Jeffrey Sites says he is pledging to be a voice for the middle class in a Congress that works for the wealthy and powerful. “You hear stories like mine a lot in our neck of MORE
“With these assurances, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement. NYT: Senator Mitch McConnell on Monday dropped his demand that the new MORE
For years, big corporations have been assaulting democracy with big money, drowning out the voices and needs of ordinary Americans and fueling much of the anger and cynicism that opened the door to Trump in MORE
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced Monday he will not run for a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2022, citing “partisan gridlock.” Why it matters: It’s a surprise retirement from a prominent Senate Republican who MORE
Old Smokey Eye is back! Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is announcing Monday that she is running for Governor of Arkansas, in one of the first tests of Trump’s hold on the Republican MORE
Georgia will be the focal point of the GOP push to change state election laws, after Democrats narrowly took both Senate seats there and President Joe Biden carried the state by an even smaller margin. MORE
Trump intimidates with MAGA party threats PALM BEACH, Fla. —Former president Donald Trump threw himself back into politics this weekend by publicly endorsing state party chairwoman Kelli Ward, a devoted and divisive acolyte in Arizona MORE
“If it is a good idea to impeach and try former Presidents, what about former Democratic Presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022? Think about it and let’s do what is best for the MORE
Attorneys representing people arrested in connection with the Capitol riot are focusing on Trump. They’re blaming him for inciting the deadly siege with his spread of disinformation about the election. The allegations bolster House Democrats’ MORE
(CNN)House Democrats plan to send the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, but the start of arguments in the Senate’s impeachment trial won’t begin until February 9, giving MORE
Representative Madison Cawthorn has misled the public about training for the Paralympics, just as he misrepresented his education and business history. Before January 6, 25-year-old Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was known for being the youngest MORE
A chaotic Senate is stuck in limbo amid a standoff on a power-sharing agreement with Republicans. “Things are on hold. I’ve got a lot of things I want to do,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said MORE
Senator Chuck Schumer just announced the House of Representatives will deliver the Articles of Impeachment against Donald J. Trump on Monday. Of course, Senator McConnell wants to delay the trial. Trump has started putting together MORE
National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said Thursday “I’m supporting incumbents,” when asked about chatter of Ivanka Trump mounting a primary challenge against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). The NRSC typically supports Republican incumbents but Scott’s comments MORE
Former attorney general Jeff Sessions and other senior justice department officials impeded an internal departmental investigation into their role in implementing the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy that separated thousands of children from their parents MORE
Over the last four years, the GOP’s values were inexorably tied to the whims of a president who regularly undermined democratic institutions and traded the party’s longstanding commitment to fiscal discipline, strong foreign policy and MORE
With his mother’s Bible in hand and his political mentor at his side, Alex Padilla on Wednesday became the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. The COVID-19 pandemic and security concerns following MORE
National Security Agency General Counsel Michael Ellis, who was installed by former President Donald Trump during his final days in office, was put on administrative leave Wednesday because his appointment is now the subject of MORE
In a striking repudiation of its relationship with Washington under Trump, the Chinese foreign ministry announced the sanctions in a statement that appeared on its website as Biden was taking the presidential oath. Pompeo and MORE
President Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 143 people, using a final act of presidential power to extend mercy to former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, well-connected celebrities and nonviolent drug offenders — but MORE
Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa), a member of the Senate Republican leadership who won reelection in November, said Tuesday that she doesn’t think it would be constitutional to try President Trump on an impeachment charge after he leaves office. Sen. Joni MORE
Donald Trump ends his tumultuous presidency with the nation confronting the greatest strain to its fundamental cohesion since the Civil War. The January 6 assault on the US Capitol capped four years in which Trump relentlessly stoked the nation’s MORE
The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons. As President Trump prepares to leave office in days, a lucrative market for pardons is MORE
“Azar calls attack ‘assault on our democracy’ and urges peaceful transfer of power in formal resignation letter“ The US health secretary, Alex Azar, warned Donald Trump in a letter that last week’s attack on the Capitol threatened MORE
The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. MORE