Outside the Beltway

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

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

The President could nominate someone to fill the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death as soon a next week, but Republicans in the Senate remain firmly committed to their decision to deny the as yet unnamed nominee any consideration.

Notwithstanding polling that indicates the American public disagrees with them, Senate Republicans emerged from a meeting today largely united on the idea of not giving any Supreme Court nominee named by President a hearing, or even the courtesy of a meeting.

Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.

The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.

Congress has just over a week to pass a funding bill, and it’s not looking very good.

The final effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal failed in the Senate yesterday, meaning that the deal will now move forward.

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

The Senate went home last night without passing a bill to renew the PATRIOT Act, which expires at the end of the month.

Senate Republicans are working on legislation to fix the PPACA’s subsidies if the Supreme Court rules against the Federal Government in June.

For some reason, Republicans want to change filibuster rules even though it’s unclear that they’ll still hold the Senate after 2016.

Post-election polling shows that the majority of Americans want the new GOP majority in Congress to work together with the President. Republican voters have a very different view.

Third-party candidates in several states could end up having a big say in the battle for control of the Senate.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

Rick Perry is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border to do nothing.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

Preserving the filibuster.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.

Polarization is not the cause of our problems.

Time to watch a bit of true American exceptionalism in action.

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

Small steps from both sides in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but too early to say that we’ve reached a solution.

A tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are openly disagreeing with a proposed strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Obamacare isn’t repealed.

Doesn’t pass the smell test.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

Senator Ted Cruz has alienated his colleagues in record time.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy