Senate

Herschel Walker, 59 — the Heisman Trophy winner and Georgia college football legend — tweeted a cryptic video last week suggesting he might enter the Republican primary for a chance to run next year against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), the New York Times reports. The big picture: Former President Trump...

EXCLUSIVE – Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia is leaving the door wide open to a potential 2022 run to return to the Senate. "I have not ruled anything out," Loeffler said in a Fox News interview this weekend. Loeffler, who was appointed to the Senate by Republican Gov. Brian...

Stifling summer heat is here — weeks early. Heat stroke prevents us from focusing our feeble minds on one topic, so here’s a potpourri of issues in the news. Former Utah House member Becky Edwards has kicked off a campaign for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination next year against Sen. Mike Lee. Club for Growth Action, a national conservative SuperPAC that has endorsed Lee, has already mailed attack ads against Edwards and Ally Isom, another potential opponent. Is this a smart strategy and is Lee vulnerable?

The long march toward equal rights for gay, lesbian and transgender Americans — whose advocates have eyed major advances with complete Democratic control in Washington — has run into a wall of opposition in the U.S. Senate. Floundering alongside other liberal priorities such as voting rights, gun control and police...

WASHINGTON — The fight for D.C. statehood continues this week at the U.S. Capitol as proponents prepare to make their case in front of a Senate committee. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs is scheduled for Tuesday morning, according to a statement from D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump endorsed Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka on Friday, pledging to campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him of inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. "Lisa Murkowski is bad for Alaska," Trump said in a statement....

The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Jackson is widely seen in Democratic circles as a potential Supreme Court justice. Former Obama Administration Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs Christopher Kang joins Tiffany Cross to discuss.

PRESIDENT BIDEN’S return from Europe finds the Senate engaged in intensified and — to a surprising degree — constructive bargaining on a bipartisan infrastructure package. Previously a project of 10 senators, evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, that effort now enjoys at least tentative support from 10 Democrats and 11 Republicans. The latter figure is the crucial, and encouraging, one, since it implies that, once a bill gets hammered out, there could be 60 votes to defeat a filibuster — assuming that all 50 Democratic senators vote for cloture as well.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed Republican Kelly Tshibaka in the 2022 Alaska race for U.S. Senate, calling Tshibaka “MAGA all the way” and indicating he will visit the state to campaign for her. “I look forward to campaigning in Alaska for Kelly Tshibaka,” Trump said in an emailed...

Senate Democrats repeatedly claimed that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett would strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also known as Obamacare — if she was confirmed, but those predictions were proven false on Thursday. Barrett voted with the majority in a 7-2 decision to uphold Obamacare on...

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association favors the Senate highway bill to the House highway bill, which is full of “anti-trucker” provisions. Unlike the House version, the Senate bill does not include measures to increase minimum insurance requirement on motor carriers, and it doesn’t mandate screening for obstructive sleep apnea. Land Line also recently outlined some of the measures in the Senate version that OOIDA supports, including attempts to improve the National Consumer Complaint Database and the creation of a Truck Leasing Task Force.