Tag: Joel Gehrke

It's an authority Congress gave the VA in response to the wait-times scandal of 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers fume after VA ditches power to fire employees

Joel Gehrke · June 17, 2016 7:23 pm

"That's an incredibly ignorant thing for [Hillary Clinton] to say, that anybody can be denied their constitutional rights without due process of law, without the government coming forward and establishing due process of law. That's simply un-American." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner File)

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Cornyn: Dem gun control push is ‘un-American’

Joel Gehrke · June 16, 2016 7:12 pm

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House rejects effort to ban govt-mandated cellphone backdoors

Joel Gehrke · June 16, 2016 6:54 pm

"I think the director was very straightforward when he said, 'Look, we're still doing the autopsy, we're still doing the review, let us finish our analysis,'" a second senator said. (AP Photo)

FBI director not sure Orlando attack could have been prevented

Joel Gehrke · June 15, 2016 11:56 pm

Rubio's candidacy would give Senate Republicans their best chance to hold on the seat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Florida Senate candidate: Rubio will jump into the race

Joel Gehrke · June 15, 2016 7:02 pm

"Here's what it boils down to: The presumption, I believe, should be in favor of keeping guns out of a person's hand if they're on the list," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told the Examiner. (AP Photo)

Dems abandon ‘innocent until proven guilty’ to push gun ban

Joel Gehrke · June 15, 2016 4:01 am

"I do recognize that at the time the Orlando shooter bought his gun he was not on the watch list, so it's not an immediate question," said Rep. Alan Grayson. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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House Dem: Watch list gun ban irrelevant to Orlando attack

Joel Gehrke · June 14, 2016 10:43 pm

DHS deported 12,500 people for overstaying their visas in 2009, according to Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, but that had number dropped by 10,000 by 2015. Smith estimated that 2,500 deportees represents one twentieth of the people who have overstayed their visas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

GOP lawmaker: Homeland Security deported 2,500 visa overstays in 2015

Joel Gehrke · June 14, 2016 4:57 pm

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., worries the informal agreement could lapse, which he suggested would turn the Internet into a "party line" phone system. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Lawmaker: Save .mil websites from foreign hackers

Joel Gehrke · June 13, 2016 4:01 am

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., called for a vote to ban people on the terror watch list from purchasing weapons following the mass shooting in Orlando. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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House Dem calls for terror watch list gun ban vote

Joel Gehrke · June 12, 2016 7:23 pm

"They found him with weapons that were very disconcerting," a source told the Los Angeles Times. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

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Armed man arrested before trip to L.A. Pride Festival

Joel Gehrke · June 12, 2016 7:18 pm

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ACLU lawyers blame ‘Christian right,’ GOP for Orlando terrorist attack

Joel Gehrke · June 12, 2016 7:09 pm