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Lauren Boebert, gun-toting congresswoman-elect, may carry Glock at Capitol

WASHINGTON – A firearms-toting congresswoman-elect who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle has already asked Capitol Police about carrying her weapon on Capitol grounds, her office has ack...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP, Sen. Gardner hoping voters open to warnings of Democrats’ socialism

Can this approach attract moderate voters?

DATE: Apr 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP keeps Senate control for 2 more years, triumph for Trump

WASHINGTON – Republicans retained control of the Senate on Tuesday, ousting Democratic incumbents in Indiana and North Dakota and handing President Donald Trump a triumph by ensuring they wi...

DATE: Nov 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrats wrestle with election-year message on health care

WASHINGTON – Ringed by a handful of cheering activist supporters, liberal House Democrats gathered outside the Capitol this week to announce they were forming a caucus to seek “Medicare for ...

DATE: Jul 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ryan: People don’t care about senator’s concerns about Trump

WASHINGTON – Remember the extraordinary public clash this week between two Republican senators and President Donald Trump? House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that people aren’t interested...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cochran’s illness shows risks to GOP leaders of aging Senate

WASHINGTON – Top Republicans coping with a razor-thin majority in the Senate as they try pushing a partisan agenda are running smack into another complication – the sheer age and health issu...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Energy secretary, Dems clash over plan to help coal, nuclear

WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats accused the Trump administration Thursday of falsely suggesting the nation’s electricity grid faces severe problems to justify an unnecessary bolstering ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ryan says bump stocks should be addressed by regulation

WASHINGTON – New federal rules would be “the smartest, quickest” way to regulate the device the gunman in the Las Vegas massacre used to heighten his firepower, House Speaker Paul Ryan said ...

DATE: Oct 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump hits ‘so-called Republicans’ as health bill withers

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump lashed out at “so-called Republicans” Tuesday for deserting the party’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law as Senate leaders tried to deci...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP hopes to reform health care dim

WASHINGTON – The Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama’s health care law was flickering out Monday as a decisive handful of GOP senators remained opposed to the last-gasp bill...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Collins’ opposition essentially kills GOP health care drive

WASHINGTON – The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama’s health care law essentially died Monday as Maine Sen. Susan Collins joined a small but decisive cluster of G...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Opposition from GOP senators grows, jeopardizes health bill

WASHINGTON – Republican opposition to the GOP health care bill swelled to near-fatal numbers Sunday as Sen. Susan Collins all but closed the door on supporting the last-ditch effort to scrap...

DATE: Sep 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World