Tag: Senate

Republicans have this thing where they sometimes say exactly what they're thinking. I know, crazy, right? You would think such a vice would be...

Freshman Senator Mark Kirk is trying something that's been rare to find in the GOP these days: something smart. The Illinois Republican is up for election...

The United States Senate is a heralded institution of great American history. Some of our nation's finest leaders have served in the Senate. Debates...

The Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, has said that Republican senators will not give hearings for, or vote on, President Obama’s nomination of...

A rare outbreak of journalism from Fox News Channel on Sunday may have proven to be the undoing of Mitch McConnell. He all but...

Last week, Republican Congressman Steve King admitted what nearly everyone without red-tinted glasses already knows--the Senate Republicans' refusal to even consider anyone President Obama nominates...

Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, and the Senate Republicans would like you to believe precedent requires them to not even give a hearing to anyone President Obama...

Last month, a bipartisan group of Senators hammered out a deal to provide $250 million in federal money to the beleaguered city of Flint, Michigan; which...

Until today, I thought that the Senate Republican leadership's refusal to even consider anyone President Obama nominates as a replacement for late Supreme Court...

The Senate Republicans announced just before the close of business on Tuesday night that if President Obama nominates a replacement for the late Supreme...

Within literally hours of the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died on a hunting trip in Texas, the Republicans in the...

In breaking news today it has been revealed that several U.S. administrators have been dabbling in international relations in a direct effort to undermine...

  It seems that Bernie Sanders wants to show that he is a man of his word. On Tuesday Nov. 4, Sanders filed a bill in...

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican proposal Tuesday night to get tough on jurisdictions across the country that are so-called "sanctuary ordinances." From Chicago to...

Question: Who is the most hated member of the U.S. Senate? Based on what happened last night, it's very safe to say that distinction...

I cannot help but notice that the Republican Party is always ready to send American troops all over the world for the craziest of...

We love to poke fun at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Don't get it twisted -- we genuinely do not like him. That's well documented....

After a ridiculously lengthy delay, the United States Senate has voted to confirm Loretta Lynch as the nation's Attorney General. She is the first...

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The politicians who populate Congress are known, more often than not, as stale squabblers holding stalemates above any real attempt at legislative progress. That said,...