Outside the Beltway

The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.

Republicans will introduce a tax package by the end of the month, but whether they can actually pass anything is another question entirely.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

The effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is dead for now.

Trump’s legislative accomplishments have been anemic at best.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

A Federal Judge has ruled against an elected official who blocked a constituent from accessing her Facebook page.

The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

The Trump White House loses ts first major staffer, and more are likely to come.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

With a government shutdown looming at the end of the week, the Administration has appeared to back away from a demand that a government funding bill include money allocated for the President’s promised border wall.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is hinting at a new Supreme Court vacancy this summer.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.

As expected, Senate Republicans invoked the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to move the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch forward to a final vote on Friday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch even as it became inevitable that Republicans would be forced to invoke the ‘nuclear option’ to confirm him to the Supreme Court.

The ordinary and the extraordinary with the latest SCOTUS nomination.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.