Sept. 18 was no Jan. 6.
Senator Mitch McConnell says Republicans will not support raising the federal borrowing limit. Weeks before a potential default, Democrats do not appear to have a strategy for doing so.
One thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the Republican Party: We can’t go home again.
Eager to denounce President Biden, some Republicans have flip-flopped on bringing U.S. troops home — making it difficult to discern what they actually believe.
A former Democratic centrist senator says too many lawmakers come to Washington to obstruct rather than be constructive.
All 50 G.O.P. senators opposed the sweeping elections overhaul, leaving a long-shot bid to eliminate the filibuster as Democrats’ best remaining hope to enact legal changes.
As Ketanji Brown Jackson became the president’s first appellate judge, Senator Mitch McConnell suggested he would block a Biden Supreme Court pick in 2024 if Republicans gained the majority.
A bipartisan infrastructure deal was never going to happen.
The votes were the start of an effort by Democrats to confirm liberals and people of color to the federal courts after Donald J. Trump moved aggressively to install conservative white men.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, is lining up votes to build the case for defusing the procedural weapon, which Republicans have used to thwart the party’s agenda.
He should follow in the steps of Robert Byrd and reform the filibuster.
Republicans are attempting to maintain power by redefining democracy backward.
The vote killed the best chance for an independent accounting of the deadly Capitol attack, which Republicans feared would damage them politically.
The vote was a stinging defeat for proponents of the commission, who had argued that it was the only way to assemble a truly comprehensive account of the riot for a polarized nation.
The looming vote on creating a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol assault could reignite a clash over the Senate blocking tactic. Activists worry that time is short for a bid to eliminate it.
Biden has less than two years before congressional elections could change everything. Is now really the time for compromise?
Republican leaders condemned the latest anti-Semitic statements by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, but their slow response and refusal to punish her reflected tacit backing.
Republican leaders condemned the latest anti-Semitic statements by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, but their slow response and refusal to punish her reflected tacit backing.
Republicans have argued that the existing Justice Department and congressional investigations will address the assault. But they have strict limits.
Republicans see an independent inquiry into the attack on the Capitol as a threat to their push to regain control of the Senate and the House.
The vote was a victory for Democrats, who were joined by 35 Republicans in pushing for a full accounting of the deadly riot. But Mitch McConnell voiced opposition, clouding Senate prospects.
I see Republicans trying to alter our perception of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. I do not take that lightly.
Details are trickling out about the Justice Department’s use of a grand jury to attempt to identify the user behind a parody account mocking Representative Devin Nunes.
Insurrection? What insurrection?
In surveys and political discourse, Republicans are increasingly critical of corporations, but not for the reasons Democrats have long held that view.
The meeting produced little progress, underscoring the political challenge for President Biden as he seeks to exploit the narrowest of majorities in Congress to revive the country’s economy.
President Biden met with the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate in a bid to “reach some consensus,” he said.
The president’s meeting with leaders from both parties will be a test of what friendship means in Washington these days.
Their longstanding relationship has so far yielded no trace of compromise. Now Senator Mitch McConnell says he is focused on stopping President Biden’s agenda in its tracks.
Republicans say Liz Cheney, their No. 3, is being targeted because she won’t stay quiet about Donald J. Trump’s election lies. Her would-be replacement is campaigning on them.
Sometimes what we are most devoted to are our biggest mistakes.
Most politicians are hypocrites. Voters tend not to care.
President Biden’s infrastructure plan could fund a long-overdue revamp of the Brent Spence Bridge between Ohio and Kentucky. But the Senate Republican leader opposes it.
The minority leader joined Republicans in protesting a proposal to promote teaching about systemic racism and the consequences of slavery, saying it would indoctrinate students with “a slanted story.”
The Senate majority leader, observing his own 100 days in charge, is responsible for turning sweeping Democratic plans into law.
The South Carolina senator did not offer a comprehensive alternative to President Biden’s education and child-care plans. Instead, he called them “big-government waste.”
Nobody, least of all people on the left, has anything to celebrate in the rise of activist industry.
The Wyoming congresswoman challenged Republicans to turn away from Trump after Jan. 6. Instead, they turned on her.
Republicans denounced the proposed overhaul as an attempt to mount a partisan takeover of what critics consider a moribund Federal Election Commission.
The internal contradictions of “woke capitalism” are a mixed blessing for the Democratic Party.
The former president’s instincts for red-meat political fights over governing and policymaking have left party leaders in a state of confusion over what they stand for.
It’s unexpected, but it’s not inexplicable.
The top Senate Republican, who has spent his career fighting campaign finance limits, has taken a lead role in challenging Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill.
At a time when states with Republican-led legislatures are rushing to restrict ballot access, Kentucky proved the exception to the rule. The reasons are both political and logistical.
Races in Missouri and Alabama, with others to come, reflect the potential risks for a party in which loyalty to Donald Trump is the main criterion for securing nominations.
After the second mass shooting in a week, the president said tighter gun laws should not be a partisan issue, but Republicans in Congress showed little interest in Democratic proposals.
Activists and lawmakers say momentum is on their side but warn of a prolonged fight as Republicans dig in and some Democrats remain unconvinced.
President Biden for the first time said he favored a return to the requirement that opponents occupy the floor when making their case against legislation. Senator Mitch McConnell promised a “scorched earth” response.
Activists urge Democrats to build a case by showing Republicans are determined to block popular liberal legislation on voting rights, immigration and guns.
Angry at his critics in the party and seeking to keep his options for raising money open, the former president is trying to take charge of the online fund-raising juggernaut he helped create.
