DESPITE GUN DEBATE, ATF STILL BOXED IN BY POLITICS
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL FILE – In this June 11, 2013, file photo B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
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HO– USE HARD-LINERS STAND UNITED IN BUDGET SHOWDOWN
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions…
PELOSI: REPUBLICANS CAN’T EVEN TALK TO THEMSELVES
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference about the ongoing budget fight, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government limped into…
MOTHER: WOMAN KILLED IN DC CHASE WAS DEPRESSED
By ERIC TUCKER A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.…
POLICE SHOOT DRIVER OUTSIDE CAPITOL AFTER CHASE
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and LAURIE KELLMAN This view from the Russell Senate Office Building shows police converging on the scene of a shooting on Constitution Avenue on Capitol Hill near…
REP. DUFFY OF WISCONSIN ASSAULTED OUTSIDE CAPITOL
FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis. right, accompanied by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.N.C., center, and others, gestures as he speaks during a news…
NSA CHIEF ADMITS TESTING US CELLPHONE TRACKING
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.…
DAVIS TAKES NATIONAL STAGE WITH GUBERNATORIAL BID
By CHRIS TOMLINSON File – In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis speaks at a fundraiser, in Washington. Davis is expected to announce her bid…