Tag: Senate

Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better." If they fail, they...

One week into the Biden presidency, the Democratically controlled Senate is facing its first procedural hurdle. Despite a raft of executive orders setting him apart from...

Thirty-third president Harry Truman proclaimed: "Given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the voters will pick the Republican...

In 2016, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said about former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland: https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1307153104941518848 He said it again two years...

The Republican party demonstrated its contempt for the Constitution and American people on Friday when it voted 51 to 49 to disallow witnesses to...

Last Wednesday was a rough day for liberals and progressives in America. First the Supreme Court decided in favor of the plaintiff in the Janus v....

Ted Cruz went from calling for Republicans to "vote your conscience" at the 2016 GOP Convention to kissing Donald Trump's ring just two months...

There is a significant element of the Alabama Republican Party that is completely morally bankrupt. That was amply established during the special election campaign...

By all rights, when Roy Moore was credibly accused of molesting women and pursuing girls young enough to be his daughters, his campaign for...

By around 10 p.m. Central time, it was clear beyond any doubt that Roy Moore's bid to take Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat had...

As election day dawned in the race for Jeff Sessions' Senate seat, polling was all over the place. Depending on the source, Roy Moore...

When three of the women who claim Donald Trump sexually assaulted them went on a media blitz on Monday, it was hard not to...

Late last week, veteran Republican consultant Steve Schmidt asked a question that few people had asked about the prospect of Roy Moore going to...

Roy Moore's primary response to the allegations that he molested women and pursued teenage girls is that they're fake news and a hatchet job....

When Roy Moore upended Luther Strange in the Republican primary for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat, there were already a number of reasons to...

Conventional wisdom should have suggested that the race for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat in Alabama should have ended when The Washington Post published...

Mitch McConnell hasn't done a lot right in his decade as leader of the Senate Republicans. But one of the few things he's done right...

By far, the most nauseating moment in politics this year from anyone not named Donald Trump came earlier this month from Alabama Governor Kay...

For the better part of 20 years, one thing has been as certain as death and taxes in Alabama--a month out from Election Day,...

On Sunday morning, Alabama's largest newspapers ran a front-page editorial pronouncing Roy Moore unfit for the Senate on a number of counts--not the least...