Politics · 114th Congress
Democrat Launches Fund to Support Gun Control Candidates
Murphy led a 15-hour filibuster on the Senate floor in June to call for action on gun violence.
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Politics · 114th Congress
Scott: Government Cannot Make Us Get Along
Scott spoke on how he grew in poverty, nearly flunked out of high school and how his life was changed by his “momma” and a Chick-fil-A operator, who was white.
Politics · 114th Congress
Rep. Corrine Brown Indicted In Charity Fraud Scheme
According to the indictment, the charity, One Door for Education — Amy Anderson Scholarship Fund, was falsely represented as a nonprofit that would use its funds for college scholarships and school
Politics · 114th Congress
Sanders Endorses Clinton’s College Plan, But Not the Candidate, Yet
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Sen.
Politics · 114th Congress
Hillary Clinton and Obama Together This Time in N.C.
On the emails, the former student of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Rutgers School of Law, said that while there are some things she knows Clinton wish she had never done, she believes her use of
Politics · 114th Congress
Poll: Most Say Terror Suspects Shouldn’t be Able to Buy Guns
Support for universal background checks ranges has been similarly strong — ranging from 88 percent to 93 percent — in eight Quinnipiac University national polls conducted since the Sandy Hook Elementary School
Politics · 114th Congress
Trade War: Obama, Trump Battle Over Massive Deals
Where Trump seems to target lower-class voters’ emotions while railing against massive trade pacts, Obama, a former University of Chicago Law School professor, reverts to what can sound like a graduate-level
Politics · 114th Congress
In Puerto Rico, One Expectant Mother’s Zika ‘Nightmare’
The 24-year-old Peirats went to grad school at the University of Arizona “because my husband got transferred here,’’ but now that she’s pregnant, her doctors “are not letting me go home and it’s
Politics · 114th Congress
Possible Clinton Veep Admits: ‘I’m Boring’
After one year in law school, Kaine spent nine moths in the missionary world, teaching at a Jesuit school in El Progreso, Honduras.
Politics · 114th Congress
Ryan Appoints Two Top House Attorneys
[ House General Counsel Stepping Down ] Hungar, a former deputy solicitor general of the United States and a Yale Law School graduate, will lead the Office of General Counsel, which
Politics · 114th Congress
5 Things the Brexit Vote Means for the Rest of the World
Potential investment opportunities: Downward pressure on the euro, sterling and European stock markets could mean buying opportunities for American, Chinese and other investors, Harvard Business School
Politics · 114th Congress
Gun Control Activists Gather Outside Capitol to Support Sit-In
As a longtime elementary school teacher, she had to lead her students in active-shooter drills. She has a niece whose university was recently on lockdown.
Politics · 114th Congress
Key Moments in the House Sit-In on Guns
“It is both public and private, in our homes and on our streets, at work, at church, at the movies, at a dance club, at school and at school again.” 4:20 p.m.: Sen.
Politics · 114th Congress
Hastert to Report to Prison
Hastert admitted at sentencing he sexually abused underage boys during his days as a high school teacher and coach in the 1960s and 1970s. [ Hastert and Congress: How Did We Miss It?
Politics · 114th Congress
Gun Control Votes Become a Litmus Test for Political Giving
O’Brien said he has donated to the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise, created after the 2012 shooting of elementary school children and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut.
Politics · 114th Congress
With New Clout, Murphy Vows to Take Gun Control Push to the Polls
Elizabeth Esty, who represents Murphy’s old House district, noted that the junior senator was a brand new father at the time of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, located in their district
Politics · 114th Congress
Demonstrators Join Democrats in Firearms Filibuster Effort
[ Senate Democrats Filibuster Over Gun Control ] (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The demonstrators waved rainbow flags and shouted: “We’re here, we’re queer.
Politics · 114th Congress
Remembering Heroic Sandy Hook Teacher, Murphy Yields the Floor
He stood next to a picture of smiling 6-year-old Dylan Hockley, who was killed in the December 2012 massacre of kids and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Murphy’s home state of Connecticut
Politics · 114th Congress
Rubio Joins Obama on Air Force One to Visit Orlando Families
The Democratic senator hails from Connecticut, where a gunman in 2012 killed 20 young students and six adults at an elementary school.
Politics · 114th Congress
Obama: Orlando Families Want Gun Control, ‘Don’t Care About Politics’
He has spoken extensively — and publicly shed tears — about how the 2012 mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, shook him as a president — and as a parent.