Federal Reserve board, picked up a key endorsement from a Senate Republican on Thursday when Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey said he would be "inclined to support" the conservative commentator despite Moore's past sexist comments. Toomey, who more than a decade ago succeeded Moore as head of the Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee Moore had...
WASHINGTON, April 30- Doubts mounted on Tuesday over U.S. Republican Senators Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham, respectively, signaled growing resistance to Trump's bid to put a loyalist on the Fed's policy-setting panel after remarks denigrating women, made over nearly two decades of writing and commentating, were widely reported last week.
WASHINGTON, April 30- Stephen Moore, U.S. Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Lindsey Graham, respectively, signaled growing resistance to Trump's bid to put a loyalist on the Fed's policy-setting panel after remarks denigrating women, made over nearly two decades of writing and commentating, were widely reported last week. "Very unlikely that I would support...
April 30- Stephen Moore, U.S. President Donald's Trump pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve, would face an uphill confirmation battle in the Senate, predicted Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. It will be a very problematic nomination, Graham said.
Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller's full report after learning the special counsel's findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages.
Six committee chairs in the Democratic-led House of Representatives called on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to release the full Mueller report to Congress by next Tuesday.
President Donald Trump aimed new blasts of invective at the late John McCain, even claiming credit for the senator's moving Washington funeral and complaining he was never properly thanked.
WASHINGTON, March 12- Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of several U.S. lawmakers drafting online privacy legislation, said on Tuesday that he wanted to see California's privacy law, which takes effect next year, to be the basis for a federal bill. But as frequently happens, the devil is in the details, "Blumenthal said at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The Republican president's move to circumvent Congress represented an escalation in his efforts to make good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge to build a wall to halt the flow into the country of illegal immigrants, whom Trump says bring crime and drugs. The funding bill represents a legislative defeat for him since it contains no money for his proposed...
WASHINGTON, Feb 13- U.S. lawmakers late on Wednesday completed writing a border security bill that was expected to deny President Donald Trump's request for $5.7 billion to help build a wall on the U.S.- Mexico border, with the Senate and House of Representatives expected to vote on the bill Thursday. The aide added that the Senate would first vote on the bill...
Joe Biden raked in over $700,000 at a Hollywood fundraiser, one of the biggest hauls so far in his campaign to take on President Trump in 2020.
Liu He will not have the title "special envoy" for Xi, suggesting the vice premiere may have diminished authority to make concessions.
More than half of American voters support Elizabeth Warren's student debt cancellation proposal.
The leaked documents appear to be related to President Barack Obama's targeted killing program that involved the use of drones.
An estimated 71.6 million people watched the final debate between White House contenders Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on TV on Wednesday.
Clinton and Trump agree on this issue, but they're both wrong about how to fix the problem, says Pinar Çebi Wilber.
There isn't a "chorus" behind Donald Trump's debate performance, experts told CNBC.
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