Nicole Duran

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Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., plans to reintroduce the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny — or REINS — Act when the new Congress is seated Jan. 3. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

House could take up regulatory reform on first day

Nicole Duran · December 28, 2016 12:39 am

House Freedom Caucus will begin examining proposals in January. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives to push entitlement reform despite Trump

Nicole Duran · December 21, 2016 5:01 am

Democrats are asking Trump to drop his support of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits women on Medicaid and Medicare and federal employees — including women in the military — from using government-funded insurance to pay for abortions. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Democrats ask Trump to drop federally funded abortion ban

Nicole Duran · December 20, 2016 3:48 pm

"We don't have that luxury in Wisconsin," Ryan said. "We have to constantly convince and persuade and we're — our ideas are always challenged and questioned because this is not a doctrinaire state for the left or the right." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ryan warns GOP Wisconsin could turn blue again

Nicole Duran · December 19, 2016 5:58 pm

For a candidate with no ties to lawmakers, the attention paid to House Republicans is significant. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Trump leans on House to fill top jobs

Nicole Duran · December 19, 2016 5:01 am

A Green Beret who was nearly drummed out of the military for beating a child rapist in Afghanistan plans to name his son after Rep. Duncan Hunter, who helped save his career. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

National Security

Ethics panel reviewing complaint against Rep. Duncan Hunter

Nicole Duran · December 15, 2016 10:25 pm

Advocates want Obama to pardon illegal immigrants and drug offenders

Nicole Duran · December 15, 2016 5:56 pm

"I still believe that there are enough good people on both sides of this issue," said President Obama. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama uses Sandy Hook massacre to demand gun control

Nicole Duran · December 14, 2016 10:33 pm

House Intelligence panel Chairman Nunes, R-Calif., asked intelligence official to brief the panel Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Intel chair wants answers from spooks about Russian hacks

Nicole Duran · December 14, 2016 10:23 pm

The families of three victims in last June's Orlando nightclub shooting filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday accusing Twitter, Facebook and Google of providing "material support" to the Islamic State by allowing the terrorist organization to open social media accounts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Liberals warn tech giants away from Muslim registry

Nicole Duran · December 13, 2016 10:40 pm

The failure of the Ethics Committee to move with dispatch has created a problem now that President-elect Trump reportedly will tap Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington to be his interior secretary. McMorris Rodgers faces allegations that she mixed official, leadership, political action committee and campaign funds in violation of House rules. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Watchdogs: Ethics process is grindingly slow

Nicole Duran · December 13, 2016 5:01 am

Delivered petitions with more than one million signatures demanding Bannon be kept out. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Merkley, liberals push to keep Bannon from the White House

Nicole Duran · December 8, 2016 5:52 pm