Tag: Senate

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has emerged as a potential contender for Hatch's Senate seat should the Senate Finance Committee chairman decide to leave Congress after next year. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he’ll encourage Orrin Hatch to seek re-election

Sarah Bedford · December 4, 2017 7:09 pm

Hatch advisors recently reached out to Bannon and spoke with the Breitbart News executive chairman about 2018, signaling the senator could be having second thoughts about retiring. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Steve Bannon mulls Orrin Hatch endorsement to block Mitt Romney

David M. Drucker · December 3, 2017 7:49 pm

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was a critical vote in the early hours of Saturday morning. Collins came onboard for the GOP tax plan after promises from leadership that the Senate would bring a bipartisan bill to the floor known as Alexander-Murray. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans send Obamacare individual mandate repeal to conference

Robert King, Kimberly Leonard · December 2, 2017 6:53 am

The two centrist Republicans said the "skinny" repeal bill that they voted against in July included more than just repeal of the individual mandate. (AP images)

Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski defend opposition to individual mandate

Robert King · December 1, 2017 12:27 am

Conservative groups criticize ‘flawed’ score for GOP tax bill

Pete Kasperowicz · November 30, 2017 9:49 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why voting for Roy Moore is bad and you should feel bad

Siraj Hashmi · November 30, 2017 10:55 am

Senate GOP was trying to negotiate a debt trigger to the tax reform bill, even as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was moving toward setting up the first procedural vote. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans scramble to negotiate debt trigger in tax bill as McConnell plans first vote

Joseph Lawler · November 29, 2017 7:47 pm

The CBO estimate gives Democrats ammunition to bolster their claims that Alexander-Murray won't help offset the mandate repeal. (Bloomberg)

CBO: Extending Obamacare subsidies won’t change coverage loss caused by individual mandate repeal

Robert King · November 29, 2017 5:21 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said the HHS secretary should oversee efforts on the opioid crisis. "The federal government does not need a new czar. Once confirmed, you need to be the one to take charge of leading the federal government response and letting us know how to help," he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lamar Alexander urges Trump administration to not appoint opioid ‘czar’

Kimberly Leonard · November 29, 2017 3:30 pm

Roy Moore regains footing in Alabama Senate race: Poll

David M. Drucker · November 29, 2017 8:05 am

Other Democrats shared Murray's sentiment. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., noted that if the Affordable Care Act gets unravelled then it couldn't be fixed by restoring the payments to insurers, which Trump halted last month. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats push back on Trump’s embrace of bipartisan Obamacare deals

Robert King · November 29, 2017 2:07 am

Any honest reading of the Antiquities Act reveals that it was created to protect "landmarks," "structures," and "objects" -- not vast swaths of land. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

Trump to visit Utah Monday to announce shrinking of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase monuments: Reports

Josh Siegel · November 28, 2017 9:27 pm