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Trump makes hard-sell push for his agenda on Hill
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump makes a new push Tuesday for his year-end agenda as he heads to the Capitol to rally Senate Republicans on taxes then pivots to negotiations with Democrats in...
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Tax bill advances, final Senate vote uncertain
(AP) — A key Senate committee advanced a sweeping tax package to the full Senate on Tuesday, handing Republican leaders a victory as they try to pass the nation’s first tax overhaul in 31 years. The...
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Prospects brighter for tax overhaul, success not assured
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prospects are suddenly looking brighter for the Republican tax overhaul. But the chances of avoiding a government shutdown? Not so much. Republicans on Tuesday held together and...
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Conservative speaker arrested at UConn blames university security, protesters
STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — A controversial speech caused chaos at the University of Connecticut Tuesday night, and now conservative commentator Lucian Wintrich spoke with News 8 about who he blames for...
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Republicans trying to win over holdouts on tax plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans used a burst of eleventh-hour horse-trading Friday to edge a $1.4 trillion tax bill to the brink of Senate passage, as a party starved all year for a major legislative...
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Tax bill clears Senate in big boost for Trump, GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph...
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Trump suggests openness to negotiations on GOP tax plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Saturday he may be willing to negotiate changes to a significant portion of the tax overhaul, the corporate tax rate, injecting an element of...
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GOP leaders now backing Moore, despite allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders in Washington are coming to grips with the possibility — perhaps even probability — that Alabama’s Roy Moore will win his special election next Tuesday and join...
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Congress averts shutdown, sends Trump stopgap spending bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Thursday passed a stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend and buy time for challenging talks on a wide range of unfinished business on Capitol...
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Al Franken joins long list of lawmakers ousted by scandal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota announced on Thursday that he will resign in the face of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. He joins a long list of lawmakers ousted by scandal....
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Trump promotes Moore before Florida rally Friday
President Donald Trump on Friday reinforced his support for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, telling voters four days before they go to the polls that the “LAST thing” he needs...
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Roy Moore campaign releases ‘Trump robocall’
(ABC News) — Roy Moore’s campaign is set to run a robocall featuring the voice of President Donald Trump, in what would be Trump’s most direct involvement with Moore’s campaign efforts to date....
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Final push for Moore and Jones in Alabama Senate race
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Democrats see Tuesday’s special Senate election as a chance to renounce a history littered with politicians whose race-baiting, bombast and other baggage have long...
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Jones wins in stunning Alabama upset
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP/WTNH) — In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and...
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Support from women hands Democrats victory in Alabama: Exit polls
(ABC News/WTNH) — Negative perceptions among voters over the sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Roy Moore handed the Democrats a rare victory in deep-red Alabama, with broad gender and...
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GOP says it’s got a deal on taxes; cuts coming for next year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confident congressional Republicans forged an agreement Wednesday on a major overhaul of the nation’s tax laws that would provide generous tax cuts for corporations and the...
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Coroner: Accused Ky. lawmaker’s death apparently suicide
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, died in an apparent...
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Ample tax cuts for business, wealthy in new GOP tax accord
WASHINGTON (AP) — Generous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans would be delivered in a sweeping overhaul of the tax laws, under a new agreement crafted by Republicans in Congress....
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RNC launches website promoting tax plan before expected votes
(ABC News) — The Republican National Committee is launching a website to help President Trump make his closing argument on the party’s tax plan, ABC News has learned. The RNC’s website, which will be...
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Rubio threat on child tax credit puts bump in GOP tax path
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Marco Rubio‘s potential defection over a tax credit for low-income parents put a speed bump into GOP leaders’ drive to push their big tax package through the Senate, but...
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