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The Senate's plans to debate a spending bill for the Justice Department went out the window June 15, as Sen. Chris Murphy took the floor, beginning what turned into a 15-hour filibuster. Murphy launched the talk-a-thon to protest the Senate's lack of movement on legislation to curb gun violence.
The entire purpose of my satirical piece demanding the immediate defunding of Planned Parenthood and reconsideration of the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling "as a result of" the Orlando terrorist attack was to promote fact-based rationality in policymaking, even in the wake -- or especially in the wake -- of a terrible event. "Public policy should be crafted based on evidence and empiricism, ever mindful of the constitution, even when it's politically inconvenient.
The percentage of people who have a negative image of Clinton is in the mid-50s. Those who have similarly chilly feelings toward Trump are in the mid-to-high 60s, although in a Washington Post/ABC News poll released last week Trump's unfavorable hit an unheard of level of 70 percent.
Republican donors who are still willing to give to Donald Trump are increasingly uneasy - not just about the constant controversy surrounding the presumptive GOP nominee but also the perceived total lack of infrastructure related to his nascent fundraising operation. The list of problems, according to donors and party officials, is both long and not easy to fix over the course of a short period.
A U.S. Special Operations soldier takes part in a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Afghanistan's Farah province. President Obama has pushed to reward recent veterans with federal jobs.
California Democrats gathered Sunday in Long Beach to certify delegates attending next month's Democratic National Convention. More than 200 delegates for Sen. Bernie Sanders , who has transitioned to a new phase of his campaign that is more about defeating Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton , are headed to Philadelphia .
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. "Who do you like?" Donald Trump recently quizzed supporters at a Tampa rally, cupping a hand to his ear as they suggested vice presidential running mates. "Newt!"... "Sessions!" "Condi Rice!" came the cries, referring - respectively - to former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush's national security advisor and secretary of State.
Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. Supporters chant for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a state party gathering at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
Hatoumata Tounkara, center, walks to a neighborhood park with her daughter Fatoumata Dembele, 11, left, husband Abdoulaye Dembele and their infant son Mohamed, in a stroller, in the Bronx near where they live on June 21, 2016, in New York. Tounkara, a Muslim who plans to vote in the upcoming November presidential election, has already decided which candidate she supports.
The Senate, divided over how to respond to the nation's latest mass shooting, will vote Monday on four measures supporters say would keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. All of them have failed in political show votes after previous massacres.
To Team Clinton, they're 'everything wrong with our politics.' In conservative circles, they're heroes-and maybe the best positioned to dig up dirt that could poison Hillary 2016.
Donald Trump suggested Sunday that the United States should "seriously" consider profiling Muslims inside the country as a terrorism-fighting tool, the latest example of the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting increasingly backing positions that could single out a group based on their religion. "We really have to look at profiling," Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Republicans and Democrats only agree on a single issue following the terrorist attack in Orlando, according to two major pollsters. "An overwhelming majority of Americans would support a law that prevents people on the federal government's terrorism watch list from buying guns," says a new YouGov.com survey.
Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer's party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP nominee. The delegates are angered by Trump's recent comments on gun control, his racial attacks on a federal judge and his sinking poll numbers.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, takes the stage for a rally in Greensboro, N.C., June 14, 2016. Recent polls are showing that Trumpi 1 2s repeated calls for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, on the heels of the attack in Orlando, is not gaining traction among voters he will need in November.
Sen. Jeff Sessions said Sunday that he would consider compromise gun legislation being hammered out by moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine but has concerns about the constitutional rights of people placed on the federal terrorist watch list. "The problem is, you have got indications on this list of people who might be involved in terrorism," Sessions told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
State First District Congressman David McKinley says the response to the Orlando shooting has focused too much on gun control and restricting the freedom of Americans rather than on stopping Islamic terrorism. The massacre left 49 dead and 53 wounded last Sunday when a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS opened fire in a gay nightclub.
Breitbart Texas team members travelled to the nation's capital for an immigration briefing hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies . Following a reception featuring Senator Jeff Sessions , three Breitbart journalists agreed to an interview with Peter "DaTechGuy" Ingemi at The National Press Club.
House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan is trying to keep fellow Republicans in control of Congress but said Sunday he wouldn't ask them to endorse Donald Trump for the sake of party unity, to save their Capitol Hill majority or keep Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House. "Imagine the speaker of the House not supporting the duly elected nominee of our party, therefore creating a chasm in our party," the Wisconsin Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press."