In our news wrap Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee criticized both the Trump and Obama administrations for a lack of urgency about Russian cyberattacks and election security. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen acknowledged there's a problem with making sure…
Ten years after a financial crisis rocked the nation's economy, the Senate is poised to pass legislation that would roll back some of the safeguards Congress put into place to prevent a relapse.
A rare bipartisan agreement on a bill, which reduces mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders, turned into a heated exchange after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his opposition to the bill. The bill was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate…
There are few cases like Romney’s, where a major party presidential nominee with no prior experience in Congress later ran for a seat in the House or Senate,…
Romney has been a persistent critic of President Donald Trump, but those close to Romney say he'll focus his campaign instead on Utah.
In our news wrap Thursday, the Senate voted on a series of immigration measures but came up short. A bipartisan compromise came closest to the needed 60 votes, but President Trump threatened a veto. Also, Sen. Chuck Grassley leveled a…
The Senate has now rejected four separate immigration proposals, suggesting that its debate on the issue could end in gridlock.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell started Tuesday suggesting that there was no reason that lawmakers could not reach a bipartisan immigration solution this week, and threw his support behind a plan mirroring President Trump's. But as he moved to begin…
This isn’t the first time the DACA issue has seemingly eclipsed other debates on immigration policy.
Congress' latest funding fight runs into a new barrier.
