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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Americans want Congress to act on gun legislation and if lawmakers don't both Republicans and Democrats will "suffer." "If we don't take this up and Democrats don't work with us, we'll all suffer and we should," the South Carolina Republican said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Here are the stories our DC insiders are talking about in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines today. President Trump is slated to go to western Pennsylvania this weekend to campaign for the Republican candidate in the special election happening there next week.
Former White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on Sunday defended the Obama administration's response to suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election, rebuffing the continued criticism former President Barack Obama has sustained on the issue. "We took a series of painstaking steps, including the President directly confronting President Putin," McDonough said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Texas holds the nation's first 2018 primary elections Tuesday, March 6, 2018, and the campaign is providing a... . In this Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, photo, Matt McCall, standing, and other Republican congressional candidates attend a forum, in New Braunfels, Texas.
Members of Congress plan to join civil rights activists and others for the annual commemoration of a day of racial violence in Selma. A bipartisan group including Rep. John Lewis of Georgia is set to be on hand Sunday afternoon to recall "Bloody Sunday," the day in 1965 when voting rights protesters were attacked by police as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
President Donald Trump's announcement that he will impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has labor unions and liberal Democrats in the unusual position of applauding Trump's approach, while Republicans and an array of business groups are warning of dire economic and political consequences if he goes ahead. Trade politics often cut along regional, rather than ideological, lines, as politicians reflect the interests of the hometown industries and workers.
Less than two years after Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by double digits, a special election race between a young Democrat and a deeply conservative Republican is now closer than either side had expected. The congressional race is being run in Pennsylvania's 18th district, but the March 13 election is expected to offer clues about how voters will turn out in the November midterms.
This comes on the heels of her nine-hour testimony during a House Intelligence Committee meeting. At one point during the meeting the question was put forth if she was ever asked to lie for the president.
President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday. In the closed-door remarks, a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China's President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn't mind making such a maneuver himself.
Rep. Duncan Hunter speaks at a September news conference in San Diego with Attorney General Jeff Sessions . Despite continued reports about investigations and titillating details of his behavior, nobody yet is counting the East County Republican out for re-election.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk across the South Lawn upon arrival on Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday following a trip to Florida. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk across the South Lawn upon arrival on Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday following a trip to Florida.
Signs mark a polling site as early voting begins began on Feb. 20 in San Antonio. Early voting in Texas ran through last Friday, March 2. The 2018 primary elections kick off this week, and Democrats are already seeing reasons to be excited deep in the red, beating heart of Texas.
The House gave final approval Monday to a bill that will give tribes direct access to funds that will let them quickly post AMBER alerts over text messaging, radio and television to counties within reservation borders. The AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act was sparked by the May 2016 abduction of Ashlynne Mike, an 11-year-old Navajo girl.
President Donald Trump has engaged in a good-natured duel of one-liners with political rivals and the press at the annual Gridiron Dinner. The president dished out sharp one-liners throughout his comments on Saturday night, occasionally lapsing into recurring themes about the 2016 election and media bias.
It's taken just two weeks for Washington's immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that's been eclipsed by Congress' new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court ruling.
Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day' - President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people" in place to fix it Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry - WASHINGTON - George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.
Republicans in Congress have learned to ignore President Donald Trump's policy whims, knowing whatever he says one day on guns, immigration or other complicated issues could very well change by the next.
Former Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow prepares to enter the Lloyd D George Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal @vegasphotograph Morse Arberry, a longtime Nevada lawmaker-turned-lobbyist, sits in a courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011.
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