Tag: U.S. Senate

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democrats have failed in yet another scheme to derail the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after they attempted to use arcane Senate rules to force the Senate Judiciary Committee to adjourn at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday just a few hours into the first day of committee senators’ questioning President Donald Trump’s second Supreme Court pick.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Tuesday took aim at Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, suggesting some of his colleagues were grandstanding to generate soundbites for their 2020 presidential campaigns.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is expected to name former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill Sen. John McCain’s Senate seat for the remainder of McCain’s term.

A poll released on Wednesday by Quinnipiac University shows that Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) lead over Republican Bob Hugin in the New Jersey U.S. Senate race has dwindled to just six points.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) described fellow Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) as “unreliable” on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight as he explained why he endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward for U.S. Senate this week.

Rep. Paul Gosar resolutely endorsed former Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward for the U.S. Senate over fellow Rep. Martha McSally on Tuesday, citing his firsthand experience working with each of McSally and Ward, their positions on border security, and amnesty.

Bob Hugin, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey, launched a blistering attack on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Monday as a new poll shows the race is now a statistical tie.

A convicted double-murderer serving a life sentence is running for the U.S. Senate from his prison cell in Minnesota, where it is legally allowed.

The latest batch of Axios/Survey Monkey polls shows that Democrats are in real danger of losing three U.S. Senate seats, which means they have no chance of capturing that chamber in 2018.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Monday that his Senate campaign raised nearly $1.3 million in the second quarter of 2018.

Lame-duck Speaker Paul Ryan will campaign for Wisconsin state Sen. Leah Vukmir on Friday for the state’s Senate Republican primary.

President Donald Trump predicted a “surprise” in the West Virginia U.S. Senate race on Tuesday night, calling the candidate incredibly energetic, strong, and someone who loves the people of his state.

Marine veteran and businessman Kevin Nicholson leads in the Wisconsin Senate Republican primary, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Marquette Law School.

The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) announced Monday its endorsement of Michigan Republican John James for the U.S. Senate.

Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday he is canceling the Senate’s August recess.

President Donald Trump should make history by using his constitutional power to recall the Senate (but not the House) in August, canceling the August recess, and force the Senate to stay in session five (or six?) days per week until the Senate confirms a record number of federal judges and fills key positions in his administration to enact his America First agenda.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote in an op-ed in the Flathead Beacon on Friday that we need “strong leaders like Matt Rosendale” who will defend the Constitution.

A poll released on Friday exclusively to Breitbart News by Gravis Marketing shows Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) currently leads the Republican party’s nominee, State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, by 13 points, 53 percent to 40 percent,  in a head-to-head match up for the U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia five months before the November general election.

The Senate voted on Wednesday to save the FCC’s net neutrality rules. Despite the Senate’s best efforts to have the rules reinstated, the bill has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled House. Democrats used a little-known legislative mechanism known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to force a vote. 

Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced legislation on Wednesday to create a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Kelli Ward revealed three new hires for key positions in her U.S. Senate campaign on Thursday.

“He’s running like Bernie Sanders,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of his 2018 U.S. Senate Democrat opponent, Rep. Beto O’Rourke. He offered his remarks during a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Tonight.

A candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts who describes himself as a “real Indian” is suing the city of Cambridge for demanding he remove his signs that say his challenger, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is a “fake Indian.”

Rep. Todd Rokita said he is campaigning to make sure we have a “true Trump supporter in the U.S. Senate from the state of Indiana.”

Likely Republican challenger State Attorney General Josh Hawley is making sure Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) can’t get away from her long standing support of failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

When Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, Democrats controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.

Chris McDaniel, a candidate to replace retiring Sen. Thad Cochran, urged Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant during the weekend edition of Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM to prevent a Republican “bloodbath” and refrain from appointing a Mitch McConnell-approved candidate to the seat.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) ended two weeks of media speculation he created when he floated the idea that he was having “second thoughts” about not running for re-election when his chief of staff told Politico the frequent critic of President Trump has decided he will not seek a third term in the U.S. Senate.

China lodged strong objections to the Taiwan Travel Act this week as it emerged from the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week and headed for a vote. China warns that the bill, which would enable American officials to travel to Taiwan for meetings with their counterparts and vice versa, would damage relations between America and China and threaten regional stability.

Former Massachusetts governor and failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he would announce on February 15 if he is running for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by longtime statesman Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

In a scathing rebuke to U.S. senators, many of whom profess to be Christian, Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has condemned the shameful failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Children Protection Act, calling it a vote “against human rights, the right to be born.”

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan blasted the Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, calling the vote a rejection of “common sense.”

Pro-life leaders say the failure of the Senate to pass a bill that would ban abortion past the 20th week – or fifth month – of pregnancy shows indifference to the will of most Americans.

Conservatives must “keep the fight up” while rejecting “ridiculous pressure” from Democrats and the broader left to criticize President Donald Trump, said Republican senatorial candidate Kevin Nicholson.

“You don’t win elections by moderating or changing your views to cater to certain identity politics,” said Danny Tarkanian, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) in this year’s Nevada Republican senatorial primary.