Tag: Republicans

Neither the House nor the Senate is expected to take up a gun control measure next week, despite urging from the public and President Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Next week: Congress to focus on spending, reg reform instead of stalled gun bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 3, 2018 2:00 pm

An aide to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the House this month would likely consider legislation that would authorize $50 million annually to provide schools with training and programs to prevent acts of violence like last month's Florida school shooting that left 17 dead. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP plans to move school safety bill in March as gun legislation stalls

Susan Ferrechio · March 2, 2018 8:27 pm

The GOP rested on its laurels after defeating the Clinton push for national healthcare in 1994. Afterwards, liberals regrouped and plotted their strategy to make another attempt at the right time, which they did when Obama took power. (iStock)

Republican bungling made Obamacare more popular — and will bring us socialism

Philip Klein · March 2, 2018 5:05 am

President Trump this week slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for asking the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General to investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

GOP senators to Trump: Lay off Jeff Sessions

Al Weaver · March 2, 2018 5:01 am

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., sent a letter to the House on Thursday asking for a "full retroactive" repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate. Meadows is concerned that Americans may not realize that they still face penalties if they don't have health insurance in 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Mark Meadows wants ‘retroactive’ repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate this tax season

Daniel Chaitin · March 2, 2018 12:49 am

President Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum products as GOP senators met for lunch, leaving many in the dark on the planned executive order. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Shocked GOP senators pan Trump’s tariff announcement

Al Weaver · March 1, 2018 9:07 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump's request for a gun control bill shouldn't be taken as a set-in-stone promise he will sign it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sarah Sanders: Trump won’t sign just any gun control bill passed by Congress

Kyle Feldscher · March 1, 2018 8:45 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday that the Justice Department's inspector general will investigate alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a move condemned by President Trump on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

13 Republicans ask Jeff Sessions to appoint second special counsel to investigate FBI, DOJ

Daniel Chaitin · February 28, 2018 11:13 pm

Wednesday was perhaps the best snapshot of President Trump thus far, showing all the various elements of his personality and presidency, and in the end, it was a mix of the bad, the good, and the excellent. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Wednesday’s tale of the 3 Trumps: the bad, the good, and the excellent

Tom Rogan · February 28, 2018 9:26 pm

Suburban voters are pressuring Republican incumbents for legislative action to curtail firearms after a high school shooting massacre in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

After Parkland, vulnerable suburban Republicans under pressure on guns

David M. Drucker · February 28, 2018 5:01 am

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, (pictured center) is cosponsoring a bill with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and more than a dozen other senators from both parties. The bill would improve the nation's background check system used for scrutinizing most firearms purchases. However, House Republicans are likely to oppose it unless they can add language allowing concealed carry permit holders to legally bring their weapons to other states. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump and Congress move on guns after Florida

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

After rumors began to fly Monday that President Trump intended to nominate his personal pilot to head the Federal Aviation Administration, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said he'd prefer a candidate that would face an easier confirmation on the Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Thune warns Trump not to nominate his personal pilot as FAA administrator

Naomi Lim · February 27, 2018 2:37 am