Joel Gehrke

Joel Gehrke was foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.

The cases implicate sanctuary cities, the Department of Homeland Security's response to the influx of unaccompanied Central American children on the southern border, and the enforcement priorities set by Obama's 2014 executive orders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Victims of illegal immigrants beg Congress: ‘When will you act on this?’

Joel Gehrke · April 18, 2016 8:48 pm

"I'm increasingly optimistic that there actually may be a second ballot," Mitch McConnell said. (AP Photo)

McConnell ‘increasingly optimistic’ of a second ballot

Joel Gehrke · April 18, 2016 5:34 pm

—œI find the notion of declining to accept tax payments from walk-in taxpayers inexplicable and baffling for a tax collection agency,—? Nina Olson said. (AP Photo)

Tax advocate: IRS rejecting tax payments without an appointment

Joel Gehrke · April 15, 2016 4:02 pm

"Time and time again, the White House has projected its desired outcome of this investigation to the public, and worse, to those people conducting it," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cornyn: Obama ‘trying to influence’ FBI Clinton probe

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2016 9:28 pm

Federal fears about the dangers of an attack on the electrical grid increased in December. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Energy and Environment

FEMA: Residential areas last to recover from grid attack

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2016 8:54 pm

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said he decided to vote for Hillary Clinton after taking a ride on one of America's "Doomsday planes." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Finance and Economy

Senators push to end ‘surprise tax’ on loan forgiveness

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2016 8:28 pm

Americans, Jeff Sessions said, "want something done about crime, people are not safe in their homes. Drug deaths, abuse dropped dramatically since the '80s, has started back up again." (AP Photo)

Sessions fumes after Senate blocks immigration amendment

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2016 6:29 pm

Federal officials have claimed the authority to require Internet service providers to hand over private emails that are more than six months old, on the theory that the messages have been "abandoned" by the users. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

House panel votes to ban feds from reading emails without a warrant

Joel Gehrke · April 13, 2016 9:37 pm

Four law enforcement associations are warning that some of the compromises agreed to in the Senate's revised criminal justice reform bill could be "favorable from a drug cartel's perspective." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Law enforcement groups oppose ‘Scarface’ language in reform bill

Joel Gehrke · April 13, 2016 7:06 pm

The VA's opposition adds another wrinkle to a surprisingly controversial congressional fight about how to compensate veterans who suffer groin injuries. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia, File)

VA opposes extra money for vets who lose reproductive organs

Joel Gehrke · April 13, 2016 4:28 pm

Audit: $1.3 billion in disability payments made to people on unemployment

Joel Gehrke · April 13, 2016 3:43 pm

Mark Kirk backs revised package in effort to coax critical Republicans to back reform bill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Illinois senator: Criminal justice bill will help ‘Chicagoland’

Joel Gehrke · April 12, 2016 10:34 pm