PoliticsNews
21 Republicans Draw Line in Shutdown Showdown: No Deal Without DOGE
More than 20 Republican members of the House and Senate sent a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike… Read More
SocietyNews
Bill to Ban Biological Males From Women’s Sports Blocked by Democrats
Senate Democrats voted late Monday afternoon to block a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women’s sports from reaching the floor…. Read More
EnergyNews
Senate Democrats Seek to Hamstring Trump on Energy Policies
Senate Democrats on Wednesday will attempt to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to combat the energy affordability crisis in the United States by forcing a… Read More
PoliticsNews
The GOP-Led Senate’s Rapid Pace of Trump Cabinet Confirmations
With the confirmation of Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget Thursday night, the Senate has outpaced itself for the number of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Independent in Name Only: Maine Senator Consistently Votes Liberal Democratic Party Line
Sen. Angus King of Maine bills himself as an “independent,” but his voting record is such that if it could, the Federal Trade Commission might… Read More
LawCommentary
Unsurprisingly, Democrats Call on Biden to Break the Law Before Leaving Office
The Equal Rights Amendment is dead. Not, as Miracle Max put it in “The Princess Bride,” “mostly dead,” but “all dead.” ERA advocates, however, just… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democrats’ Brazen Hypocrisy on Senate Filibuster
Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democratic Senate Candidates Shunning Harris on Campaign Trail
With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Two Years In, Inflation Reduction Act Proves to Be the Climate Boondoggle Critics Predicted
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to the energy transition today is… Read More
SecurityNews
EXCLUSIVE: ‘He Sees All White People as Racist’: Military Assessment Criticizes Air Force Colonel’s Leadership
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Col. Ben Jonsson, an Air Force officer who accused his fellow “white colonels” of being “blind to institutional racism,” is the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Schumer Shred Senate Dress Code Into Rags
As if Bidenflation, collapsing school test scores, a demolished “border,” vagrant encampments, stool-stained sidewalks, blood-soaked streets, juvenile genital mutilation, surging sex slavery, and mounting foreign threats were not enough, Democrats just trashed the majesty of what has been… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Left Sheds Crocodile Tears Over Military Pay to Dodge Debate About Abortion Extremism
The Left wants our government and institutions to operate as if its values were the norm and must be enforced—or else. That idea hit a… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Chuck Schumer’s National Security Problem
An old Washington saying is “Show me your budget and I’ll show you your priorities.” Perhaps an appropriate modification when describing the U.S. Senate should… Read More
PoliticsNews
Senate Democrats Block Ohio Lawmaker’s Bill to Prohibit Federal Mask Mandates
Senate Democrats on Thursday opposed a request from Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, for floor consideration of his bill banning federal COVID-19 mask mandates. The motion… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Pentagon Spokesman Makes Misleading Claim About Sen. Tuberville
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder misled reporters at Monday’s briefing when he claimed Defense Department legislative staff were in contact with Sen. Tommy… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Analysis of Voting Patterns in Congress Shows Hill Democrats Are the True Extremists
In an effort to divide the nation that he pledged to unite, President Joe Biden routinely decries “MAGA extremists in the Republican Party.” A March 27 White House fact sheet, for… Read More
LawCommentary
Senate Democrats’ Fickle Love-Hate Relationship With ‘Blue Slips’ on Judicial Nominees
With the 118th Congress underway, the Senate’s process of evaluating President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations has resumed. This means that, joining death and taxes on… Read More
Weak Action, Bold Talk on Russia
President Obama probably thought he was being clever. “The 1980’s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back,: he chided Mitt Romney during… Read More
Washington Post Gets the Numbers Wrong on Judicial Nominees
The Washington Post claims that the confirmation of President Obama’s judicial nominees might “get relatively close to Bush’s eight-year total”—if the Senate continues confirming them… Read More
News
Seven Democrats on Line After Backing Obama’s Rejected Nominee
Senate Democrats who joined with Republicans to deliver an unexpected defeat Wednesday to President Obama’s pick for a key Justice Department post got much of… Read More
December Jobs Report Shows More Americans Giving Up on Finding a Job
The December jobs report is out – and it’s not full of delayed holiday cheer for Americans struggling in this economy. “Today’s jobs report gave… Read More
Harry Reid and the Nuclear Option: A Shortsighted Alternative to Senate Deliberation
Earlier this week, Senate Republicans halted the confirmation of Robert Wilkins to the D.C. Circuit, making it the third nomination to that court as part… Read More
The Vitter Amendment on Obamacare: Senate Liberals’ Curious Complaint
Last week, Senator David Vitter (R–LA) proposed an amendment that would end exemptions for White House political appointees and stop illegal taxpayer subsidies for Congress… Read More
It’s Tax Freedom Day: Finally We Get to Work for Ourselves!
April 18 marks the 108th day of 2013. It is also Tax Freedom Day, as calculated by the Tax Foundation. Tax Freedom Day is the… Read More
The No-Surprise Senate Budget: Higher Spending, Higher Taxes, No Real “Balance”
After going nearly four years without producing a budget resolution, Senate Democrats today released a plan confirming their mantra about “balanced” approaches has nothing to… Read More
Senate Sequester Plan: They Can’t Be Serious
The Hill newspaper demonstrated a keen knack for understatement today with its account of Senate Democrats’ $110 billion sequester replacement proposal: “The bill would appear… Read More
Standing Filibuster Would Cause More Senate Delays
In an interview on January 11, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) told a Nevada television station that the Senate would likely not take the… Read More
Sen. McConnell: Americans Don’t Approve of Anything Obama Has Done
In an exclusive interview with The Heritage Foundation, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sharply criticized President Obama for engaging in class warfare and accused… Read More
Setting the Record Straight on Federal Disaster Funding
Liberals have spent the past two weeks asking Congress to write a blank check for federal disaster funding. They’ve concentrated their attacks on House Majority… Read More
OPM: The Public Option in Disguise
In order to secure the votes to pass a health care bill, Senate Democrats were forced to scrap the widely-unpopular public option. But before chalking… Read More
