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Texas Republican Rep. Roger Williams, a player on his party's congressional baseball team, agreed with his colleagues saying that members having firearms would have been better for them when a gunman shot at the team Wednesday morning. Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Bishop, another ball player at the field, said earlier Wednesday that he and his colleagues were "sitting ducks" on the field and Williams agreed telling The Daily Caller at a press conference late Wednesday afternoon: "Well it took the second shot for me to understand what was happening here.
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At least 20 Republican members of Congress were in attendance at this morning's baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, when a gunman began firing, injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise , R-La, and at least four other people. The GOP lawmakers that make up a 34-member team had been practicing for Thursday's annual charity congressional baseball game.
Top Republicans in the House of Representatives are prepared to begin public hearings next week on an effort to overhaul the nation's tax code, which threatens to divide Republicans in Congress for the second time in the opening months of President Donald Trump's administration. Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the nation's tax policy, is prepared to learn from the mistakes of the failed effort to repeal parts of Obamacare.
A cardboard cut-out of Rep. Roger Williams leans against the microphone at the mock town hall in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. As people flood town halls during the Congressional recess to register their outrage over President Donald Trump's right-wing agenda, many members of Congress are apparently attempting to duck the public outcry by refusing to hold any town halls at all.
The American Conservative Union Foundation released its 2016 ratings of the Missouri General Assembly. In our fifth year of rating the state, ACU found that the Republican average increased by 7 points-from 74.5 out of 100 in 2015, to 81.5 out of 100 in 2016.
As U.S. House Republicans were involved in one of their most notable faceoffs of the summer, something felt amiss to U.S. Rep. Pete Olson. During the July House committee hearing, Attorney General Loretta Lynch faced the wrath of Republicans over the Justice Department's decision to not prosecute Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid her email scandal.
A congressional review panel says there is "substantial reason to believe" that a Republican congressman from Texas may have been perceived to be acting in his own financial interest when he offered an amendment to benefit auto dealers last year.
A congressional review panel says there is "substantial reason to believe" that a Republican congressman from Texas may have been perceived to be acting in his own financial interest when he offered an amendment to benefit auto dealers last year. Texas Rep. Roger Williams is an auto dealer, and he has come under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee over an amendment he offered to a wide-ranging transportation bill that would have allowed auto dealers to rent out vehicles even if they're subject to recall.
" Anger over the police shootings in Dallas must not be allowed to divide us, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday, as he and fellow lawmakers sought to set an example of unity for Congress and the nation. That message was promptly undercut by a Texas Republican congressman, who suggested President Barack Obama bore some responsibility for recent police violence.