Outside the Beltway

New Jersey Senate Bob Menendez has temporarily dodged a bullet, but his ultimate fate is far from clear.

A Los Angeles reporter says that Minnesota Senator Al Franken groped her and engaged in other inappropriate conduct during a 2006 USO tour.

The charges against Roy Moore continue to mount as national Republicans continue to push back against him.

For some reason, Senate Republicans want to attach a bad health care reform idea onto an already controversial tax reform bill.

Another Alabama woman accuses Roy Moore of sexually assaulting him when she was a teenager.

While many on the right are condemning Roy Moore, there are far too many prevaricators and defenders out there.

Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore is accused of having molested a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

Notwithstanding overwhelming public support, Congress is not moving forward on a proposal to ban bump stocks.

To nobody’s surprise, a blue state returns to its roots.

House Republicans unveiled their tax reform bill today, but its fate is far from clear.

It’s been two years since John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, and he’s got a few things to say about his former colleagues and the state of American politics.

More bad polling news for President Trump.

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

Republican Lamar Alexander and Democratic Senator Patty Murray say they’ve reached a bipartisan deal to fix an important part of the Affordable Care Act.

Susan Collins will stay in the Senate rather than running for Governor of Maine next year.

After initially signaling support for a bill banning ‘bump stocks,’ Republicans in Congress now appear to be hoping someone else will act for them.

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is declaring war on Republicans in the Senate.

Don’t hold your breath, but the Las Vegas shooting may actually prompt Congress to do something.

The Supreme Court appears split on the question of whether or not partisan Gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

Republicans finally unveiled the outlines of a tax reform package yesterday, but the devil is in the still to be determined details.

Another poll shows the vast majority of Americans want Congress to act to help the people covered by DACA.

Bob Corker, who has served in the Senate since winning election in 2006, announced yesterday that he would not stand for re-election.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

Speaking about his cancer treatment for the first time, Senator John McCain paints a grim picture.

The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.

The GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to suffer a fatal blow as Senator John McCain announced his opposition to what is the last gasp of that effort in the Senate.

Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.

Senate Republicans are considering one more last-ditch effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.

Trump makes a DACA deal, apparently.

Once again, Congress is abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

Arguments advanced by those advocating a bill that would prevent Americans from participating in a boycott of Israel would not violate the First Amendment appear to be without merit.

A recent uptick in retirements from Congressional Republicans is leading some Republicans to become concerned about the party’s prospects in 2018.

Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere were gambling when they lined up behind Donald Trump. So far, they’ve lost.

Steve Bannon may be out of the White House, but his efforts to continue pushing President Trump, and the Republican Party, even further to the populist far-right continues.

Despite pleas from conservative lawmakers, the Dept. of Justice will not reopen the case against former I.R.S. official Lois Lerner.

The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.

Perhaps it’s time to consider getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely.

Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.

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.

As Congress heads back to work, a corruption trial in New Jersey could have big implications for what happens on Capitol Hill.

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