U.S. Senate News
This section focuses on the upper chamber of Congress, from major policy debates to confirmation hearings. The Daily Signal provides a conservative look at Senate priorities.
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opinion
Congress Is Lying to You About FISA
The U.S. House is expected to vote Friday on a two-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, commonly known as FISA. This transcript has been edited for length and reprinted with permission from Tucker Carlson. A few years ago, we learned conclusively that, in fact, the FBI and the federal intel agencies—the dozen or… -
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Journalist Says CBS News Crossed ‘Red Line,’ Calls on Congress to Protect First Amendment
CBS News “crossed a red line” when it seized her reporting records, veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says. Herridge testified before Congress Thursday in support of legislation to protect journalists and their sources. Her testimony comes about two months after CBS News fired Herridge as senior investigative correspondent and seized her files. “CBS… -
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3 Senate Dems Vote With Republicans to Dismantle Plank of Biden’s EV Agenda
Three Senate Democrats crossed the aisle on Wednesday to vote against a plank of the Biden administration’s electric vehicle agenda. Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Jon Tester of Montana voted with their Republican colleagues to nullify a Federal Highway Administration rule that critics have characterized as an effort to reduce… -
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Senator Vows to Go Down ‘Screaming and Fighting’ in Mayorkas Impeachment Battle
Two months ago, the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Next week, the Senate will receive the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to dismiss the charges just as quickly as he receives them. “Schumer is going to table it,” Sen. Roger Marshall,… -
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‘Targeting, Surveilling, and Manipulating Americans’: Time for Senate to Pass TikTok Bill, Congresswoman Says
A rare bipartisan agreement has formed in Washington around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party. In a 352-65 vote last month that included 197 Republicans and 155… -
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Senate Republicans at Odds With Democrats on Banning This Digital Currency
If you’re a fan of the U.S. dollar, you can keep it from turning into a surveillance tool of the federal government—at least according to a new bill introduced in the Senate. A few days ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, along with four other senators, reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. The bill would ban… -
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Congress to Decide TikTok’s Fate in US
TikTok might soon be facing a choice: Divest from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company, or cease to operate in the U.S. “This is not about the content that is being posted on TikTok,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says. “It’s about the conduct of the company that controls TikTok, that makes the decisions, that has… -
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‘MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE’: Senators Rip FEMA on Poor Handling of Illegal Immigrant Travel
Key Senate Republicans blasted the Federal Emergency Management Agency for shoddy record-keeping regarding the transportation of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. FEMA distributes grants to nonprofit organizations for shelter and travel expenses for illegal immigrants, but last month informed The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project that it has no documentation about how that taxpayer money has… -
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Republicans Must Use Leadership Change as Opportunity to End Business as Usual in Senate
With Wednesday’s announcement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will step down as the Republican Senate leader in November, conservatives have a generational opportunity. McConnell has been the Senate’s GOP leader for over 17 years. The choice senators will face now is between continuing business as usual or setting up the Senate to… -
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McConnell to Step Down as Senate Republican Leader
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will step down from his position in November, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The 82-year-old senator will announce the decision on Wednesday, the publication reported. He will have been the longest-serving Senate leader in United States history. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to… -
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IVF Isn’t the Pro-Life Option for Addressing Fertility Issues. Duckworth’s Senate Bill Isn’t the Solution.
The Left, and even many Republicans, have misrepresented the Alabama Supreme Court recent decision in the LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine case involving frozen embryos. The court sided with parents who pursued a wrongful-death lawsuit against a negligent in vitro fertilization clinic, where their frozen embryos were killed when a patient entered the unsecured… -
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McConnell Says Full Senate Trial on Mayorkas Impeachment Is ‘Best Way to Go Forward’
Senate Democrats need only a simple majority to dismiss the House’s impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a move that appears likely. The House voted Feb. 13 to impeach Mayorkas 214 to 213, with every Democrat voting no. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hasn’t said whether he would act to dismiss… -
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Mayorkas Had 3 Years to Secure Our Border. Americans Deserve a Real Senate Impeachment Trial.
Members of Congress have promised to “hold accountable” those in power so often that the phrase has become hollow. Exhibit A: Alejandro Mayorkas. For many months, President Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security has dodged responsibility for his direct implementation of a historic border crisis. Until now. On Feb. 13, the House successfully impeached Mayorkas for the irreparable… -
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Why Senate Has a Solemn Obligation to Conduct a Mayorkas Impeachment Trial
Rumors abound that Senate Democrats want to avoid holding a trial on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by “tabling” or otherwise dismissing the House impeachment articles. But doing so would be contrary to the Senate’s impeachment trial rules and its own historical practice. The Senate has never refused to hold… -
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These Republicans Demand a Full Senate Impeachment Trial for Mayorkas
Republicans controlled the Senate during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed a full Senate trial in public view even though he would vote that Trump wasn’t guilty of the House’s charges. Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces a similar choice with the House’s… -
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Senate Will ‘Pay for It’ If It Doesn’t Act on Mayorkas Impeachment, Rep. Mark Green Says
The House on Tuesday voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is not expected to vote to remove him from office. “There isn’t a whole lot of power we have,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said of House members’ ability to push the Senate… -
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5 Charts Show Why Congress Must Stop Deficit Spending
Both chambers of Congress are locked in fierce battles over spending legislation. A “supplemental” package has found bipartisan support in the Senate after the removal of flawed border and immigration provisions. However, its $95 billion price tag—$60 billion of which would go to Ukraine—means there will be stiff resistance in the House. Meanwhile, Congress is… -
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With Bipartisan Measure, Congress Could Expand Successful ‘One Door’ Policy on Welfare, Workforce
The federal government has more than 90 welfare and workforce programs spread across dozens of federal agencies, with funding flowing to thousands of state and local agencies and programs. Navigating the web of welfare and workforce assistance can be a nightmare. And, too often, Americans end up trapped in the welfare web instead of being assisted… -
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WATCH: GOP Senator Rips Into White House Blackmail on Deportations
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal on Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the White House’s threat to “reduce” deportations of illegal aliens if Republicans didn’t vote for the recent Senate border and foreign aid bill “ridiculous”: I guess we shouldn’t be all that surprised that this White House would do something like… -
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How One Senator’s Command Economy Proposal Could Put Air Travel Out of Reach and Cost Airport Workers’ Jobs
Airline prices—which are already 22% higher than they were two years ago—could get a whole lot more expensive and many airport workers could lose their jobs if a proposed amendment allowing the federal government to set the wages and benefits of airport workers makes its way into a Federal Aviation Administration bill. That proposal from…