Outside the Beltway

The new leader of the Senate’s Democrats says he regrets supporting the filibuster reforms his party passed in 2013.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

The economy grew strongly in the third quarter of the year, but it doesn’t seem likely to last.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

An unsurprising win in the Pelican State.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

No, the Clinton dynasty isn’t dead just yet.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

As expected, Marco Rubio easily won the primary for his Senate seat. The General Election battle, though, promises to be more difficult.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.

Marco Rubio changes his mind, and drops the first hint that he’s already thinking about the Presidential race in 2020 or 2024.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

Marco Rubio may be running for re-election to the Senate after all.

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

A Federal Court has ruled that the Administration violated the law when it spent funds allocated under the PPACA for purposes other than those authorized by Congress.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

With the Republican nomination fight down to two incredibly unappealing candidates, some Republican insiders are talking about looking elsewhere for a nominee.

Two Republicans who broke with their party to support hearings for Judge Merrick Garland have changed their minds and gotten back in line with the Senate GOP Caucus.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

Another Republican Senator has broken ranks and called for hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland, as another poll shows most Americans support hearings as well.

It increasingly appears that the GOP is on the losing side of the argument over whether to hold hearings and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

A crack in the wall.