Authors: jc
Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the Democratic architect of the failed gun legislation, said Wednesday he wishes New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others would educate gun owners and voters about background check legislation to help correct misimpressions that he believes were...
Authors: jc
The Guardian via Getty Images(ROXBURY CROSSING, Mass.) -- Seven months after winning re-election, President Obama is back on the campaign trail. This time, he’s lending his political prowess to stump for Senate hopeful Rep. Ed Markey.
“Ed has a track record, and that's why you know what he's going to do when he's a senator...
Authors: jc
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday once again expressed support for an overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, but maintained that the House will consider its own ideas rather than accept outright the Senate’s final product on which the upper chamber began working this week.
The...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Patrick Leahy is making another attempt at including same-sex couples in immigration reform.
The Vermont Democrat on Tuesday evening reintroduced an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would allow Americans in long-term, same-sex relationships to...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Trent Franks, who has authored a measure banning all abortions after 20 weeks without exception, says that the rate of pregnancies resulting from rape are “very low.”
“The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,” Franks, R-Ariz., said during a...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- At a Washington, D.C., fundraiser Tuesday night for Rep. Ed Markey’s Senate campaign, Vice President Joe Biden warned Democrats that minority turnout in the Massachusetts Senate special election might be low because President Obama is not at the top of the ticket.
“There&rsqu...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Photos.com/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government on Tuesday, alleging the National Security Agency violates Americans' Fourth Amendment privacy rights by harvesting phone records in the name of preventing terrorists attacks.
In a statement, Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU's deputy...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Nearly six months after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the parents of the Newtown, Conn., children killed there are back on Capitol Hill this week, lobbying for tougher gun legislation to prevent tragedies like the one that left 20 students and six educators dead in...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Time has been kind to former President George W. Bush since he left office in January 2009.
Back then, a Gallup poll found Bush’s favorability rating at just 40 percent among all Americans, with the economy mired in a deep recession and the U.S. fighting wars on two...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Steve Snowden/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As downpours and tornadoes hit the country, actor and conservation activist Robert Redford had weather on his mind and urged President Obama to follow suit.
In a collaborative campaign with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Redford challenged the president to strike at pollution and...
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