Joe Biden is remaining quiet about comments one of his top congressional allies made, suggesting Senate Democrats would be open to abolishing the filibuster were the former vice president to win in November.
Senate Democrats filibustered a police reform bill introduced by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Wednesday, blocking an effort at bipartisan reforms in the wake of nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.
One of Joe Biden’s top allies in congress is open to scrapping the filibuster if the former vice president were to win in November.
Several prominent liberal groups are joining the push by some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court to eleven justices, a move designed to eliminate the Court’s current 5-4 conservative majority.
Dozens of former Warren staffers endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in an open letter on Tuesday as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) continues to withhold an endorsement.
Most Democrat college students say that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) won the Democrat debate in Houston, Texas, according to a Chegg-College Pulse poll conducted immediately after the three-hour event.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called to eliminate the Senate’s filibuster rule in order to pass aggressive gun control measures – such as universal background checks and an assault weapons ban – during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told NPR that the most important issue Congress needs to address is climate change.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC analyst former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) pushed back on calls to eliminate the filibuster by pointing to what Republicans could have done if Democrats didn’t have the filibuster during the first two
During a speech on Friday, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that “if Mitch McConnell tries to do what he did to President Obama,” when Democrats hold the White House again, “then we should get rid of the
Senate Republicans are preparing to reinterpret Senate Rules in coming weeks to reduce the number of hours required to confirm presidential nominations, responding to Democrats’ unprecedented obstruction of President Trump’s nominees for both the judiciary and the Executive Branch.
During a news conference at the White House on Friday, President Trump announced he will sign the omnibus bill, but won’t sign another bill like it again and called for Congress to give him a line-item veto and for the Senate to end the
It happened again. Congress let a funding debate come down to the last minute. And once again, Democrats won.
President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the mega-omnibus spending bill barreling its way through Congress ahead of the March 23 government funding deadline if it contains a pork pet project for New York and New Jersey that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, wants in the bill.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spent so much time talking about protecting Dreamers during her eight-hour “filibuster” that she turned a Democratic Congresswoman into a dreamer herself. Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) was caught dozing off multiple times Wednesday during Pelosi’s record-breaking marathon
Rep. Mark Meadows told Breitbart News that the “stench of the swamp is sucking in everyone,” regarding the Schumer and McConnell budget deal.
Some Democrats are irritated by Nancy Pelosi’s speech, which nothing for illegal aliens while handing Republicans an election issue.
During her “filibuster,” Nancy Pelosi thanked the parents of the “Dreamers” — i.e. those who deliberately broke the law.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, faced with a slim 51-vote majority in the upper chamber of Congress, is reportedly mulling forgoing a budget altogether in 2018, a new report from Politico suggests.
The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) has launched a six-figure ad campaign thanking President Donald Trump and Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for their historic achievements on appointing federal judges during the first year of the Trump presidency.
Even President Donald Trump’s critics cannot deny his historic success in 2017 in appointed judges to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, exercising one of the greatest powers of the presidency in a way that will create a lasting legacy shaping the destiny of the nation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) voted on Thursday to send ten additional judicial nominees to the Senate floor, positioning President Donald Trump for a blockbuster first year on successful judicial appointments, if not a modern record.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) threw down the gauntlet to Senate Democrats on Thursday, telling the Federalist Society that Democrats would either agree to reasonable conditions for confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees or “face the Senate equivalent of martial law.”
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is incensed that President Donald Trump may be able to nominate and confirm 11 conservative federal California judges without her permission.
Senate Republicans confirmed one federal judge on Thursday and set the stage to confirm five more judges next week, including to federal appeals courts across the nation.
WASHINGTON—More than 100 national leaders urged Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday to use every means at their disposal to confirm more than 200 presidential nominations currently pending in the U.S. Senate, both for the executive branch and for the federal courts.
President Donald Trump again sent a message of support for appointed Alabama Senator Luther Strange as he faces a contentious Republican primary.
Judge Roy Moore, the runaway GOP frontrunner per recent polling for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by now former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) when he went to serve as the Attorney General of the United States, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here that unlike his opponent he will represent Alabama a lot like the way Sessions did.
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has a proposal to change to how the Senate confirms presidential nominees for federal judgeships and the executive branch. It would break the gridlock that has sparked a nationwide campaign to staff the bench and federal government.
President Donald Trump again urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation.
Democrats are trying to resurrect their unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees through the blue slip tradition, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has the power to stop this obstruction.
President Donald Trump is again urging the Senate to eliminate the filibuster rule for ordinary legislation, so that it can pass key parts of his legislative agenda currently being held hostage by the Democrats.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said his vote Friday against “skinny repeal” of Obamacare was a vote for bipartisanship. In fact, it was the opposite, rewarding Democrats for passing Obamacare without working with Republicans in the first place.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) blamed the U.S. Senate filibuster rule for preventing President Donald Trump’s agenda from being passed into law. Duffy argued the Democrats will end the filibuster when they regain
President Donald Trump’s successful appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is a major achievement that not even his critics can deny, one that has been a tremendous credit to Trump, with no political downside.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) placed a risky re-election bet last week with two conflicting votes in the battle over Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Thursday’s nuclear option vote restores 200 years of Senate practice, going far beyond Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to restore the proper constitutional balance for Supreme Court and federal court appointments.
WASHINGTON—Today the U.S. Senate will vote on the constitutional option that would end over a decade of national brinksmanship over Supreme Court and federal court nominations.
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced on the Senate floor Wednesday that they will not allow a filibuster of Neil Gorsuch, and will instead vote for the constitutional option to restore a simple-majority vote to confirm Supreme Court nominations, making that outcome now almost certain.
Monday it became official that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has the necessary 41 senators publicly committed to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, meaning that now the future of the nation’s highest court hangs on Republicans getting 50 votes for the constitutional option.
