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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House Passes Measure to Assess Grid Vulnerability to Electromagnetic Pulse
Members of Congress want to know more about whether America’s adversaries possess the capability to shut down the nation’s power grid. The intelligence authorization bill passed by the House of Representatives on May 30 includes a provision mandating the director of national intelligence submit to Congress within six months of the bill’s passage “a report… -
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House Committee Passes Temporary FSOC Reforms
The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee passed two good reform bills aimed at fixing the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Both pieces of legislation address major problems with the council, but they provide only a temporary solution. The FSOC’s very existence perpetuates the too-big-to-fail problem. Future government bailouts are now more likely because… -
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Senate’s Minibus Falls Short on Spending Reforms
The Senate’s “minibus” spending bill lumps together three appropriations bills—Commerce/Justice/Science, Transportation/Housing and Urban Development, and Agriculture—into one funding bill. The proposed minibus bill (which has recently stalled in the Senate) not only continues to fund programs that don’t work; it actually proposes to toss them more money in the process. Just consider the $51.2 billion… -
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Mississippi’s U.S. Senate Race Presents Referendum on Federal Spending
Do Mississippians want more federal money or less government? That’s essentially the choice being offered to them in the June 24 U.S. Senate GOP primary runoff election between incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and state Sen. Chris McDaniel. The winner faces Democrat and former U.S. congressman Travis Childers in November. Federal spending in Mississippi is not chicken feed. State Budget…