GOP Senate Debates Gun Control Instead of Real Measures to Fight Terrorism
June 22, 2016
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Good morning from Washington, where—10 days after the Orlando massacre—Senate Republicans ponder throwing in with Democrats on a new gun-control proposal. Genevieve Wood faults the GOP for not actually taking the fight to ISIS. Fred Lucas reports on the White House pushing "smart guns"–and its lack of clarity on illegal immigrants signing up for Obamacare in California. Plus: Jim DeMint on standing by the U.K. regardless of the Brexit vote and Yuval Levin on our "fractured" republic. |
CommentaryGOP Senate Debates Gun Control Instead of Real Measures to Fight TerrorismThe Republican-controlled Senate not only has allowed Democrats to make this an issue about gun control, they've joined the tour de farce. Read More |
NewsObama Administration Coy on Expanding Obamacare to California Illegal Immigrants"The problem is that if subsidies are extended to noncitizens, that will squeeze out the doctors available for those who came here legally, and American citizens," one health care expert says. Read More |
CommentaryAmerica Stands With UK on BrexitThe U.K. should not be afraid of Obama's bullying, writes Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint. Undemocratic restrictions made by foreign leaders are why so many U.K. citizens want to leave the European Union in the first place. Read More |
NewsObama Smart Gun Push Could Conflict With Constitutional Rights, Legal Expert Says"This [smart gun policy] could compel someone to incriminate themselves," a Second Amendment lawyer tells The Daily Signal. Read More |
CommentaryWhy Is the Government Trying to Regulate Fashion Blogs?The Obama administration apparently is concerned that popular fashion bloggers, who are paid to promote product lines, "deceive" a "significant minority" of their audience. Read More |
NewsWhy Has America Become a Fractured Republic? Yuval Levin ExplainsThe conservative thinker goes on camera with Genevieve Wood to talk about his new book and how individualism is changing America's political landscape. Watch the Video |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans