Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to share footage of the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol with Fox News host Tucker Carlson a “despicable” move. “Look, I think what McCarthy did was despicable, damaged our security,” Schumer told The Hill on Tuesday. Schumer went on…

Another day, another tunnel for President Joe Biden as he continues his tour promoting projects funded by the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Job Acts that he signed into law in November 2022. On Tuesday, Biden appeared with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other elected officials in New York City, where he announced…

A pitched battle that could go into summer matching President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats versus House Republicans led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy officially began Jan. 19 as Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen declared the federal government has officially reached its statutory debt ceiling. “I respectfully request that Congress act promptly to protect the…

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will offer an amendment to the nearly 5,000-page $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that, if adopted by the lame-duck Senate, would erase more than 4,000 earmarks from the measure. “There are, let me get the exact numbers, $9.8 billion worth of earmarks. Thousands of individual projects here—both Democrat and Republican,” Johnson…

Senate Democrats—aided by 12 Republicans—took a giant step on Nov. 28 toward the final passage of the “Respect for Marriage Act” that many civil liberties experts say will seriously damage Americans’ freedom of religious practice and expression. The 61 to 35 vote came on a cloture motion to limit debate on the Senate floor to…

A new poll commissioned by the Heritage Foundation found most voters in five surveyed states oppose a bill critics contend threatens religious liberty, the Respect for Marriage Act, which the Senate will consider for final passage the week after Thanksgiving. Most of the voters in the five states—Indiana, West Virginia, Utah, Wyoming, and Iowa—are Republican…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is on track to keep his job as Democrats are projected to hold onto the U.S. Senate, has said that he thinks the results of the 2022 midterms will force Republicans to do more bipartisan work in the 118th Congress. Democrats have taken enough seats to hold the…

Uncertainty about who will control the 118th Congress when it arrives on Jan. 3 will still loom large when the Lame Duck session of the current legislature convenes Nov. 14 with Democrats in charge in the Senate and House of Representatives. As it was two years ago, when runoffs for two Georgia Senate seats resulted…

Uncertainty about who will control the 118th Congress when it begins on Jan. 3, 2023, will still loom large when the lame-duck session of the current legislature convenes on Nov. 14 with Democrats in charge in the Senate and House of Representatives. As it was two years ago, when runoffs in Georgia for two Senate…

Senate Democrats gained a temporary victory late Tuesday when 21 Republicans joined with them in voting to remove a procedural obstacle to passage of the  Continuing Resolution (CR) that keeps the federal government open through Dec. 16 and approves more than $15 billion in additional military and operational aid for Ukraine. The 22 GOP senators voting…