Tag: Senate

President Trump pauses during a meeting on Wednesday in the Cabinet Room of the White House with members of Congress to discuss school and community safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump sides with Democrats on background checks, upends fragile Senate gun talks

Susan Ferrechio · February 28, 2018 11:55 pm

Congressional investigators posed as first-time buyers of fentanyl and found six online sellers able to easily ship the drug from overseas to the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senators propose new wave of programs to battle opioid epidemic

Robert King · February 27, 2018 7:01 pm

Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, accompanied by Attorney Josh Rosenkranz, left, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft Corp. over a warrant for emails that were sought as part of a drug trafficking investigation.

Justices wade into fight over email data stored overseas

Melissa Quinn · February 27, 2018 6:41 pm

Republican John Kasich of Ohio, Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper and Alaska's Bill Walker, an independent, pushed for the two bills during a press conference Friday at the National Press Club. (AP)

Bipartisan governors seek new momentum for Obamacare bills

Robert King · February 23, 2018 6:21 pm

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on President Trump's nominations to courts across the nation have been fraught with controversy over so-called "blue slips." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Chuck Grassley: Senate Democrats are trying to stall Trump’s nominations by rewriting the history of ‘blue slips’

Sen. Chuck Grassley · February 22, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has introduced a campus free speech that many in D.C. have already panned as merely symbolic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Orrin Hatch’s campus free speech bill is sorely needed

Nicole Neily · February 21, 2018 11:33 pm

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., met with top White House officials to discuss her midterm Senate bid. The conversations were confirmed on Tuesday by Republican sources and described as positively disposed toward her campaign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Marsha Blackburn met White House officials as Bob Corker reconsidered Senate bid

David M. Drucker · February 21, 2018 12:12 am

".@MittRomney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah," Trump said in a tweet. "He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full support and endorsement!" (AP)

Trump endorses Mitt Romney for Utah Senate seat

Al Weaver · February 20, 2018 2:32 am

"Never too many cooks in the kitchen," Mitt Romney tweeted Monday evening. (Twitter)

Public servant Mitt Romney serves pancakes for grandkids, woos voters

Anna Giaritelli · February 19, 2018 10:54 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, arrives to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal along with committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., left, and committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Orrin Hatch apologizes to Rob Porter’s ex-wives for statement saying Porter was ‘a decent man’

Naomi Lim · February 19, 2018 1:59 am

"We don't want to lose the seat, and this looks like a pretty formidable candidate," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell says Trump should support Mitt Romney’s Senate bid

Katie Leach · February 17, 2018 10:38 pm

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now a Republican Senate candidate in Utah, called President Trump a "phony" and a "fraud" during Trump's 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mitt Romney: As senator, if Trump ‘says something I don’t like, I will call it like I see it’

Diana Stancy Correll · February 17, 2018 4:04 am