Tag: Elizabeth Warren

The Senate on Tuesday voted 84-12 to advance Jerome Powell's final confirmation vote to the floor. Powell is President Trump's nominee to head the Federal Reserve. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jerome Powell heads toward confirmation as Fed chairman as he clears procedural vote

Joseph Lawler · January 23, 2018 8:24 pm

After the government shutdown was resolved on Monday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee hand out some clothes which said: "I shut down the government, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." (Photo via NRSC)

NRSC hands out ‘Schumer shutdown’ T-shirts to top Senate Democrats

Mandy Mayfield · January 23, 2018 7:08 pm

Marvin Goodfriend is sworn in before testimony at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomination to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats pound Trump’s Fed nominee: ‘Why were you so wrong?’

Joseph Lawler · January 23, 2018 5:23 pm

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Phoenix Convention Center during the Netroots Nation convention Friday, July 17, 2015, in Phoenix. Warren on Friday pressed the 2016 presidential contenders to curb the influence of Wall Street banks, as she seeks to leave her imprint on the agenda of Hillary Rodham Clinton and rest of the Democratic field. (Cheryl Evans/The Arizona Republic via AP) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT

Beltway Confidential

Democrats still don’t have a Trump-era strategy

Emily Jashinsky · January 23, 2018 3:54 am

Sens. Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren were united in their opposition.

Top 2020 Democrats vote no on shutdown deal

Madeleine Morgenstern · January 22, 2018 10:17 pm

The shutdown turned out to be a mess for the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats’ shutdown miscalculation inflames the base it set out to please

Emily Jashinsky · January 22, 2018 9:44 pm

According to a new poll, 24 percent of registered voters want Oprah Winfrey to jump into the next presidential election, while 59 percent say she should stay out of the political race. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

59 percent of voters don’t want Oprah to run in 2020

Anna Giaritelli · January 17, 2018 12:58 pm

The media maven fueled speculation she was considering a presidential bid after delivering a fiery speech on Jan. 8 at the 75th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Oprah Winfrey would lose a Democratic primary to Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders: Poll

Naomi Lim · January 11, 2018 9:40 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., praised an energy company for lowering its rates in the wake of the new tax law, but her adulation for the business and the law ended there. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Elizabeth Warren ‘delighted’ energy company in Massachusetts is reducing rates due to GOP tax plan she opposes

Daniel Chaitin · January 11, 2018 12:43 am

"We're going to fight back against the extremes in both parties Ã¢â¬" the Steve Bannons and the Elizabeth Warrens of the world, who do not represent the best interests of this country," Thomas Donohue said in his annual "state of business" address. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Chamber of Commerce will fight ‘the Steve Bannons and Elizabeth Warrens’ in 2018 elections, CEO says

Joseph Lawler · January 10, 2018 3:39 pm

A police detective inspects an SUV that was damaged by bullets at a crime scene in Chicago on Sept. 3. Gun violence is a leading cause of death for African Americans ages 1 to 44. While African Americans comprise approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population, they experience nearly 24 percent of all firearm deaths and more than 54 percent of all firearm homicides. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

The fight over NIH research on gun violence

Kimberly Leonard · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

So far legislation to tackle high drug prices has not been high on the GOP's legislative agenda for 2018, as other issues such as immigration, infrastructure and welfare reform crowd out time in an election year.

Maryland to fight pharmacist ‘gag rule’ on drug costs

Robert King · January 9, 2018 5:01 am