Tag: Elizabeth Warren

Confirmations have been slow under the Trump administration, partly due to delays on Capitol Hill, delays in naming candidates and the withdrawal of some picks. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

National Security

Senate votes to proceed with Trump’s deputy defense secretary nominee

Travis J. Tritten · July 17, 2017 10:30 pm

Shiva Ayyadurai is a Republican running for Senate in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elizabeth Warren’s challenger on Native American claim: ‘Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian’

Ariella Phillips · July 12, 2017 11:45 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., saw his efforts to advance right-to-try stall in the Senate last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate confirms Neomi Rao to lead White House office overseeing regulations

Josh Siegel · July 11, 2017 12:21 am

Shaub was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2013 and would have served a 5-year term, but he announced his resignation on Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elizabeth Warren: Resignation of Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub is ‘deeply unnerving’

Matthew Trunko · July 6, 2017 10:22 pm

Sen. John McCain, center, speaks during a press conference at the Resolute Support headquarters in Afghanistan. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, left, and Lindsey Graham are seen in the background. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

McCain, senators visit troops in Afghanistan for Fourth of July

Travis J. Tritten · July 4, 2017 6:03 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other prominent mainstream Democrats are inviting the legitimization of violence and dehumanizing language by implying Republican healthcare reforms are efforts to harm — or even kill — the poor. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Punch a Nazi, shoot a Republican — how far you want to take it is a matter of taste

Dan Hannan · July 3, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., had a fake phone conversation with late night show host Samantha Bee. (Screen shot)

Watch: Elizabeth Warren talks Samantha Bee off ‘the ledge of the death of democracy’

Daniel Chaitin · June 29, 2017 5:10 am

Banking Committee Democrats banded together to make the case that successful stress tests are a sign that the 2010 Dodd-Frank law is working. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Banks do well on stress tests, but Senate Democrats want to keep up pressure

Joseph Lawler · June 27, 2017 3:21 pm

What has changed is not so much the tenor of what people are saying, but where they're directing it and that, in an of itself, has the potential to be dangerous. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

Nasty political rhetoric is okay — as long as politicians use it on each other, not on policies

Jay Caruso · June 23, 2017 8:24 pm

She made a conscious decision to accuse her colleagues of intentionally taking "blood money" from sick Americans and giving it to their "rich buddies." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Are we supposed to take Elizabeth Warren’s ‘blood money’ rhetoric seriously or literally?

Emily Jashinsky · June 23, 2017 6:59 pm

Donald Trump and Kanye West pose for a picture in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York during the transition. A new bettor's line gives the president the highest odds to win reelection and West the lowest chances of beating Trump. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Washington Secrets

Gamblers see solid Trump re-election in 2020, Kanye last on list

Paul Bedard · June 20, 2017 6:26 pm

A woman walks past a Wells Fargo location in view of City Hall, left, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Elizabeth Warren wants 12 Wells Fargo Board members removed

Joseph Lawler, Matthew Trunko · June 19, 2017 7:10 pm