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trump sues to block new york law allowing congress to get his

The legislation states that any legitimate task of Congress is valid reason to make the request, should efforts to obtain the returns at the federal level be stonewalled by Treasury Department. I have every confidence that the president's legal challenge will fail and New York's standing offer to..

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reparations for slavery get a fiery hearing in congress

Sheila Jackson-Lee, that would establish commission to study and consider national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and discrimination against African- Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African- Americans, to..

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steve vladeck: trump's ukraine whistleblower scandal sets a dangerous

By Wednesday afternoon, Congress had fact been allowed to review the complaint, and so the legal dispute that had provoked the contretemps dissipated.. ... OLC's reading would defeat the purpose of Congress vesting such in ICIG, rather than the head of national intelligence... ..

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iran has ties to al qaeda, trump officials tell skeptical

They are looking to bootstrap argument to allow the president to do what he likes without coming to Congress, and they feel the authorization will allow them to go to war with Iran, said Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia.. ... Deutch asked Brian Hook, State Department's special..

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