Outside the Beltway

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

As expected, Marco Rubio easily won the primary for his Senate seat. The General Election battle, though, promises to be more difficult.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

A new poll shows Donald Trump with historically low support for a Republican from Latino voters. That’s a recipe for electoral disaster.

Is President Obama planning a Checkmate move in the SCOTUS nomination fight?

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.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are battling today for votes in a caucus whose outcome could go either way.

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

After more than three decades, the men and women held hostage in Iran for 444 days will receive at least some compensation.

For good reason, many Republicans are worried about the prospect that Donald Trump could end up winning the Republican nominee, but they don’t seem to have a plan to stop him.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Mitch McConnell spoke a truth that many conservatives are likely not going to want to accept.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Scott Walker is flip-flopping on immigration again, while his poll numbers sink like a stone.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.

The Heifer the Hills Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Democrats like New York Senator Chuck Schumer could end up being the ones that scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal.

Harry Reid made outlandish claims about Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. He probably knew they were lies when he made them. And he doesn’t care.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

Senate Republicans have done more harm to the goal of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons than they have done good.

A powerful Democratic Senator looks like he’s about to be in a whole lot of trouble.

Now that they control all of Congress, some Republicans are suddenly deciding that the filibuster should be repealed.

A theme that just won’t go away.

For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.

President Obama’s decision on Keystone XL is apparently to delay things long enough so he doesn’t have to decide at all.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

The budget bill Congress set to pass Congress would effectively reverse the will of the voters of Washington, D.C., who just voted to legalize marijuana.

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

The House approved a bill to protest the President’s executive action on immigration that will go nowhere. The question is whether it will placate the right.

It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

The Keystone XL pipeline bill is dead until the next Senate. Mary Landrieu’s political career, on the other hand, is basically dead for the foreseeable future.

Post-election polling shows that the majority of Americans want the new GOP majority in Congress to work together with the President. Republican voters have a very different view.