Business leaders and CEOs sent a letter to members of the Senate on Thursday, demanding that it impose background checks on gun sales and strengthen "red flag" laws, the New York Times reported. 
The Congressional Leadership Fund and the American Action Network, outside spending groups allied with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), announced Tuesday they had brought in a record combined fundraising haul for the first half of 2019. 
Conservative columnist George Will spoke about American conservatism during an event promoting his new book The Conservative Sensibility at Washington, D.C.'s Politics and Prose bookstore on Tuesday. 
The nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation held a rally on Capitol Hill Tuesday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. 
Republican lawmakers in Madison knew Gov. Tony Evers would want to spend more and raise taxes. He campaigned on it. 
A pair of Republican senators introduced a bill on Friday that they say will prevent large financial institutions from denying service to gun and ammunition makers and dealers. 
Several activists protesting a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general during the Civil War, cornered Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada (R.) and other top Republican leaders in the state legislature in an elevator on Thursday. 
Two Republican congressmen introduced proposals Tuesday designed to fix America's health care system through a variety of market-oriented reforms. 