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Yahoo NewsBarr defends use of non-identified officers in D.C. as Democrats demand answers
Democrats have called for a special prosecutor to look into Attorney General William Barr’s handling of law enforcement’s attack on protesters.
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Criminal justice reform leaves Mitch McConnell caught between Trump and a hard place
The First Step Act poses a unique challenge for the Senate majority leader.
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Republicans wonder who will fill Ryan’s shoes
Republicans ponder who will lead the party after House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he will not seek reelection in November.
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?New Democratic leader orders party to 'organize everywhere'
Tom Perez, the head of the Democratic National Committee, sees organizing as central to rebuilding the party.
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Priebus ally Katie Walsh takes key role in shaking up GOP data staff
Katie Walsh is ascendant at the Republican National Committee once again after leaving her job as deputy White House chief of staff under Reince Priebus at the end of March. Walsh, who was chief of staff at the RNC when Priebus was chairman, rejoined the committee in April, soon after leaving the White House.
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The White House and Mitch McConnell’s office tell very different stories about the failure of the health care bill
As the dust settled following Monday night’s collapse of the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, a flurry of finger-pointing and competing narratives emerged with both the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell trying to minimize their own roles in the debacle. Some White House staffers threw McConnell under the proverbial bus, suggesting that the majority leader rushed the vote and limited President Trump’s involvement. McConnell’s allies denied he sought to dictate the process or have the president take a back seat.
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Tom Perez has a strategy to lead the Democrats. It just won’t fit on a bumper sticker.
Thomas Perez speaks during a Labor Department panel discussion in Washington, April 6, 2016. WASHINGTON —?Tom Perez is in the homestretch of a hotly contested race to lead a badly damaged Democratic Party. If Democratic delegates pick Perez at their winter meeting in Atlanta on Saturday, he’ll find himself leading a party that?is fractured, beaten, and in his own estimation, has strayed from its roots.