Oh c’mon: [email protected] on @MeetThePress shows regret for Senate Dems going nuclear for most noms in 2013: “I don’t think we should’ve made that change when we look back at it.” —
Chuck Schumer is flat out bad as Minority Leader. I mean, he is really bad at this job. Dayen: McConnell had a great insight as minority leader: There’s a finite amount of Senate floor time, and any
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth recently had a baby. That has led to what is evidently a serious issue for the Senate–will babies be allowed on the Senate floor. And you may not be surprised th
If you had told me even 5 years ago that Republicans in 2018 would be openly moving toward attacking the direct election of senators, even someone as pessimistic as I am would not have believed it. Bu
The conservative dream of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment will not go away. The idea that the people could have the direct election of senators seems utterly uncontroversial to 99.9 percent of Ame
Chuck Schumer is finally slowing the Senate to a halt in response to the TrumpCare bill. “If Republicans won’t relent and debate their healthcare bill in the open for the American people to se
This story about the racial makeup of top Democratic staffers in the Senate is more than a little dismaying: “They are all so phony,” the staffer told me. “Every time I hear any of the Democrati
We’ve been hitting this point for months, but once again, if the Democrats don’t take the Senate, Republicans simply will not allow Hillary Clinton to name a justice to the Supreme Court,