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13 Jun 2008, 2:13 am
An unnamed Republican senator had invoked Senate Rule XXVI, which requires the hearing to come to a close within two hours after the Senate convenes for the day. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 11:11 am
Getting Senators to vote no on an objectionable nominee takes less than getting them to filibuster. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 5:00 am
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Act reauthorization continues to move forward in the Senate. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 1:59 pm
Senate Majority Leader of Missouri Caleb Rowden announced, due to concerns over spreading the COVID-19 illness, the Senate will not meet next week. [read post]
1 Jul 2018, 2:42 pm
” Going into the primary election, almost a dozen seats in the Senate already were open as some of the most experienced members, and in many cases trusted allies of Senate President Thomas V. ... [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 8:47 pm
Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today agreed to changes in the Senate's filibuster practices. [read post]
12 Mar 2003, 9:11 am
Opening statements from Chairman Senator Orrin Hatch [statement] and Ranking Member Senator Patrick Leahy [statement] are now available online. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 7:04 am
"Ted Kennedy was a senator out of another, very different, Senate era: an era in which senators who believed in great causes stood at their desks, year after year and decade after decade, fighting for those causes, and educating the country about them," Mr. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 3:14 am
Now that Cindy Hyde-Smith has, as expected, won the run-off election to serve the final two years of Thad Cochran's term as Senator from Mississippi (Cochran retired), we know that Republicans will have a 53-47 advantage in the 116th Congress beginning in January.What percentage of the U.S. population will those 53 incoming GOP Senators represent, if we assume the Senators from a particular state represent the residents of that state? [read post]
12 Dec 2009, 3:35 pm
The mainstream media, although it sometimes points out the hypocrisy of individual senators over the filibuster, doesn't seem interested in criticizing Senate procedure. [read post]
4 Apr 2021, 9:01 am
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) is the first immigrant to serve in the Senate. [read post]
24 Jan 2003, 9:19 am
Read the opening statement [text] by outgoing Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 11:49 am
Posted by: Samantha Lint, Outreach Intern During today’s Senate floor debate about the Paycheck Fairness Act Senator Heller (R – NV) called the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) a “trial lawyers’ bailout. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 4:19 pm
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, as we all know, resigned his Senate seat to take the helm at the U.S. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 10:56 pm
Senator Goldstein has reintroduced his anti-spam bill in the Senate, as of last month. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 9:37 am
Senator Shelby needs to be called out and shamed repeatedly as an example of how a rational legislative process should not work.Then the Vice-President, as President of the Senate, needs to use his authority as chair of the Senate to insist that the Senate rewrite its rules, or the President of the Senate will begin making rulings from the chair designed to change how the Senate operates in practice. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 12:26 pm
If all 50 senators who voted affirmatively today do so again for the full Senate vote, Kraninger’s confirmation is assured. [read post]
22 Apr 2021, 11:21 am
On April 20, 2021, the Senate unveiled the text of the proposed Growing Climate Solutions Act. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 7:48 am
He encouraged the Senate leaders to consider for the Senate version of the JOBS Act the capital formation legislation introduced by Senator Scott Brown on crowdfunding (R-MA) (S 1791), Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson on raising the 500-shareholder threshold (R-TX) (S 556), Senator John Thune (R-SD) on easing the Regulation D general solicitation ban (S 1831), and Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) on creating an IPO on ramp (R-PA) (S 1544, S 1824, and S… [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 7:34 am
The post Mississippi Senate Heads to Runoff appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
