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28 Sep 2018, 5:55 am
” Following her opening statement, she answered questions from the Democratic senators and from female sex-crimes prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, who was hired by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 12:00 pm
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he regrets Reid has to take the actions but Republicans are even opposing the nominees they actually support. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 10:57 am
Politico reports the unspoken threat underlying the GOP’s confidence is that, if necessary, they can end the Senate filibuster for confirmation: Republicans won’t come out and say it, but there’s an implicit threat in their confidence: If Democrats play things the wrong way, they might find themselves on the wrong end of a legacy-defining change to Senate rules that scraps the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to confirm Supreme Court nominees. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 3:49 pm
The action, passed on Thursday, November 18, is a result of an agreement backed by chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus (D-Montana), and senior Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 8:14 pm
Senators at 10. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 5:31 pm
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, aided by Vice President Mike Pence and an ailing Georgia colleague who hobbled into the Senate chamber on a walker, voted Thursday to proceed with a measure to undo an Obama administration rule preventing states from blocking funding for family planning clinics that also provide abortions. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 10:51 am
Senate Republicans on Friday were confident that they had locked in enough votes to pass a sweeping tax bill later in the day. [read post]
Right Thing, Wrong Reason: Killing the Republican Tax Plan with Anti-Deficit Arguments Is a Bad Idea
15 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
People (read: non-rich people) have to expect less from their government.Soon-to-be-retiring Senator Jeff Flake, for example, recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and talked in his quiet, self-important way about the need for mutual respect in politics. [read post]
22 Nov 2014, 1:02 am
The Democrats contended they were trying to resolve the gridlock that had been plaguing Congress, but Republicans said the Senate’s move represented an outrageous repudiation of the minority party’s right to influence policy. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Democratic governors of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada will need to certify the Democrats’ lists even if the Republican governors of Georgia and Arizona bow to their state legislatures and certify Republican lists.If the two Houses disagree on which electoral votes to count, as might happen with Republicans in control of the new Senate at least on January 6, the ECA makes plain that the votes of the electors certified by the respective… [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 1:31 pm
The Graham-Cassidy proposal currently before the Senate looks different than the House ACHA and Senate BCRA bill in one important respect. [read post]
8 Aug 2022, 5:47 pm
Republican Senator Mike Rounds stated “they talk about it being on big corporations, but big corporations raise prices, they do pass it all down. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 9:15 am
Republican Leaders Decry Wasted Opportunity in Lame Duck With both the Senate and Assembly in session today and time rapidly running out on the current legislative year, Democratic leaders in Trenton have planned dozens of votes on bills of very little substance for taxpayers, said Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr. and Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 6:35 pm
” On the other hand, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt stated: Today, Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats just bulldozed hundreds of years of precedent to shelter one of the worst cabinet members in history, Secretary Mayorkas. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 3:17 pm
Passing the Committee 14-9, every Democrat plus Republican Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) voted for the bill. [read post]
23 May 2021, 9:01 pm
If they cannot develop a political program to appeal to and persuade a majority of Americans to vote for them, Republicans seem determined to change election rules to ensure that those who turn out to vote will be tilted in their favor.The latest front in this ever-expanding guerilla war on democracy involves efforts to limit voters’ ability to use the initiative and referendum process, which constitute key levers of direct democracy, for fear that they might enact policies… [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 1:14 pm
See Lori Montgomery, McConnell pulls back from filibuster on Senate tax-cut vote, Washington Post, July 25, 2012. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 3:24 am
A key senator, though, has a different plan. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 11:14 am
Senator Dodd just announced that efforts to broker a bipartisan reform bill in the Senate have sputtered and the Democrats will go it alone. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 5:24 pm
“‘Not out of the woods yet’: Republican retribution for SCOTUS ethics probe looms in new year; Although GOP lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee have yet to make good on promises to torpedo the panel’s regular order of business, some experts say it’s too soon to breathe a sigh of relief. [read post]
