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3 Mar 2011, 3:12 pm by Jim Lindgren
Democratic Majority Leader Harry Byrd had arrest warrants signed for all 46 Republicans. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 5:35 pm
Bacharach, but voted 'present,' a move that allows them to vote without registering support or opposition": The Oklahoman has a news update that begins, "With Oklahoma's senators effectively sidelining themselves, the Senate failed Monday to advance an Oklahoma City magistrate past a Republican blockade and toward confirmation to a federal appeals court. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 12:18 am by Paul Caron
Newsmax, Pence Will Urge Trump to Sack IRS Boss: Responding to the urging of House Republicans, Vice President Mike Pence will soon call on President Trump to fire or force the resignation of controversial Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 12:50 pm by CJLF Staff
Race-Baiting Hypocrisy: Last week, Illinois Senator Dick Durban criticized Republicans for forcing Loretta Lynch, President Obama's African-American nominee to replace Eric Holder, to "sit in the back of the bus" until a decision is reached on a heated human trafficking bill. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 8:35 am by John Bratt
When a Republican holds our nation's highest elected office, they will have their turn. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 10:18 am by Brett McDonnell
  Republican senators have pledged to oppose all CFPB Director nominees unless three changes are made to the law. [read post]
16 Dec 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
By contrast, it's hard to imagine Senate Republicans voting on genuine principle to remove Trump or almost any Republican president.To be sure, in 2021, many Senate Republicans said they had nonpartisan grounds for voting to acquit Trump: by far the most common explanation was that the Senate cannot convict a president who is no longer in office. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 12:58 pm
., is the only Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to not yet announce his intended vote at tomorrow’s meeting. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Elections National: “Republican Women, Fearing Backlash on Abortion, Pivot to Birth Control” by Annie Karni (New York Times) for Yahoo News National: “X to Allow Political Ads for the First Time Since 2019” by Rebecca Klar (The Hill) for Yahoo News Oregon: “Republican Senators, State Attorneys Seek Oregon Supreme Court Review of Anti-Walkout Law” by Julia Shumway for Oregon Capital Chronicle Ethics… [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 11:45 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
On Wednesday the US House of Representatives passed the misleadingly-named “Protecting Access to Care Act” on a largely party-line vote of 218-210 (all of the ‘yes’ votes came from Republicans; the noes included 191 Democrats and 19 Republicans). [read post]
10 May 2023, 4:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to the letter he received from an attorney representing billionaire Republican activist Harlan Crow: “I was disappointed but unsurprised by billionaire Republican activist Harlan Crow’s refusal to respond to my questions about the gifts he’s lavished on Justice Clarence Thomas and his family over the bulk of Thomas’s tenure on the Supreme Court. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 4:05 am by Jeff Marshall
 Late Thursday (December 16th), the US House passed the Obama/Republican Tax Compromise measure on a vote of 277 to 148. 112 Democrats and 36 Republicans voted "no. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 3:09 pm by Seth Borden
For complicated reasons the Republicans have the ability to prevent the Senate from going into recess, and they have done so in order to maximize the difficulty of Obama making recess appointments. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 8:28 pm by Glenn Reynolds
DEMOCRATIC SENATE defeats Obama’s jobs bill. “President Obama received a slap from members of his own party Tuesday as the Senate voted 51-48 to block his $447 billion jobs package. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 4:10 pm by nflatow
Incredibly, Senate Floor votes on 27 judicial nominees are being blocked, four more than I decried in my September 2010 ACSblog guest post, "Federal Judicial Vacancy Crisis Deepens as Unnamed Senate Republicans Block Floor Votes on All 23 Pending Judicial Nominees. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 2:28 pm
Gazette, Cardin complained that some Republican senators had placed anonymous holds on nominees. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
It appears that after the 2014 election, Republicans will maintain control the House, and they may gain control of the Senate. [read post]