Senate Guns Down Background Checks
The NRA prevails in its fight with Obama
The NRA prevails in its fight with Obama
A bipartisan deal to expand background checks is struggling to muster the 60 votes required to clear the Senate.
A strange Twitter kerfuffle on a slow news day reveals the perils of the new-media landscape for politicians
Democrats overcome a gun-control filibuster, but their boasts belie the tough road ahead.
Instead of a news cycle or two of pundits chewing over whether it’s fair game for the most powerful Republican in the U.S. to attack a would-be opponent for suffering from depression, the story has become a scandal about a …
The framework developed by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey would broaden gun background-check requirements to include gun shows and online sales.
Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the Senate’s gun-control bill, scheduling a key procedural vote on guns for later this week.
Senator Mitch McConnell wishes to know how “Mother Jones” obtained an audio recording of a private meeting where aides ripped potential opponent Ashley Judd
Rand Paul has risen from Tea Party troublemaker to GOP celebrity. Can he reshape a party that never quite took his father seriously?
The younger Paul is on the rise and on message.
The symbiotic relationship between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul is a key to both senators’ political futures.
This is the best chance in a generation for immigration reform, but there are reasons a deal has been so hard to come by
The backing of the Tea Party favorite is a new and important milepost on the long road to a comprehensive immigration-reform bill.