Tag: Joel Gehrke

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

"While this advocacy campaign is troubling, we are even more concerned that it appears to be part of a broader pattern of mismanagement of federal funds at EPA," House Agriculture Committee chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, wrote in a Tuesday letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lawmaker accuses EPA of funding anti-farmer campaign

Joel Gehrke · April 12, 2016 10:13 pm

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, confers with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The two are shopping around changes to a criminal justice reform bill they hope can get a vote in the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators close to ‘Willie Horton’ fix in criminal justice bill

Joel Gehrke · April 12, 2016 11:20 am

"The Senate's power to withhold consent is as much a part of the Constitution as the president's power to nominate," Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote in an op-ed published Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Grassley defends ‘entirely American’ block on Supreme Court pick

Joel Gehrke · April 11, 2016 10:17 pm

"When you find a conservative champion like Marlin Stutzman, you have to take a stand," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in a statement. (AP Photo)

Mike Lee backs Stutzman in GOP Senate race

Joel Gehrke · April 11, 2016 9:12 pm

Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., was one of two House Republicans to introduce the Email Privacy Act in 2013. (The Kansas City Star via AP)

The fight to keep the federal government out of your email

Joel Gehrke · April 11, 2016 4:01 am

"The best way to confront something is before it becomes a crisis, you prevent it." (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rubio on Zika: ‘There is no crisis’

Joel Gehrke · April 8, 2016 10:45 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally at Cohoes High School on Monday, April 4, 2016, in Cohoes, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

State Dept. releases personal emails from Clinton’s inner circle

Joel Gehrke · April 8, 2016 10:16 pm

DHS to change naturalization test for ‘freedom of religion’

Joel Gehrke · April 8, 2016 6:16 pm

Miller's office has argued repeatedly that the VA isn't shedding problem employees quickly enough. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Only ‘four low-level employees’ fired over VA scandal

Joel Gehrke · April 8, 2016 4:07 pm

"I would love to see, if nothing else, Trump over Cruz here in New York, so that [Ohio Gov. John] Kasich — to me, the best debate is between Kasich and Trump." said Rep. Pete King R-N.Y. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

NY lawmaker on Cruz: ‘I just can’t stand that guy’

Joel Gehrke · April 7, 2016 7:15 pm