Outside the Beltway

Congress is poised to legislate protections previously mandated by the courts.

The margins for 2024 are likely to be slim. But that hides a larger story.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

Too little, too late.

The slow Alaska count came out as expected.

The early reaction was premature.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

Former North Caroline Senator Kay Hagan has died,

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

The House of Representatives has not even acted on impeachment, but Senate Republicans have already made up their mind.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

There appear to be enough votes in the Senate to pass the resolution disapproving President Trump’s border wall “emergency,” but there’s not enough Republican support to override an expected veto.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

After twenty-five days, there’s no end in sight to the Federal Government shutdown. You can thank the President for that.

As the government shutdown enters through its twenty-fourth day, attention is shifting to Senate Republicans who could be pressured to break ranks and potentially force a resolution.

As the shutdown drags on, Mitch McConnell finds himself facing pressure from the White House and from members of his own caucus.

Senator Jeff Flake is threatening to vote against President Trump’s judicial nominees unless he gets a floor vote on a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.

After the Ronny Jackson disaster, President Trump has made a new selection for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Republicans joined with Democrats to advance a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but it’s unlikely to go anywhere beyond that.

The White House physician is accused of excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing medication among other offenses.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and in positions of power are slavishly backing their President over their country. They should be ashamed.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

The Trump Administration has been hit with two new lawsuits over the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

Big developments in the Russia investigation that could start making President Trump deeply uncomfortable.

The President’s choice for Labor Secretary withdrew his name from consideration yesterday, but this is just the latest example of what has been a transition that has largely consisted of fumble after fumble by the Trump team.

Notwithstanding polling that indicates the American public disagrees with them, Senate Republicans emerged from a meeting today largely united on the idea of not giving any Supreme Court nominee named by President a hearing, or even the courtesy of a meeting.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

The unity of the Republican Senate on the idea of no hearings or votes, if it ever really existed, appears to be cracking.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

The odds say that the GOP will end up with a Senate majority in the 114th Congress when all the votes are counted, but if it doesn’t happen then there’s likely to be quite a battle inside the GOP.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.