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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5 Examples of How Congress Wastes Your Money Amid Inflation
The latest inflation numbers show 3.5% annual growth for consumer prices, still well above pre-pandemic levels. That means millions of families are struggling to get back to where they were in 2021. This should come as no surprise, since excessive deficit spending from Washington remains much too high. In 2023, the federal government spent $6.1 trillion (roughly $47,000 per household)… -
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Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices
The Pentagon told Congress it could not provide a required accounting of diversity training to Congress because it didn’t have enough people working in diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Congress mandated the Pentagon compile a report detailing how much the entire military spent on diversity training, salaries for… -
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Top 5 Ways Congress Can Respond to Campus Riots
This election cycle’s summer of rage has gotten an early start, as seemingly organized encampments have popped up on college campuses across the country. Although the national media has made the situation out to be an exercise of free speech under the First Amendment, these campus protests look more like riots and calls for acts… -
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Senator Says We Should Not Spend ‘Any Money Outside of This Country’ Until This Domestic Issue Is Addressed
Sen. Roger Marshall was one of only 15 Republican senators who voted against sending an additional $60 billion to Ukraine for its war against Russia. “One of my jobs is to prioritize where we’re spending the money,” Marshall says. “And I’m telling you, until we secure the border, I don’t think we should be spending… -
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Here’s How Green Groups Get Their Agendas Implemented in the Administrative State, Bypassing Congress
Most Americans may not have heard of the Department of the Interior, but this powerful administrative agency oversees more than one-fifth of America’s land area and much of its mineral and ocean resources. The Left’s dark money network has wielded influence at this massive agency to undermine oil and gas production and advance less reliable… -
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Can You Guess the Most Unpopular Leader in Congress?
It’s no secret that Congress is highly unpopular with the American people. For years, it consistently has ranked near the bottom of U.S. institutions. This month’s Gallup/Newsweek poll put its disapproval at 80%. But how about its leaders? Veteran pollster and TV host Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, surveyed 2,000 registered voters last week… -
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In Congress, US Border Security Takes Back Seat to Foreign Bailouts
Even to those of us living in the Washington swamp, the process of making laws is confusing. Worst of all is the appropriations process, where the trees are so dense you forget what a forest is. But as the now-deceased Notre Dame fundraiser James Frick said, “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me… -
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Long-Awaited Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas Arrive in Senate
The House delivered the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The articles are expected to be acted on quickly by the Democrat-controlled Senate, but not in the manner House GOP lawmakers are seeking. “We want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck… -
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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…