Senate Queues Up Passage of Domestic Violence Law Renewal
On Thursday, the Senate rejected a GOP alternative to the bipartisan bill (S 47) that would renew and update the 1994 law known as the Violence Against Women Act.
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On Thursday, the Senate rejected a GOP alternative to the bipartisan bill (S 47) that would renew and update the 1994 law known as the Violence Against Women Act.
He had a lifetime score of 99 percent from both the American Conservative Union and the anti-tax Club for Growth at the end of 2011, the most recent year for which data is available.
In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC, Reid noted his past both as a Capitol Police officer and as a gun owner. “I don’t hunt anymore, but I did. I’ve got lots of guns,” Reid said.
for the District.
Efforts to reconcile the two chambers’ versions of the legislation authorizing domestic violence programs broke down at the end of the previous Congress.
Price, the former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, could perhaps best hew the line between the establishment and conservative wings of the party.
“I don’t think you can keep all of ’em from running at once,” he said in a Tuesday phone interview, less than 24 hours after announcing he would not seek the seat.
In a brief interview with CQ Roll Call, Rep.
I haven’t made a final decision,” Bright told CQ Roll Call in a short telephone interview Monday afternoon, noting he expected to make a choice within the next 60 days.
“It is not a done deal yet,” Hoeven said in an interview last week. “We’ve been working on it and building bipartisan support and recognition that it needs to get done.
That leaves Barrow as Democrats’ best shot of picking up the seat. The numbers tell part of the reason.
live shots around the Capitol grounds and the airspace above the complex.
But that’s what investigations are all about,” Reid said, according to a transcript of a taped interview that airse Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”
interview with a local station in his district, WSLS.
“Too many people try to force understanding and messaging without understanding that you need to go to where the people are,” Gerard said in an interview at the API’s Washington headquarters, where
In an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers”set to air Sunday, Grassley acknowledged that support for such a ban remains strong in some quarters of the Democratic Party, but he said he believes the electoral
Franken said in a Jan. 31 interview he wants to take care not to stigmatize mental illness, noting that most people with mental illness are no more violent than the general population and are more
The new executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee — the organization charged with keeping the GOP House majority — is taking the reins, having been molded by the vicissitudes
“I think it’s important to remind everybody that, what I’ve said previously, I am not a king, I am head of the executive branch of government,” Obama said in an interview with Univision.
“I haven’t ruled anything in or out either way,” Gill said in a Tuesday phone interview. “I think it was a good campaign we ran last time.” Gill narrowly lost to GOP Rep.