Members of the Democratic Party in the Senate will hold a procedural vote on the For the People Act, which will ultimately fail because Republicans plan to filibuster it. In order for the bill to MORE
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Az) defended her opposition to ending the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Monday night, saying that doing so would “weaken democracy’s guardrails.” There are growing calls from progressives to end MORE
A group of 21 Senators led by Kyrsten Sinema (D-Az) and Rob Portman (R-Oh) is on board with an infrastructure deal. A recent sign-on of 11 Republicans points to steam building on a deal, reviving MORE
Senator Manchin, the thorn in President Biden’s agenda and one of the causes for bills stalling in the Senate claims he’s willing to compromise voting bills ahead of a crucial Senate vote. Manchin has stated MORE
The House and the Senate have come to an agreement that will award officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 the Congressional Gold Medal by a vote of 406-21. The bill will award three MORE
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives who are fully vaccinated are no longer required to wear face masks or socially distance themselves from others while on the chamber floor or in committee hearings. The announcement MORE
A group of Jewish Democrats in the House are chastising Rep. Ilhan Omar by name after she made comments on Monday they say placed the U.S. and Israel in the same category as Hamas and MORE
In a closed-door interview on June 4 with the House Judiciary Committee, former White House counsel Donald McGahn confirmed to lawmakers that the Former Guy ‘urged him to oust special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated his 2016 MORE
A bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday revealed that Capitol Police and other authorities had more alarming intelligence in late December 2020 than previously documented. “Surround every building with a tunnel entrance/exit. They better dig a MORE
After years of effort, congressional investigators finally got their chance Friday to grill former President Donald Trump’s White House counsel. As the circuitous saga of Don McGahn’s testimony concluded, Republicans and Democrats on the House MORE
When the Jan. 6 commission became the latest casualty of Republican obstructionism on Friday, most Democrats weren’t surprised. Joe Manchin was. “There is no excuse for any Republican to vote against this commission,” he said, MORE
After months of negotiations in the House resulted in a bipartisan deal on the January 6 commission, several Republicans on Monday night expressed doubts about whether the Senate will find 60 votes to approve the MORE
The election of New York Rep Elise Stefanik as #3 GOP Conference Leader has been announced by the tweet of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Stefanik’s installment came by a secret ballot win, 134-46, only MORE
During her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Senator Inhofe (Idiot-OK) told Radhika FoxE, a female Environmental Protection Agency nominee, that if she did not “behave,” then “I’m going to talk to your daddy.” “I don’t mean to MORE
An expert in government ethics has described Ted Cruz’s newspaper column on “woke CEOs” as the “most openly corrupt thing any Senator has said.” The Texas senator, in a Wall Street Journal column published last MORE
On Tuesday, a shouting match between Reps. Val Demings, D-Fla., and Jim (Gym) Jordan, R-Ohio broke out on the House floor during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a hate crimes bill Once again, Gym Jordan MORE
Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the only House lawmakers to oppose a bill that would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program—a vital service for people who have fatal blood diseases. The MORE
Democrats are introducing legislation today to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members. The bill is led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) as progressive groups are looking to MORE
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican from western New York who was accused last week of rubbing a female lobbyist’s back and unhooking her bra without her consent in 2017, apologized to the woman on MORE
Back in 1990 when President Biden was a US Senator, he introduced the Violence Against Women Act that always had bipartisan support up until recently. In 2018, the House approved the Act but of course, MORE