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20 Jun 2013, 5:06 pm by Tom Smith
Senators, powerful outside groups and the White House are working intently to ensure that the Senate produces an immigration bill that could glide through the Republican House.Wait until it reaches the parallel universe of the House of Representatives. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 7:25 pm by Tom Smith
Senate Republicans are set to confirm three more of President Donald Trump’s appeals court picks this week, a push that will help set a record for the most such appointments in a president’s first year in office.The Senate is expected to confirm Steve Grasz for the U.S. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Furthermore, McConnell would have us believe that the Reconstruction Congress that wrote the Fourteenth Amendment was not concerned about the possibility that senators and representatives of the states of the former Confederacy would prevent Congress from paying the Union’s Civil War debt, so long as they did not say the magic words “we repudiate. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 9:34 am by Scott Bomboy
The collapse of Republican efforts to advance a revised health care bill has President Trump calling for the death of the last-remaining Senate filibuster. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 2:22 pm
The Senate will vote on an amendment - the Cochran Amendment (Thad Cochran is a GOP Senator from Mississippi) to its toothless version of the Iraq supplemental funding bill today. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 12:25 pm by Ted Allen
However, Senate Republicans opposed this measure, and it failed to win the 60 votes necessary for passage under Senate rules. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 8:40 am by Nicholas Chan
Most of the Senate Democrats, including Senator Joseph Cervantes supported the bill because the local ordinances would undercut worker wages while Senate Republicans believed the bill was overstepping on local governance in attempts to boost the economy and give workers a right to choose whether to align themselves with a union. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 2:07 pm by Chris Sivel
The New Jersey Senate approved legislation sponsored by Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. [read post]
21 Mar 2022, 6:06 pm by Howard Bashman
“Jackson Vows to Be Independent on Supreme Court if Confirmed; On the first day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Republican senators began previewing attack lines accusing her of being soft on crime”: Katie Rogers of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 12:02 pm by Cyrus Farivar
" The two senators are the chairs of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Consumer Protection and Data Security Subcommittee, respectively. [read post]
1 Dec 2012, 11:41 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
Republicans are searching the wilderness in three camps seeking a principled immigration policy. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 10:46 am
  Voinovich has been considered one of the possible swing votes in the effort to obtain 60 votes in the Senate. [read post]
9 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”To get a full measure of the Republican Party’s current descent into a politics of revenge and retribution let’s go back to the split screen, it’s August 7, 1974, and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and Republican House Minority Leader John Rhodes walk into the White House.The day before, in a last desperate effort at damage control, the White House had released a cleaned-up version of the damaging White House tapes that the Supreme… [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 12:50 pm by Sandy Levinson
Packer also focuses a lot on the personalities of the people (particularly hard-right Republicans). [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 5:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Senate Republicans explicitly opposed Lee because he was and would be "activist" on civil rights. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 12:30 pm by Thomas DeLorenzo
Only one Republican senator, Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against Barr’s confirmation, while just three Democrats voted in favor of Barr’s appointment—Doug Jones of Alabama, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 4:20 pm by Tom Smith
But Donald Trump’s campaign, even before he won the election, demonstrated that this understanding of the Right’s grassroots—the understanding on which the work of various tea-party activist groups, the House Freedom Caucus, and Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, as well as the responses to these from establishment Republicans, were based—was in error in some important ways, and in any case is no longer operative. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 6:12 pm
Rick Santorum, the Senator who rose to the No. 3 Republican leadership spot in the Upper Chamber before getting beaten by Bob Casey last fall, has joined the D.C. office of Pittsburgh-based Eckert Seamans. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 9:44 am by Brian Leiter
It's nice to see the whole world making fun of the not-so-crypto fascist wannabe Donald Trump, but this recent poll out of Iowa is important, since it shows Senator Ted Cruz, a pure right-wing religious crazy out of Texas, leading... [read post]