Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07), Rep. Diane Black (R-TN-06), Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04), and Rep. John J. “Jimmy” Duncan (R-TN-02) were the only four Republican members of the Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against the deficit increasing $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Budget Bill to fund the federal…
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Major liberal mainstream media outlets lambasting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent travel costs said nothing when his predecessors under former President Barack Obama ran up much bigger bills on their official trips.
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U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tougher economic sanctions on China on Thursday, setting the stage for $60 billion in new tariffs on Chinese imports that could quickly lead to a trade war with Beijing. The U.S. leader targeted China’s alleged years-long theft of U.S. intellectual property, imposing new restrictions on…
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By Printus LeBlanc Despite the media and amnesty proponents on both sides of the aisle declaring illegal immigrants don’t commit crimes, a recent report from CNS News should shut down the amnesty debate. After reviewing several Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports, CNS found the Internal Revenue…
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“I guess you just operate under the assumption that everything is going to be leaked.” Between the outrageous and dangerous leak revealing secret details of President Trump’s telephone call with Vladimir Putin or Wednesday’s flurry of leaks about the behind-the-scenes negotiations over the omnibus spending bill, it’s clear that Chief…
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Top officials of the U.S. central bank raised the key interest rate slightly Wednesday, amid strong job gains and moderate economic growth. The rate is one-quarter of a percentage point higher, putting it in a range between 1.5 and 1.75 percent.
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Eight-out-of-10 Americans have heard the news of an adult film actress who says she had an alleged sexual encounter with President Trump in 2006 – a percentage which is shared almost equally between Republicans, independents and Democrats according to a new Economist/YouGov poll released Tuesday.
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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that Democrats are the reason the spending bill does not include DACA protections. “We said let’s do multiyear funding for the wall for multiyear relief for the DACA kids, and they walked away from that. They wouldn’t take that,” Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican,…
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Republicans, following months of negotiations with Democrats, finally came up with an omnibus spending bill, and in a word, it “sucks.” It’s 2,232 pages of $1.3 trillion taxpayer expenditures. And lawmakers only have until Friday to pass it, or face yet another shutdown.
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Statewide personal income increased at a significantly faster rate in 2017 than in 2016, according to data released Thursday by the adding to the growing evidence of a sustained expansion since President Donald Trump took office. The increases averaged 3.1 percent last year, compared to only 2.3 percent in 2016,…
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A California high school student is trying to plan a walkout to protest abortion after his history teacher was recently placed on administrative leave when she questioned whether there’s a political double-standard concerning school-sanctioned protests.
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The U.S. says it had constructive talks with its European partners last week on changes to the Iran nuclear agreement, but it is making contingency plans in case the talks fail and President Donald Trump decides to pull out of the landmark 2015 deal. Lead negotiator and State Department Policy…
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Google just kicked off a new initiative to fight what it regards as fake news – a new $300 million, three-year initiative that will help news publishers earn more money from subscriptions; help readers disseminate fact from fiction, particularly on breaking items of interest; and help journalists do their jobs.…
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