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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. reacts to being rebuked by the Senate leadership and accused of impugning a fellow senator, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington Warren was barred from saying anything more on the Senate floor about Sessions after she quoted from an old letter from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow about Sessions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems rally behind Elizabeth Warren after GOP voted to cut her mic

Liberal groups rallied around Sen. Elizabeth Warren, vowing to redouble their resistance to Republicans, while her colleagues took up her cause, repeatedly reading on the floor the same words that got Ms. Warren into trouble in the first place -- words taken from a 1986 statement by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

February 8, 2017
In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, Feb. 6, 2017, about the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education Secretary. The Senate will be in session around the clock this week as Republicans aim to confirm more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks over Democratic opposition. (Senate TV via AP)

Elizabeth Warren punished for attacks on Jeff Sessions

Fed up with what they said were out-of-bounds Democratic attacks on President Trump's attorney general nominee, Republicans struck back Tuesday night, moving to punish Sen. Elizabeth Warren for inappropriate behavior on the floor of the Senate.

February 7, 2017
FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Betsy DeVos, right, pose for photographs at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster's clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich wrote a Jan. 24, 2017, letter urging confirmation of DeVos, Trump's education secretary nominee, without mentioning the significant unpaid fine owed to Ohio by a now-defunct political action committee she controlled. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Betsy DeVos wins confirmation as education secretary

Flexing their slim majority, Republicans powered President Trump's education secretary nominee through the Senate on Tuesday, with Vice President Mike Pence casting his first vote to break the tie and officially confirm Betsy DeVos.

February 7, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump salutes a Marines honor guard as he disembarks from Marine One upon arrival at the White House in Washington in this Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Donald Trump lawyers say president has power to block foreign visitors

The White House said it is "absolutely not" backing down on President Trump's extreme vetting executive order as Justice Department attorneys asked an appeals court Monday to lift a restraining order that left the policy in limbo and sparked a major test of the new administration's powers.

February 6, 2017
The IRS leniency rate for employees who have been caught cheating on their taxes could be anywhere from 60 percent to 82 percent. (Associated Press)

IRS employees who cheated on their taxes allowed to keep jobs

More than half of IRS employees found to have intentionally cheated on their taxes last year were allowed to keep their jobs, according to numbers released by the inspector general that suggest the agency is still reluctant to punish its own staffers for breaking tax laws.

February 5, 2017