Category : Congress news

Rob Portman won’t seek reelection

Ohio Republican Rob Portman will not seek a third Senate term in 2022, a blow to both Republicans’ hopes of taking back the Senate and the chamber’s dwindling number of centrists.The two-term senator is one of the most effective legislators in the Se...

Portman’s exit signals uncertainty for Senate GOP

Hawley files ethics counter-complaint against seven Dem senators

Sen. Josh Hawley on Monday filed a counter-complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against the seven Senate Democrats who had previously filed a complaint against him and Sen. Ted Cruz over the two Republicans’ objections to the results of the 202...

There isn’t a single Black woman on House Dem’s leadership team. It’s not new.

When Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence lost her leadership race by a single vote, she looked up the last time a Black woman was elected to sit at her party’s leadership table in the House.She was stunned to learn it was Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New Yor...

Black women decry leadership ceiling in Congress

Bipartisan group of senators pushes back on Biden Covid plan

A bipartisan group of senators told White House officials on Sunday that the stimulus spending in President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan provides too much money to high-income Americans, an opening setback in the new administration's complex p...

Bernie Sanders happy to have gone viral

Sen. Bernie Sanders said the photo of him from Inauguration Day that became a viral meme and exploded across social media has turned out “to be a good thing, and not only a fun thing.”The photo from President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday fea...

Dick Durbin calls absolute protection of Senate filibuster 'a non-starter’

Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s demand for absolute protection of the filibuster in the deal to run a 50-50 Senate is a “non-starter.”“If we gave him that, then the filibuster would be on everything, every day...

Bernie Sanders: Dems will use reconciliation to pass Covid relief ‘as soon as we possibly can’

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said Senate Democrats would pass a Covid-19 relief bill as soon as possible through budget reconciliation, which would allow the package to pass with a simple majority vote rather than with the support of 60 senators. “W...

Rand Paul spars with ABC host over election integrity

Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday got into a heated exchange with ABC host George Stephanopoulos over the disproven claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — days after President Joe Biden was inaugurated.Asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether the el...

Marco Rubio: It's 'arrogant' to impeach Trump

Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday said the argument that former President Donald Trump should be impeached so that he can’t seek public office again is “an arrogant statement for anyone to make.”When “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked the senator ab...

Marco Rubio: It's 'arrogant' to impeach Trump to ban him from running again

Impeachment trial to keep National Guard troops at Capitol

Former President Donald Trump’s upcoming Senate impeachment trial poses a security concern that federal law enforcement officials told lawmakers last week requires as many as 5,000 National Guard troops to remain in Washington through mid-March, acco...

GOP builds on Trump’s Latino gains in South Texas

Former President Donald Trump's surge among Latinos and rural voters along Texas' southern border has given Republicans a surprise opening that could help decide control of the House of Representatives in 2022.Democrats spent millions in 2020 in Texa...