The Latest News about The U.S. Senate

Curator of the Senate Mitch McConnell has decided to re-define his role in public life. McConnell is moving away from characterizing himself as a conservative legislative titan. According to an obsequious profile in The Weekly Standard (a Never–Trumper hotbed), McConnell has found his true calling. The curator believes the best use of his talents is to serve as the Human ...

  by Henry Rodgers GOP Rep. Lou Barletta defeated state Rep. Jim Christiana to win the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary Tuesday night. The Associated Press called the race for Barletta after 52 percent of precincts had reported their numbers, which showed he had 59 percent of the votes. Barletta will now take on Democratic incumbent Bob Casey Jr. in the high-stakes race for U.S. ...

Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote to confirm Russell Vought, the Trump administration’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought’s nomination drew national attention after Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) deemed Vought unfit for public service due to his Christian belief that salvation is found through Jesus Christ alone. In response to Senator Sanders’ religious bigotry, Family Research Council ...

President Donald Trump issued a statement expressing his displeasure at the Senate’s vote on a bill that would have prevented the murder of unborn babies past 20 weeks. “Recently, when I addressed the 45th annual March for Life,” the president said in opening. “I called on the Senate to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, important legislation that would ...

The U.S. Senate pulled together the 60-plus votes needed to allow a 3-week funding measure to reach the floor on Monday – the first step to ending the Democrat-led shutdown of the U.S. government. The cloture vote, which ends debate and allows a bill to progress to a floor vote, passed by an 81-18 margin. Now the measure goes to ...

The U.S. Senate is expected to take up a 3-week continuing resolution that would end the government shutdown put in place by Democrats who refused to fund the government in a vote on Friday. The vote is scheduled for Noon EST.

The Senate has scheduled a procedural vote to end the government shutdown for Noon Monday, but the prospects for passage are grim. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the vote saying, “In two hours, every senator can vote to end this government shutdown.” But the architect of the shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuch Schumer, said Sunday night that those involved ...

Senate Democrats have promised to filibuster the House-passed temporary spending bill unless it includes some form of amnesty for a large population of illegal aliens. The extreme left political position is likely to result in a government shutdown. At the focus of the debate is Democrats demand that the spending bill include legal protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ...

Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Edward Manning, has confirmed a run for U.S. Senate with the release of a new video with no title and a confused set of messages. The video starts off showing grainy, static-effect added images of police and protesters clashing. Chelsea does the voice over for the video and tells viewers “We live in trying times. We ...

The Senate voted along party lines early Wednesday to pass an economy-boosting tax reform bill that makes America’s corporate tax rates competitive in the global economy and provides rate cuts for middle-income earners and businesses. The House of Representatives passed the measure Tuesday afternoon but will have to vote again Wednesday in order to send it to President Donald Trump ...

As we hear all of the talking heads and news show mouthpieces claim calamity at the prospect of a so-called “government shutdown,” once again the American people have to suffer the egos and power play of politicians in Washington, DC. But the fact of the matter is this. This moment in time isn’t about a government shutdown. It’s about politicians ...

Democratic party candidate Doug Jones declared victory in a speech Tuesday night while his rival Republican Roy Moore made a quite different speech. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, I really want to thank you for coming tonight and realize when the vote is this close, that it’s not over. And we still got to go by the ...

Update: CDN called the race for Doug Jones (D) at 10:23 p.m. EST (9:23 CST). The polls in the Alabama special Senate election have closed and we’re keeping up with the poll returns and outcome (refresh the page for updated results/blog entries.) Alabama special Senate Race Results ( 98% precincts reporting ) Live Blog ALL Times EST 10:23 With 90% precincts ...

The polls in Alabama’s special election for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former U.S. Senate seat close in less than 30 minutes and here’s what the exit polls tell us. CBS News and NBC News conducted exit polls asking when voters decided whether they would vote for Republican Roy Moore or Democrat Doug Jones. 60% said they had decided before November ...

After more than a month of accusations, allegations, refutations and machinations – it’s here: decision day in Alabama’s U.S. special Senate election between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones. Recent polling is split as to who will win Tuesday’s contest. A recent Fox News poll put Jones up by 10 points while an Emerson poll taken during the same ...