symbolism. After narrowly securing the votes to be elected speaker, the California Democrat is set to hold a vote on a new rules package that is an ominous sign for liberals pushing for a radical, transformational agenda. Among the…

Thursday marked the start of a new Congress as Democrats not only took back the House, but began talk of impeaching President Trump. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a freshman lawmaker, told attendees at an event hosted by progressive organization MoveOn she was determined to strip Trump from the Oval Office. She paraphrased a conversation she had had with her son. “Look mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,” she recalled him…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing to ask the Pentagon to extend the deployment of thousands of troops near the southwestern border and to send additional troops to erect barbed wire and barriers, CBS News has learned.  The request would extend the military’s operation at the border, which is set to end on Jan. 31, and deploy additional engineers to erect 160 more miles of concertina wire. So…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — On their first day in the majority, House Democrats on Thursday night passed a plan to re-open the government without funding President Donald Trump’s promised border wall. The largely party-line votes came after Trump made a surprise appearance at the White House briefing room pledging to keep up the fight for his signature campaign promise. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump and Senate Republicans should “take yes…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics “I think that puts a lot of pressure on China to make a deal,” Hassett told CNN. “Their economy, for them, you might call a ‘recession.’ It’s slowing down in a way that they haven’t seen in a decade.” The rare warning from Apple, which sparked concerns about the Chinese economy and growth prospects worldwide, had Wall Street reeling, sending stocks down more…

Video Pelosi retakes House gavel despite Democrat defections What could a Democratic House and Nancy Pelosi as speaker mean for Trump’s agenda? Reaction and analysis from the ‘Special Report’ all-star panel. Overcoming a defiant last-minute challenge from the party’s progressive wing, House Democrats on Thursday approved most of a sweeping new rules package that effectively places restrictions on some new spending, incorporates ethics reforms and dramatically shakes up several key…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Seven people died after a crash and diesel fuel spill sparked a massive fire on a Florida interstate Thursday afternoon, highway officials said. Two tractor-trailer rigs and two passenger vehicles were involved in the wreck on Interstate 75 about a mile (1.6 kilometers) south of Alachua, near Gainesville, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The fire was ignited after about 50 gallons (189 liters) of diesel spilled…

President Trump, speaking for the first time at a White House press briefing, introduced three Border Patrol Council members to speak on the need of a wall. “I just appreciate them being here. Let’s go out and see the press. You can tell them about the importance of the wall. They basically said, and I think I can take the word basically out, ‘Without a wall you can not have border security.’ Without a very strong form of barrier, call…

An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcoming ceremony for visiting U.S. President Donald Trump outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (AP) The State Department issued an updated travel advisory for China Thursday, warning Americans to “Exercise increased caution … due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws as well as special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals.” The guidance warned that authorities in…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Market Insider Apple’s sales shortfall in China and a sudden slip in the U.S. manufacturing economy are the latest signs that the Trump administration’s trade war with China is hitting home and that could help bring it to an end, some economists and analysts said. China’s economy has been limping, but Apple’s revelation Wednesday that its iPhone sales in China fell off sharply in…

The L train running between Manhattan and Brooklyn will no longer be shutting down, Gov. Cuomo said. (Getty Images) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday the long-talked-about L train shutdown that would cut off subway service to troves of New Yorkers is canceled after a panel of “experts” found a “highly innovative but feasible” alternative to avoid the 15-month closure. The L train, which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn and…

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, of New York, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and perhaps the highest profile freshman, has asked for a slot on the Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax policy. Democracy for America, a progressive advocacy organization, circulated a petition demanding Pelosi put her on the committee and included a fundraising link — a point that galled veteran House Democrats.

Who are the new committee chairs? Reporting by Caitlin Huey-Burns When Democrats officially take control, a group of President Trump’s top critics will have new powers. Until now, the highest ranking Democratic lawmakers on key committees have had limited reach, essentially relegated to voicing their concerns through cable news programs and social media. Now, the change in power, issuing from November’s midterm elections, not only gives them a megaphone but…

Democratic leaders are negotiating in bad faith, against good policy, and to lamentable results in the current border-wall-funding theater on Capitol Hill. Set aside for now the realities that President Trump has played his pro-wall poker hand incredibly ineptly, that conservatives in general have badly overstated the relative importance of immigration-related policy, and that the Trumpian Right has cultishly turned “The Wall” into an item of absurdly talismanic significance. Those…

Approving judicial nominees has been a priority for Sen. Mitch McConnell. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Congress By MARIANNE LEVINE 01/02/2019 09:20 PM EST Updated 01/03/2019 07:46 AM EST 2019-01-03T07:46-0500 Mitch McConnell’s winning streak on judicial nominees is hitting a speed bump. The fate of 70 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees is in limbo after McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer failed to agree on a way to…

When Mitt Romney penned an op-ed attack on President Trump’s character, that critique began not surprisingly with the fallout surrounding the president’s recent decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan. “The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December,” the incoming senator from Utah lamented in his op-ed. “The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the appointment of senior persons…

House Democrats are preparing to force votes that would have the chamber’s legal counsel defend Obamacare against a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the healthcare law. The House will vote Thursday, as part of a larger rules package, to allow the House counsel to intervene in the case, known as Texas v. Azar. The formal vote on the resolution will happen next week, according to the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi,…