Grassley, an Iowa Republican, opened the hearing by offering prayers to those who died in the plane crash in the Potomac late Wednesday night. “This is a horrible, hard-to-understand disaster that demands answers,” he said. Turning to Patel’s nomination, Grassley highlighted his background and stressed that it positions him well to lead the FBI. “Mr.
Panama’s president said on Thursday that he will not hold any negotiations about ownership of the Panama Canal, following President Donald Trump’s suggestion the United States could take ownership of the waterway again. In his weekly news conference on Thursday, Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said he wanted to clarify confusion about China’s role in
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., quizzed FBI director nominee Kash Patel on how he would help get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
As first responders searched the Potomac River Thursday following the nation’s deadliest airline crash in nearly a quarter of a century, the agency tasked with regulating civilian air travel was without a Senate-approved head. President Trump moved Thursday, appointing Christopher Rocheleau, a 22-year FAA veteran, as acting administrator of the agency. Mr. Trump described Rocheleau
House and Senate lawmakers from Kansas released a bipartisan statement on the tragic American Airlines crash Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
Democrats sounded off about the White House sending U.S. troops to the southern border, but Army secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll insisted that he did not believe it would affect readiness.
Cassidy, the Republican chairman who spent 30 years as a doctor, pressed Kennedy repeatedly to answer whether he will “unequivocally” reassure Americans that the measles and Hepatitis B vaccines don’t cause autism, cutting Kennedy off when he wasn’t satisfied by the nominee’s answer Cassidy spent years vaccinating children against hepatitis B to prevent serious disease