Tag: Joel Gehrke

"Thank you for your fair and responsible treatment of Merrick Garland," Obama wrote to Sen. Mark Kirk. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senator touts Obama thank you note

Joel Gehrke · April 7, 2016 4:17 pm

"There's a proposal to [spend] $1 trillion of new nuclear weapon systems in our country over the next 20 years," Ed Markey said. "That's a crazy number from my perspective." (AP Photo)

National Security

Senate Dem: National debt is not ‘a threat to our country’

Joel Gehrke · April 6, 2016 9:46 pm

"I've always said I'm going to support the Republican nominee, and that's especially true now that it's apparent that Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic candidate," Marco Rubio said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Rubio: Obama ‘helping Iran circumvent existing U.S. law’

Joel Gehrke · April 6, 2016 6:46 pm

"There really is inadequate oversight and accountability ... the individual facilities have been given wide latitude to implement the policies and procedures, there are not reviews being done," U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told a Senate panel. "It's a real problem that needs attention."Â (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

GAO: Debt will grow to three times the size of the economy

Joel Gehrke · April 6, 2016 5:46 pm

Collins has been one of the most outspoken GOP critics of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Senator implies Grassley could flip on SCOTUS

Joel Gehrke · April 5, 2016 6:47 pm

"[T]here is a vey real effort underway to at least threaten, if not put at risk, family members and personnel outside the bounds of classic security," Juan Zarate said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Experts: ISIS building ‘kill lists’ of Americans overseas

Joel Gehrke · April 5, 2016 6:00 pm

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, puts his arm around Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland during a meeting in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Reid hammers GOP for giving cover to Grassley

Joel Gehrke · April 4, 2016 9:00 pm

"Wisconsin is a fairly important signal as to whether we're going to have an open convention or not," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan: Cruz win in Wis. could trigger open convention

Joel Gehrke · April 4, 2016 6:39 pm

"We hold, based on constitutional history, this court's decisions, and longstanding practice, that a state may draw its legislative districts based on total population," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court rejects effort to draw district lines based on voter population

Joel Gehrke · April 4, 2016 4:39 pm

Who will win the Senate?

Joel Gehrke · April 4, 2016 4:01 am

He just unfortunately doesn't have the charisma to get people ginned up because they're not thinking anymore and that concerns me the most," Don Young said of John Kasich.

GOPer: Cruz and Trump supporters are ‘not thinking anymore’

Joel Gehrke · April 1, 2016 8:06 pm

Clinton has consistently portrayed it as a European and Middle East undertaking that the U.S. supported.Â (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lawmaker: Companies must not be ‘accomplices’ to Iranian terrorism

Joel Gehrke · April 1, 2016 6:04 pm