Tag: Joel Gehrke

"What would be the reason that the Republican majority in the House is saying, 'Well we can't remove you physically ... but we're going to turn off the microphones?''" Nancy Pelosi asked. (AP Photo)

Pelosi demands microphone after muting GOP in 2008

Joel Gehrke · June 22, 2016 7:32 pm

"We're not going to watch any more people in this country get slaughtered and do nothing," Rep. Mike Doyle said. (AP Photo)

Dem: ‘The Second Amendment needs some changing’

Joel Gehrke · June 22, 2016 5:29 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan stopped short of calling for the resignation of Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Penn., who was convicted this week on racketeering charges. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ryan cagey about fate of convicted House Dem

Joel Gehrke · June 22, 2016 3:26 pm

"Republicans won't even agree to keep guns away from terrorists," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Harry Reid: ‘It’s true’ that GOP wants to sell guns to ISIS

Joel Gehrke · June 21, 2016 9:52 pm

"I think you'd have a big hassle, particularly if they come under [the] visa waiver [program], how do you just pick them up and deport them?" said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Feinstein: ‘Big hassle’ to deport foreign nationals on terror watch lists

Joel Gehrke · June 21, 2016 8:34 pm

Burr isn't sure it's good enough to "meet the threshold that I think due process needs to happen." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Intelligence chair ‘skeptical’ of compromise gun bill

Joel Gehrke · June 21, 2016 7:59 pm

"Republicans won't even agree to keep guns away from terrorists," Reid said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Reid: GOP is the ‘legislative wing of the NRA’

Joel Gehrke · June 21, 2016 3:49 pm

The British people go to the polls on June 23. (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg)

Senate GOP to Obama: Stay neutral in Brexit vote

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2016 11:00 pm

"We've got to make this clear, constant case that Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS," Chris Murphy told the Washington Post on Monday. (AP Photo)

Senate Dem: ‘Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS’

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2016 10:15 pm

"Gov. Charlie Crist has always put people above politics, and we need more of that in Washington," President Obama said in a statement released by the Crist campaign. (AP Photo)

Obama endorses Charlie Crist for Congress

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2016 4:53 pm

"Selectively editing this transcript is preposterous," Paul Ryan said Monday. (AP Photo)

Paul Ryan: ‘Preposterous’ to censor Orlando shooter’s 911 calls

Joel Gehrke · June 20, 2016 3:48 pm

"There's beginning to be a coalescing around smaller lists, I think," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told the Washington Examiner. "Maybe, hopefully." (AP Photo)

Senate mulls narrow gun ban based on ‘smaller’ security lists

Joel Gehrke · June 18, 2016 4:00 am