Opinion · 116th Congress
GOP greets North Carolina election scandal with crickets, excuses and misdirection
</p> OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration.
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</p> OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration.
</p> Last year, Congress approved two gun-related measures about background checks and school safety in a spending bill.
</p> “This is a significantly different bill,” she told reporters.
</p> Golden explained that the House bill was a “near mirror image” of a ballot initiative that voters in all eleven counties in his district rejected in 2016.
By Nathan Ouellette</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Florida Representative Ted Deutch rose to speak Wednesday on behalf of H.R. 8 — gun legislation that would mandate federal criminal background
</p> Oh, and he’s also the one who introduced the background check bill poised to pass the House this week.
</p> <p style="""font-weight: “;">Expressing her personal view, the speaker noted that the 1994 crime bill and the 1996 welfare overhaul bill resulted in unintended consequences and “a formula that was
</p> Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, suggested that Gaetz’s tweet should be taken up by the House Committee on Ethics, saying his action was “grossly unethical and probably illegal.”
</p> The chief issue is a familiar one: cost.</p> Georgia GOP Sens.
</p> The bill is expected to remain identical to what the Senate passed Feb. 12. House Natural Resources Chairman Raul M.
a bill that would aid 9/11 responders.
</p> Watch: Drugmaker protects Humira exclusivity ‘like Gollum with his ring’</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> AbbVie, which makes rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease treatment Humira, the top-selling drug
whom he served, and certainly equal to the value of some of the great senators of his time, modest men like Democrats Mike Mansfield, Gaylord Nelson and Claiborne Pell; Republicans like John Chafee, Bill
</p> Watch: Riggleman still slings whiskey at his wife’s Virginia distillery</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Afterward, over glasses of whiskey, Riggleman explained why the same complex liquor laws and environmental
</p> Even privacy-minded Republicans have taken notice. Rep.
Lawmakers allocated nearly $1.4 billion for 55 miles of barriers in a recent government funding bill.
</p> House Republicans are also pressuring Democratic leadership to bring up that chamber’s version of the same bill.
Clearing the bill without amendments would make it ready for Trump to sign into law.
</p> Democrats lost the gubernatorial races in Georgia and Florida, as well as the U.S. Senate seat held by Bill Nelson, which was won by then-Gov. Rick Scott.