Tester: Our forefathers would not have tolerated Trump asking Ukraine to...
Montana Sen. Jon Tester (D) said on Thursday that the country's founders would not tolerate President Trump asking Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential...
View ArticleSenate confirms controversial circuit court nominee
The Senate confirmed a controversial circuit court pick for President Trump on Thursday, over the objection of two home-state senators. Senators voted 51-41 on Steven Menashi's nomination to be a judge...
View ArticleParkland parent calls on McConnell take up gun legislation after California...
The parent of a student who died in the Parkland, Fla., shooting last year is calling on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take up gun legislation in the Senate, following the shooting at a...
View ArticleSenate Dem found out about Santa Clarita school shooting while giving speech...
While delivering a speech on the Senate floor about gun violence, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) on Thursday found out that there had been a school shooting in California just minutes...
View ArticleErdoğan gets earful from GOP senators at White House
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan got an earful from a handful of GOP senators during a White House meeting this week. Republican senators said they raised concerns about Turkey's military...
View ArticleDemocratic senators introduce bill to push ICE to stop 'overuse' of...
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill to push Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop the “overuse” of solitary confinement in its...
View ArticleJohnson opens door to subpoenaing whistleblower, Schiff, Bidens
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) opened the door on Thursday to subpoenaing a cadre of top Republican targets as part of his panel's oversight...
View ArticleGOP eager for report on alleged FBI surveillance abuse
Republicans are eagerly awaiting the Justice Department’s report on alleged surveillance abuse of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.The findings of the Department of Justice (DOJ) watchdog’s...
View ArticleDemocratic senators introduce bill to block funding for border wall live stream
A group of Democratic senators on Friday introduced a bill that would block the spending of federal funds on livestreaming construction of President Trump's border wall after The Washington Post...
View ArticleGOP divided over impeachment trial strategy
Divisions among Senate Republicans are muddying their strategy for a potential impeachment trial. As lawmakers await any articles from the House, they’re throwing out their own ideas on what the Senate...
View ArticleImpeachment battle looms over must-pass defense bill
Partisan sniping over the House’s impeachment inquiry is seeping into what has been a bipartisan realm in past years: the annual defense policy bill.House Democrats and Senate Republicans were already...
View ArticleJohnson: I'm writing a letter to 'lay out what I know' about...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he will lay out in a letter his telling of events related to the foreign aid to Ukraine that was held up and is now a...
View ArticleJohnson: Whistleblower 'exposed things that didn't need to be...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said the whistleblower who spurred the House impeachment inquiry "exposed things that didn't need to be exposed." Johnson said the allegations the whistleblower laid out in...
View ArticleSchumer calls on Trump to testify as part of impeachment inquiry
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on President Trump to testify as part of the House's impeachment inquiry in the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offering to let him...
View ArticleImpeachment hearings don't move needle with Senate GOP
Senate Republicans say the first week of House impeachment hearings hasn't moved the needle in their conference and question whether the proceedings consuming Washington have much traction outside the...
View ArticleSchumer requests details on how Pentagon is protecting impeachment witnesses
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pushing the Pentagon for details on how it is protecting officials from retaliation when they testify as part of the impeachment inquiry into...
View ArticleMcConnell 'can't imagine a scenario' in which Senate removes...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that he can't envision any scenario in which the GOP-controlled Senate would vote to remove President Trump from office.“I can’t imagine a...
View ArticleMcConnell backs 'clean' stopgap spending bill through Dec. 20
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday threw his support behind a "clean" stopgap bill to fund the government through Dec. 20, saying it could pass the chamber and get President...
View ArticleKlobuchar unveils plan to secure elections as president
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Monday published a strategy for how she would secure elections against cyber and disinformation threats if elected president, the same day...
View ArticleSenate aides met with tax return whistleblower: report
Aides to the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee met earlier this month with a federal employee who alleges possible inappropriate efforts to influence an IRS audit of President Trump or Vice...
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