53 Senators Skipped A Classified Briefing On NSA Snooping
Most Senators opted for a long weekend instead of sticking around for a briefing on government surveillance that was held two-and-a-half hours after their final vote Thursday.
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Senate Staffers Can Take Free Classes On Sleeping, Sitting, And Forgiveness
Tax dollars hard at work.
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The TSA Tried To Take Away Chewbacca’s Cane
Let the wookie win.
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Rapper Mac Miller Makes The Craziest Vines Of All Time
Donald Trump
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The Brave US Senators Using Vine
There are very few.
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Five Ways America Has Changed Since Obama Announced His Support For Marriage Equality
From Washington state to Washington, DC, and from the Rhode Island statehouse to the Supreme Court of the United States, the country is very different from just last May.
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Beers With Sen. Rob Portman
BuzzFeed sits down with the Republican senator from Ohio. Live from D.C. on May 6, 2013.
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How The Supreme Court’s DOMA Ruling Could Upend The Immigration Debate
If the court strikes down DOMA, the fight over including same-sex couples in immigration reform will change dramatically overnight.
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Jeff Flake Learns To Be Disliked
“Nothing like waking up to a poll saying you’re the nation’s least popular senator,” the Arizona Republican deadpanned on Facebook recently.
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Colombian Marriage Bill Appears Likely To Fail
The Senate adjourned Wednesday night without voting on the bill to grant same-sex couples full marriage rights. Absent an unexpected development, all signs suggest it won’t pass when the Senate takes the measure up again on Tuesday.
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Senate Office Buildings Locked Down, Letter With “Suspicious Substance” Addressed To President Obama
One day after the ricin scare. (Update: the all-clear has been given for both buildings.)
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Senate Offices Warned To Be Vigilant After Ricin-Tainted Letter Sent To Sen. Wicker
Letter sent to Wicker was postmarked from Memphis.
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The Disastrous Collapse Of Kentucky’s Least Effective Liberal Group
Whatever Progress Kentucky is trying to do, it should probably stop right now.
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President’s Budget To Propose Revenue-Neutral Corporate Tax Reform
Senate Democratic leadership discussed the proposal in a meeting Monday. And they’re not pleased.
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Harry Reid Invokes His Father’s Suicide On The Senate Floor
Things got personal for the Majority Leader during a speech about gun violence prevention.
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Connecticut Lawmakers Pass Wide-Ranging Gun Control Law
The bill now goes to Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy, who plans to sign it at noon on Thursday, Associated Press reports.
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Marriage Equality Support Advances As Job Discrimination Bill Lags
The gains in marriage equality support from senators have been a stark change over the past 20 years. Senate support for workplace protections for LGBT people, however, has been at a standstill.
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Delaware Sen. Tom Carper Endorses Marriage Equality
“[A]ll Americans ultimately should be free to marry the people they love and intend to share their lives with, regardless of their sexual orientation, and that’s why today, after a great deal of soul searching, I’m endorsing marriage equality,” Carper says.
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Former Secretary Of State Eyes Georgia Senate Run As Tom Price Remains Undecided
If Karen Handel runs, Tom Price won’t, Georgia politics insiders say. And vice versa.
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The 7 Most God-Awful Websites In The Senate
Hey, senators: 2002 is calling, and it wants its web designers back.
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Battle Brews Over Labor Demands As Immigration Talks Enter Home Stretch
“Every time you make progress … the unions come in the next day and throw something else on the table. They keep moving the goal posts,” says a lobbyist.
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Obama Faces Questions On Drones, Immigration At Lunch With Democrats
“Better late than never,” Sen. Max Baucus says of the president’s charm offensive.
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Amid High Senate Turnover, Newbies Have A Chance To Make Their Mark
There haven’t been this many rookies in the Senate since 1981. What will it mean for the way Washington works?
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America’s Youngest Senator Isn’t Very Cool, But He’s Trying
Freshman Sen. Chris Murphy tries to figure out how to play up his youth without looking phony. “I’m very careful not to try to use lingo that’s above my coolness pay grade.”
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Capitol Visitors Stay Late Into Night To Take In Rand Paul Filibuster
“One of my favorite things about being in D.C. is being able to see things like this in person,” one late-night audience member said.
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Rand Paul Tweets His Own Filibuster
Senator Rand Paul filibusters vote on CIA director nominee John Brennan over the use of drones against Americans on U.S. soil. Here are the highlights.
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Chris Murphy Wants Chuck Grassley To Keep Tweeting
Grassley’s decision to tone it down on Twitter made freshman Democratic senator “so sad.”
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Kirsten Gillibrand: Congress Should Be 51 Percent Female
“The bottom line is, if we had 51 percent of women in Congress, we would have never spent the last two years debating access to birth control,” Gillibrand says.
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Tom Price’s Road To The Senate Complicated By A Political Rift At Home
If Rep. Tom Price looks to move to the upper chamber, he’ll have to get past Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal first.
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Senate Democrats Will Include The “Buffett Rule” In Plan To Avert Sequester
They’ll pitch the package Thursday.
