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June 15, 2017

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle laid bare their suspicions about U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Lebanon over the countries' supposed links to terror on Thursday, perhaps signaling choppy waters in the alliances.


June 15, 2017

One month after the glob­al "Wan­naC­ry" ransom­ware at­tack hit com­puter sys­tems in over 150 coun­tries and tem­por­ar­ily crippled the Brit­ish health care sys­tem, cy­ber­se­cur­ity ex­perts warned law­makers that busi­ness and gov­ern­ment net­works in that United States only nar­rowly avoided a sim­il­ar fate.


June 14, 2017

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) hit back at the Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel for dismissing a report that President Trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice.

McDaniel responded to a Washington Post report Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, saying that there's "no proof."


June 13, 2017

Democratic leaders are ramping up the pressure on Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and other lawmakers to abandon efforts to force an impeachment vote on President Trump.


June 13, 2017

Twitter responded to Ivanka Trump's sad complaints about the "viciousness" of attacks on her father with a shrug of "give me a break."


June 12, 2017

He's only a few months into his presidency, but it's still safe to say that no other president has used social media in the same way that Donald Trump has. As a result, an Illinois lawmaker is making an effort to ensure that President Trump and his successors are held accountable for what they post on the internet.


June 12, 2017

In a series of tweets, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) mocked video that emerged Monday from President Trump's Cabinet meeting in which each department secretary offered praise for the president.

"Dear Great Leader [Donald Trump]: Your golf game is godlike, your wit, Shakespearean and your tweets nourish people like manna from heaven," Lieu wrote.


June 11, 2017

Two years after the White House was adorned in rainbow colors to commemorate the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, gay rights activists and lawmakers are preparing to march on Washington again, saying the current President threatens to erase those gains.


June 10, 2017

Two days after former FBI Director James Comey's explosive congressional testimony, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is still poking fun at President Trump's alleged demand for loyalty.