David Sherfinski

Jeb Bush: ‘Preying on people’s fears’ not the answer on immigration

Speaking in the early presidential state of South Carolina on Tuesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended his views on immigration and said that if people want to consider running for office they need to "stop preying on people's fears" and "stop dividing us."

March 17, 2015

State Dept.: ‘No record’ of signed document from Hillary Clinton affirming records turned over

The State Department said Tuesday that former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton never signed the document affirming that she turned in all classified information when she left in 2013, as the legal jeopardy to the Obama administration continued to grow over her treatment of emails.

March 17, 2015

Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock to resign

Facing inquiries over his use of office funds and other financial discrepancies, embattled GOP Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois said Tuesday he's resigning from Congress at the end of the month.

March 17, 2015

Benghazi committee extends deadline on Clinton subpoena

The House Select Committee on Benghazi is giving former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton more time to comply with a subpoena sent earlier this month for all of Mrs. Clinton's communications related to Libya.

March 17, 2015

Boehner calls for Hillary Clinton to turn over server to ‘neutral third party’

House Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday called on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to turn her private server over to a third party in the wake of the recent controversy over her exclusive use of private email while serving as the nation's top diplomat.

March 17, 2015

Scott Walker: ‘I’m looking forward to a Harley ride in New Hampshire’

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says New Hampshire residents could soon see him riding his Harley, and also dropped a bit of geographical knowledge about the early presidential voting state.

March 17, 2015

Ted Cruz: I’d sign Iran letter ‘in large print’ so the Ayatollah wouldn’t need his glasses

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Tuesday defended his signing a letter to Iranian leaders along with 46 other GOP senators warning them about the tenuous nature of a deal on Iran's nuclear program without congressional approval, saying he'd sign it "in large print so that the Ayatollah wouldn't need his reading glasses."

March 17, 2015

Ted Cruz hits press about ‘fire’ comment: ‘By the end of it, I’m Freddy Krueger torturing this girl’

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a few shots at the press on Tuesday after a story of his telling a 3-year-old girl in New Hampshire over the weekend that "your world is on fire" took off.

March 17, 2015

68 percent of Americans favor direct negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons: poll

Though a recent poll showed that Americans are skeptical Iran would slow or stop its development of nuclear weapons as a result of a treaty being negotiated by President Obama, more than two-thirds do favor direct diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on the matter in a new poll.

March 17, 2015

Hillary Clinton favorability ticks down; public split on email flap: poll

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's favorability is down a bit in a new poll as she inches closer to announcing a decision on a 2016 presidential run, and the public is divided on the recent controversy over her use of a private email while serving in the Obama administration.

March 17, 2015

Rick Santorum: Obama sacrificing U.S. security to ‘justify’ Nobel Prize

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania says President Obama, in trying to negotiate a deal on Iran's nuclear program, is sacrificing the security of the United States in order to justify the president's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

March 16, 2015

Ted Cruz: In 2017, GOP president will sign legislation ‘repealing every word of Obamacare’

As the administration touted new health insurance enrollment numbers on Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas predicted a Republican president would undo the entirety of President Obama's signature domestic achievement upon taking office in 2017.

March 16, 2015

Claire McCaskill: Hillary Clinton ‘should have been better prepared’ for email questions

Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, said Monday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "certainly" should have been better prepared to handle questions about her private email use as the nation's top diplomat.

March 16, 2015

Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton risked exposing classified info to terrorists

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, lobbed a new attack Monday at former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's explanation for her use of a private email system as the nation's top diplomat, saying even seemingly mundane aspects of Mrs. Clinton's schedule shouldn't be at risk of falling into the hands of terrorists.

March 16, 2015

Ted Cruz in New Hampshire tells young girl: ‘Your world is on fire’

Speaking in Barrington, New Hampshire, on Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told a young girl that yes, her world is indeed on fire — but that other people were there to make it better.

March 16, 2015

Rand Paul: Clintons kind of think ‘the law’s for you ordinary people’

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, says he wishes someone had provided former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with somewhat of a technological tutorial in the wake of the recent flap over her use of private email as the country's top diplomat.

March 16, 2015

Favorability of Democratic, Republican parties now both under 40 percent

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are below 40 percent favorability for the first time since Gallup started measuring the two parties' images that way in 1992, according to a new survey.

March 16, 2015

Rand Paul: ‘No one would notice’ if Department of Commerce was cut

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, blasted the concept of "corporate welfare" on Friday and said if the Department of Commerce was eliminated tomorrow he didn't think anyone would notice it was gone.

March 13, 2015

Ted Cruz: Obama legacy will be GOP president fixing his mistakes

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said President Obama's legacy will be a Republican president who will have to come and and clean up his mistakes.

March 13, 2015

Scott Walker: ‘Next up’ hasn’t worked so well for the Republican party

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he's not going to speak ill of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but that voters could say Republicans need a name from the "future" if they're going to defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.

March 13, 2015