Jeff Flake

Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators

2013-05-13 03:00:00

WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...

Immigration reform divides Republicans

2013-05-08 18:37:00

WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...

Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee

2013-05-09 20:25:00

WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...

Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul

2013-05-09 13:26:00

WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...

Senate sets aside gun bill, for now

2013-04-18 14:07:00

WASHINGTON -- The Senate formally shelved further consideration of gun legislation Thursday even as supporters of a plan to expand background-check requirements vowed to keep pushing the issue. The decision to set the bill aside came after a showdown...

Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill

2013-04-17 10:04:00

WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...

Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator

2013-04-16 16:26:00

WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...

Mississippi man arrested, accused in ricin letters case

2013-04-17 17:36:00

OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings....

Proposed gun amendment faces uphill battle in Senate

2013-04-15 20:30:00

WASHINGTON — A single conversation on the Senate floor Monday illustrated the challenges senators face in pushing a bipartisan measure to extend background checks to most gun sales. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the chief author of the proposal,...

Senate showdown set on gun control

2013-04-16 20:15:00

WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...

Bipartisan group introduces immigration reform bill

2013-04-17 06:37:00

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill to overhaul immigration laws and provide a path to legal status for an estimated 11 million people who overstayed their visas or illegally entered the United States, Senate aides said....

Gun-control plan several votes short in Senate

2013-04-16 15:03:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate plan to expand the background-check requirement for gun purchases faced a narrowing path to success Tuesday, as advocates for stricter laws sought to scrape together the last few votes they need from among a dwindling number of...

Senators at an April news conference on immigration, from left: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz Marco Rubio (R-Fla Charles Schumer, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) John McCain (R-Ariz.)

2013-05-16 17:48:30

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz left, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) listen as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets in a markup session to examine proposed changes to immigration reform legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

2013-05-09 00:00:00