Sen. Mitt Romney and Sen. Joe Manchin’s bill to stabilize the national debt, which has more than doubled in the last decade, has been gaining bipartisan support in Congress. The Fiscal Stability Act aims to strengthen and stabilize the country’s fiscal health by establishing a commission to find solutions to decrease the national debt that … Read more
In 2015, Sen. Markwayne Mullin went to Israel along with several colleagues and their spouses. Two people on the trip said he picked the noses of sleeping members and their spouses on the bus. “It was just middle school,” one trip participant said. The wife of a former Republican congressman said Sen. Markwayne Mullin put … Read more
A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters union nearly got into a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate committee hearing, until Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and broke it up. The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien had posted in June. … Read more
Republican senators tore into their GOP colleague Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Wednesday night. They’d had enough of Tuberville’s months-long blockade of military promotions. “There’s a reason this has not been done this way for a couple hundred years,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said at one point. A handful of Senate Republicans on Wednesday evening tore into … Read more
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) ripped some Republicans in Congress when Stephen Colbert questioned him on his “excellent meme game” during Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Late Show.” Colbert asked Fetterman if it was awkward when he sees those people he’s “put up a devastating meme about” around the Capitol. “You all should need to know that … Read more
Speaking to a room full of Republican donors and influencers, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney made another plea for his party to coalesce around a single choice to take on President Donald Trump in the Republican primary. He also said he’s encouraged several Democratic senators — naming two — to run against President Joe Biden, but … Read more
WASHINGTON−Sen. Cory Booker was jogging Saturday in Jerusalem when the attacks began. As Hamas militants moved into Israel, as thousands of rockets were launched, the New Jersey Democrat was advised by his chief of staff to get back to his hotel, Booker said in a video Saturday evening on X, formerly Twitter. He took cover … Read more
The following is a transcript of an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, that aired on “Face the Nation” on Oct. 1, 2023. MARGARET BRENNAN We’re back now with South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, good to have you here in person. Senator, you just voted for a short term deal that … Read more
MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez opened the network’s “American Voices” on Saturday with a promise to stay away from covering the indictment of her father, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. But, she promised, her colleagues at NBC and MSNBC will continue to aggressively cover the story. Her father allegedly aided the government of Egypt and was … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse had been indicted Friday on costs that they took bribes of money, gold bars and a luxurious automobile for a spread of corrupt acts, together with having the Democrat use his affect over overseas affairs to learn the authoritarian authorities of … Read more