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Senate Intelligence Committee leaders have received assurances they will soon be able to review the memos former FBI Director James B. Comey kept of his conversations with President Trump, according to the panel’s top Democrat. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) told reporters Wednesday that he and panel chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) have a “commitment” […]Read More

A medical malpractice bill that limits attorney fees and some patient damage fees in civil lawsuits was passed by the House on Wednesday by a narrow margin of 218 to 210, with numerous Republicans voting against the measure. The biggest point of contention was over a provision that places a cap of $250,000 on noneconomic […]

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows the Senate health-care bill is deeply unpopular — and not just among Democrats. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) We’ve just seen three new polls on the Senate GOP’s health-care bill, and each of them paints an increasingly dire picture for Republicans. Support for the bill is languishing between just 1 […]Read More

Jay Sekulow, at a presidential candidates’ forum in October 2015, is chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice and one of President Trump’s personal attorneys. (Steve Helber/AP) In the hours after the Supreme Court allowed partial implementation of President Trump’s travel ban on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not […]Read More

deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders listened to a question during a briefing with reporters on Wednesday. (Photo by Evan Vucci/AP) For the second day in a row on Wednesday, a briefing scheduled to be led by White House press secretary Sean Spicer was run instead by deputy secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And for […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is aiming to send a revised version of his health-care bill to the Congressional Budget Office as soon as Friday as he continues to push for a vote before Congress’s August recess. The effort reflects the tight timeline McConnell faces in his attempt to hold a vote in July — […]

In Virginia, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie is getting peppered with questions on the campaign trail about President Trump’s efforts on health care, and he has declined to take a clear position. In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who is up for reelection next year, says health-care plans being advanced by the Republican Congress “do […]

Sen. Dean Heller was sitting two seats away from President Trump and facing his grim-faced colleagues this week when he decided to crack a pointed joke. Heller — a square-jawed, sandy-haired moderate Republican — said the attack ads against him, paid for by a Trump-allied super PAC, should have used his own image instead of […]

Protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol as Senate Republicans are driven to a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday in Washington. The Republican-led Senate could not get enough votes to pass a health-care bill this week. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The moment that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told […]

On Day 78 of his lifetime appointment, the Supreme Court’s newest justice, Neil M. Gorsuch, revealed himself Monday to be: ● Skeptical about the reach of the court’s two-year-old decision granting same-sex couples the right to marry. ●Further to the right than almost all of his colleagues on gun rights. ●Unwilling to lend his full […]Read More

The Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold breaks down a fake TIME magazine cover that is displayed in at least two of President Trump’s golf resorts. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) At least four of President Trump’s golf courses have displayed a knockoff Time magazine cover, purportedly from 2009, that hails his “Apprentice” reality TV show as […]Read More

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacked the media during a press briefing on June 27, until one of the reporters in the room interjected. “What you just did is inflammatory,” said reporter Brian Karem. (Reuters) Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders unloaded on the media Tuesday, after three CNN journalists […]