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Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb (PA) showed he is moving further towards the radical left in a statement Saturday, saying he believes “the filibuster has to go.”

Biden scolded Republicans Thursday for blocking a Democrat-led effort to investigate the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill. The president spoke about the upcoming Senate vote to establish a commission as he made a stop for ice cream while visiting Ohio.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on the Senate floor Monday gave a clear warning to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for trying to cut the debate short on the legislation aimed at combating China’s competitiveness with America.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s nominee, Monday on the Senate floor, calling her unfit for the Department of Justice due to her past far-left comments.

St. Louis attorney Mark McCloskey, who, along with his wife, made headlines in June 2020 after pointing guns at violent protesters marching through their neighborhood, announced Tuesday that he will run for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

Vulnerable Florida Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy is set to leave her House seat as she looks to announce a U.S. Senate run against incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in early June, reports show.

Sean Parnell told Breitbart News exclusively onTuesday he will launch a bid for Pennsylvania’s 2022 open United States Senate seat.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) hammered the Democrats on their partisan For the People Act during the bill’s Senate Rules Committee Hearing Tuesday, warning how the bill would “strike down” the widely supported voter ID.

Senate Democrats are cramming a federal takeover of elections through a key vote on the Corrupt Politicians Act this week, part of their plan with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to transform America into a permanent one-party socialist nation.

Vulnerable Democrats Rep. Conor Lamb and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan are looking to exit the House of Representatives and run for the U.S. Senate, leaving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to defend her shrinking majority and giving more momentum to the Republican effort to regain the House.

Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) launched his campaign for the United States Senate Monday to replace retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) told the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Thursday that more than 500 federally funded scientists are currently under investigation for possible ties to China and other foreign powers.

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has endorsed Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for a potential 2022 reelection bid.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) got roasted by her primary challenger Wednesday, for voting to confirm Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, the number three spot at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced during a press conference Thursday he will end proxy voting in the House of Representatives when the Republicans are in the majority.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said that the fact that there are four senators representing North and South Dakota but only two representing California “should change, on a number of fronts.” Host Bill Maher

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has surfaced as one of the only Democrat defenders of the filibuster, having to reject claims from her own party to persuade in eliminating the 60-vote requirement in order to advance most pieces of legislation.

Kelly Tshibaka, a conservative Republican who recently announced plans to run against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), said Alaskans feel hurt, betrayed, and forgotten by the incumbent senator — one of the ten GOP senators who voted to convict former President Trump — during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has adamantly defended the Senate filibuster in the past despite altering his stance since President Biden took office, once describing it as “part of the hallowed process around here of the Founding Fathers saying the Senate is the cooling saucer.”

A Republican candidate announced her plans Monday to run for the Alaska U.S. Senate seat held since 2002 by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R).

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Gayle Connelly Manchin, wife of moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), for a federal position that pays roughly $160,000, according to reports.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) has not yet committed to reelection as the Republican Party gears up for a battle for majority status in the upper chamber in 2022.

In a letter sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signed by 124 members of House and Senate outraged by her efforts to overturn Iowa’s Second Congressional District election. 

Jane Timken, the former chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, is running for the U.S. Senate claiming to be an acolyte of former President Donald Trump’s America First vision, but the actions of a company bearing her family name that outsourced American jobs to China over the past several decades raise questions about whether she truly believes in it.

According to an OnMessage Inc. poll, former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) leads the Republican Senate primary in a hypothetical match-up.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a statement Friday night showing her flip-flopping on her original opposition to eliminating the filibuster, now saying she is supportive of using the nuclear option to end it.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday titled “The Scorched-Earth Senate,” saying “[i]f Democrats kill the filibuster by 50-50 vote, they’ll release furies they can barely imagine.”

A draft plan by National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) could provide 1.5 million illegal aliens with amnesty, putting them on a fast-track to American citizenship, analysis finds. 

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime” that Republicans needed “better leadership in the Senate” while discussing his efforts to help the GOP win back majority control in both chambers of Congress.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is circulating a plan with Senate Republicans that would provide amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. 

Dick Durbin called for “reform” to the filibuster on Tuesday, but said in 2018 that ending it would mean the “end of the Senate.”

Sixteen states are already in the process of making Daylight Saving Time permanent, but a federal statute is needed to complete the process.

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee, D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland, to serve as Attorney General.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday on “Washington Post Live” that to forward President Joe Biden’s agenda, Democrats have to “do away with” the filibuster.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that Democratic senators understood to forward President Joe Biden’s agenda, Democrats will “have to reform or eliminate the filibuster.”

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced Monday he will not run for reelection in the 2022 midterm elections.