The effort to undo the Senate’s legislative filibuster is an un-American, Constitution-eroding, radical play to nationalize politics by empowering slim and fleeting majorities to institute wide-ranging, generational policies. Judging from the media coverage, you might […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in a floor speech on Wednesday he was opposing N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan’s nomination to become the administrator of the Environmental Protection […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a bipartisan vote, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post. Democrats have praised Garland, a federal appeals […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats to rally behind a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and stood by his proposed $1,400 payments to individuals, even as some party moderates sought to dial […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.” […]
President Joe Biden and aides are showing touches of prickliness over growing scrutiny of his heavy reliance on executive orders in his first days in office. The president in just over a week has already […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to February to give the former president time to prepare and review his […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chuck Schumer, the incoming Senate majority leader, has never taken on such a torrent of challenges, with the opening days of both the Biden administration and Democratic control of the Senate coming […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On this, even President Donald Trump’s most fevered critics agree: He has left an imprint on federal courts that will outlast his one term in office for decades to come. He used […]
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