■ Senators leaving a closed meeting with the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, said that he had written his memo recommending the firing of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after learning that President Trump intended to fire him.
Subcollection 1B contained serum samples from 5 animals that were born in, and had never left, a closed animal research facility in Dubai; these animals were seronegative.
Earlier, House Republicans left a closed-door caucus with their terms for any negotiations unclear.
Many House Republicans, leaving a closed-door party caucus earlier Thursday that at times grew contentious, said they would support their leadership's short-term debt limit proposal.
"The department is certainly looking now at the deployment of the strategic posts that have been developed since 9/11," Mr. Kelly said yesterday morning as he left a closed-door briefing on department crime statistics at 1 Police Plaza.
Numerous House lawmakers leaving a closed-door Republican conference meeting hours after the Senate bill collapsed said that efforts to undo the increasingly popular health law would have to continue.
"Just because God created the world in seven days doesn't mean we have to pass this bill in seven days," said Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, as he left a closed-door party meeting where Vice President Dick Cheney tried to bring House Republicans into line.
Republicans leaving a closed-door meeting were optimistic that there would be enough votes to pass a clean funding bill by the end of Friday, so long as Democrats stuck to an agreement reached on Wednesday.
There was a time in the very early days I feared I would leave with a closed or screaming heart but instead I leave with lots of gratitude for every person that encouraged me to come to Vail, and every person here that I have connected with for every moment of this month for each has taught me something, even if I am yet to know.
