Congress Returns. Republicans Are in Charge. 6 Things to Watch

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Congress Returns. Republicans Are in Charge. 6 Things to Watch.

New York Times
The majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, promised that repeal would be the first order of business. But this does … Mr. McConnell could try to extend the limited prohibition on filibusters to include Supreme Court nominees, lowering

After Obama, Some Health Reforms May Prove Lasting

New York Times
If, over three months, her medical costs exceeded a target amount set by President Obama’s health regulators in Washington, Dr.

With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office

New York Times
WASHINGTON – House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail

Obama Plans Farewell Speech From Chicago

New York Times
HONOLULU – President Obama will give a farewell address next week from Chicago, his hometown, most likely his last chance to defend his legacy directly to the country before Donald J. Trump is sworn in, the White House announced on Monday.

Inside Trump’s strategy to remodel the Supreme Court

Politico
Donald Trump has narrowed his short list for his first Supreme Court pick down to roughly a half-dozen finalists but the president-elect and his top advisers are already thinking about a second selection, as they seek to quickly remodel the high court

Last chance for Obama to sneak in Garland to the Supreme Court is unlikely

Fox News
A last-ditch effort for President Obama to try and punch Merrick Garland through to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia is unlikely.

Out of power, state Democrats frustrated with national committee

The Denver Post
… and national level. “I love President Obama, but he and his administration allowed for the deterioration, the terrible deterioration, of the state parties over the last eight years,” said Mark Brewer, who led the Michigan Democratic Party for 18

President Obama confirms farewell address in Chicago

Chicago Tribune
Ten days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, President Barack Obama will say goodbye from the same city that launched his political career.

Barack Obama and Me

New York Times
President Obama at a his final campaign event in 2012. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times. I first became interested in politics as a middle school student in the late 1990s, when sexual scandal and presidential impeachment dominated national …

Hill Democrats outline counterattack for ObamaCare repeal, prep for president’s visit

Fox News
Top House Democrats gave more clues Monday about how they’ll fight GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare, sharing enrollment figures and stories about Americans saved by the health care law, ahead of President Obama’s visit Wednesday. Obama makes the trip to

India court bans religion, caste in election campaigns

Aljazeera.com
Most political parties select candidates in various districts based on caste and religious considerations. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling warned politicians who disqualify election candidates based on these two factors. The court ruling said: “Religion

House Republicans Effectively Gut Congressional Ethics Watchdog

KTRK-TV
House Republicans have voted to put the independent Office of Congressional Ethics under control of the Ethics Committee — a move that Democrats slammed in the hours before the new Congress is sworn in. “Republicans claim they want to … of the new

Here are the eight Trump Cabinet picks Democrats plan to target

Washington Post
Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March – an unprecedented break with Senate tradition. … “Any attempt by Republicans

Pressure Mounts On GOP Congress To Make Obamacare Replacement

Forbes
The letter comes at the beginning of a week that will gavel in a new Republican-controlled Congress bent on repealing the ACA.

Poll: Most Americans Don’t Think Donald Trump Can Handle Being President

TIME
Americans have little confidence in President-elect Donald Trump’s abilities to handle his presidential duties, with less than half of Americans saying they trust him to prevent major scandals, handle an international crisis, or use military force

Trump Said He Felt He Was Going to Lose the Election, Despite Denying It

ABC News
But in Wisconsin last month, during a leg of his “Thank You” tour, he appeared to give the opposite impression, recounting a lengthy discussion he had with his wife on election night. “But anyway- so I got the bad news from my daughter,” he told the

WikiLeaks founder: Obama admin trying to ‘delegitimize’ Trump

The Hill (blog)
“They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration as it goes into the White House,” Assange said during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity airing Tuesday night, according to a transcript of excerpts from the network.

Reversing Obama’s Last-Minute Land Grab

National Review
In the waning hours of his presidency, Barack Obama has designated more than 1.5 million acres for two new national monuments – Bears Ears in Utah and Gold Butte in Nevada.

Anshu Jain to Join Cantor Fitzgerald as President

New York Times
Anshu Jain, who was forced to step down from the top job at Deutsche Bank after a series of regulatory mishaps, will join the private trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald this month as group president. The appointment, which was announced in an internal

Israeli settlements grew on Obama’s watch. They may be poised for a boom on Trump’s.

Washington Post
Within weeks, it will also have as an ally a U.S. president, Donald Trump, who has signaled he could make an extraordinary break with decades of U.S.

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