Tag: Senate

Watch: Progressive, pro-Constitution group fails civics quiz during protest

Joel Gehrke · March 4, 2016 5:42 pm

"I think it is fair to ask, why would the president cut funding for the Corps of Engineers at a time when more investment is needed," he said. (AP File Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Lamar Alexander: Obama budget could be ‘catastrophic’ to riverways

John Siciliano · March 2, 2016 10:17 pm

Alexander noted a number of legislative efforts of Rubio's, something some backers have struggled with. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Lamar Alexander endorses Rubio

Curt Mills · February 28, 2016 8:17 pm

The Senate voted 80-6 to advance the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to a final vote, which will be held after 30 hours of debate. Califf needs a simple majority to be confirmed. (AP Photo)

Senate tees up final vote for FDA nominee

Robert King · February 22, 2016 11:46 pm

Orrin Hatch, before endorsing Marco Rubio for president, had previously endorsed Jeb Bush and sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. (AP Photo)

Orrin Hatch endorses Marco Rubio

Ryan Lovelace · February 22, 2016 8:49 pm

"If you're the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit, you've got a lot of power, right?" said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska. "So that might be one of the reasons they don't want to see it split."

Bill would reduce reach of liberal court

Joel Gehrke · February 22, 2016 5:01 am

"Based upon past experience, they will fight very hard to not let anybody on the court who is not liberal, or who is not going to have their judicial philosophy, and in a way I don't blame them for that," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hatch: Dems want judges who ‘don’t even give a damn what the Constitution says’

Joel Gehrke · February 21, 2016 5:00 am

"A true solution for the 3.5 million Americans living in Puerto Rico, including reforms to strengthen Puerto Rico's Medicaid program, such as raising the federal share of Medicaid funding, requires Congress to act," said HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama administration seeks more Medicaid money for Puerto Rico

Robert King · February 18, 2016 4:21 pm

"I think it's a pretty tough case to try and bring," Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a longtime Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNN. (AP Photo)

Hatch: Trump’s birther case against Cruz is ‘hard case to make’

Joel Gehrke · February 17, 2016 10:01 pm

Rep. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is worried President Obama will issue an executive order to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hatch slams possible Obama move on drug prices

Robert King · February 11, 2016 5:16 pm

IRS announces taxpayer data stolen in cyberattack

Rudy Takala · February 10, 2016 2:14 pm

The Lamar Alexander prize winner in the New Hampshire primary is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ran 3.05 percent and 7,991 votes behind Sen. Marco Rubio. (Kevin R. Wexler/The Record of Bergen County via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Who won the Lamar Alexander prize in New Hampshire?

Michael Barone · February 10, 2016 1:59 pm