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 U.S. Senator Bob Menendez began the formal process on Tuesday of blocking President Donald Trump's plan to proceed with more than $8 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without congressional consent.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyAlmost a year after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) in a district encompassing parts of the Bronx and Queens, a deeply entrenched New York Democrat from a neighboring district faces a similar challenger.
Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal and former teacher, on Tuesday announced his primary campaign against Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) with the backing of Justice Democrats, the insurgent left group that recruited and helped elect Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Engel, a powerful House Democrat who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been in Congress since 1989 and has been viewed as a member ripe for a challenge from the left.
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 What brought comedian and activist Jon Stewart to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to shame Congress is the fact that while new victims of 9/11 are identified every day, the fund set up to help them is about out of money.
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 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, one of Congress' most vocal critics of President Trump, placed the blame squarely on the White House after Iran announced it could enrich uranium up to 20 percent -- just a step below weapons-grade level.
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