But some GOP senators like Majority Whip John Thune acknowledged the picture being reported is “not a good one.” If a top U.S. envoy’s testimony about Ukraine is a Capitol Hill bombshell, the Senate appears to be outside the blast zone. Senate Republicans are largely dodging questions about the substance …
The besieged Alabama Senate candidate owes nothing to the national party. GOP leaders desperately want Roy Moore off the ballot. But they have neither the legal nor the political leverage to force the defiant ex-judge out of the race. The White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a host …
Were you expecting the Republican health care bill to go down with such a thud this week? Definitely a moment to remember. Unless, of course, you accept Donald Trump’s interesting theory that it all worked out exactly the way he wanted. “I said from the beginning — let Obamacare implode …
Republicans are increasingly pessimistic that key conservative senators will vote for the eventual bill. Conservative senators and allied outside groups are on the verge of rebellion against the Senate’s Obamacare repeal effort, potentially derailing delicate negotiations to overhaul the nation’s health care system. As Obamacare repeal talks enter crunch time …
Whether Senate Republicans can repeal the health law largely depends on the longtime GOP leader. Mitch McConnell has sidestepped the Russia controversy that’s dogged Donald Trump all year and eluded the wrath rained down on Paul Ryan over the GOP’s Obamacare repeal effort. But the health care reform battle is …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier. With the GOP-controlled Congress starting …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lot of politics is about the basics, and in Congress that means answering the phone. By that measure, life on Capitol Hill in the Trump era is a struggle. Whether constituents are calling to request congressional flags, get help with a local issue — or, more …
A third Republican senator has come out in favor of gay marriage, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announcing her support Wednesday morning. “I am a life-long Republican because I believe in promoting freedom and limiting the reach of government,” Murkowski wrote on her Web site. “When government does act, I …
Sooner or later, there’s going to be another Supreme Court nomination — indeed, if Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants to maximize the chances of being replaced by a justice with similar views, it could be as early as this summer. What can we expect? Well, to begin with, a filibuster. That’s …
Paul Ryan wasn’t on the ballot in the western New York special election that his party lost on Tuesday. But he might as well have been. Democrats and their aligned groups hammered state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin (R) for her support of the Wisconsin Republican’s budget proposal — a plan that …
So now that the votes are in and Democrat Scott McAdams has dropped out, what happens next in the Alaska Senate race between Joe Miller and Sen. Lisa Murkowski? In the end, 41% of the votes went to write-in candidates while 34.3% went to the Republican nominee Miller. Under Alaska …