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Drug Stocks Plunge as Trump Threatens to Force Price Bidding

EghtesadOnline: Pharmaceutical and biotech stocks plummeted Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump said he’d force the industry to bid for government business, a position that aligns him with congressional Democrats and against the powerful drug-manufacturing lobby.
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Publish Date:12/January/2017 | 07:38

House Democrats Struggle to Find a Voice in Trump-Era Minority

EghtesadOnline: Jamie Raskin has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for less than a week, but he isn’t joining a newly energized and resurgent Democratic caucus like he hoped. Instead, he’ll be a freshman member of a party stuck in the political wilderness.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 05:04

Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans moved ahead with their long-sought bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:50

Democrats Plotting ‘Collision Course’ With Trump’s Tax Plan

EghtesadOnline: Congressional Democrats say they’ll try to thwart Republican plans to overhaul the U.S. tax code by portraying them as a boon for the rich that betrays President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to fight for working Americans.
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Publish Date:26/December/2016 | 14:52

Trump Must Divest His Washington Hotel, House Democrats Say

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump will be in violation of his lease for the Trump International Hotel in Washington when he takes office if he doesn’t divest all financial interests in it, according to Democratic lawmakers after exchanges with the agency in charge of government buildings.
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Publish Date:15/December/2016 | 07:45

Democrats urge hearings on Trump, conflict-of-interest rules

EghtesadOnline: Sixteen U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged hearings be held in Congress on federal conflict-of-interest rules and Republican President-elect Donald Trump's business empire, though Republicans were unlikely to agree to it.
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Publish Date:30/November/2016 | 20:34

Democrats Struggle to Scrutinize Trump Business Conflicts

EghtesadOnline: Two weeks after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, Democratic leaders in Congress are already finding out just how limited their powers are to hold him accountable for potential conflicts of interest.
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Publish Date:24/November/2016 | 17:49

Trump win, Democratic setbacks cloud Pelosi's future as leader

EghtesadOnline: Nancy Pelosi may face a challenge to her 14-year-old role as the leading Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives now that Republicans have captured the White House and maintained their grip on Congress.
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Publish Date:15/November/2016 | 06:03

GOP’s Senate Victory Sets Stage for Trump High Court, Agenda

EghtesadOnline: Republicans shocked Democrats by keeping control of the Senate, setting the stage for President-elect Donald Trump to enact a broad conservative agenda and ensure a Republican Supreme Court for a generation. That’s provided he can work with a GOP establishment he spent most of the campaign attacking.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 09:58

Democrats see FBI controversy hurting chances in U.S. Congress races

EghtesadOnline: Senior Democrats said on Monday their chances of winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives had been hurt by the FBI's surprise announcement last month that Hillary Clinton's email practices were again figuring in a federal investigation.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 06:56

Democrats sue Trump for alleged voter intimidation in four states

EghtesadOnline: Democratic Party officials sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in four battleground states on Monday, seeking to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the Nov. 8 election.
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Publish Date:01/November/2016 | 24:30