Outside the Beltway

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is being accused of giving preferential access to businesses and businessmen tied to her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.

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

Other than confirming a lot of Trump Judges, the Senate has not been getting much work done so far this year.

The move creates a rare Senate opening in the Equality State, and an opportunity for the daughter of a certain former Vice-President.

Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee for the Senate in Arizona, is leading all three of her potential Republican challengers. This could spell trouble for the GOP.

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

While most of America slept, the government was shutdown thanks to some faux theatrics by a single Senator.

Getting to a DACA deal isn’t going to be easy.

President Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the legislative filibuster to resolve the government shutdown. That’s not going to happen.

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

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

The new leader of the Senate’s Democrats says he regrets supporting the filibuster reforms his party passed in 2013.

President Obama has selected his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, now the question is whether the Senate will act.

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

A crack in the Republican wall?

Rand Paul held the Senate floor for nearly twelve hours yesterday to talk about the PATRIOT Act, but it’s unclear if he accomplished anything.

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

West Virginia’s Joe Manchin is reportedly mulling leaving the Senate to run once again for a job where he’d have the ability to actually accomplish something.

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

A crushing but expected defeat for a veteran Democrat.