Rachel Bucchino
Politics, Americas
This summer is likely to be packed with conservative initiatives aimed at regaining the House and Senate next year, with party leaders eyeing a 2024 White House bid crawling to the center of political talks to...
Related topics: Mike Pompeo, White House
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI need to investigate the disclosure of confidential tax information to ProPublica and bring criminal charges against those who are...
Related topics: Taxes, FBI
President Joe Biden announced five new candidates for the federal bench on Tuesday, continuing an intense push by Democrats to fill court vacancies while they maintain the majority in the Senate.
Biden’s Tuesday nominees included three to the U.S....
Related topics: Joe Biden
The Senate confirmed Amazon critic and anti-monopoly advocate Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission by a 69-28 vote Tuesday — giving progressive Democrats a majority at the antitrust agency for the first time under President Joe Biden.
The...
Related topics: Amazon, Joe Biden
Influential progressive lawmakers are teeing off on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure negotiations, threatening defections that could derail the prospects for a deal on roads and bridges given Democrats’ thin majorities.
Senate Budget Chair...
The report seems to have only added to the unanswered questions about the attack on the U.S. Capitol. A bipartisan Senate report released last week details security failures surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and recommends how to...
As Minnesota legislators began gathering for a special session on Monday — with predictions of its length varying from seven to 10 days — a bill introduced on day one could make things better. Or much, much worse.
If passed, Senate File 22 would...
POLITICO (“Schumer apologizes after using outdated term for disabled children during housing interview“):
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer apologized on Monday for using an outmoded word to refer to developmentally disabled...
HuffPost: “Legislation establishing June 19 as a federal holiday already has 60 co-sponsors in the Senate, including a remarkable 18 Republicans, meaning the bill could easily overcome a filibuster and become law.”
“But with June 19 coming...
Unhinged liar Katie Hobbs submitted a junk opinion piece to the Washington Post on Tuesday.
The oped is littered with lies and conspiracies. There is not one single fact about the audit included in the hit piece. NOT ONE!
In fact, there really...
As we noted before, the Arizona Senate’s audit of the 2020 Election results in Maricopa County is best in class for numerous reasons. The work that any county in the nation performed after the election will never match the work done in the...
Republican legislators in states won by Donald Trump are now asking for Arizona-style audits.
Arizona's GOP-led state Senate has been examining ballots cast in Maricopa County in hopes of uncovering evidence to show Trump actually won there, but...
Related topics: Donald Trump
Last week, Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah offered the meekest of excuses when asked why conservative leadership in the Senate is fighting to keep crucial climate policies out of the infrastructure package being proposed by the White House....
Related topics: Mitt Romney, White House
Democrats are surprisingly confident about at least one item on President Joe Biden’s agenda: confirming judges.After four years of watching Senate Republicans install more than 220 of former President Donald Trump’s picks on the federal bench,...
Related topics: Joe Biden, Donald Trump
“Progressive Democrats working on a bipartisan infrastructure deal hardened their position on the legislation after tense talks Monday,” NBC News reports.
“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a member of the Senate Democrats leadership team, came...
When Donald Trump reentered the public spotlight last weekend at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention, the first thing he did was upend the GOP primary for the state's open Senate seat. Trump welcomed far-right Rep. Ted Budd to the stage...
Related topics: Donald Trump
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that President Joe Biden would not get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed in 2024 if Republicans regain control of the chamber and a vacancy arises during that presidential election...
Related topics: Joe Biden, United States Presidential Election
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Senate Minority Leader...
Related topics: Subpoenas
Earlier on Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) and 10 Democratic senators penned a joint letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, demanding answers regarding recent US media reports that the US Department of Justice...