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.
President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia probe, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday. They expressed hope that special counsel Robert Mueller's work would continue without interference.
A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town Wednesday.
Republican members of Congress jumped into action after their train collided with a garbage truck in rural Virginia on Wednesday, in a crash that left one person dead and others wounded. Two lawmakers administered CPR and others carried an injured person across the train tracks.
The Latest on the accident involving a train carrying lawmakers to a policy retreat in West Virginia : Staff members say Rep. Jason Lewis of Minnesota has been taken to a hospital after being injured in a train accident in Virginia. Members of his staff tweeted that the first-term congressman was being checked for a possible concussion after the Wednesday crash.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise walks with his wife, Jennifer, as he leaves the House chamber Thursday in the Capitol in Washington. Scalise returned to the House more than three months after a baseball practice shooting left him fighting for his life.
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First came the ping of baseball bats, a familiar sound of the leafy neighbourhood's morning. Then the crack of gunfire, which isn't.
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.