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Rep. Jim Banks: Trump's Navy fleet plan is 'absolutely necessary'

Only three months on the job in Washington, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., says he is ready to help out his fellow members of the U.S. armed forces, especially his naval comrades, ahead of a potential spending fight as a government shutdown looms in late April...  Read more

Schiff: Too Early To Say 'Anything Definitively' About Trump Team-Russia Collusion

The House Intelligence committee's top Democrat said Sunday that it is too early to say whether there was collusion between the Trump team and Russia, in an apparent moderation of his past claims on the subject...  Read more

Obama's 'slush fund' settlements may survive under Trump

The Justice Department is refusing to say whether it plans to divert any funds in any future settlements its is pursuing or if it instead plans formally prohibit the practice...  Read more

Trump's sanctuary city threat rests in the hands of Obama-appointed judge

This time last year, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick was handing down an opinion on whether an endangered monkey could claim copyright over his own selfie...  Read more

GOP's agenda hits brakes after healthcare bill collapses

House Republican leaders this week will fill the floor with relatively minor legislation, including Financial Services Committee bills aimed at facilitating entrepreneurship and innovation...  Read more

James O'Keefe, LA Times agree about Planned Parenthood video prosecution

Politics can make for strange bedfellows, perhaps none stranger than the Los Angeles Times editorial board and James O'Keefe...  Read more

White House Aides Helped Nunes Get Intelligence Reports

A source adds that the official said to discover the reports alerted the White House Counsel's Office...  Read more

Freedom Caucus's reasonable demand on Obamacare repeal

President Trump and most of official Washington blames the House Freedom Caucus for the death of the American Health Care Act...  Read more

Paul Ryan-aligned super PAC moves to save GOP House seat

Polling suggests that the consensus Democratic candidate could stage a surprising win...  Read more

Trump reopens Obamacare fight by declaring war on conservatives

President Trump escalated his offensive against congressional conservatives who oppose the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare on Thursday as party leaders signal they want to take another shot at healthcare reform...  Read more

Air Force secretary nominee to face questions over contractor payments

A Senate committee on Thursday will finally begin consideration of another top Pentagon nomination from President Trump, two months after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis became the first and only Senate-confirmed leader there...  Read more

Chummy Senate Intelligence Leaders Show Contrast with House on Russia Probe

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee vowed to thoroughly assess the intelligence community's conclusions on Russian election interference Wednesday, steering clear of the controversies plaguing their House intel counterparts...  Read more

The Trump era's 5 emerging constituencies

Rarely has America witnessed such a radical turnabout in such a brief period of time...  Read more

Doesn't anybody know how to play this game?

"Dare I suggest," writes the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, "that the quality of governance in this country has taken a downward turn of late?"...  Read more

Trump heading for big struggle on tax reform

Sean Spicer suggested this week that Trump would lead the Republican effort to overhaul the tax code...  Read more

Renewed Republican healthcare effort plagued by same old conflicts

House Republicans struggled Tuesday to revive legislation to repeal Obamacare but were no closer to bridging the intraparty differences that killed the initiative just days earlier...  Read more

Another Reason to Drill

One of President Donald Trump's most urgent policy priorities is to cut taxes for businesses and workers...  Read more

Democrats using Devin Nunes to undermine House Intelligence Committee investigation

Democrats decided to only ask for Nunes' recusal — not his resignation — as a tactical move...  Read more