Citizenship

Contacting Congress and making the voice of the public heard could be necessary to break the deadlock surrounding the status of Dreamers in time for the March 5 deadline. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Take action now to help Dreamers

Diana Bate Hardy · February 28, 2018 5:01 am

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, (pictured center) is cosponsoring a bill with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and more than a dozen other senators from both parties. The bill would improve the nation's background check system used for scrutinizing most firearms purchases. However, House Republicans are likely to oppose it unless they can add language allowing concealed carry permit holders to legally bring their weapons to other states. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump and Congress move on guns after Florida

Susan Ferrechio · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

The Trump administration's March 5 deadline will come and go without imperiling the so-called "Dreamers" as the case works its way through an appeals process that could take up to a year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

On DACA, Trump and Democrats live to fight another day

W. James Antle III · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

The DACA program will continue to operate similarly to how it has in recent weeks since two injunctions were issued earlier this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court decision opens door to 535,000 DACA renewals

Anna Giaritelli · February 26, 2018 6:56 pm

Beyond the march: African-American history education, appreciation, and conscientious citizenship

Red Alert Politics

Beyond the march: African-American history education, appreciation, and conscientious citizenship

clayborne-carson and tom-davidson · February 26, 2018 6:27 pm

Condoleezza Rice said she doesn't want guns present in her classroom and called it a "sad thing" that a discussion is being held about needing guards to protect schools in the wake of the shooting in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Beltway Confidential

Condoleezza Rice: ‘I don’t really like the idea of a gun in my classroom’

Al Weaver · February 23, 2018 7:56 pm

"Every church that I know of has that same kind of policy," Rep. Jim Jordan said. "There are parishioners each Sunday who've had the training — maybe they're retired law enforcement, retired military ... they have a policy in place." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Freedom Caucus leaders support arming teachers, oppose Trump’s other gun ideas

Al Weaver · February 23, 2018 5:50 pm

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna emailed staff, but made no public statement, to explain why a change to the agency's mission statement was necessary. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

USCIS says Trump was not the reason it dropped ‘nation of immigrants’ from mission statement

Anna Giaritelli · February 23, 2018 12:34 am

President Trump hosted a listening session on gun violence with high school students and teachers in the White House on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

How long can Trump hold the line on guns?

W. James Antle III · February 22, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump vowed during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, roughly a month after his inauguration, that he would return again and again to the conference he said he loved. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House plans to flood the CPAC zone

Sarah Bedford · February 21, 2018 5:01 am

Rep. Lee Zeldin said he introduced the bill in response to a string of violent crimes committed by MS-13 gang members on Long Island, where violent crime has escalated. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Lee Zeldin bill would revoke US citizenship of gang members

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 5:16 pm

Many Republicans have problems with provisions dealing with immigrant farm workers, while others don't like the immigration reduction numbers and mandatory E-Verify, which are also opposed by the business community.

Beltway Confidential

Immigration reform faces high hurdle in the House

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 5:01 am