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Like a snake in a woodpile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lies dangerously in wait to be fast-tracked to International Big Boy land where giant foreign and domestic money interests will control every aspect of U.S. trade dealings with the 11 other member countries of TPP.
On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).
Republicans blame Obama for not putting policies into effect that either (A) belonged in a fun house or (B) that the House wouldn't pass, all while cloaked in the garb of wanting the best for their constituents.
Following Obamacare's bumpy rollout, the GOP expected to campaign on a platform of repeal, repeal, repeal. However, as Americans have come to embrace much of the Affordable Care Act in substance, if not yet in name, campaigning on all out repeal has lost its luster.
On Friday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) held a news conference where he called on his colleagues to restore the gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act.
On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was his normal warmongering self as he grilled Secretary of State John Kerry over the Obama Administration's strategy to deal with ISIS.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning the American people that country is facing a pivotal moment in history tomorrow as the Senate will vote on an amendment to repeal Citizens United.
These people run the GOP, and they have not a frigging clue what they are talking about. They don't seem to know anything about government or reality.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reached 1,000,000 Facebook fans today, and she celebrated by pointing out that this is good news because of the issues she supports.
The Arkansas Senate seat is in play as Republican Tom Cotton is a rigid gaffe machine who projects elitism if not arrogance, like a mini-Mitt.
Throughout efforts by the Senate Intelligence committee to investigate the Bush Administration's war crimes, the committee faced one obstacle after another.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill today that would potentially bring millions of jobs back to the United States by refusing to end tax breaks for companies who outsource jobs.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has delivered for our veterans. Sen. (I-VT) will be unveiling compromise legislation with House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller that will fund and reform the VA.
On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on CNN's State of the Union to discuss President Obama's foreign policy decisions when it comes to Russia, Israel and the Middle East.
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made the wild accusation that President Obama is holding the children who illegally come to the country over the Southern border for ransom.
Republicans have handed Senate Democrats a very powerful Get Out the Vote tool. Democrats drafted a bill to protect women from corporations like Hobby Lobby interfering in their medical and health needs. President Obama has just indicated that his administration supports this bill.
Sen Bernie Sanders exposed a dirty little secret that the Kochs and other conservative billionaires don't want you to know. The Republican attacks on the IRS are part of a deliberate strategy to help the Kochs buy our democracy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unloaded on Speaker of the House John Boehner on the Senate floor. Reid called Boehner's lawsuit against President Obama a joke, a sham, and something that Judge Judy would throw out in half a second.
Sexism is over and American students need to get over themselves! Or, Mitch McConnell caught on tape.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tried to scare the American people into supporting invading Iraq again by bringing up 9/11 and al Qaeda.