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David Sherfinski

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David Sherfinski covered politics for The Washington Times.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, are warning Republicans in high-tax blue states of an electoral backlash from middle-class suburbanites if they approve a tax reform bill without state and local tax deductions. (Associated Press/File)

Trump’s immigration initiatives ignored in $1.3 trillion spending bill

Congressional leaders on Wednesday reached agreement on a $1.3 trillion plan to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, pouring new money into gun background checks and anti-opioid efforts but limiting President Trump's calls for investment in stiffer immigration enforcement.

March 21, 2018
Rep. Justin Amash, Michigan Republican (Associated Press)

Spending bill: Republicans rush to beat shutdown

Congressional Republicans were rushing to put finishing touches on a $1.3 trillion bill Monday to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2018, retreating on most conservative demands in order to earn help from Democrats in passing the bill by a shutdown deadline Friday.

March 19, 2018
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 13, 2018 file photo, several gun-rights activists wearing blaze orange hunting vests visit the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., where bills are under consideration to place restrictions on gun ownership. A nationwide review of state legislation by The Associated Press suggests the Florida high school shooting may not lead to the sea change in firearms policy that gun-control advocates had desired. People on both sides of the debate are watching developments in gun-friendly Vermont, where Republican Gov. Phil Scott abandoned his stance against gun control after police arrested an 18-year-old man allegedly plotting a mass shooting at a high school. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

Gun debate takes center stage in midterm political ads

The gun debate increasingly is dominating the political ad wars, with the rate of commercials featuring the issue running twice as high as that of the last national election — and Second Amendment supporters remain firmly in control.

March 18, 2018
A guard tower is seen behind the wire fence that surrounds California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, Calif, in this August 31, 2007, photo. In an effort to slow California's growing prison population, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers are looking for ways to review the state's determinate sentencing practice. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Firearm offense convictions declined under Obama: Report

President Obama oversaw a steady decline in the number of convictions for firearm offenses that carried mandatory minimum sentences, according to a report released Thursday that underscores the low priority the last administration gave to pursuing gun crimes.

March 15, 2018
This Feb. 19, 2018 file photo shows a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Parkland city’s historian Jeff Schwartz is setting a plan in motion to collect, archive and preserve the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mementos. Meanwhile, school administrators have vowed to build a memorial after the demolition of the building where the Feb. 14 attack took place. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

House passes school safety bill one month after Parkland shooting

The House on Wednesday easily passed a bill that would incentivize schools to develop threat assessment and safety plans, taking its first concrete steps to respond to last month's school shooting in Parkland, Fla. on the one-month anniversary of the massacre.

March 14, 2018
An attendee at a rally against gun violence holds signs that read "March for Our Lives March 24" and "Take Guns Out of the Equation," Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The rally was held on the same day Gov. Inslee was scheduled to sign a bill banning the sale and possession of gun bump stocks in the state of Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

States pass gun laws while Congress does little

Some states have rushed to enact stricter gun laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school massacre, but Congress is still in pre-debate mode, with plenty of proposals attracting bipartisan support but no firm commitments from Republican leaders to bring any major gun bills to the floor.

March 8, 2018
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., waves to the crowd as he speaking at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mitch McConnell urges ‘caution’ on Trump’s tariff proposal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he and his GOP colleagues are concerned that President Trump's plan to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports could escalate into a damaging trade war right as the U.S. economy is showing signs of life.

March 6, 2018