U.S. Senate News

A new project has been launched to show the need of religious institutions, which are in danger of losing influence in society as they face challenges to their existence today. “We need our faith-based institutions,” Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores, R-Texas, said at the launch of the America Without Faith project at the Hillsdale…

Three days before the federal government’s spending authority expired, the Senate advanced a 10-week continuing resolution by a 72-26 vote, putting spending on autopilot and avoiding a looming government shutdown. The makeshift spending agreement allows lawmakers in the upper chamber to skip Capitol Hill for the campaign trail with barely a month before the November…

Before lawmakers in the House could read the Senate’s plan to fund the government after the end of the month, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, was dismissing the measure out of hand, calling it “unconstitutional.” Congress is trying to hammer out a compromise to extend federal funding before the government’s annual spending authority expires Oct. 1….

The chairman of the largest conservative caucus in Congress is pushing House Republicans to pass a stopgap spending package before the Senate can finish work on its version. The government’s authority to spend money expires at the end of the fiscal year, Oct. 1. And Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is racing ahead on the…

Sen. James Lankford introduced legislation last week that would ban late-term dismemberment abortion across the country, in efforts to build consensus and find common ground among Americans. “There are a lot of arguments right now about life and about its role in American society,” Lankford told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Friday. “Obviously,…

Are you concerned about the plight of international refugees? Would you like to see the U.S. government take decisive, constructive action on behalf of displaced persons across the globe who have been forced to flee their homes? If so, you’re invited to “stand up against the voices of intolerance” this Sunday in Washington, D.C., where…

The House of Representatives has set its sights on reasserting congressional power that Republican leaders say has been slowly usurped over the years by courts and bureaucrats. Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., last month introduced legislation that may prove to be a key piece of that effort to reclaim power from what conservatives call the administrative state….

The Senate’s failure to advance legislation to punish “sanctuary” cities has put a spotlight on how local jurisdictions choose to interact with immigration-related requests from the federal government. Despite the Obama administration’s efforts to improve the cooperation between cities and counties, and federal immigration authorities, obstacles to bolstering those ties remain. The legislation that Democrats…

The Senate will vote next week on legislation that would block congressional funding to cities and municipalities that don’t comply with immigration-related requests from the federal government. Since the killing in San Francisco last July of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle and the arrest in her death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico with multiple deportations, Republicans…

Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and other Republican lawmakers are working to ensure that taxpayers aren’t on the hook for financing that could end up benefiting Iran and its state-owned entities. Roskam introduced legislation Tuesday prohibiting the federal Export-Import Bank from providing assistance either directly or indirectly to Iran and associated entities, including its state-run airline,…

The U.S. military response was perplexingly inadequate Sept. 11, 2012,  the night Americans were attacked by Islamist terrorists in Benghazi, Libya. That’s one overarching conclusion reached by two leading Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi after an investigation lasting a year and a half. Armed U.S. drones “could have made a difference,” they…