A bipartisan criminal justice bill easily won approval from the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, amid a rare public clash on the plan between Chairman Chuck Grassley and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The legislation from Grassley (R-Iowa) and Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cleared the Judiciary panel on a 16-5 vote. Six of the […]
Somebody Needs to Tell Rep Pressley Impeachment of Kavanaugh Ain’t Happening…
Criminal Justice Overhaul Advances Amid Grassley-Sessions Spat…
Senate Leaders Near Two-Year Budget Deal to Prevent Shutdown…
Senate leaders are close to a two-year budget deal that would avert a government shutdown, Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) announced Tuesday. The deal would set spending levels for fiscal 2018 and 2019 and avoid the prospect of a government shutdown when a stopgap spending measure expires on Thursday. “There are still some outstanding […]
Graham-Durbin DACA Deal Hits GOP Roadblock in Congress…
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said Tuesday that the “Gang of Six” deal to fix DACA will not get a vote in the House or the Senate, throwing cold water on the bipartisan effort led by Sen. Lindsey Graham and Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin to build support for the bill opposed by President […]
Sen. Dick Durbin: I’m Working ‘Full Time’ for DACA Illegal Aliens…
White House Doesn’t Deny Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Immigration Remark…
President Donald Trump made racially-charged comments during a meeting on immigration with lawmakers on Thursday, asking why the U.S. admits people from “shithole countries,” according to two people familiar with the meeting. The White House did not deny Trump made the remarks. During the meeting, senators who had worked out a deal on protecting so-called […]
Senate GOP Shifts Focus to Former AG Loretta Lynch…
Senate Republicans are clamoring to hear from Loretta Lynch after former FBI Director James Comey raised concerns about her involvement in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seizing on Comey’s testimony earlier this month that he was concerned over the former attorney general telling the FBI to refer to […]
Dick Durbin, Tom Perez to 28 Percent of Dems Who Oppose Abortion: Get in Line Or Get Out…
The 28 percent of Democrats who oppose abortion have no place in the Democratic party, according to two of the party’s leading figures. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin echoed party chair Tom Perez Sunday in saying that there is no room in the party for dissent on the abortion issue. “I am committed to women’s rights […]
Nuclear Option Restores Constitutional Balance…
On April 6, the U.S. Senate voted 52-48 to extend Senate Democrats’ own precedent to guarantee that Supreme Court nominees can be confirmed with a simple-majority vote of 51 out of 100 senators. As an immediate result, Gorsuch was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Friday morning by a bipartisan vote of 54-45, but the […]