Jury convicts woman of mailing white powder to Sen. Susan Collins
A federal jury on Monday reportedly convicted a woman after she sent a letter containing white powder to the home of Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R). The jury found Maine resident Suzanne Muscara guilty...
View ArticleLawmakers dismiss fresh fears of another government shutdown
Congress is preparing another stopgap funding measure to avert a shutdown later this month after little progress on spending negotiations, particularly regarding President Trump’s border wall.The...
View ArticleDemocrats unifying against Joe Kennedy Senate bid
Senate Democrats are nearly united in their opposition to Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), the scion of their party’s most fabled family, in his bid to unseat Sen. Ed Markey (D).Kennedy, a 39-year-old...
View ArticleGraham wants Senate panel to probe State Department over Bidens
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is calling for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to probe ties between the Bidens and Ukraine, including calling State Department officials. "We need to look at...
View ArticleSchumer blasts Paul for calling on media to name whistleblower
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) knocked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday for urging the media to disclose the identity of the whistleblower at the center of the House impeachment...
View ArticleWhite House warns against including wall restrictions in stopgap bill
The White House is open to another stopgap spending bill, according to a top aide, but the Trump administration is also warning Democrats against including any border wall restrictions in the...
View ArticleMcConnell predicts Trump will beat impeachment: 'I'm pretty sure...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday predicted the Senate would acquit President Trump on any articles of impeachment passed by the Democratic-controlled House.“How long it goes on...
View ArticleCollins, Warner request unclassified assessment of impact of escaped ISIS...
Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote to the Trump administration Tuesday demanding an assessment of the threat ISIS poses to the U.S. amid reports that several detained members...
View ArticleRomney backs Trump, says Mexico must 'go after' cartels after...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) backed President Trump's offer to provide Mexico with military assistance to root out drug cartels operating along the border between the two countries on Tuesday after nine...
View ArticleGOP chairman: Hearing on delayed Ukraine aid should wait until after House...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told the top Democrat on his panel that any hearings into the delayed Ukraine aid at the center of the impeachment inquiry against...
View ArticleSherrod Brown: GOP colleagues privately acknowledge Trump is racist, misogynist
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) alleged in a new interview that his Republican colleagues in the Senate have privately admitted that President Trump is “a racist” and “a misogynist.”“Most Republican...
View ArticleGraham predicts controversial Trump court picks will clear panel
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Tuesday that he believes two controversial circuit court picks who have been in limbo for weeks will be able to clear his panel....
View ArticleGraham: 'I don't know' if quid pro quo is impeachable offense
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said it was unclear to him whether it would be an impeachable offense if President Trump demanded a quid pro quo from Ukraine's...
View ArticleGraham says he won't read the Trump impeachment transcripts
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that he wouldn’t read newly disclosed transcripts pertaining to a pair of witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump, arguing that the...
View ArticlePaul says he 'probably will' disclose whistleblower's name
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he might disclose the name of a whistleblower whose complaint about President Trump's actions toward Ukraine have spurred the House impeachment inquiry....
View ArticlePaul's demand to out whistleblower rankles GOP colleagues
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is facing a landslide of opposition from his own party over his call to publicly out the anonymous whistleblower whose concerns about President Trump’s interactions with Ukraine...
View ArticleSenate Republicans struggle to coalesce behind an impeachment strategy
Senate Republicans are casting about for the best strategy to defend President Trump from articles of impeachment and divided over several key questions, which has led to a disjointed defense of their...
View ArticleDemocrats give Warren's 'Medicare for All' plan the cold shoulder
Senate Democrats are distancing themselves from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) “Medicare for All” plan, casting doubt on whether it could pass even if she does win the presidency.Warren rolled out...
View ArticleHarris proposes keeping schools open for 10 hours a day
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would keep public elementary schools open for 10 hours a day, a move that would more closely align with the workday. Harris, a...
View ArticleSenate sends bill making animal cruelty a federal felony to Trump's desk
The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill making cruelty to animals a federal felony in some cases, sending it to President Trump’s desk.The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act...
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