Tag: Senate

Former Goldman Sachs banker will face questions about taxes, financial regulation and the federal debt. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mnuchin confirmation hearing set for Thursday

Joseph Lawler · January 13, 2017 7:07 pm

Senate Democrats requested that homeowners foreclosed on by Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin's bank testify at his confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Democrats want families foreclosed on by Mnuchin’s bank to testify at confirmation

Joseph Lawler · January 13, 2017 2:50 pm

The Senate will consider more than 100 amendments to a budget resolution aimed at starting Obamacare repeal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate girds for late-night marathon of votes

Robert King · January 11, 2017 11:04 pm

"We can't screw it up like the Democrats did, so we've got to be very careful," says Rep. Chris Collins. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

GOP frets botching Obamacare repeal

Nicole Duran · January 11, 2017 4:33 pm

Democrats say an investigation into Rep. Price's stock trading needs to occur before any confirmation hearings can begin. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate sets hearing for Trump’s HHS pick

Robert King · January 11, 2017 4:12 pm

Customers in the individual markets will need help buying insurance, Sen. Lamar Alexander says. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top GOP senator wants ‘rescue teams’ for customers as Obamacare is killed

Robert King · January 10, 2017 11:09 pm

Dems’ Hypocrisy on DeVos

Alice B. Lloyd · January 7, 2017 11:00 am

On Her Way Out, Barbara Boxer Flips Out

Charlotte Allen · January 6, 2017 10:15 am

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on Thursday that he would accept a potential nomination if President-elect Trump named him to the land's highest court. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mike Lee ‘would not say no’ if Trump nominated him for Supreme Court

Anna Giaritelli · January 6, 2017 1:30 am

Republican lawmakers want to know if ineligible people are receiving Medicaid. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Lawmakers question Medicaid integrity

Robert King · December 19, 2016 6:58 pm

A federal watchdog found nine out of 12 false Obamacare applications were approved this year during special enrollment periods. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Watchdog: Fake applications slip through Obamacare vetting

Robert King · December 15, 2016 5:13 pm

"We now find ourselves uniquely positioned to repeal the [Affordable Care Act], which was rife with failures and the broken promise of lowering healthcare costs for the American people, and advance alternatives to it," the committee wrote in a letter to the Republican Governors Association. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Republicans to weigh Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 13, 2016 6:20 pm