The Hill Articles: May 3, 2017

Chrissy Teigen: ‘So tired’ of Trump admin. ‘I’m gonna have to go on another med’ Maxine Waters: Trump is ‘a disgusting, poor excuse of a man’ Congressional exemption from GOP healthcare plan to be addressed separately Chaffetz signals he will target Obama’s pension Stephen King: Trump’s nuclear ability ‘worse than any horror story I ever wrote’ Stephen Colbert reacts to online backlash over Trump jokes GOP rushing to vote on healthcare without analysis of changes Dems blast House GOP decision to hold Obamacare repeal vote GOP senators hit Rice for refusal to testify before Senate panel Comey to Congress: No regrets Overnight Healthcare: House to vote Thursday on ObamaCare repeal President Trump’s second Army nominee losing altitude Comey’s testimony causes spike in lookups of ‘nauseous’ Apple announces $1B fund for American manufacturing Overnight Cybersecurity: Comey testifies on Clinton probe, surveillance | Officials grilled over financial aid breach | Massive phishing attack hits Gmail users GOP labors for healthcare win Under Contract House to vote Thursday on ObamaCare repeal Budowsky: A fascist-friendly POTUS Senate eyes Thursday vote on funding deal MLB sports agent wants Congress to crack down on racist taunts When will Hillary Clinton grow up and take responsibility? Senate nixes Obama-era retirement rule Overnight Defense: House passes spending bill with $15B defense boost | Army nominee gets support from House Republicans | Dems look to curb Trump’s nuclear strike powers Dems demand concessions from GOP to get net neutrality compromise Feinstein: Rice should reconsider testifying before Senate panel US-Israel relationship: More critical than ever THE MEMO: Comey commands the stage Overnight Tech: Dems seek more concessions on net neutrality bill | Massive phishing attack hits Gmail users | Facebook expanding effort to block violent content De-risky business: China’s Xi wisely tries to rein in easy credit Trump to ease enforcement of limits on church political activity 5 ways the president’s budget blueprint could change the way we respond to disasters Overnight Energy: Ethanol fight holds up drilling rule repeal 141 House Republicans support repealing defense budget caps Warren blasts Trump for replacing top banking regulator Susan Rice declines to testify on Russian hacking before Senate panel GOP lawmaker blasts CNN for refusing to air Trump ad Undoing the damage caused by the flawed ‘social cost of carbon’ metric Despite UNESCO’s bias, Jews won’t abandon Israel’s holy Jewish sites EPA chief: US needs coal to protect electric grid The Fed intent on keeping training wheels off economy Overnight Regulation: Groups brace for Trump’s religious liberty order | Greens sue over offshore drilling Top Intel Dem rips Comey’s ‘disparate’ handling of Clinton, Trump Nearly half of federal IT managers report breach in last six months: research Overnight Finance: House passes spending deal | Panel slogs toward Dodd-Frank vote | Fed holds rates steady | Obama takes Dem flak for Wall Street speaking fees | Puerto Rico seeks form of bankruptcy protection In French vote, the many echoes of Trump vs. Clinton Revisiting the reason for Clinton’s presidential loss Dem senator blasts Trump over deportation of Honduran mother and child Hannity opposes #FireColbert movement FBI director to Congress: No regrets Coulter on budget deal: ‘No point in ever voting for a Republican again’ House passes spending deal to avoid shutdown Mercer shouldn’t lose his composure in IRS battle Schumer blasts Trump Army secretary pick for ‘deeply disturbing views’ New Orleans mayor calls mention of possible 2020 bid ‘hysterical’ Memo to Congress: The Antiquities Act helps make America great Main Street Matters: Jobs, Wages & the Small Business Economy Continuing the Conversation Warren: Trump Army secretary pick ‘made hateful & ignorant comments’ Phishing email attack causes stir on social media Spicer: ‘Literally impossible’ to predict ObamaCare repeal bill’s effects Lawmakers urge Sessions to expedite review of cases involving seized funds Business accelerators: Entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs White House clashes with Breitbart over border wall Walk it off: Reform disability payments to grow the economy Lawmakers back push to curtail Trump’s nuclear strike ability Puerto Rico requests form of bankruptcy protection Code Pink activists convicted for disrupting Sessions’s confirmation hearing White House: Trump is ‘fighting for’ issues raised by Jimmy Kimmel America needs a tax plan that will continue its global ascendance Washington Times’ Hurt: Kimmel a ‘dirty, self-absorbed, narcissistic exhibitionist’ Spicer: Trump has confidence in Comey Tillerson stresses ‘difference between policy and values’ for State Dept. Groups brace for Trump’s religious liberty order Lawmakers grill IRS, Education officials over data breach Fed holds interest rates steady Even blue California warms to school choice Obama announces $2M donation to Chicago summer jobs programs Unveiled Senate bill aims to cut veteran wait times by years Chaffetz, Cummings demand TSA head comply with subpoeana Lawmakers plot to oust Tuesday Group leader over health bill Pelosi: New ObamaCare repeal bill is a ‘a very sad, deadly joke’ Trump faces tall order in turning tide of sluggish SEC bureaucracy Dems face abortion divide in debate over party’s future WikiLeaks’ Assange to Clinton: ‘Blame yourself’ for election loss Trump’s tax reform plan: Baby steps to success or strike three? Experts: New GOP funding for health bill not nearly enough Three US soldiers wounded in Afghan ISIS bombing Even female Supreme Court justices are interrupted when speaking Texas college put on lockdown after shooting Obama unveils plans for presidential center in Chicago Putin: Trump backs Syria safe zones plan Dem: GOP’s net neutrality rollback aims to ‘choke off’ free speech How Congress can clean up the tax code to support rural America Giffords to gun control advocates: ‘Fight, fight, fight’ Chris Rock: Trump win was all about ‘whoever’s hot’ Trump on Israeli-Palestinian peace: ‘We will get it done’ Trump’s opposition to sanctuary cities isn’t grounded in facts Defining budget deviancy down Senate Dem calls on Trump to halt deportation of ‘adorable’ child, mother House Republicans rush to Army nominee’s defense Greens sue Trump over offshore drilling order Trump won’t hold White House Cinco de Mayo celebration: report Carson: Compassion isn’t ‘a comfortable setting’ in public housing Senate Dems push Trump on potential conflicts of interest Trump should seek rules to protect intellectual property in the modern era White House pressured to confront Abbas over prisoner payments GOP, Dems put more money into Montana special election The Hill’s 12:30 Report Ethanol fight complicates push to repeal Obama drilling rule What Hillary Clinton didn’t say about why she lost Dem Sen. Klobuchar headed to Iowa amid 2020 speculation ObamaCare repeal gains votes and momentum Trump campaign claims online victory after CNN rejects ad Fox News signs Democratic strategist as political analyst The first job for Trump’s Labor chief must be to stop the fiduciary rule Comey calls WikiLeaks ‘intelligence porn’ Schumer: GOP healthcare proposal like giving ‘cough medicine’ to a cancer patient NY Times editorial: Tillerson’s handling of State Dept. ‘dangerous’ Dropbox hires new lobbying firm to help out on immigration, surveillance Congress’ failure on gun control leaves blood on its hands Clinton jokingly drops bombshell: ‘I am a human being’ Congressional politics hurts cotton farmers Maddow: ‘It’s a dangerous time for the First Amendment’ Only ObamaCare insurer in most of Iowa may pull out of exchanges Applying Justice Scalia’s methods to the EPA would help to end agency partisanship North Korea: Detained American tried to ‘overturn’ government Key GOP reps will back ObamaCare repeal bill with new amendment Comey ‘nauseous to think’ FBI influenced presidential election Ex-Clinton aide enters race to challenge GOP Rep. Sessions Take the long view: Trump’s trade plan a rough deal for America GOP senator: Kim Jong Un a ‘whack job’ Michelle Obama: I’ll continue to champion issues ‘including girls ed’ Facebook to hire 3,000 employees to review content for crime and suicide Schumer: House ObamaCare repeal bill can’t pass Senate New regs for Thursday: Spiders, trucks Zinke to tour Bears Ears amid Trump monuments review Melania Trump sends Pamela Anderson thank-you note for Russian faux furs Trump’s secretary of State praises press as ‘guardians of democratic values and ideals’ Cummings: Russia probe ‘a fight for the soul of our democracy’ The Fed will speak softly, but it still carries a big stick An open letter to Jay Clayton, Trump’s new Wall Street cop Roger Stone claims Sean Hannity made ‘insane effort’ to be White House chief of staff Michael Moore calls for The Rock to run for president Trump budget chief: ‘Everybody’ agrees with Jimmy Kimmel Still time to nominate for 50 Most Beautiful Rebuilding the Rust Belt should start with our national parks White House official: N. Korean leader could use nuclear weapons as ‘blackmail’ Live coverage: Comey testifies at Senate hearing In healthcare reform, GOP must let bad ‘ObamaCare lite’ bills fail Tillerson blocked Bush-era aide from NATO post: report Spy who compiled Trump dossier says contents needed verification Axelrod on Clinton: ‘It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump’ O’Reilly defends Trump’s Civil War comments, attacks Dan Rather Internet giants, not broadband providers, are the top threat to consumers Study: Tech executives predict significant job automation in the next five years NY Times breaks subscription record in first quarter of 2017 Health ‘reform’ will make sexual assault survivors sick Congress should stand with Main Street, not Wall Street New hope for ObamaCare repeal? Key GOP lawmaker working on amendment McMaster: Trump’s approach to foreign policy ‘disruptive’ Trump to push Abbas to end prisoner payments: report Trump’s essential VA reforms bring transparency, choice to veterans Senate Dem: I’ll ask Comey why he talked about Clinton probe but not Trump US launches missile test from California Dem rep: GOP ‘playing Russian roulette’ with ObamaCare repeal vote China on North Korea: All sides should ‘exercise restraint’ Rand Paul: ‘President Hillary Clinton’ would’ve loved spending bill Former House intel chairman: Russian election interference was ‘wildly successful’ Small businesses should get the credit they need to lift our economy Undecided GOP rep: Healthcare bill still a few votes short Trump will try to sway two key no votes on healthcare plan Finance ministers should make a point of attending next NATO summit Do not regulate a potentially life-saving product out of existence Clinton launching PAC to act as ‘quiet catalyst’ Clinton: Women’s rights under ‘unprecedented attacks’ Trump wants to be a jobs president, so he can’t ignore human capital Poll: Voters want protections for pre-existing conditions Lawmakers must recognize that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit THE MEMO: Trump seeks to wipe away the Obama brand Obama’s Wall Street payday triggers Dem angst FBI Director Comey back in spotlight House panel to vote on GOP Dodd-Frank rewrite