Protesters End Ted Cruz's Dinner Early, Accomplish Little Else
They got plenty of attention, but that's about it.
They got plenty of attention, but that's about it.
The GOP's willingness to follow Trump down an anti-trade cul-de-sac risks alienating voters who could be crucial on the margins of close races.
"If you surround yourself with white supremacists and Nazis, then you're telling me that you're one of them," Winsome Sears tells Reason.
A fast-moving, public airing of the claims against Kavanaugh would serve the public interest-and could help restore trust in a battered institution.
"If you can't debate hard issues honestly, with honor, with integrity, how do we keep a civil society?" Thomas said.
This time the Libertarian Party seems to be hurting the Democrat, who's trying to run out the clock on confirming Brett Kavanaugh.
The Texas Senate race is officially a toss-up.
The challenger received help from the group that worked on Ocasio-Cortez's campaign.
Booker's totally not running for president or anything.
Tepid attempts at loosening federal regulations have crashed into senatorial intransigence.
With Japheth Campbell in the survey, Claire McCaskill Has a 4-point advantage over Josh Hawley in new Marist College poll of likely voters. Without? Dead heat.
He's a social conservative, but not necessarily an immigration hawk or a Trump loyalist.
Aubrey Dunn, the highest-ranking Libertarian elected official in the country, drops out of the New Mexico Senate race to make way for a two-time governor/presidential candidate who five months ago said he was "done with elected political office."
Is Congress finally ready to get into the fight?
The Senate should confirm or reject Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the November elections, poll respondents say.
The Senate asks the Pentagon's F-35 program to explain its sizable discrepancy in savings estimates.
Rand Paul thanks U.S. Capitol Police for arresting a man who allegedly made disturbing threats against the senator and his family.
In a civil suit, Paul's attorney claims the senator has been the victim of "physical pain and mental suffering."
Trump's plan to cut $15 billion in spending really would have cut only about $1.1 billion. Its rejection is depressing anyway.
Is the Republican Party now the party of Trump?
But once again, California voters will get a choice between two Democrats for the Senate in November.
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.