WASHINGTON — As Representative Darin LaHood, Republican of Illinois, prepared to campaign with Mike Pence, the former vice president, in his district last month, he braced for a backlash from his party’s right-wing base. Just days before, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had re-created in chilling detail how…
WASHINGTON — One day after President Biden issued an executive order designed to ensure access to abortion medication and emergency contraception, more than a thousand protesters gathered in front of the White House, with hundreds risking arrest by sitting at the building’s gates, to urge Mr. Biden to do more. Despite rainy weather and the…
Former Vice President Mike Pence has emerged from the Jan. 6 hearings in a peculiar position. To some Democrats in Congress, he has become something of a hero for resisting Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election at a time when American democracy seemed to teeter on the brink. To Mr. Trump…
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s top aides are weighing whether he can or should take a series of executive actions to help women in Republican-controlled states obtain abortions if the Supreme Court eliminates a woman’s right to end her pregnancy, according to senior administration officials. Some of the ideas under consideration include declaring a national public…
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted nearly along party lines to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines, acting as traumatized parents of victims and survivors of mass shootings made wrenching appeals for Congress to act on gun violence. The vote…