As the Federal Government shutdown moves into the work week, there are some rumors of a possible deal, but nothing concrete and the lack of trust between the two parties could make a deal hard to achieve.
It’s Day Two of the Federal Government shutdown and there are few signs of a quick resolution.
The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.
With just hours to go, it seems increasingly unlikely that the Senate can reach a deal to keep the government open.
A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.
The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.
After forty years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch announced that he will not seek re-election this year, thus opening the door for Mitt Romney to succeed him.
Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.
House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.
The current temporary spending measure reached by Congress in September expires on Friday, and Republicans haven’t come up with a solution yet.
With ten days to go, the Senate race in Alabama between Roy Moore and Doug Jones is close.
The Senate passed a tax cut bill last night, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
For a guy who considers the Russia investigation “Fake News,” President Trump sure is doing a lot to try to stop it.
President Trump put his thumb on the scale for Roy Moore, ignoring the allegations of harassment and sexual abuse that have been made against the candidate.
Charles Manson, who led a cult-like “family” to a series of murders in 1969 and subsequently spent more than 40 years in prison, has died at the age of 83.
The differing reactions among Republicans in Washington and the base of the Republican Party to the charges against Roy Moore have enhanced a civil war inside the Republican Party.
A Los Angeles reporter says that Minnesota Senator Al Franken groped her and engaged in other inappropriate conduct during a 2006 USO tour.
The charges against Roy Moore continue to mount as national Republicans continue to push back against him.
For some reason, Senate Republicans want to attach a bad health care reform idea onto an already controversial tax reform bill.
Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.
The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.
Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.
Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.
What was essentially the final effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act is officially dead.
The latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead.
The GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to suffer a fatal blow as Senator John McCain announced his opposition to what is the last gasp of that effort in the Senate.
Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.
Senate Republicans are considering one more last-ditch effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.
The Senate appears ready to get rid of another procedural move designed to block judicial nominees.
Once again, Congress is abdicating its Constitutional responsibilities.
Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats on spending and the debt ceiling, but it was an exceedingly bad one.
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin’s trip to Kentucky that ‘just happened’ to coincide with last month’s eclipse is being investigated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General.
President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.
Donald Trump gave a campaign-style speech in Phoenix last night and reminded us of everything that’s wrong with him.
Republicans now face a stark choice.
Seven years of rhetoric on health care reform ended early this morning with a narrow vote on a bill that even Republicans didn’t really support.
In a vote close enough to require the Vice-President to cast a tie-breaking vote, the Senate voted to proceed to debate on a health care bill even though nobody seems to know what bill they’ll ultimately be voting on.
The Senate isn’t giving up in its efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that it seems clear that the votes aren’t there.
With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.
With the fate of the Senate health care reform bill hanging in the balance, the Senate will delay consideration of the bill due to the unexpected absence of one Senator.
Senate Republicans have introduced their latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.
More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.
The Senate left for vacation without a viable path forward on health care reform, and the road ahead seems treacherous and hard to navigate.
A big setback for Republican efforts to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare.
Once again, a bad CBO score is casting doubt on a Republican health care reform bill.
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