“There’s no reason someone needs a weapon of war with 100 rounds, 100 bullets, that can be fired from that weapon. Nobody needs that, nobody needs that,” Biden said during a speech from the Rose Garden. “For the 10 years we had it done, the number of mass shootings actually went down. Even law enforcement officials have told me and told other champions of this legislation they sometimes feel outgunned by assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Boehner, who led a Republican caucus during former President Barack Obama So, those in power now are going to have to figure out what can be done, the former Speaker said on CNN about Republican leadership in Congress today. It s not about what everybody wants. It s a matter of what can be accomplished in a bipartisan way.”
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Three days from now, on April 21, we will preside at the meeting of the 39-member standing committee of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), which we will do so from our respective homes or offices in different Asian countries and in various time zones, thanks to modern communications technology.
As some may know, the ICAPP is composed of some 350 ruling and opposition political parties from 52 countries in Asia, which we founded and launched in Manila in September, 2000. We are privileged to serve as ICAPP founding chairman and chairman of the standing committee since the year 2000.
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A Washington Memoir. It s been billed by many as an honest tell-all memoir from the pre-Trump Republican Party, before it went nuts. How America s center-right party started to lose its mind, as told by the man who tried to keep it sane, reads the headline on a Dishing expletives and payback, the book is hot enough to light one of the cigarettes that were more a symbol of his Speakership than his gavel, says CBS News. Boehner drew laughs in a largely friendly interview with liberal Stephen Colbert on
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WASHINGTON A federal judge said he was inclined to order that a Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspect remain in detention on Monday after prosecutors presented video footage of the man dragging a police officer down the steps of the Capitol and into a mob and physically assaulting officers.
Jack Wade Whitton, a 30-year-old CrossFit instructor from Georgia, was identified by the government as the man in new officer-worn body camera footage also kicking officers and saying, You re going to die tonight.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Kukowski argued on behalf of the government that Whitton, who remains in custody in Georgia, should not be released pending trial because he remains a threat to the public.