More than a dozen lawmakers, including at least one Republican senator, met last month with a Yale University psychiatry professor for two days of briefings about Donald Trump’s fitness for office, Politico reported Wednesday. Dr. Bandy X. Lee reportedly met with the lawmakers on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 to discuss Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior. […]

When the voters of Alabama chose Democratic former federal prosecutor Doug Jones for Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat, GOP candidate Roy Moore vowed that would not be the end of it. Moore — a twice-fired state supreme court justice and accused child molester — filed a complaint alleging that there were too many black voters […]

Some people simply do not know when to give up. One such person is rejected Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. Faced with accusations that he stalked and molested teenage girls, as well as his views that women and Muslims should be ineligible for office and that America has not been “great” since the abolition of […]

In a baffling denial of reality, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch seemed to take a recent local editorial that took him to task in no uncertain terms as a compliment. But an editor from the paper wants to make it crystal clear for Hatch exactly what they think of him in the Trump era. When […]

Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who is the longest serving member of the Senate, forgot to read the fine print. On Twitter, he thanked the Salt Lake Tribune for naming him “Utahn of the Year.” “Grateful for this great Christmas honor from the Salt Lake Tribune,” he tweeted on Christmas day. If he had actually […]

It has finally happened. Despite months of public outrage and protests, despite overwhelming antipathy in polls, despite every commitment made by Republicans to prevent deficit spending and protect their constituents — Republicans in the House and Senate have passed their tax scam. The bill now heads to Donald Trump’s desk for his inevitable signature, just […]

West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is very proud that she and her fellow Republicans passed their tax scam in the dead of night, without the support of a single Democrat or the majority of the American people. But as for what the bill will actually do? She’s not sure. Capito told CNN’s Bill Weir […]

It’s bad enough that nine million low-income children may soon have their health insurance taken away because the Republican-controlled Congress has refused to fund a critical support program for them. Now we can add diabetes patients to the list of victims of GOP indifference. The Special Diabetes Program (SDP) is an initiative dedicated to funding […]

The new version of the GOP tax scam to come out of conference contains many of the worst bits of both the House and Senate bills. It adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit, strips millions of health insurance, and raises taxes on working families to give special breaks to billionaires and corporations. But it also […]

The governor of Puerto Rico may have expressed gratitude and measured praise toward the Trump administration before, but he has none left for the dangerous tax scam bill that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are attempting to ram through Congress. That’s because a new cruel provision added to the bill takes aim at Puerto […]

A Republican Senate candidate in Virginia said that his anti-gay commentary should be excused because he made them “on Christian radio.” E.W. Jackson, a pastor at The Called — Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Virginia, is running for the Senate seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. Jackson, who previously lost the 2013 election to be […]

On Thursday night, the Senate Judiciary Committee held another rapid-fire hearing to confirm Donald Trump’s extremist judicial nominees for lifetime appointments to the federal courts. Things did not go so well for Matthew Spencer Petersen, chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Trump’s choice for a D.C. district court judge seat. A viral video shows […]

With the GOP tax scam being debated in conference and set for a vote next week before Doug Jones can take office, all eyes are on Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Collins, a Republican, voted for the original Senate bill, which includes an individual mandate repeal similar to the one she voted down in July. […]

Republicans know they’re in trouble. The party that has had full control of Congress and the White House for nearly a year — and yet has still failed to pass a single significant piece of legislation — is going to have an ever harder time now, thanks to the stunning election of Democrat Doug Jones […]

After virtually every Republican sat idly by and watched an accused child molester try to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama with the explicit endorsement from Donald Trump, the party is now beseeching Doug Jones to “do the right thing” and switch parties, or at least to “vote with the Senate Republican Majority.” Sorry, […]

Democrat Doug Jones defied all expectations to win in Alabama after voters rejected bigoted theocrat and accused pedophile Roy Moore. One county in particular stands out as a revealing example of how Jones pulled off his victory — and how Democrats can replicate it in other deep red states. For decades, Lee County has been […]

On Tuesday evening, the political world was shattered with news that would have been completely unfathomable a year ago: a Democrat has won the Alabama Senate seat previously held by Jeff Sessions. Faced with GOP candidate Roy Moore, who is accused of serially molesting teenage girls, believes gays should be arrested, has been critical of […]

Ever since Donald Trump assumed office, he has been cranking out a steady line of extremist, right-wing judicial nominees, and Senate Republicans have been dutifully rubber-stamping them for lifetime federal court positions. But it seems as though Trump has finally found the limit to how awful these nominees can be before it dents Republican zeal […]

Donald Trump’s vengeful, condescending, and misogynist tweet attacking New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday morning has sparked a fast-moving firestorm against the White House. And it appears to be one that the administration has no way of controlling. After Gillibrand on Monday insisted Trump resign in light of the many accusations of sexual […]

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is best known these days for the accusations that he molested and preyed on teenage girls. But even if that issue is put aside, he is completely unsuitable for public office. He has a very dim view of women’s suffrage, has claimed America was better under slavery, violated the Constitution […]

Warning that the brewing Roy Moore fiasco won’t just hurt Republicans in 2018, but far beyond, South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham called the accused child molester the “gift that keeps on giving for Democrats.” He also cautioned that any Republican running for statewide office next year can expect to “be asked about 10,000 times” […]

While it was disturbing, it was sadly unsurprising that Donald Trump eventually endorsed Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, and implored his own supporters to vote for a man accused of serial sexual predation against young girls. But it was certainly unexpected to hear the opposite message from the man who holds Alabama’s other Senate seat. […]

Al Franken announced he is resigning from the Senate in the next few weeks, during a speech Thursday. The announcement comes a day after Democratic women in the Senate led calls for his resignation following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. “We must lead by example,” Washington’s Patty Murray said in a statement. After half a […]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been excluded from the committee putting together the final Republican tax bill days after he admitted that he believes working people don’t deserve tax cuts. In those comments, Grassley echoed the sentiments of many Republicans, claiming that working families are “just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on […]

On Wednesday, half a dozen Democratic women in the Senate called on their colleague Al Franken resign in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand was the first to call for his resignation and spoke about accountability during a press conference with several of her colleagues. “It’s time for him […]

In their haste to help Donald Trump throw immigrants out of the country and separate parents from their children, some Republicans appear to have forgotten the Constitution — including Indiana Rep. Todd Rokita. Rokita, who next year will be running against Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly, wants to get rid of “sanctuary cities” — cities where […]

Roy Moore’s Alabama Senate campaign continues to plumb the depths of depravity, now describing one of his alleged abuse victims, Leigh Corfman, as a “problem child.” The smear is the latest tactic being employed by the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate to deflect charges that he molested her when she was 14. In an interview with the […]

At the beginning of the holiday season, Republicans showed Americans where their priorities lie: Giving aid and comfort to mega-rich donors and leaving sick children out in the cold. Republicans, who control the House, Senate, and the White House, have refused to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This program, which provides health care […]

At 2 AM on Saturday morning, after an endless marathon of procedural wrangling, Senate Republicans voted to wreak havoc on the middle class. By passing their massive scheme to raise taxes on 87 million working families, give billionaires and corporations a massive litany of breaks and loopholes, and destroy health care, they bring it closer […]

The audacity of Senate Republicans regarding the “process” — or more accurately, the lack thereof — for passing their tax scam bill is matched only by the damage the bill would do if signed into law. And as debate is taking place on the Senate floor Friday night, and Democrats are standing firm in opposition […]