Having two senators who opposed the Iran deal show up to denounce Trump for pulling out of the Iran deal was only the beginning of the hypocrisy exhibition.
Today's vote is a mostly symbolic victory for supporters of the Obama-era internet regulations.
Haspel's defenders say she was just following protocol when she oversaw the waterboarding of a suspected al-Qaeda operative. That's not good enough.
"It says that it's OK to engage in war crimes and crimes against humanity, and if you do it, you'll get promoted."
Even the nanniest of Nanny Staters are coming around.
This new proposed bipartisan authorization seems more like a blank check for war.
"If Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix their privacy invasions, then we are going to have to. We, the Congress."
"Let's get the conversation to where people are talking not about limiting gun rights but expanding them."
The measure will "make it harder, not easier, to root out and prosecute sex traffickers," said Sen. Ron Wyden, one of only two senators to vote no on FOSTA.
Senators want to use secret, largely unaccountable government watchlists as a justification for denying some citizens' due process.
"If General Sessions wanted to be involved in marking up this legislation, maybe he should have quit his job and run for the Republican Senate seat in Alabama."
Luckily, no actual nukes are involved. But it could be politically destructive.
Lawmakers will advance legislation that expands the power of the feds to snoop on American citizens.
She didn't push for reform when she had the opportunity as district attorney and as attorney general.
Harris only cares about other women's rights when those rights don't conflict with her career ambitions.
The former California attorney general has a long history of hostility to Second Amendment rights.
Senators demand discussion of protections for Americans against unwarranted snooping.
"It's basically reassembling deck chairs on a really messy and horribly complex system": Q&A with Chris Edwards, CATO's Director of Tax Policy
Q&A with the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
A hazy memory, self-contradiction, and dubious debunking efforts helped seal the GOP Senate candidate's fate.
No one earns a mandate by merely being less awful than the other guy.
Final tally: 49.9 to 48.4 percent.
Senate Judiciary Committee votes 11-9 to advance Willett's nomination to the Senate floor.
Trump's endorsement and the RNC's renewed support coincide with a crescendo of self-contradiction.
A law signed by Alabama's Republican governor allows many ex-cons to return to the ballot box.
The GOP tax plan looks like it could pass, but should it?
The Senate would lose an authoritarian who wants to crack down on immigrants and fight the drug war. But he's also a hawk in favor of foreign interventions.
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
The House and Senate still refuse to consider cutting government spending.
The president says he may campaign for the Republican Senate candidate, notwithstanding credible allegations of sexual assault.
Every attempt to restrain and reform unwarranted domestic surveillance batted away.
The House passed amendments this fall blocking Jeff Sessions' asset forfeiture directive. Now senators want to make it stick.
Do not ignore the self-interest of elected officials in controlling online political messaging.
"There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party."
The Fourth Amendment matters to some legislators.
If ever there were a would-be colleague who someone of even slight libertarian tendencies should be leery of, it is Roy Moore.
California's top-two primary system helps protect her, but what's her appeal outside of her own party?
Corker is a longtime defender of American intervention and war in the Middle East, and now wants to supply billions in weapons to the Saudis and Ukraine.
A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced one of the biggest sentencing reform bills in years. Can it pass this time?
In a country with so many crimes, many laws don't require proof citizens knew they were doing wrong.
He doesn't know why, and the former Libertarian finds it worth noting Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is a maxed-out donor to his potential Democratic opponent.
Congress failed to pass a bill reforming mandatory minimums last year; now two senators want to try again.
Congress moves to grant Trump administration vast new policing powers, because "sex trafficking."
Paul announces that his move won four hours of floor debate in Senate over ending the 16-year-old Authorization for the Use of Military Force that launched modern war on terror.
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
The "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" would not stop sexual exploitation. But it could blow up the legal framework that supports the internet as we know it.
Licensing laws are mostly a state issue, but a 2014 Supreme Court decision gives the federal government a role to play too. Lee is seizing the opportunity.
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