McConnell asked me to be sort of the point person on this, I thought to myself ‘well, this is like JOE BIDEN appointing KAMALA HARRIS border czar,’ I accepted the responsibility with a little trepidation.” Cornyn was candid about the difficulty of his assignment: “When Sen. IN THE SENATE, JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas), the lead GOP senator tasked by Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL to strike a bipartisan deal on gun legislation, spoke to our Marianne LeVine about the state of the talks. In a letter to Democrats Thursday, Pelosi said the House would also vote on a red-flag law and a bill “to create an AMBER Alert-style notification during a mass shooting,” and hold a hearing on an assault weapons ban bill. Last year, the House also passed legislation to strengthen the background check system for purchasing firearms. ( The Biden administration banned ghost guns via regulation earlier this year and required existing ghost guns to become serialized.)
‘We were at the gravesite trying to get prepared to bury him, and bullets started flying everywhere,’ she said,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Sophie Carson and Drake Bentley report. KING SR., the man fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King's sister, NATASHA MULLEN said. … The shooting occurred at the interment for DA'SHONTAY L. IN WISCONSIN: “Two people were shot at Racine's Graceland Cemetery Thursday afternoon during a funeral for a man killed by police. “The suspected shooter appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Story County Sheriff Capt.
IN IOWA: “A man shot and killed two female victims, then killed himself, in a parking lot outside Ames' Cornerstone Church Thursday night, according to police and officials at the church,” the Des Moines Register reports. JUST POSTED - Michael Schaffer’s latest “Capital City” column for POLITICO Magazine is on Washington’s last taboo: “calling someone stupid.” The provoactive headline: “Many Reporters Think KEVIN MCCARTHY Is Dumb. 6 select committee “will hold a hearing to provide the American people with a summary of our findings about the coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” the panel announced. MARK YOUR CALENDARS - On Thursday at 8 p.m., the Jan. During Biden's Thursday address, he recounted details from his trip to Uvalde, where he “stood before 21 crosses for 19 third and fourth graders and two teachers.” Nearby were their pictures - which, the president said, “Jill and I reached out to touch.” | Evan Vucci/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY