Politics

Rep. Adam Schiff: Nunes Should Step Away From Russia Investigation

6:00am March 28, 2017

A scheduled open hearing Tuesday on Russia's involvement in the U.S. election is now closed. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with the ranking member of that committee, Democrat Adam Schiff.

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Former Obama Official Outlines What Parts Of Obamacare Need Strengthening

4:29pm March 27, 2017

Kavita Patel worked for the Obama administration and helped draft the Affordable Care Act. She tells NPR's Kelly McEvers about the single biggest area of the health care law that she sees as in need of strengthening.

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Congress Votes To Expand Drug Testing For Unemployment Recipients

4:29pm March 27, 2017

President Trump is expected to sign a bill making it easier for states to require drug testing for recipients of unemployment benefits. Critics say drug testing doesn't save the government money. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Elizabeth Lower-Basch of the Center for Law and Social Policy about drug testing as a condition for federal assistance.

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Paul Ryan Looks To Unite GOP After Health Care Failure

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Susan Davis

Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday that his party was going through "growing pains" as the Republican health care bill failed. Now Republicans have to figure how to pick up the pieces and figure out how to govern, or risk another leadership crisis in the House.

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Democrats Look To Replace GOP Rep. Tom Price In Georgia Special Election

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Johnny Kauffman

A special congressional election in Georgia is becoming a focus point for Democrats and Republicans eager to chart their parties' political futures.

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President Trump Looks To Move On From Health Care Failure

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Tamara Keith

How does President Trump recover from his first legislative failure? He may be able to draw some lessons from the last president who tried and failed to reform the health care system.

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Trump's Plan To Ditch Clean Power Plan Threatens Paris Agreement

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Christopher Joyce

President Trump is expected to ditch the Clean Power Plan this week. The CPP regulations would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that warm the planet. Without it, the U.S. won't live up to its pledge, made in Paris in 2015, to make deep cuts in emissions. That could jeopardize the Paris deal, in which nearly 200 nations made similar pledges.

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Proposed Budget Cuts Slash Funding For Great Lakes Clean-Up

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Karen Schaefer

Proposed White House budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies will end federal spending on Great Lakes clean-up. That includes axing work on invasive species like Asian carp and a public health program that protects drinking water from toxic algae for 11 million residents around Lake Erie.

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The "We Are Not This" slogan is posted at the entrances to Bull McCabe's Irish Pub in May 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. The sign is protesting a law that has been in place for a year now; the AP estimates it will cost the state some $3.7 billion in busi

AP Calculates North Carolina's 'Bathroom Bill' Will Cost More Than $3.7 Billion

4:29pm March 27, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

The Associated Press tallied up business lost because of the controversial law, based on interviews and public records. The AP says its estimate of $3.76 billion over 12 years is probably low.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) walks to the House floor on Capitol Hill on Friday. Nunes has been challenged by his colleagues about over how he acquired and handled classified information that he didn't share with the rest

Head Of House Intel Committee Went To White House Grounds To Meet Source

2:28pm March 27, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Rep. Devin Nunes secretly went to the White House grounds to view classified intelligence, before briefing President Trump and the press on information that other committee members hadn't seen.