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The release of footage showing Memphis, Tennessee, police officers violently beating Tyre Nichols has renewed calls for Congress to pass police reform legislation.

Republican Senator John Cornyn on Thursday said it is "completely unacceptable" that the Biden administration is attempting to block Congressional oversight of the Biden classified documents scandal.

Senators on both sides of the aisle were caught off guard Tuesday by the news that classified documents were found at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence, materials that were ultimately turned over to the FBI. An attorney for Pence told the National Archives that the former vice president used outside counsel…

President Joe Biden has wrapped up a four-hour visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House has passed bipartisan legislation that would empower law enforcement agencies to adopt de-escalation training when encountering individuals with mental health issues.

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

The path to passing the Schumer-Manchin energy permitting deal on a government funding bill is looking increasingly unclear amid bipartisan opposition.

Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics″ being used against him, as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republicans to oppose his plan to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects.

Senate Republicans are asking for the Justice Department to give U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel authority as he investigates Hunter Biden.

Sen. Mark Warner said he hopes to see the "same kind of unity of spirit," after the January 6 riot as he did following the 9/11 attacks.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says the intelligence community needs to provide a damage assessment of the classified material found at former President Donald Trump's home in Florida.

The Republican Party’s hopes for a red wave this November dimmed on flagging fundraising and an emphasis on inflation that’s lost some of its potency.

Security-sealed rooms and lock bags are some of the ways Capitol Hill keeps classified documents secured.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage “in the coming weeks” as a bipartisan group backing the bill is tweaking it to gain Republican support.

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden administration rule requiring rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — a victory enabled in part by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector.

President Joe Biden is hailing a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care and tax initiatives as a giant step forward for the country.

With “Three Johns” aspiring to succeed McConnell, Republicans keep tabs on how their caucus splits on big votes.

Senate Republicans approved a semiconductor bill on Wednesday they had vowed to stop if Biden's agenda was revived. It came alive hours later.

Democrats have pushed legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law.

Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in incentives for the semiconductor industry.

Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.

The suspected gunman’s background appears to be exactly what lawmakers were targeting in the new law.

About half say the shooting has made them more likely to support some gun restrictions, but partisan divides remain.

Decades of congressional gridlock on everything from gun violence to immigration to abortion rights have left a vaccum that a newly empowered right-wing bloc of Supreme Court justices have seized

The legislation represents a crash effort between four wildly different lawmakers thrown together by circumstance and pushed to action by unspeakable tragedies.

By ALAN FRAM Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists. “No legislation can make their families or communities whole,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.. said of those victims. Fifteen Senate Republicans backed the compromise, but that still meant that fewer than one-third of GOP senators supported the measure. But it still let both parties declare victory by demonstrating to voters that they know how to compromise and make government work. The measure expands the use of background checks by rewriting the definition of the federally licensed gun dealers required to conduct them.

The House has sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades.

Two days after losing a bitter primary to a rival she once deemed a “sellout” for occasionally working with Democrats, Katie Arrington appeared at a “unity rally” to urge South Carolina Republicans to come together and back Rep. Nancy Mace in the fall general election.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan gun violence bill.

The Texas senator said Wednesday that the NRA won't back the gun bill he co-wrote because of its "business model." This is not how the GOP usually talks about them.

AdvertisementNo player was more crucial than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who tapped trusted leadership deputy Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) Another Republican supportive of the deal who did not vote Tuesday, Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), is also retiring. ), summarized his constituents’ reaction to the bill as “fury.”“People are absolutely furious that this bill does not do anything meaningful to address the national crime wave. proposed voting on a different bill than eliminated gun measures entirely, instead focusing solely on mental health and school security provisions. telling their members just hours after Tuesday’s Senate vote that they would oppose it.

Last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.

Trump may trash Republicans' efforts now, but he has pulled a 180 on the views he once held on restricting gun rights.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The bill would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers.

The Senate voted to start debate on a bipartisan gun bill that would increase background checks for people ages 18 to 21.

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill.

The text of bipartisan gun legislation is on track to be released Tuesday after the senators settled key differences, including how to structure language around the "boyfriend loophole."

The convention offers a window into how the faithful are shifting the GOP to the right and how the rejection of Biden’s 2020 election victory has become a key principle.

Despite Mitch McConnell's backing for a new gun framework, Cornyn faces backlash from other Republican senators and from conservatives back home.

Lawmakers have said a deal must be completed and written into legislative language by week's end if Congress is to vote by next week.

Lawmakers have said a deal must be completed and written into legislative language by week's end if Congress is to vote by next week.

Negotiators from both parties have already agreed on a framework for the package but are haggling over the particulars of Congress' most robust move against gun violence since 1993.

Democratic and Republican senators are at odds over how to keep firearms from dangerous people.

Negotiators left Washington on Thursday without coming to an agreement on key details underpinning a bipartisan deal on potential new federal gun laws. The impasse threatens to upend a handshake deal reached earlier this week.

The largest and best-funded advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association, appear to be keeping their options open.

McConnell's backing was the latest indication that last month's gun massacres had reconfigured the political calculations for some in the GOP.

Supporters of the legislation said threats to the justices have increased since the leak of a draft court opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade.

His backing provided further evidence that the current round of gun-law negotiation might have sufficient GOP support to overcome a filibuster.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced his support for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement.

The House has given final approval to legislation to allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices.

The Senate Republican leader said he will support the legislation if it reflects the framework crafted by a bipartisan group of senators.

The bill already passed the Senate and if approved by the House will head to President Biden's desk for his signature.

The conflict over expanding security for the Supreme Court escalated Monday after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) said he would block House modifications to a bill that would guarantee protection for justices' families.

Even skeptics were surprised by the scope of the compromise.

After a generation of carnage and legislative inaction, the larger hope is that this agreement will open the way for future measures.

Protests will be held in Washington D.C. and hundreds of other cities.

The House has passed a wide-ranging gun control bill in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.

Eleven years after her own life was massively altered by gun violence, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords stood in front of the Washington monument and once again lobbied for stricter gun laws after yet another string of mass shootings in America.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's hoping for a framework by the end of the week.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's hoping for a framework by the end of the week.

The son of an 86-year-old woman killed in the racist Buffalo mass shooting is calling on Congress to act against domestic terrorism.

That would be enough to overcome any filibuster and send a bill to the floor. The Texas Republican is in a bipartisan group of senators negotiating a gun reform package.

A small bipartisan group of senators continues to work toward a deal that could include some new gun restrictions, but not the assault weapons ban or other measures President Biden called for in a national address.

Less than 48 hours after a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers in his home state of Texas, Sen. John Cornyn was tapped to lead gun policy negotiations in the Senate.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn said another failure would "feed the narrative that we can't get things done in the public interest."

The bipartisan senators are making progress on new gun control legislation, four sources said.

The House measure would raise the age for purchasing semiautomatic centerfire rifles from 18 to 21 and ban large-capacity magazines.

The White House is looking to Congress for action.

Democratic Texas governor’s race candidate Beto O’Rourke is hoping the Uvalde school shooting can reset the contest in America’s largest red state.

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on background check measures with Senator Chris Murphy, gun control with U.S. Rep. Val Demings, reflecting on the desensitization of school shootings, and Parkland survivor and mother of Sandy Hook victim talk gun control.

"It is also fair to say that without the failure to act by Senators like you, these shootings may never have happened," Fred Guttenberg added.

One by one, speakers took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state.

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says Finland and Sweden would be “important additions” to NATO.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says senators who visited Ukraine on Saturday have reaffirmed that the U.S. will back Ukraine until it wins its war with Russia.

The Senate has passed legislation to beef up security for Supreme Court justices.

The U.S. House has given final passage to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion.

A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities.

The Biden administration’s decision to end sweeping asylum limits at the border this May satisfied demands by prominent Democrats.

Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were central to some of the questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fielded during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson may not get any Republican votes.

Federal judges would have to publicly disclose more information about their own finances under a bill approved by the Senate this week.

A rift over the Republican National Committee's symbolic vote to censure former President Donald Trump’s House GOP critics has exposed the competing forces fighting to control the party.

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”.

Donald Trump’s relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election have sparked fresh urgency in Congress for changing the Electoral Count Act.

In a Senate where bitter Supreme Court battles have left a lasting imprint, the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick for Supreme Court has the potential to be much less combative and toxic.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

South Dakota political candidates are revving into full campaign mode this week, with one big exception — Republican Sen. John Thune.

Congressional leaders have reached a deal to lift the nation's debt limit.

During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh assured Sen_ Susan Collins a woman's right to an abortion was “settled law.”.

The Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates.

The federal government could be heading for a temporary shutdown.