Dem senator announces bill in response to college admissions cheating scandal
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, announced Wednesday he will introduce legislation that ends tax breaks for contributions to colleges and universities before...
View ArticleMcSally to back Trump on emergency declaration
Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) announced Wednesday she will vote against a resolution blocking President Trump’s national emergency declaration after securing reassurances that no funding for Arizona...
View ArticleSenate to rebuke Trump on wall
The GOP-controlled Senate is poised to pass a Democratic resolution Thursday blocking President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border. Talks within the GOP...
View ArticleTrump vows veto ahead of Senate vote on emergency declaration
President Trump said Thursday that he is "prepared to veto" a Senate resolution blocking his declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border. The Democratic measure is...
View ArticleRomney to vote against Trump's emergency declaration
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Thursday that he will oppose President Trump's emergency declaration to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall."I will vote today for the resolution of disapproval. This is...
View ArticleKentucky radio host: Schumer recruit can't beat McConnell
Matt Jones, the founder of Kentucky Sports Radio in Lexington, Ky., and a potential candidate for Senate, says Amy McGrath, a top Democratic recruit, has no chance of beating Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticleGOP senators visited Trump at White House to sway him on border dispute: report
Three Republican senators reportedly visited the White House on Wednesday evening in a last-ditch effort to work out a solution with President Trump and avert a Senate rebuke of his national emergency...
View ArticleGOP Sen. Lamar Alexander to vote against Trump on emergency declaration
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Thursday that he would vote for a resolution blocking President Trump’s emergency declaration.Alexander, asked how he would vote after a floor speech criticizing...
View ArticleFormer Sen. Birch Bayh dies at 91
Former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh (D) died Thursday at the age of 91 from pneumonia, his family announced.Bayh, the father of former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), served three terms in the Senate. He died...
View ArticleTrump faces growing Senate GOP backlash on emergency declaration
A growing number of Republican senators on Thursday announced they would back a Democratic resolution disapproving of President Trump's emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican...
View ArticleTillis flips, votes no on measure opposing Trump's emergency declaration
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who is up for reelection in 2020 and is coming under pressure from conservative critics in North Carolina, has changed his mind on voting for a resolution disapproving of...
View ArticleSenate rejects border declaration in major rebuke of Trump
The Senate voted on Thursday to nix President Trump’s national emergency declaration to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall, setting up the first veto battle with his White House.Senators voted 59-41...
View Article12 Republican senators defy Trump on emergency declaration
Twelve Senate Republicans from different corners of the party banded together Thursday to deliver President Trump the biggest rebuke of his presidency, voting to disapprove of his emergency declaration...
View ArticleGraham blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be made public
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday blocked a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be made public after it passed the House unanimously. Senate Minority Leader...
View ArticleSchumer says Dems plan to force future votes on Trump's declaration
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats plan to force additional votes on President Trump's emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border wall. "I believe the...
View ArticleMcConnell tees up vote on Green New Deal
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is setting up a fight over the Green New Deal later this month. McConnell, wrapping up the Senate's work for the week, scheduled a procedural vote on the...
View ArticleSchumer: Democrats will try again to pass bill making Mueller report public
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday pledged that Democrats will try again to pass a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be made public. "We are...
View ArticleDenver Post editorial board says Gardner endorsement was 'mistake'
The Denver Post editorial board berated Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) Thursday, saying its endorsement of him was a “mistake.”The op-ed was in response to Gardner’s vote against a Senate resolution...
View ArticleHirono calls out Trump for 'appalling' comments she says encourage...
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Thursday accused President Trump of making an implicit threat of violence when he warned that things could get “very bad” if his supporters in the military, police or...
View ArticleRubio, Menendez request probe into administration's nuclear negotiations...
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the Trump administration's nuclear negotiations with Saudi Arabia...
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