Tag: Republicans

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters about the possibility of a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Congress and President Donald Trump continue to bicker over his demand that lawmakers fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight Friday.

McConnell hits the gas on judges with new green light

Susan Ferrechio · April 7, 2019 4:00 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Sen.Thom Tillis, R-N.C., center, speaks with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tillis has said he will vote to block President Donald Trump's border emergency as some GOP senators plan to join Democrats in a rebuke of Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border.

NC Republican Sen. Thom Tillis flip-flops his way toward primary challenge

David M. Drucker · April 4, 2019 4:06 am

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An amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill would add 20,000 new border-patrol agents.

House Republican: ‘Catch and release’ in full effect at border

Anna Giaritelli · April 2, 2019 3:10 am

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Academia bolsters the Green New Deal’s policymaking by make-believe

Casey Given · March 28, 2019 6:37 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accompanied by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.

Pelosi: GOP are ‘scaredy-cats’ for attacking Schiff over Trump probe

Susan Ferrechio · March 28, 2019 4:03 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to members of the media following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

Energy and Environment

McConnell video mocks Democrats who voiced support for Green New Deal, then voted ‘present’ on it

Katelyn Caralle · March 27, 2019 4:32 pm

Devin Nunes.

#GoodLuck: Odds stacked against Devin Nunes in his lawsuit against Twitter

James Langford · March 20, 2019 4:00 am

In this March 9, 2019, photo, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during an event in St. George, S.C.

Beltway Confidential

Democrats are outpacing Trump with their embrace of the destruction of norms

Tiana Lowe Doescher · March 18, 2019 6:06 pm

Missouri Republican Rep. Ann Wagner speaks to supporters at her campaign office where she was seeking her third term in office.

Ann Wagner reboots suburban caucus to stem GOP decline in key battlegrounds

David M. Drucker · March 15, 2019 4:05 am

The clean energy package implements some of the long-time priorities of GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Energy and Environment

Natural Resources Committee derailed by ‘fluff’

John Siciliano · March 15, 2019 4:00 am

Sens. Ben Sasse, Ted Cruz, and Thom Tillis are pictured.

Sasse, Cruz, and Tillis: Trump’s three amigos

Washington Examiner · March 14, 2019 11:19 pm

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., waits for the elevator after speaking on the Senate floor, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Please, Sen. Sasse, less grandstanding and more actually standing up to Trump

Tiana Lowe Doescher · March 14, 2019 8:35 pm