Transcript: Reps. Scalise and Richmond on “Face the Nation”

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise played in the annual congressional baseball game this week, one year after he was nearly killed by a gunman while practicing for last year's game. Scalise and Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond met while both served in the Louisiana legislature.

Utah Rep. Mia Love steps up to the plate as only woman on GOP congressional baseball team

U.S. Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is set to play in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity on Thursday night - exactly one year after Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, was shot while practicing for the game. Love said she will play the same position that Scalise was set to play before he was injured: second base and pinch hitting.

E-cigarettes may damage blood vessels in the same way as Heart Disease, study finds

Meghan's bond with Her Majesty! Harry's bride shows her growing friendship with the Queen as they giggle their way through a theater performance on their first joint public engagement West Point drummer sues Fox & Friends after he was hit in the arm with an AX when stunt went horribly wrong 'I almost ran him overa then he asked me out!' People reveal the VERY surprising ways they found love on Twitter - including a couple who HATED each other when they met Giuliani DENIES former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set to cooperate with federal prosecutors and refuses to say if the president told Cohen to contact Russians about Moscow building project EXCLUSIVE: Former sex worker claims Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof choked and raped her - making her the third woman to come forward with allegations against the brothel owner who just won Republican primary for the Nevada legislature Los Angeles ... (more)

Higher vitamin D levels cut colorectal cancer risk by 31%, major international study finds

Meghan's bond with Her Majesty! Harry's bride shows her growing friendship with the Queen as they giggle their way through a theater performance on their first joint public engagement West Point drummer sues Fox & Friends after he was hit in the arm with an AX when stunt went horribly wrong 'I almost ran him overa then he asked me out!' People reveal the VERY surprising ways they found love on Twitter - including a couple who HATED each other when they met Giuliani DENIES former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set to cooperate with federal prosecutors and refuses to say if the president told Cohen to contact Russians about Moscow building project EXCLUSIVE: Former sex worker claims Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof choked and raped her - making her the third woman to come forward with allegations against the brothel owner who just won Republican primary for the Nevada legislature Los Angeles ... (more)

A year after shooting, GOP lawmakers hold firm on gun rights

In the year since House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were shot at a congressional baseball practice, mass shootings have occurred at a Texas church, a Las Vegas music festival and high schools in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas. Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a doctor who helped save Scalise's life last June, has watched those attacks unfold with the acute sensitivity of a mass shooting survivor.

Immigration Debate Shines Spotlight On Divided GOP

Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., represents a district where 70 percent of his constituents are Hispanic and nearly half are foreign born. House Republicans huddled for hours Thursday morning in another attempt to find party unity on an issue that divides the GOP like no other: immigration.

Tammy Savoie, retired Air Force colonel, running for Congress against Steve Scalise

Tammy Savoie, a retired Air Force psychologist, is taking on U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise in the Nov. 6 election. She's the fourth candidate in Louisiana's 1st Congressional District race but the first who is a not a married man with a computer programming background.

Republican baseball team holds first practice since 2017 shooting

Rep. Mike Conaway stretches before the first Republican Team practice for the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity at Simpson Field in Alexandria, VA on April 25, 2018. It was the first team practice since the 2017 shooting that seriously injured Rep. Steve Scalise on the same field.

Steve Scalise will deliver LSU, LSU Law commencement addresses

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise rides a scooter as he arrives for the weekly House GOP conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 3. Scalise was released Saturday from a hospital after undergoing planned surgery. . "Rep. Scalise is a proud LSU alumnus and great supporter of the university.

Grace Notes: Congress is entering election mode, but flood insurance remains on its to-do list

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined from left by, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meets with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined from left by, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., meets with reporters following a closed-door Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

Rep. Jim Jordan says he’s open to a run for speaker of the…

Conservative Ohio congressman Jim Jordan - a longtime thorn in the side of Republican leaders on Capitol Hill - said he's open to a run for Speaker of the House following incumbent Paul Ryan's announcement that he won't run for re-election next year. Conservative activists displeased with current GOP leaders have publicly urged the House Freedom Caucus co-founder from Champaign County to seek the job.

Speaker Ryan backs McCarthy for House GOP leadership role

The endorsement comes after Ryan stunned Washington this week by announcing he would not seek another term in Congress this fall. Ryan's retirement, as Republicans fight to keep the House majority in this year's midterm elections, has sparked a potentially bruising leadership battle between California Rep. McCarthy, who is next in line, and the No.

Struggle to replace Ryan could blow up Congress budget deal

A six-month budget truce stitched together by Congress in March could unravel if Republican leaders vying to replace U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan indulge party conservatives who want to renege on critical parts of the pact. At issue is a resurgent move by conservative Republicans to rescind, or cut about $60 billion in non-defense domestic spending increases that were key to winning Democratic votes.