COLUMN: Gun control policy among reasons to despise GOPShanna Hajek
You can see evidence of this in the more abstract poll questions about gun policy; most Republicans support some specific provisions, but on the general issue, they clearly fall on the side of gun rights: As Vox’s Dylan Matthewswrote last year, some scholars view gun ownership as a ...
infrastructure and gun control measures are among the many looking to push through bills in the month that is left. Major contention over new paid sick leave and minimum wage requirements is likely to garner attention. Those discussions could reduce the amount of time...
A four-term senator, Cornyn has been here plenty of times before, a central figure at the forefront of on again, off again talks with Democrats over gun policy changes that almost never make it into law. As gun owners and the powerful gun lobby wield influence, Co...
new gun laws are mild by some standards. But they are part of a trend of states passing gun restrictions, prompted in part by the Florida mass shooting, said Robert Spitzer, a political science professor at the State University of New York at Cortland who has written books on gun policy....
According to polls, illegal crossings at the southern border and immigration policy are consistently ranked as a top issue for Americans. What do you propose to address these concerns? Our current immigration system is broken. An open border has allowed unvetted ...
Tennessee Republicans are on track to oust three Democratic House members who used a bullhorn in the chamber last week to shout support to gun-control protesters crowding the gallery. The effort to expel Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pear
You want to know what drives progressives into a fury, just consider the fact that McCaskill’s votes onenergy policy and regulationhave frequently been in sync with one the oil industry’s favorite congressman, Roy Blunt – in spite of the fact that she doesn’t benefit nearly as much ...
Wade, but it’s the first to override a 15-week ban, the policy conservatives have long argued is a “compromise” embraced by a majority of the public. The initiative legalizes abortion access through fetal viability — about 22 to 24 weeks — and allows f...
“The foreign policy is going to be dictated by Donald Trump,” he said. “Obviously, Sen. Vance is going to have a seat at the table in this; we'll see who becomes secretary of State, who becomes U.N. ambassador, who becomes Defense secretary. … I'm in the Republican Party, ...