Tag: Senate

More than 48 percent of Georgians voted for Herschel Walker, showing Republican loyalty in a battleground state.

"Democrats can do a lot more with 51 Senate seats."

Forty-two Republicans—and serial Democratic obstructionist Joe Manchin of West Virginia—voted down Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) proposal to include seven paid sick days in the tentative contract.

The finding comes a month after Senate Republicans tanked a bill that would have required dark money groups to disclose their donors and funding sources.

'Republicans told millions of Americans who use insulin to go to hell.'

"Senators who ensured this fate instead of providing the relief small business needs now must be held accountable."

The U.S. senator who chairs the GOP Senate campaign effort wants America’s poorest to pay up more at tax time.

“Don’t tell me we can’t afford to fight poverty, cancel student debt, pass paid leave, and defeat the climate crisis,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal after senators approved the $786 billion military spending bill.

The legislation still needs to pass the Senate to make a difference.

Now all eyes will be on Merkley – and other Democratic senators who profess that “Black lives mater” and that police need to be held accountable – to see whether they vote to confirm this tainted mayor and elevate him to a prestigious ambassadorship.