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Despite a poll showing more support among Americans, lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on new gun control measures. This is the second time since December that similar amendments did not get the required 60 votes to pass.
The Environmental Protection Agency, led by Gina McCarthy, will have more authority to order safety tests for chemicals and set deadlines for the agency to determine whether dangerous compounds should be restricted or forced off the market. The Environmental Protection Agency, led by Gina McCarthy, will have more authority to order safety tests for chemicals and set deadlines for the agency to determine whether dangerous compounds should be restricted or forced off the market.
Senate leaders plan to debate Puerto Rico debt legislation next week, but it's unclear whether the measure will be sent to President Barack Obama before the island's next debt payment deadline on July 1. It will "require some cooperation" from Democrats to move the bill before Puerto Rico is expected to default on some of the $2 billion in principal and interest on debt payments, said John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation's economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul's policies. Clinton's Tuesday address in Ohio, one of the nation's most prominent swing states, will aim to place a marker on the economy in a similar manner in which she did on foreign policy earlier this month with a searing takedown of Trump in San Diego.
The decisive factor in Hillary Clinton's victory over Bernie Sanders was her rock-solid support from upscale liberals voting primarily on culture-war issues. White Democrats, in other words, largely voted along class lines.
Indiana resident Kevin Kellems, who was an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney and ex-U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, has joined the campaign organization of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the New York Times reported Monday.
The Senate as expected on Monday rejected four partisan gun measures offered in the wake of the Orlando massacre, including proposals to keep guns out of the hands of people on terror watch lists. Two Republican proposals would have increased funding for the national background check system and created a judicial review process to keep a person on a terror watch list from buying a gun; two Democratic measures would have expanded background checks to private gun sales and allowed the Justice Department to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the comment Monday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" while explaining his decision to fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski earlier in the day. He repeatedly called Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" in the interview.
Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday, following impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle. The votes came just over a week after a deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando - the nation's worst mass shooting in modern history - and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control.
U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy arrives outside the Senate Chamber for votes on June 20, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The Senate is voting on four amendments on gun control.
The Senate voted down four gun control measures Monday evening, with Republicans and Democrats largely divided along party lines over how best to respond to the Orlando nightclub shooting more than one week ago. The last time a mass shooting spurred senators to action was in December 2015, after the San Bernardino, California, shooting, when they voted on two measures intended to prevent terrorists from being able to buy guns.
Democrats Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams found common ground on almost every issue, especially the need for Washington to focus on helping the middle class, and each candidate brought their own pesonal story to the conversation. "I actually had to quit my job a few days before my son was born and go on WIC and food stamps to keep us healthy," said Colleen Deacon, a former staffer in Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office.
Gun measures failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. less AR-15, semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifle: The AR-15 has become the preferred instruments of mass killing in the United States, notably at San Barnardino, California, last December, and Orlando, Florida, ... more The Republican-run U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a pair of gun violence proposals, refusing to bar sales of firearms to persons who have been on a terrorist watch list, or tightening criminal background checks.
In a new ad to be aired on television this week, Florida businessman and GOP Senate candidate Carlos Beruff says he's tired of "hyphenated Americans." Beruff, who has spent millions of his own money on television ads in the state, announced the ad just as talk about current Sen. Marco Rubio re-entering the race is gaining momentum, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.
In this April 18, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski walks a rope line as the candidate signs autographs during a campaign stop at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Trump has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump's unconventional White House bid.
The website Politico appointed two reporters on Monday to replace Mike Allen at Playbook, which rapidly grew from a morning email to his bosses into a must-read newsletter for Washington power players and those who want to eavesdrop on their conversations. Politico's Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman will take over the newsletter on July 11, Politico said.
A top Republican is rejecting a potential compromise on gun control negotiated by moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine FILE - In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, accompanied by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but the prospects for any election-year changes in the nationA a a s laws are dim.
While the Senate is not expected to pass any of the four gun safety measures coming to the floor for votes Monday evening, lawmakers continue to work on a more narrow proposal that could receive enough bipartisan support to advance. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is working on a measure that would block people on the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list from buying firearms.
Ted Cruz returned to the campaign trail for the first time since suspending his presidential campaign to stump for senate hopeful Darryl Glenn in Denver -- but at least one fan of the Texas senator isn't ready to let his 2016 bid go. "We may all need to run," Cruz joked, who kicked off his remarks in his trademark way, saying, "God bless the great state of Colorado."
The FBI released a partial transcript Monday of conversations between gunman Omar Mateen and Orlando police during his deadly rampage at Pulse nightclub June 12, in which Mateen called himself an Islamic soldier and refused to cooperate with hostage negotiators. The transcript, which includes a 50-second phone conversation with police, sheds light on the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.