Will This Awful Bill Allowing Warrantless Domestic Snooping Get Shoved Into an End-of-Year Spending Plan?
Congress might quietly expand the feds' surveillance powers without any actual debate.
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.
Another day, another defeat for the Senate's health care effort
Paul: "If every Republican that voted for the clean repeal in the past votes for it again, it would pass."
They had to pass the motion to proceed to the bill to find out what's in the bill.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
It's the latest effort to use the Congressional Review Act to assert the authority of elected lawmakers over appointed bureaucrats.
Second-place finisher in 2016 presidential primary will run for Missouri Senate seat as a Republican.
Second-place finisher in 2016 LP presidential primary aims to take on Democrat Claire McCaskill in home state of Missouri.
Paul's "Read the Bills" resolution would change Senate rules to allow one day of transparency for every 20 pages of a bill's length.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Here's what the law says.
The research over whether the president attempted to block an FBI investigation kicks in.
A new high water mark for regulatory reform, but another bill might eclipse Paul's proposal.
States and industry will seek to roll back BLM's "vast overreach" of regulatory authority in court.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
Supreme Court turns away transparency lawsuit trying to force release of Senate report.
Neil Gorsuch confirmation vote expected Friday.
Comparing the two SCOTUS nominees.
The SCOTUS nominee called Brown v. Board of Education "one of the shining moments in constitutional history."
A lot of parliamentary shenanigans, but ultimately everything in the Senate is 'majority rules'
Court decisions have decimated Fourth Amendment protections for people on the edges of the country.
How can Kutcher's group have helped in dramatically more sex-trafficking investigations than were actually opened across America?
Sen. Rand Paul votes aye with rest of GOP.
Senators should not be afforded special privileges shielding them from vigorous criticism.
The department asked 440,410 vets for the wrong information. Now their health care claims might be purged from the system.