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The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Now that Donald Trump has signaled that he believes Roy Moore should be the new face of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill, he has placed every one of his fellow Republican leaders in a tough position.
Washington, Dec 7 - The US House of Representatives has approved a legislation loosening gun regulations and allowing those with permits to carry concealed weapons to legally travel with those firearms to other states. The bill passed on Wednesday mostly along party lines, 231-198, with six Democrats supporting the first major firearms-related bill Congress has voted on since the massacres in Las Vegas and Texas earlier this year, reports CNN.
Zinke and outdoor retail giant Patagonia are t... . Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke takes the stage before President Donald Trump speaks at the Utah State Capitol Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Salt Lake City.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, heads to a closed-door session with the president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, heads to a closed-door session with the president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
With shirts saying "fight poverty not the poor," people with the "Poor People's Campaign" gesture the group to remain quiet as the group leaves the Capitol Rotunda after praying in an act of civil disobedience in protest of... . Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meets with reporters after House Republicans held a closed-door strategy session as the deadline looms to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, on Capitol Hill... Los Angeles will become the nation's largest city with recreational pot after the City Council votes to license sales next year.
In this Dec. 5, 2017, photo, House Republicans, from left, Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga., Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., arrive for a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sounding a discordant note among the positive talk on the tax bill, a number of Republicans are delivering a blunt assessment, casting the bill as a boost to big corporations and the wealthy instead of the middle class.
The Atlantic resident was nominated in September to the board of directors for the Farm Credit Administration and on Tuesday, Pat Roberts, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, announced that Smith's nomination was confirmed by the Senate, and Smith ... (more)
In a New Republic piece today, Jeet Heer writes about what he calls "The Democrats' Dangerous Obsession with Impeachment." I don't think it's dangerous to hope for impeachment, but it's dangerous to believe that impeachment will come easily or quickly.
The government runs out of funding on Friday and as of Wednesday afternoon neither the House or the Senate had voted on a bill to keep it open. In this Nov. 18, 2016, photo, the U.S. Capitol dome is seen at sunset on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Shockwaves are being sent around Capitol Hill as sexual harassment charges roll in against lawmakers. With calls for multiple members of Congress to resign, the latest for Senator Al Franken , questions remain as to how this culture was cultivated.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the federal government could shut down after funding runs out on Friday, casting blame on Democrats for congressional gridlock on the budget and disagreements on immigration issues. U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and Defense Secretary James Mattis , speaks to reporters before he holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S. December 6, 2017.
From left, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meet with reporters after House Republicans held a closed-door strategy session as the deadline looms to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that a government shutdown was possible this weekend because Democrats were demanding to have tossing incendiary rhetoric onto a partisan showdown that had been showing signs of easing.
Ohio's attorney general wants to unseal testimony made by two former IRS officials at the center of a 2013 tea party tax scandal. A federal judge previously sealed the depositions of Lois Lerner and Holly Paz after their lawyers said the two received death threats.
With the deadline looming to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, meets reporters following a closed-door strategy session, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, arrives for a closed-door strategy session with House Republicans as the deadline looms to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. The White House says President Donald Trump "looks forward" to meeting congressional leaders Thursday to address budget differences and avoid a partial government shutdown this weekend.
The Latest on a malicious-prosecution trial against former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a lawsuit brought by one of Sen. Jeff Flake's sons : Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio took the witness stand Wednesday in a malicious-prosecution lawsuit over the now-dismissed animal cruelty charges against U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake's son in the heat-exhaustion deaths of 21 dogs at a kennel. Arpaio was unable to cite any evidence to back up his case against Austin Flake and his then-wife Logan Brown.
From left, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meet with reporters after House Republicans held a closed-door strategy session as the deadline looms to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.
TOPEKA, Kan. - After Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's nomination this summer to an ambassador's post, the fellow Republican destined to succeed him as governor ducked policy questions by declaring, "There's one governor at a time."
President Donald Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday and direct the State Department to begin the process to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, senior administration officials said. US President Donald Trump's pledge to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has caused controversy across the world.
AP Photo) Reporters ask questions of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the tax-writing Finance Committee, as he walks to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Washington a Sen. Orrin Hatch on Wednesday called former presidential adviser Steve Bannon's attacks on Mitt Romney's Mormon faith "disappointing and unjustified," while Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said " Utahns reject the ugly politics and tactics" of Bannon.