WASHINGTON - Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday aimed at pressuring China over a brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the far west of the country, legislation that follows a similar measure over human rights abuses in Hong Kong that angered the Chinese government. The House of Representatives voted 407-1 to approve the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, which has already passed the Senate...

More than 2,200 farmers across the United States have urged Congress to swiftly pass a new North American trade deal, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), advocacy group Farmers for Free Trade said on Tuesday. "Each day without action on USMCA is another day of uncertainty for American farmers and our rural communities," the farmers wrote in a letter to congressional leaders released by the advocacy group...

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [08:00:24] WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Chris Cuomo is joining us from Capitol Hill. In one hour, another impeachment witness, another rejection of the White House's narrative on why Ukraine was pressured...

End: 17:59 [17:00:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK) WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: Happening now, breaking news. After Thanksgiving, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says to expect the impeachment inquiry report shortly after the upcoming holiday and he says the refusal of top administration officials to testify may indicate they have incriminating information about President Trump...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey released today shows that Americans overwhelmingly support extending tax incentives for clean energy and would change their vote based on the issue. Leading public opinion research firm Global Strategy Group (GSG) surveyed voters across the country, including in key battleground states and districts, and found that 89% of voters support extending clean energy tax incentives for solar, wind and energy storage...

The U.S. Congress' passage of the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is typical "long-arm jurisdiction" that violates the basic norms governing international relations, Lawrence Tang Fei, a member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview recently. "The United States attempted to use the act to threaten the administration of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), weaken the central government's governance over the HKSAR and further contain China's development by messing up Hong Kong," said Tang, who is also the principal of...

Reelected to a third term in the statehouse less than a month ago in a write-in campaign, Del. Nick Freitas has his sights set on Washington again. The 40-year-old Culpeper Republican on Monday announced he would seek his party's nomination in Virginia's 7th U.S. House District to run in November 2020 against freshman Democrat Rep...

[04:00:00] (MUSIC PLAYING) MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Donald Trump tweets insults about an impeachment hearing witness while she was testifying before Congress. Meanwhile, the president's long-time adviser could wind up in prison after being found guilty of lying and obstructing Congress. Plus, Britain's Prince Andrew speaks out about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and allegations he had sex with an underage girl...

[14:00:00] FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's start with CNN's Lauren Fox on Capitol Hill. Lauren, what do we know about the testimony underway? LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER: It's been going on for several hours, but Mark Sandy is a career official, Fredricka, at the OMB. That would be the agency that handles disbursing this nearly $400 million in U.S...

[22:00:00] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST: So, we'll see where it leads to. And we'll see where it spawns in terms of more conspiracy theories about Ukraine meddling because that seems to be the defense de jour. That's French. Now, remember, Giuliani has denied wrongdoing, but the federal prosecutors are all over it...

Today, President Trump signed the Continuing Resolution that will fund the federal government through December 20, 2019. The continuing resolution also extends the EB-5 regional center program which means EB-5 petitioners can still invest into an EB-5 project and file their I-526 petition over the next 29 days. This extension coincides with the first day of the new EB-5 Immigration Investor Program Modernization Regulations, which went into effect today...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Thursday expressed strong opposition to the passage of Hong Kong-related acts in the U.S. House of Representatives after the bills were approved by the U.S. Senate. The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the other act on Hong Kong not only interfered in Hong Kong's internal affairs, but sent a wrong signal to violent protesters and would not help calm down the current situation in Hong Kong, the HKSAR government said in a statement...

Two Republicans are set to square off in the March 17 primary for the chance to try to take back the 6th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from freshman Democrat Sean Casten of Downers Grove. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton and Dr. Gordon "Jay" Kinzler of Glen Ellyn both want to be the person who can seek to reclaim a seat that had been under Republican control for 46 years until voters elected Casten in 2018...

BEIJING - China said Monday that it would sanction U.S.-based nonprofit organizations, including the National Endowment for Democracy and Human Rights Watch, in retaliation for new U.S. legislation that supports Hong Kong's protesters. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying did not give details about the sanctions or articulate how the nonprofit groups' operations will be affected in the semiautonomous city, where many maintain regional offices to conduct China-related work...

Reelected to a third term in the statehouse less than a month ago in a historic write-in campaign, Del. Nick Freitas has his sights set on Washington again. The 40-year-old Culpeper Republican on Monday announced he would seek his party's nomination in Virginia's 7th U.S. House District to run in November 2020 against freshman Democrat Rep...

On November 21, 2019, amid mounting tensions between China and Hong Kong, the U.S. Congress passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (the "Bill")1 and sent it to the President for his signature. The Bill, which aims to protect civil rights in Hong Kong and to deter human rights violations in the territory (including by punishing those who commit them), was passed by supermajorities in both houses of Congress—the House of Representatives approved the Bill by a 417-1 margin, while the Bill received unanimous support in the Senate.2 As...

WASHINGTON >> Republicans aim to use the House drive toward impeaching President Donald Trump to whittle down Democrats’ majority by dislodging vulnerable incumbents from swing districts loaded with moderate voters. It could work, especially in Democratic-held districts Trump carried in 2016 with throngs of independent voters who polls shows are closely divided over his removal...

WASHINGTON >> Republicans aim to use the House drive toward impeaching President Donald Trump to whittle down Democrats’ majority by dislodging vulnerable incumbents from swing districts loaded with moderate voters. It could work, especially in Democratic-held districts Trump carried in 2016 with throngs of independent voters who polls shows are closely divided over his removal...

While Washington is often dominated with partisan gridlock, Congress can put politics aside and improve the everyday lives of Americans by passing a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal that would replace the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA needed to be modernized and the USMCA is a 21st-century upgrade that benefits all Americans...

U.S. farmers are "growing frustrated" that USMCA, a new trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada, "seems to be stalling in Congress," advocacy group Farmers for Free Trade said on Tuesday. Farmers are "seeking certainty" that the enormous export gains they saw under the North American Free Trade Agreement will be continued under the upgraded USMCA, said Angela Hofmann, co-executive director of the group...