Political insiders are already sussing out potential candidates for high-profile 2026 contests. Among the possibilities: State Rep. Chip LaMarca challenging U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

Lisa Seminaras loss will increase the Senate Democratic majority to 25-11 when the new terms and 2025 legislative session begin on Jan. 8.

The GOP will have control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House, making passing and enacting reconciliation bills easier.

Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first U.S. Senator to speak up against the rhetoric and tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, in her 1950 Declaration of Conscience speech on the Senate floor. She will go down in history for it. As of now, Maine Sen. Susan Collins will be remembered for saying that Donald […]

For GOP leaders to abdicate the Senates oversight responsibility would set a precedent that Republicans would later regret and upset the checks and balances so vital to a healthy democratic republic.

Iowa State Sen. Janice Weiner, D-Iowa City, will lead Iowas Senate Democrats in the next legislative session. Weiner is a first-term state senator from Iowa City and previously served on the Iowa City City Council until she was elected to the state senate in 2022. Before serving in public office, Weiner was a foreign service...The post

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst will lead the U.S. Senates DOGE caucus, which will work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency formed by President-elect Donald Trump as he looks to slash government regulations and workforce. Ernst has long advocated to cut government waste and bureaucracy during her time in the Senate. Ernst...The post

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Democrats’ crushing loss in Montana’s nationally important U.S. Senate race settled a fierce political debate over whether a surge of newcomers in the past decade favored Republicans and if one of the new arrivals could even take high office...

State Senate Democrats are at long last questioning New York's tax subsidies for Hollywood but only to burn the money somewhere else.

Washingtons Senate Democratic caucus will soon have three openings.

Makary, who will need to be confirmed by the Senate, has defended controversial Trump cabinet pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On November 27, 2018, by Executive Order 13851, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in Nicaragua.  On October 24, 2022,…The post

Dear Mr. Speaker:   (Dear Madam President:) Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency…The post

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) is set to lead the newly created Senate DOGE Caucus a nod to President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which will work outside the government to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,Trump said in a statement. "Proud to be the top...

While the committee's new leadership will not become official until next year, Collins, one of the Senate's most senior members, has previously signaled her intention to take the chair position.