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**FILE** Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, talks March 7, 2013, to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul: Misguided sentencing laws hurt black defendants

Sen. Rand Paul told his Senate colleagues Wednesday that the nation's mandatory minimum sentencing laws disproportionately affect the black community and need to be changed — putting the Kentucky Republican at the front of a push on Capitol Hill to move away from decades of punitive drug policies.

September 18, 2013
House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, walks to join other GOP House members for a caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Some conservative Republicans want to shut down the government on Oct. 1 if that's what it takes to block the Obamacare health program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP wants Justice to change ruling on Louisiana vouchers

House GOP leaders came to the defense of school-choice advocates Tuesday, calling on the Justice Department to reconsider its legal opposition to a popular school voucher program in Louisiana that gives some students from low-income families the chance to escape failing education systems.

September 17, 2013
Lois Lerner, head of the Internal Revenue Service unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status, was put on administrative leave after she declared her innocence but refused to answer congressional questions about the targeting. (Associated Press)

Emails show IRS’ Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party

Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy, according to several of Ms. Lerner's emails released by a House committee Thursday.

September 12, 2013
** FILE ** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican

Rep. Paul Ryan opposes Obama’s Syria plan

Rep. Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he opposes President Obama's push for military strikes in Syria, saying that the administration has bungled the situation and damaged the nation's credibility on the global stage.

September 11, 2013
Paul

Tea party-linked lawmakers shun strike on Syria

Tea party-aligned lawmakers are standing up in almost universal opposition to President Obama's push for military action against Syria — distancing them from the foreign interventionism that defined the George W. Bush-era and providing some insight into how the tea party movement views the role of the military and America's role in the world.

September 10, 2013
**FILE** U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power speaks about Syria on Sept. 6, 2013, at the Center for American Progress in Washington. (Associated Press)

U.N. envoy: U.S. has ‘exhausted the alternatives’ to Syria strike

Seeking to rally support for military action against Syria, President Obama's new ambassador to the U.N. said Friday that the administration has "exhausted the alternatives" and that Americans should agree that there are "lines in this world that should not be crossed and limits on murderous behavior that must be enforced."

September 6, 2013
** FILE ** In this citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, U.N. investigation team with blue helmets, walk with Syrian rebels in Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/United media office of Arbeen)

Syrian rebel slams Putin over attack claim

A leader of the Free Syrian Army said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to deceive the international community into thinking it was someone other than the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad who launched a chemical weapons attack that killed more than a thousand people last month.

September 6, 2013
** FILE ** Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. (Associated Press)

House Judiciary Committee chair skeptical of Syria strike

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said he is skeptical of using force against Syria, but said he is withholding judgment until President Obama makes his case and he sees the final details of the congressional resolution that he will vote on.

September 6, 2013
Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican (Associated Press)

Shadow of Benghazi clouds Obama’s Syria push on Capitol Hill

Lingering frustration over the way President Obama handled the attacks in Libya that led to death of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has colored the debate over whether to launch military strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

September 5, 2013
** FILE ** Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. (Associated Press)

Ex-Sen. Rick Santorum opposes U.S. strike in Syria

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, the runner-up in the 2012 GOP presidential race, said Thursday that Congress should oppose President Obama's push for military strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

September 5, 2013
Matt Bevin

McConnell’s silence on Syria creates an opening for Bevin

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has remained silent on whether he supports President Obama's calls for military strikes against Syria, saying only that he wants more information as he tries to calibrate his views with those of his colleagues in Washington and voters back home in Kentucky.

September 4, 2013

GOP’s libertarian wing sees opportunity to push for less intervention

The debate over whether the U.S. should launch airstrikes against Syria is testing the willingness of rank-and-file Republicans to get involved in another military conflict and giving the party's libertarian wing a chance to push the party toward adopting a less interventionist approach to foreign policy.

September 3, 2013
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint is trying to wield conservative power outside the Senate. (Associated Press)

Jim DeMint still able to pull some weight among Senate Republicans

When he was in the Senate, Jim DeMint wasn't shy about trying to recruit conservatives he thought would buck the Republican Party establishment and gum up the collegial workings of the legislative process. Now on the outside, running the Heritage Foundation, the former senator from South Carolina may have even more levers to pull.

September 2, 2013