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8 Mar 2021, 9:51 am
All Senate Democrats voted for the bill; all Republicans (except one absent due to a family emergency) voted against it. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 11:05 am
Emergency Meeting Enacts Stop-Gap Measure to Fund Transportation Projects Senator Tony Bucco, the Senate Republican Budget Officer, issued the following statement regarding a Joint Budget Oversight Committee (JBOC) meeting that authorized additional funding for ongoing transportation projects: Read the rest of Bipartisan Vote Saves Thousands of Jobs (72 words) [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 4:31 am
Republicans are eyeing a vote in late October, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t yet said ... [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 9:06 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official website] announced [press release] Monday that confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder [professional profile] will be delayed [hearing notice] one week, after Republicans objected that they did not have enough time to review Holder's record. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 10:03 am
[JURIST] Thirteen state attorneys general, all Republicans, demanded in a letter [text, PDF] sent Wednesday to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives and the Senate Majority Leader that a controversial provision in the health care reform bill [text, PDF] approved [JURIST news report] in the Senate [official website] last week should be struck because it unfairly benefits the state of [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 10:38 am
The deadlock in the state Senate, caused when two Democrats switched allegiances and caucused with Republicans just long enough to royally mess things up, has been resolved. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 4:40 am
And Jennifer Steinhauer of The New York Times reports that "Republicans, Buoyed by Trump's Performance, Keep Control of Senate. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 11:35 am
Ct., N.D.N.Y., Jan. 23, 2009) - Republican Joseph Bruno, the former New York Senate Majority Leader, was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges accusing him of public corruption by accepting nearly $3.2 million over more than a decade from labor unions. [read post]
20 May 2010, 1:01 pm
Legislation Just Delays the Problem Another Year Senator Joe Pennacchio, the senior Republican member of the Senate Labor Committee, issued the following comments regarding the passage of legislation that will merely delay the returning solvency for another year. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 7:28 pm
Excerpt: "Hugh made another sharp point, noting that in Florida the Republicans in effect gave away a Senate seat. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 1:47 pm
"Shape of Chamber Hangs in Balance; Outcomes of Four Tight Races Could Take Up to a Month to Determine": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "The final shape of the new Senate lingered in doubt yesterday with a runoff likely in Georgia, recounts pending in Minnesota and possibly Oregon, and uncertainty over whether the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history had held on to his Alaska seat barely a week after being convicted… [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 12:17 pm
Pat Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has just announced that the Republicans have objected, under Senate rules, to the Kyle Sampson hearings continuing any further. [read post]
27 Oct 2005, 1:15 pm
[JURIST] After Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination [JURIST report] to the US Supreme Court in a letter [PDF] to President Bush Thursday, Republican and Democratic Senators who had generally been lukewarm about her nomination and skeptical of her experience and credentials seemed ready to move on to a new candidate. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:41 pm
Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah and one of the Senate bill’s original co-sponsors, called it “simply not ready for prime time” and withdrew his support. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 8:07 am
Paul Sarbanes, who represented Maryland for 30 years in the Senate as a leader of financial regulatory reform and drafted the first article of impeachment against Republican President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal as a congressman, has died, his son said. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 8:39 am
Her confirmation had been delayed by Republicans in the Senate who faulted her for not answering questions (about the Employee Free Choice Act, in particular) during her confirmation hearing and for her close ties to organized labor. [read post]
18 Nov 2004, 5:06 pm
[JURIST] Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have unanimously chosen Senator Arlen Specter to be chairman next year. [read post]
24 Nov 2024, 10:01 am
Senate seat following incumbent Sen. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 1:02 pm
When Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died last year, Senate minority leader Harry Reid promptly issued a statement commanding Senate Republicans to approve a replacement—whomever President Obama might choose to nominate—“right away. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 12:31 pm
Democratic state senators Bob Smith and Linda Greenstein, and Republican senator Kip Bateman, who represent central New Jersey, introduced a bill Monday that would ask voters whether to approve new casinos in the northern and central ... [read post]
