“We’re going to win it, it should be easy, but it’s not,” Trump said to the group of law enforcement and members of Congress at the White House, calling it a “common sense” issue.
Conservatives have criticized Trump for entertaining gun control ideas, but was most lacking at Wednesday’s meeting was any real defense of the Second Amendment.
President Donald Trump took on the National Rifle Association (NRA) — and politicians who support it — in a free-wheeling, bipartisan, televised discussion on gun laws with members of Congress at the White House Wednesday.
During the February 28 meeting with “Bipartisan Members of Congress” President Trump embraced Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) gun control bill but rejected Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) push for national reciprocity.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) endorsed Rep. Lou Barletta on Tuesday to challenge Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) in the 2018 midterm election.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) promoted amnesty for potentially three and a half million illegal aliens as a “package” deal, right after admitting that such a move would lead to a “flood of new illegal immigration.”
Eminent Republicans like 2012 Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Corey Gardner lined up condemn Judge Roy Moore. Very few are doing the same to Democratic Sen. Al Franken.
Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) argued that there was “no good reason” why average taxpayers should have to pay a higher tax rate for cities “that choose to have high taxes.”
President Donald J. Trump campaigned in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania on a campaign to bring jobs home to America. The Trump Administration has been working on a “steel investigation” to study the national security implications of Chinese dumping of steel on the world markets. Right now, President Trump can keep his promise to bring back coal, steel, and energy jobs back to American workers.
Two more Republicans announced their support for the Supreme Court majority-vote “constitutional option,” following the news that additional Democratic senators have promised to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) previewed in the incoming Congress’ agenda, one item of which was “after years of short-term extensions, Republican efforts will help long-term fix America’s crumbling highways and infrastructure.” Transcript (via ABC News
On August 22 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly praised Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for caving on gun control. Giffords and Kelly subsequently announced that their gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions–is endorsing Toomey and Kirk in the November elections.
An illegal immigrant whom Philadelphia police released from custody last year and is now charged with raping a child under the age of 13-years-old should be a wake up call for the city to end its sanctuary policies, according to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA).
During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said, “An internal Department of Homeland Security memo revealed that during an eight-month period in 2014, sanctuary cities across America released 8,000 illegal immigrants, and 1,800 of them were later arrested
Of all the issues that might arise in Pat Toomey’s re-election campaign for his Senate seat in Pennsylvania, his opponent, egged on by a raft of liberal groups with a few libertarians mixed in, is criticizing Toomey for supporting law enforcement’s use of military equipment.
Wednesday, the Senate voted 53-44 on Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R-PA) “Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act” and 55-42 on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Kate’s Law.” Each bill needed 60 votes to advance.
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of Kathryn Steinle and next week the Senate is slated to consider legislation offered in response to her death. On tap for the Senate will be a bill offered by Sen. Pat
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey voted for Sen. Ted Cruz for President in Tuesday’s Republican primary election.
Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey has supported Democratic nominees to the Supreme Court in the past but announced he would oppose Judge Merrick Garland after he met with President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Gun grabbers are ubiquitous in the current 21st century Democratic Party and, with effort, one or two gun grabbers can be found in the Republican Party as well.
WASHINGTON—As President Barack Obama’s efforts to pressure Senate Republicans to confirm Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court fail, liberal White House allies are floating a trial balloon of installing Garland on the Supreme Court without Senate confirmation.
Tuesday on his radio show, conservative talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity emphasized the importance of Republicans standing up to President Barack Obama on filling the Supreme Court vacancy previously held by the late Antonin Scalia. Hannity argued based
A candidate for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat says sanctuary cities — or jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities — actually make people safer.
On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York, Senate Health Care Committee chairman Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) warned that ObamaCare is in a “death spiral.” “If we look at what is happening right now, I think we’re witnessing
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) promoted the Stop Sanctuary Policies Act, which he stated includes Kate’s Law, to address the “terrible problem” of sanctuary cities during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC Radio) as Follows: “Hi, I’m Senator Pat Toomey
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have introduced legislation to make the to make the murder of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder an aggravating factor in favor of the death penalty. Current law already applies this penalty when the murder victim is a federal law enforcement officer or prosecutor. The legislation comes in the wake of a number high profile murders of police officers, including Pennsylvania State Trooper Corporal Bryon Dickson and Philadelphia Officer Robert Wilson, III.
Over the past weekend Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) waved the white flag on the gun control legislation he and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) pushed but failed to secure in April 2013 and tried to push again and again between then and now.
In this weekend’s Republican weekly address, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) criticized the pending deal with Iran over its nuclear program and warned that such a deal increases the threat of conflict with the Middle Eastern power more likely. Transcript as
Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak was apparently so excited to march in the Delaware County Independence Day parade that even little kids standing on the edge of the streets weren’t safe from his jumping, rambunctious clumsiness.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) floated the idea of reviving a measure that he and his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) raised in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting that would have
