Tag: House of Representatives

Allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France. Allied troops in the D-Day invasion landed on the Normandy coast of France in tremendous strength by cloudy daylight and stormed several miles inland with tanks and infantry in the grand assault that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory."

Congressional delegation to commemorate D-Day anniversary

Sean Lengell · June 5, 2014 9:28 pm

Revolution: Ron Paul’s call for populist uprising, gold standard, gets top movie billing

Washington Secrets

Revolution: Ron Paul’s call for populist uprising, gold standard, gets top movie billing

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2014 3:45 pm

People demonstrate outside the French National Assembly in December to abolish prostitution. The assembly has since passed a bill that would fine those who pay for sex. The placard reads: "France, the world is watching you, vote for the abolition of prostitution." France was rated as a Tier 1 country in the 2013 State Department report on sex trafficking; French authorities "estimate(s) that the majority of the 18,000 to 20,000 people in France's commercial sex trade -- which is dominated by women from Bulgaria, Romania, and Nigeria -- are likely trafficking victims," the report says. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Bill angles to address sex trafficking’s relationship to prostitution

Betsy Woodruff · June 4, 2014 9:43 pm

Cotton on Bergdahl Exchange: Troops Now Face Greater Danger in Afghanistan

Cotton on Bergdahl Exchange: Troops Now Face Greater Danger in Afghanistan

Michael Warren · June 4, 2014 8:46 pm

Pryor in 2011: Raise the Retirement Age

Michael Warren · June 4, 2014 7:03 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speak about repealing President Barack Obama's health care law at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. At a recent closed-door House Republican caucus meeting, several conservatives pressed GOP leaders over the pledge Majority Leader Eric Cantor made in January that House Republicans would rally around an alternative to Obamacare and pass it this year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

House GOP conflicted on health law alternative

Erica Werner · June 4, 2014 2:52 pm

Examiner Editorial: Don’t give Congress power to regulate political speech

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 9:20 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Energy and Environment

Republicans attack Democrats on EPA proposal with legislation

Sean Lengell · June 3, 2014 8:18 pm

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, speaks at a news conference as lawmakers work to finalize the debt deal agreement, on Capitol Hill in this photo taken Aug. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservative activists want this man to be speaker — here’s why it won’t happen

David M. Drucker · June 3, 2014 4:35 pm

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, as they make their way to a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The one thing Republicans didn’t say in response to the EPA’s climate change plan

Sean Lengell · June 2, 2014 11:09 pm

First lady Michelle Obama meets with issue experts about international girls' education, Thursday, May 22, 2014, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Michelle Obama tells Democratic donors that taking the House back is ‘doable’

Kevin Daley · June 2, 2014 10:20 pm

Cantor Primary Rival: I Will Fight to Repeal Obamacare, Oppose Immigration Reform

Cantor Primary Rival: I Will Fight to Repeal Obamacare, Oppose Immigration Reform

Michael Warren · June 2, 2014 7:32 pm