Heard On The Hill · 115th Congress
Flashback Friday: D’Amato’s Filibuster
D’Amato’s Long Island accent rang through the Senate chamber as part of a 15-hour-and-14-minute filibuster.
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D’Amato’s Long Island accent rang through the Senate chamber as part of a 15-hour-and-14-minute filibuster.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans said they were trying to work out a mid-morning cloture vote on the nomination, but one was not officially announced when the Senate adjourned
As the final vote on the Senate floor on whether to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looms, Democrats’ odds of recruiting two more lawmakers to their side to foil the confirmation have dwindled
He had worked for Flake for 13 years — most recently as chief of staff — when the senator announced in October 2017 he wouldn’t seek re-election. Morse thought it over until January.
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But Trump’s vicious ridicule of Ford’s harrowing and heartfelt Senate testimony was so hateful that it should have made Satan bow his head in disgust.
Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania are favored to win re-election even though they are running in states that backed President Donald Trump in 2016.
Take the West Virginia Senate race.
Medicare negotiation passed the House in 2007 with unanimous support from Democrats, but stalled in the Senate.
A number of Republican senators received police escorts Tuesday afternoon to get them past demonstrators gathered in the basement of the Russell Building near the terminus of the Senate subway.
I would re-nominate him and I would take this case to the American people and I’d ask voters in Indiana, in Missouri, in North Dakota and other places where Trump won — saying who he would nominate if
Inside Elections downgraded the re-election chances of 21 Republican House members last week.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
“All of us regret where we are,” Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts said after a meeting last week with the top negotiators from the two chambers.
. | Three Democratic senators running for re-election in states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 announced Friday they will not support his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Bredtt Kavanaugh.
At 2 p.m. sharp, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley abruptly adjourned the hearing.
Jenkins lost a primary for the GOP Senate nomination in May.
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Love has been docked by McAdams and in the media for questionable campaign fundraising methods after she did not face a primary challenger for her re-election bid in Utah’s 4th District.
But in recent days, Trump has steadily ramped up his rhetoric about the accusers — much more than the Senate Republicans who will ultimately decide Kavanaugh’s fate.