Judiciary Snapshot: Trump Nominees Confirmed Oct. 14-18
The Senate confirmed four of President Donald Trump’s nominees to federal district courts this week, while the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced six other nominees.
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Senate Fails to Block Emergency Border Wall Funding
The Senate came up short Thursday in a vote to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution that initially passed with Republican support to end an emergency declaration to fund the border wall.
Read moreClean Power Plan Rollback Survives Challenge by Senate Dems
Senate Republicans beat back an effort from Democrats on Thursday to reinstate Obama-era greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants.
Read moreSenate Confirms Eugene Scalia as Secretary of Labor
The Senate voted 53-44 on Thursday to confirm Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as the next head of the Department of Labor.
Read moreSenate Includes Aid for Farmers in Fall Budget
Passing a budget that will fund the government through November, the Senate on Thursday included financial support for farmers meant to offset tariffs from the ongoing trade war with China.
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Senate Votes to End Emergency Border Wall Funding
The U.S. Senate voted 54-41 Wednesday to end President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency and stop the diversion of military funds to pay for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up another veto showdown.
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Joe Kennedy Announces His Run for US Senate
U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, grandson of former U.S. Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, formally laid down the gauntlet for fellow-Democrat Ed Markey’s Senate seat Saturday morning.
Read moreLabor Nominee Scalia Defends Court Record in Job Cases
President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Labor, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, defended his record on Thursday from Senate Democrats who said his history representing large companies in court should disqualify him from the position.
Read moreSenators Grill Tech Giants on Ways to Stop Online Extremism
Facing pressure from lawmakers to curtail extremist content, officials from Google, Twitter and Facebook told senators on Wednesday their platforms are leaning on improved technology to flag, remove and report posts before they lead to violence.
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Senate’s Government Funding Bill Heads to Appropriations Committee
A $24 billion general government funding measure made it through a Senate subcommittee Tuesday, and the Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday will deliberate whether to send the bill to the chamber’s floor.
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Senate Confirms 6 to Federal Benches in Bipartisan Votes
Resuming its work on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees after a month-long recess, the Senate on Wednesday afternoon confirmed six new judges to federal courts across the country.
Read moreDemocrats to Force Vote Against Border Wall Funding
Senate Democrats will force a vote to terminate the national emergency President Donald Trump declared in February that allowed him to move money from other federal accounts into the fund for his long-promised border wall, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday.
Read moreSixth Circuit Orders Tougher Sentence for Rand Paul Attacker
A 30-day prison sentence for the man who attacked Senator Rand Paul outside his Kentucky home two years ago is too lenient, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreDemocrats Press GOP on Gun Control as Congress Reconvenes
With lawmakers returning to Washington after a month-long recess during which three major mass shootings took place across the country, Democrats resumed demands Monday for Republicans to take up gun control legislation.
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McConnell Says Gun Reform, if any, Is up to Trump
Congressional Republicans will wait for the White House to chart a path on gun violence legislation, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, effectively putting the burden on President Trump to decide the Republican legislative response, if any, to the spate of mass shootings, including the latest mass murder in Texas.
Read moreW. Va. Senator Manchin Not Running for Governor
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will not run for governor, his office announced on Tuesday.
Read more‘Dear SCOTUS’: Court Packing Has Republicans on Edge
Accusing their Democratic colleagues of making a not-so-thinly veiled threat, Senate Republicans took the unusual step Thursday of writing a letter to the Supreme Court about a gun-rights case being appealed from New York.
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Georgia Republican Senator Will Retire This Year
Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson’s announcement Wednesday that he will retire at year’s end because of health problems instantly raised Georgia’s status as a must-watch 2020 battleground by ensuring that both of its Senate seats will be on the ballot.
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Senator John Cornyn Says Green New Deal Would Hurt Texans
U.S. Senator John Cornyn positioned himself at the forefront of the resistance to the Green New Deal on Wednesday in Houston, touting a conservative think tank’s new study that claims the legislation would raise the average Texas family’s annual electricity bill by more than $12,000 over the next decade.
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Roy Moore Asks Alabama Judge to Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit
In his second run for U.S. Senate, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Monday asked an Alabama state judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from a woman who said he molested her when she was 14 — allegations that derailed his campaign in the 2017 special election.
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