The Calvinball Impeachment Trial Begins
Republicans and Democrats sparred over which rules should stay and which should go.
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Mitch McConnell Revises Impeachment Rules After Bipartisan Backlash
President Donald Trump is still heading for an almost certain acquittal.
House Votes To Send Impeachment Articles to Senate as New Evidence Comes to Light
President Donald Trump's trial will likely begin next week.
Mitch McConnell: This Is the 'Most Rushed, Least Thorough, and Most Unfair Impeachment Inquiry in Modern History'
The majority leader addressed the Senate the morning after President Donald Trump was officially impeached by the House of Representatives.
The Republican Party's Retirement Problem
Trump makes life miserable for GOP lawmakers—and party leadership only makes it worse.
Jon Stewart Is Sanctimonious, but Congress Should Be Better at Doing Its Job
The fight over the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund is pure political theater.
House Tries To Give 'Dreamers' a Path to Citizenship, but Mitch McConnell Won't Even Consider the Bill
The Senate majority leader says he will not allow a vote on it, despite widespread support for the measure.
House Freedom Caucus Too Busy Scolding Justin Amash To Care About Today's Bipartisan Budget Apocalypse
What's the point of a "limited government" bloc that doesn't limit government?
Senate Bill Would Ban Smoking and Vaping for Americans Under Age 21
Plus: Six-week abortion bans are proliferating, extremism as excuse for censorhip, Soylent made a snack bar
Trump Plans To Sign Border Deal and Declare National Emergency. Here's What That Could Mean.
Trump won't rely on Congress to fund his 200 miles of border wall.
The Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal Thinks Mitch McConnell's Plan to Hold a Vote on It Is 'Sabotage' and a 'Republican Trick'
Ed Markey believes the time to vote on urgently necessary climate change legislation is...later.
Mitch McConnell Predicted the GOP Tax Cut Would Raise Revenue and Reduce the Deficit. Nope.
A year after the tax law, growth is up but tax revenue is down.
Mitch McConnell is Keeping the Senate Out of the Shutdown Fight. It's a Hypocritical Abdication of Congressional Responsibility
Five years ago, McConnell declared the need to restore the Senate. Instead, he's broken it further.
The McConnell Era Has Been Terrible for American Politics
The Senate majority leader delivers hollow partisan victories and little else.
Jeff Flake Inspires Fresh New Hatred by Blocking Judicial Confirmations
Senate Republicans are torn between their hatred of voting on bills, their fear of poking the bear, and their love of confirming judges.
Republican Senators Urge McConnell to Act on Criminal Justice Reform Bill
Supporters are concerned about the bill's future if it doesn't pass this year.
Mitch McConnell Touts Wild Spending Bills as 'Bipartisan' Accomplishments
Should the Senate majority leader really be celebrating more reckless spending?
The Senate Needs to Hear Out Kavanaugh's Accuser
A fast-moving, public airing of the claims against Kavanaugh would serve the public interest-and could help restore trust in a battered institution.
McConnell Admits U.S. May Be in 'Early Stages' of Trade War
But will Congress act to rein in Trump?
What Should Libertarians Fear Most from SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh?: Podcast
Jonathan Adler says he's "supremely qualified," an originalist, and a critic of the administrative state. But he's a cipher when it comes to defendants' rights.
Mitch McConnell Wants to Take Hemp Off the Controlled Substance List
"We all are so optimistic that industrial hemp can become sometime in the future what tobacco was in Kentucky's past."
Stossel: The Stosscars!
John Stossel picks the best and worst political performances of the year.
GOP Leaders Tell Fiscal Hawks To Fly Away, No Budget This Year
Republican leaders spent most of the Obama years attacking rising debt and massive spending. Now that they control the budget, they could not care less.
The GOP Tax Bill Isn't the End of the World. Far From It.
It's a conventional Republican tax plan with all the predictable problems - and benefits.
Doug Jones' Election Probably Won't Kill the GOP Tax Bill
Senate Republicans will probably vote before the new Democratic senator is sworn in.
Mitch McConnell Says Caring About Legislative Process is For Losers. He's Wrong.
Rushing a bill to a vote makes for messy legislation that comes apart over time.
The Alabama GOP's Awful Responses to the Roy Moore Sexual Assault Allegations Are Dead-End Partisanship At Its Worst
Jeff Flake wonders: Is this what the Republican Party has become?
Trump Launches a Suicidal War on His Own Party
Instead of striving to ingratiate himself with those who hold his fate in their hands, the president seems determined to antagonize them.
Mitch McConnell Wants to Pass the Senate Health Care Bill By Making It More Expensive
After abruptly postponing a vote, dealmaking continues.
New CBO Report Says the Senate GOP Health Care Bill Would Make Obamacare's Problems Worse
The Republican health care plan wouldn't solve the problems Republicans say they want to solve.
Senate Republicans Add Individual Mandate Workaround to Health Care Bill
It's one more way the GOP repeal bill resembles Obamacare.
Mitch McConnell Might Hold a Vote on an Obamacare Rewrite Next Week. It's Not Even Drafted Yet.
Why are Republicans rushing a bill no one likes? Here are five theories.
Republicans Are Keeping Their Health Care Bill Secret Because They Can't Defend It On the Merits
The Senate GOP is relying on the same opaque process they accused Democrats of using to pass Obamacare.
After Comey Firing, Congress Gives Up on Checks and Balances
It's time to bring back meaningful Congressional oversight of the executive branch.
Senate Rules Like the One Used to Silence Elizabeth Warren's Criticism of Jeff Sessions are Dumb, Arcane, and Self-Aggrandizing
Senators should not be afforded special privileges shielding them from vigorous criticism.
Trump and the Capitol Hill GOP Elite Embrace Each Other's Mediocrity
Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy line up to defend the man who campaigned against the mess they helped create
Libertarians Should Look Twice at Planned Parenthood Defunding Efforts
GOP move to "defund Planned Parenthood" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Ted Cruz Calls Mitch McConnell a Bald-Faced Liar, Thunders Against Ex-Im Bank
The best speech you'll see the Texas senator make
Senators Tell DEA to Stop Messing With State Hemp Crops
Provisions prevent feds from spending on interference with state hemp-farming programs or hemp crop transport.
Will McConnell's Amendments Gut Surveillance Reform?
The Senate majority leader tries to kill FISA Court transparency.
McConnell Warned About Patriot Act Reauthorization By Libertarian Groups
No surveillance reform means giving the executive unchecked powers we should know it will abuse.
