While a growing number of Senate Democrats with potential 2020 presidential ambitions are publicly embracing Senator Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care proposal, the number two House Democrat raised questions about the approach Tuesday, saying the "first objective" of House Democrats is fixing Obamacare.
Republicans have been searching for eight months now to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That effort effectively died on the floor of the Senate in July when the party couldn't get 51 votes do little more than punt the serious health care policy questions to a conference committee.
Sen. Al Franken is the latest Democratic 2020 presidential prospect to announce his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care proposal, according to social media posts from the Minnesota lawmaker on Tuesday evening.
The Trump administration is developing new ways to vet people coming into the United States as a deadline in the President's controversial travel ban nears, officials said Tuesday.
Three Democrats from states President Donald Trump won in 2016 will join the President on Tuesday evening for dinner as the White House seeks sweeping tax reform, congressional aides said.
Some of President Donald Trump's legal team believed that his son-in-law Jared Kushner should have stepped aside before reports about his failure to disclose contacts with Russians during the transition became public this summer, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
The White House on Tuesday said the Justice Department should consider a criminal prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, claiming he had leaked privileged information to the press and offered false testimony to Congress.
Gary Cohn, the embattled head of President Trump's National Economic Council, will host international officials for a breakfast focused on climate and environmental issues ahead of next week's United Nations General Assembly, a person familiar with his plans said.
A woman the Justice Department claims received help getting a tourist visa thanks to Sen. Bob Menendez did no favors for prosecutors during the senator's federal corruption trial in New Jersey Tuesday, telling the jury the prosecution made her testify.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed Hillary Clinton's new memoir Tuesday, accusing the former secretary of state with running "one of the most negative campaigns in history," adding that the book is a "sad way" for her to continue attacking President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump plans to visit storm-stricken Florida on Thursday, the White House said, his third such trip to a weather devastated state after a spate of violent US weather.
Malaysia's prime minister visits President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday seeking a dose of legitimacy amid a US Justice Department investigation into his finances.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said Monday she expects Donald Trump Jr. to return to the Senate at some point for a public hearing about his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer and others.
Hillary Clinton's recounting of the 2016 campaign -- "What Happened" -- is out today. I reached out to The Hill's Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen -- the authors of two bestselling books (here and here) about Clinton -- for some perspective about why Clinton decided to write about her latest loss and how accurate her assessment of, well, what happened, actually is. Our conversation, conducted via email and lightly edited for flow, is below.
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