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The House this week will vote on its marquee bill, HR 1, and haul Michael Cohen back in for more questioning, while senators seek information on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the latest
</p> Here’s the week in photos:</p> Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves the podium after the House Democrats’ news conference on their resolution to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration
</p> For example, Thompson noted he has a bill that would require the FBI to alert local law enforcement when someone who tries to buy a gun fails a background check.
</p> The House approved the bill 240-190 on Wednesday, the first time in decades the chamber had passed stand-alone gun control legislation.
While the procedure can be used in a way that actually makes substantive changes to legislation, most often the minority’s goal is to send a political message, not improve the bill.
</p> According to the newspaper, John F.
</p> For the last three years, lawmakers met with justices behind closed doors for a more casual conversation. Illinois Rep.
</p> Castro has not captured the same national attention as O’Rourke.
</p> roll call Even lawmakers should geek out about it. Nebraska Sen.
</p> The House Rules Committee, according to a notice on its website, is expected to consider the bill next week, priming it for the floor.
</p> But the DACA provisions in the bill turned out to be its downfall.
</p> That’s not hyperbole, according to Queen Adesuyi, policy coordinator on national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, which helped draft the bill.
</p> When he brought the bill before his committee in December, the panel approved it on a bipartisan 16-7 vote.
</p> Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reserved the bill number HR 6 for the legislation, which has long been a top priority of House Democrats.
as an ethics and campaign finance bill that has no prospects in the Senate.
</p> The second motion to recommit that the House agreed to because of Democrats siding with Republicans came Wednesday on a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases.
William Hoagland, an aide to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in the mid-2000s.
She’s about to learn a lot…”</p> Gaetz later deleted the tweet and apologized to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.</p> Rep.
</p> In other words, Trump is betting on Congress to replenish those accounts in the fiscal 2020 spending bill.