Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) on Sunday criticized the tactics of far-right lawmakers who say their Republican colleagues, rather than working within the confines of Congress, should be willing to “burn it down” to fight for conservative principles. "The tactics that they're using aren't advancing those principles. They're an impediment to those principles," McClintock said on...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called the Supreme Court “brazenly corrupt and brazenly political” as he defended President Biden over reports that he described the high court as “out of kilter” during a fundraiser this weekend. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Murphy said it is “absolutely” appropriate for Biden to criticize the...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he is looking forward to a "new generation" of leaders after President Biden is reelected to the White House. Khanna was asked by Peter Alexander on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he is interested in running for president in the future, noting that he has been on the campaign trail...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on Sunday that legislation enshrining the Trump-era ban on bump stocks "treads close to the line" of violating the Second Amendment following the Supreme Court reversal of that prohibition on Friday. “On the legislative question, I would suggest before we infringe on the rights of law-abiding American citizens, we should...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he will not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's joint address to Congress, joining several other Democrats who have also vowed to boycott the speech. "I will not attend that. I said that it if he wants to come to speak to members of Congress about how to end the...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said he respected the Supreme Court's decision last week to overturn a Trump-era prohibition on bump stocks. "The job is simply this, so we trust and believe and respect the decision of the Supreme Court. What we need to focus on, Jon, is the violence that we're seeing across this nation....