Biden Strikes Bipartisan Tone
The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.
The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.
It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.
A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.
While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.
Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!
Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.
Reacting to the asymmetrical polarization of the electorate.
How the West Virginia Democrat came to vote for the stimulus bill.
The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.
The Senate’s last conservative Democrat is taking President Biden’s call for unity seriously.
Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.
It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.
Kamala Harris will be very, very busy the next two years.
Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Donald Trump is the third President to be impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate.
Surprising news from an unsurprising process.
In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.
Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.
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.
As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
On the Sunday shows today, one of the President’s top aides insisted that the Administration is seriously looking at the idea of buying Greenland even though it isn’t for sale.
Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.
Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.
William Barr was easily confirmed as Attorney General in a 54-45 votes that included three Democrats crossing over to support him.
The Senate rejected Republican and Democratic proposals as expected but there are some signs of movement forward.
Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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.
It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.
Democrats have flipped the Senate seat currently held by Republican Jeff Flake.
As expected, the midterm elections ended up being a split result that gives Democrats and Republicans alike reason to celebrate.
The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.
With four weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are continuing to stoke the divisions laid bare by the Kavanaugh nomination.
After a long and contentious battle, Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to become the 114th Supreme Court Justice.
With the support of two holdout Senators, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh now appears to be all but official.
The Senate voted to proceed to an expected floor vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court tomorrow, but the final outcome is still uncertain.
Brett Kavanaugh is expressing some regrets over his performance last Thursday, but it’s largely far too little, far too late.
As the Senate prepares for a key procedural vote on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh this morning, the Judge’s fate remains up in the air. However, signs are pointing to reasons for Republican optimism.
The F.B.I.’s updated background check is complete and will be reviewed by Senators beginning today. As a result, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving forward toward a final vote on the Kavanaugh nomination later this week.
The GOP has no alternative but to push forward with the Kavanaugh nomination, because they don’t have a viable alternative at this point.
Is the reopened investigation of Brett Kavanaugh a real investigation of the charges made against him by three separate women, or is it a political sham? It’s beginning to look much more like the latter than the former.
Surprise developments yesterday led to a pause in the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh. Where it goes from here is unclear.