Following Senate Republicans' weak-kneed capitulation over the debt ceiling on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, decided to take a victory lap.
Even by...
(Associated Press) Congress took a big step toward avoiding a partial federal shutdown on Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to keep the government...
(Associated Press) Republican senators blocked a bill to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to...
(Associated Press) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen he is not budging on his demand that Democrats go it alone...
(Headline USA) Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion spending package through the Senate early Wednesday, advancing President Joe Biden’s expansive vision for an even larger, interventionist government...
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UPDATE 6:00 PM 8/3/21: After long maintaining his silence on...
(Headline USA) Senate Democrats accused Republicans Wednesday of a “shameless, cynical” ploy that would damage the economy and the government's credit rating after the chamber's...
(Headline USA) Congressional Democrats and open-borders immigration activists are staring at their best chance in years to overcome opposition from immigration-law advocates and give...
(Associated Press) U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called on the Justice Department to investigate the National Rifle Association for bankruptcy fraud, saying...
In the wake of several false alarms during which the Biden intelligence community flagged potential right-wing extremism only to have nothing result, the FBI...
(Headline USA) Hopes for a big "infrastructure" investment are teetering. An ambitious federal election overhaul is all but dead. Legislation on police brutality, gun...
