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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican Study Committee, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker, said Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen should step down as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for voting against the final version of the GOP tax reform plan that passed Tuesday afternoon.

«But I do believe that from leadership to the Republican Study Committee, it's very problematic when one of, maybe the major pieces of legislation obviously we get passed this year, that you have been a naysayer from day one,» he said.

But we're going to let due process take place,» Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News.

«He could very well bring up Amazon,» Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said in a Fox News interview.

The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, also said Monday that the Senate should expel Moore if he were to win the December 12 election.

«It depends what district you're coming from, I guess,» said Rep. Mark Walker, who chairs the influential Republican Study Committee.

Senator John McCain, a Republican, said he wasn't sure Trump was ready to act, while Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland and ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said Trump's language was counterproductive.

The committee is considering anti-money laundering legislation that would deploy new tools and close loopholes to undercut terrorism financing, counterfeiting and other criminal activity, Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a prepared statement for a Nov. 28 hearing.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

(WASHINGTON)-- Billionaire Steve Wynn has stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chair, the RNC's chairwoman said, a day after reports that the casino magnate had engaged in multiple instances of sexual harassment.

In one of the strongest statements by Republicans, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said, «I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination.»

Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said Congress must form a special committee to investigate Russia's interference in the election.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said every GOP senator is concerned about the direction President Donald Trump is taking on trade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Polling «is not dead,» says Matt Oczkowski of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics team that worked with Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee during the presidential race.

Two Republican senators say their party should consider returning donations from Republican National Committee finance chair and casino mogul Steve Wynn in light of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said it was too soon to say whether that panel would become involved in reviewing or investigating the allegations.

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have said the discord surrounding the House committee has made the Senate investigation more important than ever.

«He had a deep thirst for the nuances of the tax code, and then he got on Ways and Means Committee and those were the years that Republicans were in charge and people gravitated toward bright members of Congress, and Paul happened to be one of those,» said Richard Hunt, CEO of the Consumer Bankers Association.

«The amendment to the underlying Iran sanctions bill maintains and substantially expands sanctions against the government of Russia in response to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and Crimea, its brazen cyberattacks and interference in elections, and its continuing aggression in Syria,» said Republicans and Democrats on the committees.

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

U.S. Senate Republicans» version of a tax cut bill will delay corporate rate cuts by one year to take effect in 2019, and will not include a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate, Republican Senate Finance Committee member Bill Cassidy said ahead of the plan's release later on Thursday.

Calling the new CFPB rule «anti-consumer,» the Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Jeb Hensarling said Congress should reject it under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which gives lawmakers power to kill newly minted regulations.

On Sunday, Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican and a member of the intelligence committee, said the president would be «better served by getting all this information out.»

President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, negotiated a $ 1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who says a top Republican National Committee official named Elliott Broidy got her pregnant, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

«Throughout the investigation, committee Republicans chose not to seriously investigate — or even see, when in plain sight — evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, instead adopting the role of defense counsel for key investigation witnesses,» Schiff said.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, a pro-trade Republican from Texas, said he would work to ensure the tariffs «are narrow and targeted to protect our workers and job creators here at home.»

Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said he would allow the bill to come to a vote if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not make progress soon on improving relations with Russia on the Syrian civil war.

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 - U.S. House Republicans plan to bring their tax overhaul bill for a vote next week, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Tuesday, adding that he expects the plan to pass.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said he guaranteed the deduction would not be entirely scrapped in a final tax bill that emerges from dueling plans already unveiled by Republicans in the House and the Senate.

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

«I expect it to be front and center» at the meeting, said Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which oversees U.S. trade policy.

«I'm not against bringing it back this time, but we're going to have to get something back for it,» Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R., Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said Thursday.

The Obama administration's refusal to either endorse or oppose legislation from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chair and top Democrat respectively of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stems in part from ongoing divisions among various federal agencies over encryption, the sources said.

Staff for Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Mr. Zuckerberg and the senator were scheduled to meet on Monday.

President Trump said April 27 he was «very honored» by a report by House Intelligence Committee Republicans from a year - long probe into Russia's...

Still, the Republican National Committee is spending about $ 280,000 to bolster Ms. Lesko, a sign, Democrats say, of Republican concern.

Jan Baran, a former general counsel to the Republican National Committee, said the facts so far do not support the notion that the payment to Ms. Clifford was «indisputably directly for the campaign itself.»

Parscale said in a Post interview in October 2016 that he had not «opened the hood» on Cambridge Analytica's methodology, and said he got much of his data from the Republican National Committee.

But Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, have given no indication of how they would proceed, and aides say privately that Republican leaders view the possibility of Mr. Mueller's firing as too improbable to warrant hypothetical discussions.

Cohen said he had three clients: Trump; Elliott Broidy, the former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who impregnated and then paid a woman with whom he had an affair; and a third party that Cohen said did not want to be identified.

Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate armed services committee, said on Fox News that Tillerson's relationship with Putin is «a matter of concern.»

Meadows said Thursday he would like a measure that would index the debt limit to growth in the economy; another conservative leader, Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.) of the Republican Study Committee, said this week that he would support efforts to constrain Medicaid spending.

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee released a statement saying that he had spoken with President Trump's chief of staff John Kelly and made clear his support for «a comprehensive strategy that not only places an emphasis on deterrence but also empowers our allies and partners in the region, who must do far more to confront this threat.»

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have a list of 20 to 30 witnesses they still want to question in the Russia investigation but fear that Republicans will prevent them from doing so, Rep. Jackie Speier, D - Calif., says.

Sen. L. Scott Frantz, the ranking Republican on the legislature's finance, revenue and bonding committee, said the disproportionate impact on state revenue by one group of taxpayers — in this case, the super-rich — is «pretty frightening when you think of it.»

«The fact that the company took approximately a year to notify impacted users raises red flags within this Committee as to what systemic issues prevented such time - sensitive information from being made available to those left vulnerable,» said Republican Sen. Jerry Moran, who convened the hearing.

«The reality is these proposals prop up Obamacare instead of repealing it,» said Alexei Woltornist, spokesman for the Republican Study Committee, a large bloc of House conservatives that says the plan amounts to a taxpayer - funded giveaway to private health insurers.

But with the House scheduled to adjourn for the year next week, House Republicans are preparing to vote on the short - term measure, said Rep. Dave Camp, R - Mich., chairman of the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee.

The request from the top Republican of the House Judiciary Committee comes as Trump and his allies say Nunes» memo proves Trump was the target of a political investigation.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who also serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that she has «grown increasingly concerned as we're learning more and more about the manipulation of data, the harvesting of data from Facebook, the ads that were placed to sow the seeds of discord in this country.»