Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday his retirement from the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate. He leaves his post when this session of Congress ends but indicates he remains as a sort of backbencher with standing, à la Nancy Pelosi in…
I have been waiting for a very long time to write this column, and yet I can’t quite summon up the joy and relief I thought I’d get out of it. We’re speaking, of course, about the long-awaited denouement of…
Republicans have increased their odds of winning back the U.S. Senate as former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced that he is running for the seat left vacant by retiring Senator Ben Cardin. This surprise move by Hogan is a strategic…
WASHINGTON — There’s been a serious outbreak of finger-pointing at the Biden White House this week. During remarks delivered in the White House State Dining Room Tuesday, President Joe Biden recognized that a Senate border bill was likely to fail….
Mitch McConnell has to be finished as the caucus leader for the Republicans in the Senate. Now. He has to resign, and if he won’t, then that caucus needs to get together and force him out. Now. Not next week,…
“I have never worked more closely with Leader [Mitch] McConnell on any piece of legislation as we did on this,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about the miserable, worse-than-even-expected legislation the Senate is attempting to force down the throat…
U.S. senators are grilling the director of the FBI over reportedly deleting documents related to the creation of the now-infamous anti-Catholic Richmond memo, and potentially lying under oath to Congress. In a letter to Christopher Wray dated Wednesday, a coalition…
Senate Republicans have reportedly agreed to a bill that would encompass both aid to Ukraine and Israel and some purportedly new authorities for President Biden to increase security at our southern border. Let’s set aside the foreign aid questions for…
In his new book Deception: The Covid Cover-up, Sen. Rand Paul notes that Dr. Anthony Fauci, in government for more than 50 years, was never once confirmed by the Senate. Other powerful federal officials also evaded Senate confirmation through a partisan process…
