GOP senator: FBI probe of Tsarnaev found no 'red flags'

Senator James Risch says expanding background checks will catch criminals, but it won't prevent them from getting guns. Anderson Cooper asks him about his views and why he's part of a group of GOP Senators who areplanning to block a debate on gun ...

Republican Sen. James Risch (Idaho) on Wednesday downplayed the importance of a threatened GOP-led filibuster of gun-control legislation and said it was a good thing to get to a debate on the bill in the Senate.Of course it's disappointing when you ...

Committee Chairman U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) (L) talks with U.S. Sen. James Risch (R) (R-ID) during a markup meeting of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee March 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Senate Energy Committee's natural gas ...

JEERS ... to U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, R-Idaho. Disagreements aside, rarely have they given us reason to be ashamed of them. Wednesday was just such a day. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey had ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Max Baucus (D-MT) and James Inhofe (R-OK) - cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 7, the bipartisan resolution which makes clear a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that undermines Constitutional ...

Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr. (R-LA) spoke at the Capitol Hill Club breakfast, sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. AWMA Chairman Hugh Raetzsch of Louisiana welcomes Rep. Boustany also of Louisiana to the AWMA Day on the Hill Breakfast sponsored ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A bipartisan group of senators and U.S. House members today introduced bills to provide certainty to forestry companies and workers, by reaffirming the Environmental Protection Agency's 37-year-old policy toward regulation of ...

For the first time in 7 years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a Senate-confirmed administrator, now that Marilyn Tavenner has received that body's stamp of approval. Ms. Tavenner was confirmed on May 15 by a 91-7 vote (two ...

Julia Lawless, Antonia Ferrier (Hatch), 202.224.4515 Don Stewart (McConnell), 202.224.2979 Senators Write, "We demand that your Administration comply with all requests related to Congressional inquiries without any delay, including making available ...