Marco Rubio just wants the Senate to get back to not doing anything for anyone
The Florida senator wants everyone to get back to business. No, not like that.
By Amy Lieu - February 09, 2021The Florida senator wants everyone to get back to business. No, not like that.
By Amy Lieu - February 09, 2021Progressive groups note that the existing system lets the Senate minority ‘nullify the results of the election and block progress on popular legislation.’
By Josh Israel - February 09, 2021‘Congress has a proven track record of working together to provide relief for Americans struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) tweeted without irony.
By Donna Provencher - February 05, 2021Republicans in the Senate want to permanently extend parts of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.
By Josh Israel - February 05, 2021The GOP minority has slowed the confirmation process to a crawl.
By Josh Israel - February 04, 2021Their proposal would make it virtually impossible to raise the needed revenue to pay for even current expenses.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2021Ron Johnson is the latest Republican to equate tech companies restricting posted content with government censorship of conservative views.
By Josh Israel - February 03, 2021Senate Republicans cry partisanship at the idea that Democrats will use the same parliamentary procedures they did.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2021GOP senators introduce a bill cutting the amount of proposed COVID relief to $618 billion.
By Donna Provencher - February 01, 2021President Joe Biden has issued more than 30 executive orders since taking office.
By Josh Israel - January 28, 2021Joe Biden said he wanted to unify that nation. Some GOP lawmakers think that means he can’t do anything they oppose.
By Josh Israel - January 22, 2021They did not believe the 60-vote threshold was essential when it applied to Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.
By Josh Israel - January 22, 2021Democratic senators now represent about 41 million more people than Republican senators do.
By Josh Israel - January 21, 2021After blocking hundreds of pieces of legislation, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Democrats let him continue his ‘Grim Reaper’ act.
By Josh Israel - January 21, 2021Republicans were adamant in 2017 that Trump’s national security team be ready to go on ‘day one.’ For Biden? Not so much.
By Amy Lieu - January 19, 2021Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was a controversial figure long before editorial boards were calling him ‘unfit for office.’
By Josh Israel - January 14, 2021The self-proclaimed ‘Grim Reaper’ killed hundreds of bills passed by the House without even holding a vote.
By Josh Israel - December 30, 2020‘It makes no sense to be sending this out to everybody who has a pulse.’
By Donna Provencher - December 30, 2020Perdue is also chairman of a Senate subcommittee.
By Oliver Willis - December 29, 2020Donald Trump has led the push against removing Confederate monuments.
By Donna Provencher - December 23, 2020But Sen. John Barrasso said four years ago that a new president should get his Cabinet.
By Josh Israel - December 21, 2020Sen. John Thune’s party has blocked coronavirus aid for seven months.
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2020Mitch McConnell has filed cloture on five more Trump nominees — but not pandemic relief.
By Josh Israel - December 15, 2020Supermajorities in the House and Senate voted to pass the annual defense authorization, despite Trump’s veto threats.
By Josh Israel - December 11, 2020Mitch McConnell plans to bring up for a vote in the Senate a defense authorization bill that Donald Trump has vowed to veto.
By Josh Israel - December 08, 2020The former Republican congressman sang a different tune in 2016, when his party gained control of both chambers of Congress and the White House.
By Josh Israel - November 24, 2020‘Their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct,’ journalist Carl Bernstein said.
By Josh Israel - November 23, 2020The majority leader, who has refused to implement a Senate mask mandate, is afraid Republicans won’t get enough done in the lame-duck session otherwise.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2020The Trump administration is acting as if Joe Biden didn’t win the 2020 election, with help from Senate Republicans.
By Josh Israel - November 13, 2020Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) will face Rev. Raphael Warnock in a January runoff.
By Josh Israel - November 05, 2020