Rand Paul on Trump Ukraine call: Aid to other countries 'should be...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Thursday morning that U.S. aid to other countries "should be contingent upon behavior” as questions over whether President Trump leveraged assistance to Ukraine to...
View ArticleGOP senator: 'Inappropriate' to discuss opponents, but impeachment...
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said President Trump's discussions with foreign governments about former Vice President Joe Biden were "inappropriate," but impeaching the president would be a "mistake."...
View ArticleKlobuchar mocks Trump for his pronunciation of Minneapolis
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Thursday mocked President Trump for the way he says “Minneapolis” while she visited the city.“Please go back to 'Mar-a-Lago.' At...
View ArticleRomney brushes off Trump criticism: 'I don't follow the president...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday brushed off the latest round of criticism against him from President Trump. "First of all, I don't follow the president on Twitter so I don't see all of his...
View ArticleGraham talked Trump in call with Russian pranksters
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) spoke in an August call about Trump with a man he thought was Turkey's minister of defense but was actually Russian pranksters.Alexey Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov,...
View ArticleGardner dodges questions about Trump's call for Biden probe
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), widely considered the most vulnerable GOP senator in 2020, dodged multiple questions Thursday about a president calling for a foreign government to investigate his...
View ArticleGraham-Trump rollercoaster hits dizzying speed
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has become one of President Trump’s most vociferous critics on the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, even as he defends the White House just as loudly over the...
View ArticleDem senator urges Pompeo to fire State official accused of retaliation,...
Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to fire a State Department official who was investigated by the...
View ArticleAna Navarro clashes with Rand Paul in fiery exchange: 'Don't...
Ana Navarro and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) clashed in a fiery exchange about Venezuela on "The View," leading the political commentator to warn the senator not to "mansplain" subjects to her. Paul had also...
View ArticleMcConnell tightlipped as impeachment furor grows
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is keeping a low profile amid the growing impeachment battle surrounding the White House over President Trump’s political dealings with foreign...
View ArticleRubio hits Warren's 'crude' and 'vulgar' response to...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) response to a town hall question about same-sex marriage earlier this week.On Warren's response, Rubio tweeted Saturday, "Vividly...
View ArticleRepublicans wrestle with impeachment strategy
Senate Republicans realize they need to push back more aggressively on the fast-moving impeachment inquiry in the House, but they have yet to display a unified strategy. The disunity comes as public...
View ArticleDemocrats to offer resolution demanding Trump reverse Syria decision
Congressional Democrats will offer a resolution urging President Trump to reverse his decision to pull back troops from northern Syria, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday....
View ArticleBacklash erupts at video depicting Trump killing media, critics
A video depicting President Trump shooting and stabbing media organizations and some of his most prominent critics drew widespread backlash after The New York Times reported it was played at a...
View ArticlePelosi, Graham seek deal on Turkey sanctions in response to Trump's...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Monday that she and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) agreed on the need for a resolution overturning President Trump's decision on Syria, as well as additional...
View ArticleMcConnell: 'Gravely concerned' about Syria strategy
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said that he is "gravely concerned" about the U.S. strategy in Syria and warned that the withdrawal of U.S. troops would create a "power vacuum"...
View ArticleDemocrats warn Trump's Turkey sanctions don't go far enough
Senate Democrats quickly signaled on Monday that President Trump's decision to slap new financial penalties on Turkey won't be enough to quash backlash over the administration's Syria policy. Senate...
View ArticleGraham throws support behind Trump's Turkey sanctions
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday night that he backs President Trump's decision to slap new financial penalties on Turkey and that the administration deserved "reasonable time and space" to...
View ArticleTrump's GOP impeachment firewall holds strong
President Trump has had a rough couple of weeks, but his Republican wall of defense is holding in the Senate.Senate Republicans by and large are standing by Trump despite polls showing growing public...
View ArticleSenate Dem to offer bill making threats, attacks against news media a federal...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would make threats and attacks against news organizations a federal crime. “What we have to address is the...
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