Ryan: Going to ‘take some time’ for Scalise to recover from shooting

Republicans and Democrats are typically competitive during the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park, but they both rooted for “Team Scalise” one day after a shooting during a practice for the face-off.

Following the shooting, President Donald Trump urged Americans to come together as he assumed the role of national unifier for one of the first times in his presidency.

Even President Donald Trump, who rode to the White House on a road of division, rightly called for unity.

The hospital has further stated that Scalise will need to undergo further operations. “Their sacrifice makes democracy possible”. And there was a moment of silence for the victims of Wednesday’s shootings.

“In the grand scheme of things you’re only talking about a million or so dollars and you’re talking about saving lives”, Richmond said.

A few hours before Thursday night’s game, Murphy was on a hot street outside of his office.

“Tonight, we’re all Steve Scalise“, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, said in a joint interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan on CNN.

Both teams will wear Louisiana State University clothing and hats in honor of Scalise, a representative from the state and fan of the school’s athletics teams, known as the Tigers. A routinely-divided Senate passed a sweeping sanctions bill aimed at Russian Federation and Iran on a 98-2 vote Thursday. “I just can’t say thank you, thank you to this great country”. Scalise, the third most powerful Republican in the House, was shot through the hip.

A congressional aide and a lobbyist were also injured in the shooting.

A Washington Metropolitan Police Department report says the officer was manning a traffic checkpoint when the driver failed to obey repeated orders to stop.

A day after a shooter opened fire on Republican lawmakers’ practice, the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity will go on as scheduled on Thursday. “It’s about Republicans and Democrats”.

With emotions, interest, and symbolism high, congressional lawmakers took to the baseball diamond Thursday night for a game normally meant for fun, but now suffused with meaning.

The FBI said yesterday that it believed Hodgkinson was living out of his van in Alexandria. Democratic former Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille said he had spoken often with the man on recent mornings at the nearby YMCA. His social media contained anti-Trump and anti-Republican posts.

The motive for the shooting remained unclear but authorities were zeroing in on the life of James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old man from IL, in the months and weeks before Wednesday morning’s shooting.

Mr Scalise was among five people wounded in the shooting.

Rep. Steve King of Iowa said over Twitter, “The center of America is disappearing, and the violence is incited by the leading cultural voices of the Left”.

The gunman had a rifle and “a lot of ammo”, said Sen.

“The. ways they could do that is you’ve ever been treated by a mental physician or in a mental hospital, or you’ve been convicted of a felony, or have been convicted of domestic battery”, said Wagner.

Lawmakers took cover in the dugout.

The gunman died after being wounded in a gunfight with police.

Shimkus “is expecting it to be more subdued, without some of the chiding and trash talking that went on – in good fun – in these games in previous years”, Haverly said.