Save for laterLawmakers commemorated the victims of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Thursday, one year to the date of the tragedy.
Seventeen people were killed and 14 wounded in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 last year.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Lawmakers mark one year since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Students and supporters protest against gun violence with a lie-in outside the White House in February last year, after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
“It doesn’t jive with what I’m hearing,” California Rep. Karen Bass says
Matt Whitaker is the current acting attorney general. (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call file photo)
As the 115th Congress limps across the finish line with several unfinished spending bills and a partially shutdown federal government, Hits and Misses takes a look back at our favorite funny, awkward and downright bizarre moments from the House and Senate in 2018.
Krishnamoorthi has a way to improve your day, Swalwell moved by a commercial and Norman’s poll
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
We’re all over Capitol Hill and its surrounding haunts looking for good stories. Some of the best are ones we come across while reporting the big stories.
There is life beyond legislating, and this is the place for it. We look, but we don’t find everything. We want to know what you see, too.
Tweet touts North Korean leader’s ‘unwavering faith in President Trump’
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un participate in a signing ceremony during a meeting on June 12 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Updated 9:12 a.m. | With his White House again embroiled in a crisis and President Donald Trump wondering who he can trust, he touted the support of a new friend: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon published an op-ed by an anonymous “senior official in the Trump administration” that said Trump is “facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader” in the form of officials across the government “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
John Lewis Street, Krishnamoorthi nerds out on ‘Star Trek’ and a perfect morning in Cleveland
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
We’re all over Capitol Hill and its surrounding haunts looking for good stories. Some of the best are ones we come across while reporting the big stories.
There is life beyond legislating, and this is the place for those stories. We look for them, but we don’t find them all. We want to know what you see, too.
House given classified briefing on what DHS, FBI, DNI are doing to secure elections at state, local levels
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, left, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee address the media after a briefing on election security with House members in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 22, 2018. FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also attended. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Democrats and Republicans struck drastically different tones about their confidence in federal agencies’ efforts to secure voting systems and stamp out foreign state-sponsored influence campaigns ahead of the 2018 midterms after a classified meeting on the subject for House members Tuesday.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, and FBI Director Christopher Wray were among the officials who briefed lawmakers and answered their questions about what their agencies are doing to combat potential Russian, Iranian, Chinese, and other nations’ attempts to undermine the midterms.
Land of Lincoln may help Democrats gain seats
Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Ill., narrowly survived a primary challenge Tuesday night. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
The Illinois primaries are in the books, setting the stage for an important batch of congressional elections in November.
Assuming Democrat Conor Lamb is certified as the winner of the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, Democrats still need a net gain of 23 seats to win the House majority. That’s a wide enough gap that Democrats, instead of cherry-picking victories around the country, will look to score big in a handful of states. Illinois might be one of them.
Nadler and Lofgren vie for top spot amid party’s soul-searching
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, left, and Jerrold Nadler of New York are vying to be the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. (CQ Roll Call)
Two experienced Democratic lawmakers with contrasting styles are vying to become the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and the vote this week could signal much more than just who will press the party’s agenda on the panel.
The choice of Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York or Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California will reveal much about the Democrats’ long-term strategy for a key committee as it deals with the tumult of President Donald Trump’s administration, the special counsel investigating his campaign, threats to civil rights and a reckoning of allegations of improper sexual behavior sweeping through Capitol Hill.
