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29 Oct 2010, 6:13 am by Big Tent Democrat
Will Republican control of th House (and maybe the Senate) lead to catastrophe? [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 6:00 am by Caroline Fredrickson
As a result, there are dozens of District Court vacancies for which there are no nominees because they’re in States with one or more Republican Senators who don’t want judges nominated by a Democratic president and confirmed by a Senate Democratic majority. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 9:18 am by Susan I. Nelson
Last night, Senator Reid (D-Nev.) filed a new version of the Dream Act (S.3992) seeking to address some of the criticism of the prior drafts of the bill and attract broader support in hopes of getting the 60 votes needed to pass the Senate. [read post]
22 May 2007, 11:08 am
Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee's head Democrat and Republican, have had enough of the Justice Department ignoring their requests for information on the government's warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 5:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds
At the same time, Republicans contributed mightily to this failure and are going through their own culture war — torn between the Senate’s old-bull pork-barrel ways and the more temperate fiscal gospel of their new tea party allies. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 8:31 am
The funding authorization bill, H.R. 3435, a supplemental appropriations for FY 2009, that passed the House 316-109 last week (incl. 77 Republicans), passed the Senate with 60 votes, including only six Republican votes. [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 3:42 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
by Jeremy Leaming Senate Republicans have made a mess of the judicial nominations process, ensuring that the road from nomination to confirmation during President Obama’s first term is incredibly long, arduous and unnecessarily divisive. [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 5:07 pm by Jeralyn
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions is still talking about a filibuster. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:43 am by Tom Smith
With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 11:21 am by Jon D. Sohn
  So even under the best of scenarios, a few Republicans led by Senator Graham are necessary to get this bill through the Senate. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 2:48 pm by Howard Bashman
“Murkowski bucks GOP as Trump seizes party; The Alaska Republican has no qualms about bucking party leaders or the president”: Burgess Everett of Politico has an article that begins, “Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins chatted quietly on the Senate floor before one of the biggest votes of their lives. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 6:42 pm
"'I Don't Like Either One': Alabama Republicans Consider Roy Moore and Luther Strange. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 11:02 am by Howard Wasserman
They hoped/expected/prayed that, once in office, he would simply sign the Randian/Norquistian legislative agenda that Ryan and McConnell are going to pass and to appoint the originalist justices that McConnell and the rest of the Senate GOP want him to appoint. [read post]
3 May 2011, 2:32 am by Bill Raftery
Even with the changes, the Senate adopted HJR 7111 on a straight party line vote with all Republicans in favor. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 11:19 am by Nicholas Mosvick
On this day in 1862, Noah Swayne was confirmed by the Senate to replace Justice John McLean, one of two dissenters in the Dred Scott decision along with Benjamin Roberts Curtis. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 6:03 am by Big Tent Democrat
Via The Hill, A Republican operative explains: Henry Barbour, a top Rick Perry fundraiser who endorsed Mitt Romney after the Texas governor dropped out, said Gingrich could not beat President Obama and would cost Republicans many House and Senate seats. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 1:09 pm by WIMS
Senator Stabenow indicated in a release that the bipartisan proposal which was supported by 16 Republicans, is one of the most significant reforms in decades. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 9:06 pm by News Desk
Senate has finally set a nomination hearing to consider Jose Emilio Esteban for the U.S. [read post]