Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) celebrated the milestone of the Senate having confirmed 50 Black judges to the federal…
Senator Susan Collins (R) is behind by four points in the Maine Senate race against her rival, Democratic Maine House…
The Republican-controlled Senate passed a resolution on committing to a peaceful transition of power after the November presidential election, though…
Jaime Harrison has repeated his blockbuster fundraising success from Thursday by raising the same amount over the past 24 hours.…
Mitch McConnell has warned against admitting Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico as states because it would create new Senate seats…
Jaime Harrison has raised more than $1 million over the past 24 hours in his bid to unseat Lindsey Graham.…
Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer want the Senate to create a special committee in advance of the November elections in…
The director of Republicans' Senate campaign has claimed his party will retain control of the chamber despite polls showing many…
Barack Obama has endorsed a huge number of candidates in upcoming elections across the country. The former president publicly backed…
Kris Kobach has claimed Coronavirus numbers are being falsified in order to harm Donald Trump's reelection chances. His comments come…
A Republican senator has deleted a Facebook ad depicting his Democratic opponent with a large, digitally manipulated nose. The campaign…
Susan Collins has refused to formally endorse Donald Trump for president in 2020. She's withheld her endorsement citing her own…
Mitch McConnell could advise Republicans to start distancing themselves from Donald Trump, according to a new report. The President's recent…
Steve Schmidt believes Republicans will lose control of the Senate if they continue to be Donald Trump's "foot soldiers." The…
President Donald Trump attacked Senator Chuck Schumer on Friday and tried to goad Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez into challenging him. Schumer…
The Senate isn't able to test every single senator for Coronavirus, the Capitol's physician has said. The news comes just…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, announced on Monday that her husband, law professor John Bessler, has contracted coronavirus. Bessler,…
Even if Democrats win the presidency this year, it would be hard for any Democratic president to get a lot…
One of the U.S. Senate’s most powerful Republicans is fuming mad at President Donald Trump. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, former…
Senate Republicans are still mad about the way Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was treated by Democrats. Since then they…
One of the most powerful people in Congress, GOP Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, now says that the Senate should…
The headline caught my eye. It read: “Poll: Bredesen, Blackburn in dead heat in Tennessee senate race.” According to The Tennessean, “A…
Is it possible that Democrats may take back control of the U.S. Senate with the help of the Koch Brothers?…
Desperate times require desperate measures, and desperate Republicans in Congress are running scared. Because they know they have no legislative…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is happy that the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona are being driven…
A Nashville newspaper has reported that there is a new poll in Tennessee showing former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen holding…
‘The Heat is On’ is a Glenn Frey song made famous by the 1980’s TV show ‘Miami Vice.’ Given all…
Trump cheerleader and frontrunner for the nomination, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, could lose the seat for Republicans and possibly hand the…
What's obvious is that Republicans don't truly care about the deficit – they never have. Instead, they use it as…
"They are all going to go down with the ship if they are seen as trying to protect against the…
Republican senators will head home for a long holiday break proud of the tax relief they passed for their donors,…
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they've held in two…
Sanders took a machete to the Republican tax scam on Monday, saying that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to…
The poll comes as GOP lawmakers have reportedly come to an agreement on a final plan they believe would have…
It's going to take more than meetings and publicity stunts to remove the stain that men like Roy Moore and…
Exit polls can be unreliable, but they show that Democrats have reason to be cautiously optimistic that they have a…
According to the Republican senator, alleged child molestation is A-okay so long as a sufficient number of years pass before…
It's just the latest evidence that supporters of Donald Trump, Roy Moore and other high-profile Republicans will allow their candidates…
According to the Washington Post-Schar School survey, very few Alabamans remain undecided on the race, and likely voters choose Jones…
Not only would taxes go up on millions of senior citizens, but the same report also noted that they could…
If Republicans are struggling to even get a 12-vote majority in a committee vote, it doesn't bode well for their…
The newspaper noted that a dozen people they spoke to remember Moore frequently "walking around alone, leaning on counters, spending…
With no end in sight and no guarantee that more women won't come forward over the final weeks of this…
All the Republicans who are standing up against Moore today need to prepare for the still-probable scenario that he will…
Roy Moore's days in politics are numbered, even if he does eke out a victory in Alabama.
Schumer told the president that Obamacare repeal is "off the table" and he should join other Republicans who are working…
The right-wing extremist could face tens of thousands of dollars in fines – or even criminal prosecution.
"I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on…
"[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it's not what the Senate is supposed to be doing," he…
Instead of taking Trump's bait, Sen. Blumenthal is digging in his feet and doubling down on the increasingly serious investigation…
"There's a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. And if there's a confrontation and if there's a threat to…
"We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?" Republican Sen. Jeff Flake wrote in an op-ed…
This week's epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won't be the last effort by Donald Trump and…
Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns…
The MSNBC host warned that Trump could replace Jeff Sessions without needing confirmation if he made the appointment while the…
The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it's what they want, not because the GOP health care…
According to CNN, the cancer is the same kind the late Sen. Ted Kennedy had.
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can't accept the fact that America isn't buying what they're selling.
The American people rate Trump's performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
If Sandoval is against the revised legislation, it's likely that Sen. Dean Heller will also oppose it, which could spell…
If there is an upside for Toomey, it's that Trump's constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece…
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it…
The Vermont senator said, "Many thousands of our fellow Americans every single year will die, and many more will suffer…
The legislation won't just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act's exchanges.
The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won't…
According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is "the least popular major bill in decades."
With a slim margin for error and Republicans already backing away, Trumpcare may be on its deathbed before a single…
"We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed…
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of…
Trump wanted to remind everybody in the room that he was, in fact, still president, before ditching the meeting and…
“You are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin…trying to dismember this small country. If they object, they are now carrying…
Republicans are learning that they can't defend the indefensible.
Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin was officially sworn in as treasury secretary on Monday.
Cruz spoke for 21 hours on the Senate floor in 2013, all so he could take health insurance away from…
"President Trump may be willing to ignore the Consitution and the laws of the United States of America ... but…
These standards are particularly important given the fact that many of Trump's picks haven't provided the proper ethics disclosures.
"I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare," Paul said on the Senate floor.
This is the first U.S. Senate seat picked up by Democrats on the evening.
Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.
The last-minute move is the latest indication that Republicans haven't just given up on Trump, who is limping toward defeat,…
Since Hillary Clinton is heavily favored in her contest against Donald Trump, Democrats would only need 50 seats to control…
Donald Trump hasn't just been a gift for Hillary Clinton – he's been a godsend for Democratic Senate candidates across…
While Kay Hagan spent Tuesday on a NC First tour meeting with diverse groups of voters across the state, a…
During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then…
Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.
Will Senator Elizabeth Warren's political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?
Well, if Republicans can't stand up to the Tea Party, it means it's up to we the people to stand…
Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the "do less…
Republicans will not address the START treaty because it is a top foreign policy priority of the Obama Administration. Unfortunately,…
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