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United States House of Representatives, Congressman, 2013 - PresentUnited States House of Representatives, Congressman Mike Conaway, Chief of Staff, 2009 - 2011United States House of Representatives,...
View ArticleTSA honors slain agent at DC headquarters
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) held a memorial at its Arlington, Va., headquarters on Monday for its agent that was killed in a shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport...
View ArticleHudson: Freshman member, Hill veteran
For Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), joining Congress was not so much a change in job as a change in role.Though technically a freshman, Hudson is a veteran of the Hill’s political churn, having been...
View ArticleLawmakers spar with TSA union over private airport security
The chairman of the House panel that oversees transportation security issues accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Tuesday of blocking efforts to privatize airport security...
View ArticleHouse passes bill to limit TSA airline security fees
The House on Wednesday passed legislation to limit airline passenger security fees imposed by the Transportation Security Administration.Passed 423-0, the measure would only allow the TSA to charge...
View ArticleGOP rep: No-fly list 'critical' in face of ISIS
The chairman of the House's transportation security subcommittee said Thursday that the federal government's controversial "no-fly" terrorist watch list is "crucial" to protecting international flights...
View ArticleWife of Rep. Hudson now working for another lawmaker
Renee Hudson, the wife of Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), is now working as chief of staff to another House Republican, Rep. Todd Rokita.She became Rokita's (Ind.) chief of staff this month, according to...
View ArticleObama signs bill capping TSA fees
President Obama has a signed into a law a measure that limits the amount airline passengers can be charged in fees to help fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to $11.20. The measure...
View ArticleDems line up against GOP bill on Syrian refugees
House Democratic leaders are lining up against a GOP proposal to stiffen background checks for Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Republican leaders are expected to vote Thursday on the measure, which would...
View ArticleThis week: Congress seeks to avoid a shutdown
Four days remain until government funding expires and it still isn’t entirely clear how Congress will avoid a shutdown.House GOP leaders are still forging ahead with a plan to pass a two-week stopgap...
View ArticleDem proposes repealing Capitol gun ban in response to concealed-carry bill
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the District of Columbia’s nonvoting representative in Congress, is suggesting that Republicans repeal a law prohibiting guns in the Capitol if they want to push...
View ArticleRight scrambles GOP budget strategy
House GOP leaders’ strategy to avert a government shutdown was thrown into uncertainty Tuesday amid growing demands from conservative hard-liners and defense hawks.While no final decisions had been...
View ArticleWe need a better pathway for allowing civilians to move guns across state lines
Since the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in McDonald v. Chicago, all states have had statutes granting law-abiding citizens the right to carry concealed handguns (CCW). About 36 grant reciprocity to CCW...
View ArticleHouse passes concealed carry gun bill
Two months after the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history, the House on Wednesday passed legislation that would allow people to use permits for carrying concealed handguns across state lines while...
View ArticleTrump’s populism takes hit from carried interest opponents
The GOP tax-cut package that swept through the GOP Congress this week fulfilled a key pledge from President Trump, who vowed to cut taxes during his presidential campaign.But the package failed to...
View ArticleIn anti-gun fever, media misses some crucial facts
Gun control advocates often bank on scaring people into supporting their agenda. That’s how they’re fighting a “reciprocity” bill that requires concealed handgun permits to be honored in all 50 states...
View ArticleProminent Republicans scrubbed from NRA forum after Florida shooting
Two top Republicans likely to appear on the November ballot have removed their names from a list of speakers set to address the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual convention in Dallas in May....
View ArticleWATCH: Republicans won't say if House will pass stand-alone background...
Republicans who voted for a measure to bolster the background check system for gun purchases as part of a House-passed concealed carry bill last year are withholding their predictions on whether the...
View ArticleEnding the biggest public health emergencies of our generation
The opioid epidemic continues to devastate our country. It doesn’t discriminate between large and small communities or urban and rural ones. It has shoved its way into every corner of America – from...
View ArticlePath to Dem majority lies in well-educated districts
Democrats vying to reclaim a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years are targeting districts around the country where well-educated voters hold disproportionate sway,...
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