After Killing Bipartisan Border Bill, Republicans Demand Border Bill
After killing the bipartisan border bill in the Senate, Republicans immediately demanded a bill to address the border.
After killing the bipartisan border bill in the Senate, Republicans immediately demanded a bill to address the border.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pointed out that by blocking the border bill, Republicans are proving that they are the ones who want open borders.
Senate Republicans are worried that House Republicans moving forward without evidence in their impeachment push against President Biden will be seen as crying wolf.
Republicans claim to support Israel, but just two Senate Republicans voted to confirm Jack Lew as the next US Ambassador to Israel.
Senate Republicans are rejecting Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to pay for Israel funding by cutting the additional agents hired by the IRS.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a message to Kevin McCarthy that he is all alone on the government shutdown.
Senate Republicans have been complaining about problems with the nation’s air travel system, but they have been blocking Biden’s nominee to run the FAA since March of 2022.
Senate Republican candidates are getting destroyed in ads because Sen. Rick Scott ran through all of the money national Republicans raised for Senate campaigns.
Senate Republicans killed the cap for the cost of insulin on private insurance plans and just gave Democrats another major issue for the midterm election.
After days of intense pressure from most of the nation, Senate Republicans backed down and passed legislation that they previously blocked expanding healthcare for veterans.
After passing the initial legislation with 86 votes weeks ago, Senate Republicans turned around and blocked the same bill that would have expanded healthcare for veterans.
Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that would have stopped states from preventing women from traveling out of state for abortions.
Hours after listening to President Zelensky address them, Senate Republicans blocked Biden’s nominees to lead the Ukraine support effort.
Few are more clued into the thinking in DC than Jake Sherman. So it was quite notable that he recently told Mediate that Mitch McConnell and his allies in the senate are “seriously considering impeachment.” Sherman made the comments during an appearance on The Interview Podcast. He told host Aidan McLaughlin, “it’s very clear that…
Senate Republicans are refusing to pass more aid to the American people during the pandemic and it is costing Donald Trump.
It is a week too late, but after Rand Paul exposed them all to coronavirus, Senate Republicans have canceled their weekly lunch.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) where he blasted Republicans for fearing and not wanting to know the truth about Trump and Ukraine.
Members of the Senate GOP caucus are now desperately trying to curb the president’s emergency powers according to a report this morning in The Hill. The new effort arose after Donald Trump’s veto on Friday of a congressional resolution blocking his declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Neither house of Congress…
The politics of Donald Trump’s shutdown are beginning to worry some big-time Republican operatives. Opinion polls show that while Trump has increased his approval ratings with Republican voters during the shutdown, he has lost significant ground with many important voting groups, such as independents and non-college educated white voters. These are both crucial demographics for…
The Washington Post asked 57 Senate and House Republicans for an interview to discuss Trump and race, and only three agreed to speak to them.
The “skinny” repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and leave millions of Americans without the care they need.
Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday, he should vote to return the favor.
Trump is so weak that a Republican Senator bluntly said that Trump doesn’t scare anyone, not even Senate pages.
“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”
The fight to stop Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act is far from over – and millions of Americans are still at risk of losing insurance and benefits that the current law provides.
“Gutting coverage, as this bill does, will lead to deaths due to lack of coverage, and the legislators who vote this in are mercenary murderers, contracted and paid for by the insurance companies and ultra rich,” said Patriotic Millionaire Blaine Garst.
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom wrote in the Constitution that we had to worry about foreign interference,” Schumer warned on the Senate floor. “It’s happening now in a way that it has never happened before.”
Supposed “maverick” John McCain is once again following his party in action, leaving a trail of principled rhetoric followed by now predictable party caves. Republicans claim they must resort to changing the filibuster rules to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed, and for this, they blame Democrats.
Republicans blocked amendments that would protect the “most popular and effective provisions†of the ACA, including some with no fiscal impact.
Some Republicans in Congress are working to prevent Trump from carrying out a top campaign promise.
More than four months after he nominated Justice Garland, the President wrote an impassioned plea about why we must not let the highest court in the land become “political football” because to do so threatens the process of democracy.
If the slaughter of 20 school children didn’t sway Republicans to support sane gun safety laws, why would a protest by House Democrats?
92 percent of Americans support expanded background checks and 85 percent support preventing people on watch lists from buying guns; Republicans disagree.
Senate Republicans are getting hammered with a mountain of bad press from sea to shining sea for their refusal to even hold hearings for Chief Justice Merrick Garland, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
One might wonder what kind of malcontent opposes a worldwide treaty that limits the transfer of conventional arms and battlefield components to evil dictators who promote and commit genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and attack civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals. In America, it is Republicans indebted to, and serving, the National Rifle Association.
There were two specific announcements on Wednesday that, taken on their own, were just economic news reports, but if a person had kept abreast of Republicans’ actions over the past few months, the stories were not “news” at all but the expected culmination of congressional Republicans’ economic agenda that reveal precisely why America’s economy is struggling.
It is getting absurd to have Republicans serving in Congress when they have no intention of doing the work the people sent them to Washington to do.
Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that not extending the unemployment benefits will have a deleterious effect on hiring.
It is the health law’s success stories that have Republicans in a panic and it is the third reason they are going all in to sabotage the ACA; it is successful.
When obstruction for obstruction’s sake is the Republican reason for serving in government, any fantastical reason suffices to block the President’s choices.
Republicans are sticking to their obstructionist ways over Israel, and Americans have come to learn that Republicans hate this country nearly as much as they hate the President.
In another attempt to protect corporations and kill American jobs, Republicans blocked a measure to reward companies that brought jobs back to America, and protect their candidate Willard Romney.
Refusing to immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act as it is written is a mistake that the Republican Party may not recover from.
The oil industry has paid 44 Senate Republicans $22.3 million in campaign contributions and they expect them to deliver on Keystone XL.
It is important that President Obama communicates to the American people his attempts at compromise and bipartisanship because it will expose the Republicans as the obstructionists they really are.
If Kyl, DeMint, and McConnell are such devout Christians, why do their voting records belie their claim that they are followers of Christ? Shouldn’t their single-mindedness of faith permeate every aspect of their personal and working lives?