Author: Matthew Daly
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Democrats push impeachment rules package through House
WASHINGTON — Democrats rammed a package of ground rules for their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump through a sharply divided House Thursday, the chamber’s first formal vote in a fight that could stretch into the 2020 election year. The vote was 232-196, with all Republicans against the resolution and two Democratic defectors joining them.…
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McConnell says Senate will consider gun background checks
WASHINGTON • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he wants Congress to consider legislation to expand federal background checks and other gun violence measures when lawmakers return in the fall. The Republican leader told a Kentucky radio station that President Donald Trump called him Thursday morning, and they talked about several ideas. The…
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Denver’s Hancock, other mayors urge US Senate to return to Washington for gun bill vote
WASHINGTON — More than 200 mayors, including two anguished by mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, are urging the Senate to return to the Capitol to act on gun safety legislation amid criticism that Congress is failing to respond to back-to-back shootings that left 31 people dead. In a letter Thursday to Senate Majority Leader…
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House oversight panel backs contempt vote in census dispute
WASHINGTON • A House committee voted Wednesday to hold two Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas for documents related to a decision adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee voted 24-15 to advance contempt measures against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce…
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Green New Deal to address climate change
WASHINGTON • Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signaling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump’s failure to mention climate change in his State of the Union address. At least six…
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Trump will look for another State of the Union site after Pelosi’s rejection
WASHINGTON — In a high-stakes case of dare and double-dare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi served notice that President Donald Trump won’t be allowed to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday after the president said he was aiming to show up even though he was not welcome.…
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Federal shutdown begins after lawmakers fail to reach deal
WASHINGTON — A partial federal shutdown took hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his cherished Mexican border wall, a chaotic postscript for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling government. Vice President Mike Pence, Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared…
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Government shutdown threat recedes as Trump softens stance on border wall
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared Tuesday to back off his demand for $5 billion to build a border wall, signaling for the first time that he might be open to a deal that would avoid a partial government shutdown. The White House set the tone when press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicated that Trump…
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Trump threatens shutdown in wild encounter with Democrats
WASHINGTON • In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promised border wall and offered a grim preview of life in Washington the next two years under divided government. Trump and House and Senate Democratic…
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House passes bill to drop legal protections for gray wolves
WASHINGTON— The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species. Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the U.S. by the mid-20th century. Since securing protection…