LawCommentary
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., recently took to the Senate floor to boast that the institution was back to work. His proof: A Washington Times… Read More
PoliticsNews
Conservative critics of President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Library of Congress were blindsided Wednesday when a key Republican engineered her lopsided confirmation by… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Washington is broken. And American politics in 2016 seems to be a competition to assign blame for the federal government’s dysfunction, rising costs, and habitual… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In 2014, Republicans won a majority in Senate. However, if you’ve been watching the Senate lately, you’d be forgiven for wondering who is actually in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The hypocrisy of Democrats in Congress when it comes to combatting the Zika virus is not only outrageous, it’s dangerous. The latest data from the Centers… Read More
PoliticsNews
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., seized control of the Senate floor Wednesday morning in an effort to force lawmakers to agree on legislation that would enforce… Read More
PoliticsNews
The Senate voted 85-13 Tuesday to advance an annual defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft. But that doesn’t mean… Read More
PoliticsFeature
Before he made his first million, before he did business on six continents, and before he became a Fortune 500 CEO, David Perdue got his… Read More
EconomyNews
The U.S. Senate’s first spending bill of 2016 allocates $261 million more than President Barack Obama requested and lacks significant conservative amendments, but it still sailed… Read More
PoliticsNews
After a week of campaigning, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has called it quits on a short-lived effort to win a post inside Senate leadership. A… Read More
PoliticsNews
A group of 75 conservative leaders want Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to promise that Congress will not… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. has introduced an amendment aimed at curtailing the widespread abuse of welfare benefits by Cuban migrants. The measure, introduced as an… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Senate is often referred to as a “club” — a term that certainly fits. The nickname was reinforced last week by a behind the scenes account… Read More
PoliticsNews
Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah plan to introduce a bill today that attempts to unravel the Justice Department’s controversial program… Read More
EducationNews
John King Jr.’s leadership of New York’s education department led one Democratic senator to vote against King’s confirmation as President Barack Obama’s pick for education… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The opening words of the preamble to the United States Constitution are familiar to us all: “We the People.” But what exactly do they mean?… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Washington political establishment has hit the panic button. Not because they are afraid of any one individual or candidate, but because they are afraid… Read More
PoliticsNews
Sen. Mike Lee is willing to drop his objection to the Flint, Mich., federal aid package under one condition: It can’t add to the deficit…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Anyone who agrees that the federal government has gotten too big and that Washington lawmakers are addicted to spending money we don’t have should applaud… Read More
PoliticsNews
If you give a city a bailout, it’s bound to ask for another. That’s the philosophical foundation of Sen. Mike Lee’s opposition to federal aid… Read More
PoliticsNews
The Virginia Tech professor who discovered toxic lead levels in Flint’s drinking water said he finds a federal aid bill for the Michigan city “disappointing.”… Read More
SecurityNews
Sen. Tim Scott vowed Thursday that the Republican-led Congress will “stand strong and use every weapon in our arsenal” to stop President Barack Obama from… Read More
PoliticsNews
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., believes that the country is in a time of “constitutional crisis,” and he served up a history lesson at the annual… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Is the United States facing a constitutional crisis? Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., thinks so, saying that the Democratic Party has largely gone post-constitutional and that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The federal government is broken, and congressional weakness is to blame. The authors of the Constitution made Congress the most powerful of the federal government’s… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
After Republicans won a majority in the Senate and maintained their majority in the House in November 2014, I proposed that the two chambers take… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s been reported that some Republican senators are looking to eliminate the filibuster on the Motion to Proceed to appropriations bills, citing frustration at the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has made the case that the Senate filibuster should be preserved. The freshman senator told The Daily Signal: Senators from both… Read More
PoliticsNews
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama laid out his agenda in his final State of the Union. On Wednesday morning, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, responded to President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address in a one-minute video Tuesday night.
