Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) came to the defense of former President Donald Trump, suggesting that the news that Trump had absconded with White House records is “not a crime.” Asked why Republicans are not as outraged about the news as they were about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server,…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made his displeasure clear after Sen. Rick Scott delayed the passage of the bill to strengthen the USPS.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi took Sen. Joe Manchin to school by explaining why the rise in inflation has nothing to do with Build Back Better.
Text messages show that Sen. Ron Johnson met with Wisconsin state legislative Republican leaders to discuss getting rid of the state election commission and giving control of federal elections to the Republican-controlled state legislature.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that he and a group of Senators are working on a final draft of a bill to reform the nation’s federal cannabis laws.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to make crime an issue in his race against Rep. Val Demings and got his head handed to him.
The chaos and division are growing in the Republican Party as Mitch McConnell expressed his disagreement with the RNC on 1/6 and censuring Cheney and Kinzinger.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now claiming that President Biden and members of the Democratic Party support racial discrimination.
Sen. Marco Rubio was asked numerous times if he agreed with Mike Pence’s repudiation of Trump’s coup, and he refused to answer.
Senator Rand Paul pledged to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, if the Republican Party takes back control of Congress following this year’s midterm elections. “If we win in November, if I’m chairman of a committee, if I have subpoena power, we’ll go after every one of [Fauci’s] records,” Paul…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor that 25% of all the African-American women who are federal judges were nominated by Biden.
The Biden White House busted Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for parroting Russian propaganda and talking points.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio for whining about not getting enough infrastructure money while opposing the bill.
Former President Donald Trump attacked Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), saying Graham is “wrong” to say that pardoning individuals who participated in the January 6 insurrection was “inappropriate.” “You talked about the potential, if it’s appropriate, of pardoning some of the January 6ers,” Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt asked Trump in an interview. “Lindsey Graham said a couple…
Mitch McConnell was asked at a press conference how many black women work on his staff, and he said he didn’t know.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki used Ted Cruz’s comments during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing to turn the tables on his criticism of Biden’s pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.Â
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed that it is an insult to black women that Joe Biden would put one on the Supreme Court.
Sen. Susan Collins embarrassed herself by getting history wrong while trying to criticize Biden’s SCOTUS nomination process.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded to Trump wanting pardons for his 1/6 attackers by saying that he hopes they go to jail.
Democratic strategist James Carville said that he would personally volunteer to Rep. Reuben Gallego beat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and that she will never win a Democratic primary.
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) urged her colleagues to “take our time” considering a judicial nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who officially announced his retirement yesterday. “As you know, I felt that the timetable for the last nominee was too compressed,” Collins told reporters. “This time there is no need for any rush….
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will get a prompt hearing in the Senate, which is possible because Mitch McConnell changed the filibuster.
A group of House and Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, are demanding that Biden cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for each borrower.
The Arizona Democratic Party has censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for refusing to vote to change the filibuster to pass voting rights.
After being criticized for a statement that suggested that African-Americans aren’t Americans, Mitch McConnell said that calling him racist is hurtful.
Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer listed what President Biden and congressional Democrats have accomplished in their first year together.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has become the GOP’s favorite new weapon and they plan to use her against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in 2022.
Sen. Hirono took to the Senate floor and tore apart Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy and lies about the filibuster.
Nicolle Wallace didn’t hold back as she accused Sen. Lindsey Graham of bending and worshipping Trump, and throwing Mitch McConnell under the bus.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was harshly criticized for attempting to block Washington, D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is D.C.’s delegate in Congress, said Cruz’s effort “crosses the line.” “He crosses the line, and I must tell you does so often, when he meddles in the business of another…
Mitch McConnell went on a nearly ten-minute rant/tantrum on the Senate floor in response to President Biden’s voting rights speech.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to Mitch McConnell calling the push for voting rights hysteria by using his own words against him.
The Republican Party has gone to such an extreme that Sen. Ted Cruz has to say that he was misunderstood when he described 1/6 as a terrorist attack.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is throwing a fit and claiming that Biden politicized 1/6 by telling the truth about Trump’s coup.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) insisted that Democrats are “using” the January 6 insurrection, whose 1-year anniversary is tomorrow, to “consolidate power.” “The politics of fear that the Democratic Party has been pushing on this country for a whole year, it’s the only thing they have to offer the country,” Hawley said during an appearance on…
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) launched an attack on the COVID vaccine by invoking God that should be seen as an argument to kill more Republicans.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed that the Republican Party will have “multiple grounds to consider” impeaching President Joe Biden if the GOP takes back the House during the 2022 midterm elections. “If we take the House, which I said is overwhelmingly likely, then I think we will see serious investigations of the Biden administration,” he…
McConnell and Kevin McCarthy won’t be in DC for the 1/6 attack anniversary.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the Senate will consider changes to the filibuster on or before MLK Day (January 17).
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) rang in the New Year with some anti-COVID pandering as he called Omicron “a sore throat.”
According to Peter Navarro, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Gosar were among 100 Congressional Republicans involved in the plot to steal the election from Biden.
Republicans are currently courting Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) after he rang the death knell for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, which would have been the Biden administration’s most substantial public policy victory. GOP senators have told Manchin they would welcome him into their caucus if he switched his political allegiances. Although Manchin has…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) got mad and walked away after Biden mentioned him by name for delaying Build Back Better.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) hit back at Democrats, saying they had miscalculated in their efforts to court his vote on the Build Back Better plan, a landmark social spending bill that appears to have died in the Senate since he withdrew himself from negotiations. “They figured surely to God we can move one person….
Democratic leadership is enraged as Sen. Joe Manchin didn’t call Biden and Schumer and tell them that he was blowing up Build Back Better.
In a lengthy statement, White House Press Secretary Jen Paski tore apart Joe Manchin’s concerns about Build Back Better.
After Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that he will not vote for Build Back Better, Sen. Bernie Sanders called him gutless.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that talks between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) will continue, hurting plans to pass the “Build Back Better” plan before the holiday recess. Schumer did not offer a timeline in his remarks on the Senate floor. “The president requested more time to continue his…
Days later, Ted Cruz is still fuming over Jake Tapper calling him out for going maskless at Bob Dole’s funeral, so the Texas Senator accused Joe Biden of endangering Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s life.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer isn’t playing games with Sen. Joe Manchin as he is pushing toward a vote on Build Back Better before Christmas.
Peter Doocy tried to push Lindsey Graham’s fake Build Back Better CBO score, which allowed Jen Psaki to blow it to bits.
Chris Wallace went out with a bang as he called out Sen. Lindsey Graham for lying about the Trump tax cuts.
Jen Psaki called out hypocrite Lindsey Graham and said that Build Back Better actually pays for the Trump tax cuts that Graham supported.
Speaker Pelosi unloaded on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for coming up with a CBO score for a Build Back Better bill that doesn’t exist.
Democrats say that Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has made clear he won’t allow a vote on the Biden administration’s spending and climate plan before Christmas. They say that they have the support of 49 senators but lack Manchin and they need a unified caucus in order to pass the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has consistently gotten every COVID scientific fact wrong, blasted Fauci while claiming to represent science.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is the highest-profile Republican to praise two Fox News contributors for quitting over Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 conspiracy documentary.
The Senate does everything slowly, but indications are that the ethics complaint against Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley is grinding along. Politico reported: The fact that Hawley and Cruz have not been contacted suggests the probe is in its early stages, if anything is happening at all. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who led the complaint…
On Sunday, Ted Cruz disputed detailed reporting about his conversations with Trump on January 6th, as the 1/6 Committee is closing on Trump’s call logs.
Rep. Liz Cheney responded to Sen. Ted Cruz accusing her of Trump Derangement Syndrome by telling him that a real man would defend his family.
Sen. Ted Cruz tried to compare Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer to King George while ignoring his own support for Trump’s coup.
Fulton County, Georgia prosecutors are said to be imminently impaneling a special grand jury to investigate Trump for election interference.
All across the country top, potential Republican candidates are refusing to run for Senate and killing Mitch McConnell’s chances of becoming Majority Leader.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell claims to oppose the Biden agenda but he praised the infrastructure bill as a godsend.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) attacked Big Bird for promoting the safety of the COVID vaccine, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) had the perfect response.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tried to blame Dr. Fauci for the pandemic, and Fauci responded by pointing out that virtually everything Paul said was wrong.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to mock John Kerry for flying on a private jet to the climate summit, by bragging that none of the Senate Republicans at the press conference had a private jet, only to find out that Sen. Rob Portman does.
Sen. Chuck Schumer has clearly had enough of GOP voting rights obstruction, so he said Democrats will look at alternative paths to pass the bill alone.
Democrats have largely refused to take the bait, but Sen. Maize Hirono said that it is her strategy to communicate to voters who is screwing them over.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) announced on Wednesday that under the Democrats’ agreement to lower prescription drug prices the cost of insulin will drop to $35/month.
Senate Democrats have reached a life-changing agreement for millions of Americans that will lower prescription drug costs.
Sen. Graham has made no statement about a report that he urged Capitol Police officers to shoot Trump terrorists on 1/6.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that Democrats are involved in a cover-up to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci because Biden may be compromised with the Chinese.
After Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that he would support infrastructure based on debt concerns, Chris Wallace asked about repealing the Trump tax cuts that added $2 trillion to the debt.
Sen. Mitt Romney starred in a Halloween video as Ted Lasso that featured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema who is avoiding and refusing to meet with her constituents.
Sen. Sinema (D-AZ) has obstructed the passage of the Biden Build Back Better agenda and isn’t talking to her constituents who want her to just vote for the bill.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) really wants to be president, which is why he worked himself up to an embarrassing frenzy while telling Merrick Garland to resign.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) expressed confidence that President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will pass the Senate soon.
Democrats are cutting an infrastructure deal with Sen. Manchin and isolating Sen. Sinema because she thinks she’s John McCain.
After every single Republican blocked debate on the Right To Vote Act, Majority Leader Schumer told his colleagues to pass voting rights or watch democracy unravel.
Sen. Joe Manchin denied that he is threatening to leave the Democratic Party by telling reporters that he has no control over the rumors.
It is being reported that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is plotting his exit from the Democratic Party if he doesn’t get what he wants on Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
Majority Leader Schumer made it clear in remarks on the Senate floor that the cloture vote on the Freedom To Vote Act is a step toward filibuster reform.
Sen. Marco Rubio is complaining that giving children $300/month instead of working is socialism.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sees his path to the majority as running through Georgia, but Sen. Raphael Warnock is raising huge sums of money.
Speaker Pelosi called Mitch McConnell “Moscow Mitch” and accused him of playing economic Russian Roulette.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took to the Senate floor to urge his fellow Republicans to vote against cloture and block raising the debt ceiling.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Republicans on the Committee are blocking a subpoena for Jeffrey Clark.
Not only are Senate Republicans struggling to get 60 votes to raise the debt ceiling, but they are trying to avoid any responsibility for their debt.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caved on the debt ceiling without making sure that he had the Republican votes to raise the debt limit.
Mitch McConnell backtracked on his pledge that Republicans would vote to raise the debt limit after Democrats started talking about nuking the filibuster.
Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) summed up the feeling about Mitch McConnell’s bogus debt ceiling offer when she called it “bulls*it.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) opened up his remarks at a press conference by offering generic token words after a school shooting in his state and then talking about Biden’s “border crisis.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) isn’t getting it. Mitch McConnell doesn’t want to work with Democrats on the debt ceiling or anything else.
Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed at a fundraiser in South Carolina for daring to suggest that Republicans should think about getting vaccinated.
It was back in 2012 that Mitt Romney ran for president as a pro-business nominee. Today, Romney is helping Republicans kill businesses by voting to filibuster the debt limit.
Sen. Sinema was confronted at a classroom where she teaches at Arizona State by constituents chanting Build Back Better pass the bill.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), one of two Democratic Senators who are holding up passage of the Build Back Better agenda, has left DC for the weekend.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has demanded that an expansion of Medicaid that Democrats want to pass as part of a $3.5 trillion spending plan must include the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal agencies, including Medicaid, from paying for abortion expenses. “Yeah, we’re not taking the Hyde Amendment off. Hyde’s going to be on,†Manchin told National…
