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David Sherfinski

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David Sherfinski covered politics for The Washington Times.

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Dimitry Lazar fires his 9mm pistol at targets at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop, Thursday, July 26, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Supreme Court to hear case on NYC handgun transport restrictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear a case on whether New York City's handgun transport restrictions violate the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution -- the first time in nearly a decade that the high court will take up a major case involving gun rights.

January 22, 2019
In this Jan, 18, 2019, photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats plan to pass spending bill package

House Democrats are planning to vote this week on a package of bills designed to prove that President Trump's demand for a border wall is the only holdup to getting most of the rest of government funded.

January 20, 2019
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., second from right, and floor director Shuwanza Goff, left, walk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House to revote on stopgap funding bill next week

The House will try again next week to pass a stopgap funding bill members had initially approved by voice vote Thursday, after Republicans said Democrats didn't give them a chance to ask for a recorded vote.

January 17, 2019
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, left, speaks with members of the news media outside the Maryland State House before his inauguration ceremony, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, in Annapolis, Md. Hogan is the first Republican governor to be re-elected in the state since the 1950s. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Larry Hogan, Maryland governor, sworn in for second term

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday was sworn in for his second term in office, calling for a repudiation of the kind of "debilitating" politics plaguing Washington, D.C., and holding up politicians like former President George H.W. Bush and Sen. John McCain as models to emulate.

January 16, 2019
Workers prepare a stage for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's inauguration ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. Hogan, who was re-elected in November, is scheduled to be sworn in Wednesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Maryland Republicans brace for tough 2019 legislative session

After failing last year to break up the Democratic supermajorities in the Maryland House and Senate, Republicans are bracing for a potentially tough 2019 legislative session — while also making clear that they're not content to sit on their hands.

January 15, 2019
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks to a meeting with Senate Republicans at the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP talks on broader border deal collapse

Republican mavericks declared defeat Thursday on their attempt to cobble together an immigration grand bargain to end the government shutdown after neither the White House nor Democratic leaders leaped at the idea of trading wall money for citizenship rights for "Dreamers," immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.

January 10, 2019
The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen before convening for the first day of the 116th Congress with Democrats holding the majority, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes spending bill to fund IRS, other agencies through Sept. 30

The House on Wednesday passed a $24 billion spending bill that funds the IRS and other agencies affected by the partial government shutdown through Sept. 30, as Democrats look to flex their new majority to put pressure on congressional Republicans amid the ongoing standoff.

January 9, 2019
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., stand with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., as Trump speaks while departing after a Senate Republican Policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump walks out of shutdown meeting with Democrats

President Trump walked out of shutdown negotiations with Democratic leaders Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to agree to any money for his border fence, ending the most contentious meeting yet in the 19-day-old government shutdown with no solution in sight.

January 9, 2019
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., speaks during a news conference about the tax cut on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Steny Hoyer: Trump lacks authority to use emergency powers to build wall

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday he does not believe President Trump has the authority to invoke emergency powers to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall -- something Mr. Trump says he's considering amid the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government.

January 8, 2019