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David Sherfinski

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David Sherfinski covered politics for The Washington Times.

Articles by David Sherfinski

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. reacts to being rebuked by the Senate leadership and accused of impugning a fellow senator, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington Warren was barred from saying anything more on the Senate floor about Sessions after she quoted from an old letter from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow about Sessions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems rally behind Elizabeth Warren after GOP voted to cut her mic

Liberal groups rallied around Sen. Elizabeth Warren, vowing to redouble their resistance to Republicans, while her colleagues took up her cause, repeatedly reading on the floor the same words that got Ms. Warren into trouble in the first place -- words taken from a 1986 statement by Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

February 8, 2017
Rep. John Larson, Connecticut Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2015, to announcing the introduction of the Social Security 2100 Act. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Democrats protest House vote to undo gun rule at Social Security hearing

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee tried to use a Tuesday hearing on Social Security representative payees to lament a recent House vote to undo an Obama-era rule designed to get certain beneficiaries' information into the national gun-purchase background check system.

February 7, 2017
Family members who have just arrived from Syria embrace and are greeted by family who live in the United States upon their arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Court rulings halting enforcement of President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries have reopened the door to the United States for some people initially denied entry. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

White House expects immigration order to be upheld

Ahead of a scheduled court hearing later Tuesday, the White House expressed confidence that President Trump's immigration order halting travel from seven majority-Muslim nations will be upheld.

February 7, 2017