Haley Byrd

Supporters argue the legislation should be viewed as a strong signal to Saudi leaders regardless of whether it passes.

Support for a war powers resolution has increased among both parties since March.

His position seems to cover any bill (or person) imaginable.

Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will deliver a briefing on the conflict Wednesday.

The Republican plan to ram through NAFTA 2.0 before the Democrats take over is falling apart.

They warn the incoming Democratic House may make passage "significantly more difficult."

Intelligence community has high confidence that Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the killing.

Republican Will Hurd will serve a third term.

The president wants $5 billion to go toward construction but Senate leaders have agreed on a lower amount.

Leadership races have much lower stakes now that the GOP has lost the House.

The new House Democrats have to figure out how to square opposition to Trump with skepticism about free trade.

Matthew Whitaker has called for Robert Mueller to limit his investigation into 2016 election interference.

Hurd has represented the swing district since he was elected in 2014.

Defending the vaporware and setting up a scapegoat at the same time.

New report looks at 22 races, including 13 in the House and three in the Senate

Cesar Sayoc, 56, faces up to 58 years in prison.

Judiciary chairman complains that false claims 'divert Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations and materially impede our work.'

The retiring Arizona senator touted the benefits of foreign aid to the central American countries whose migrants are headed north to the U.S. border.

He made more than 10 calls to two different lawmakers.

Gov. Rick Scott issues executive order to give eight affected counties more flexibility regarding election procedures.

Graham adds that Saudi leader has "got to go."

It takes a lot of trips to Dairy Queen.

ACLU tweet suggests that the Nebraska senator is undecided but Sasse voted to advance the nominee out of committee.

Senate Republican leaders are moving ahead with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, as members of the chamber will begin viewing material from an FBI supplemental background check to investigate claims of sexual assault against the nominee on Thursday morning.

Staffers opened an envelope containing a white powdery substance.

Officials say the question will have to be addressed separately from the USMCA.

Jeff Flake called for such an inquiry before voting the nominee out of committee.

Poised to miss a key deadline for a renegotiated NAFTA, the White House threatens to leave Canada in the cold.

Mitch McConnell predicts that the judge will be confirmed.

SCOTUS nominee rails against ‘character assassination’ in letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Pretty much as you'd expect.

Rep. Tom Cole says problem is similar to 2014 but the problem has a different cause.

Ways and Means members suggest a trade deal with Mexico might not be legal under fast-track authority.

Senator's home state of Wisconsin has been hit hard by tariffs.

This is normal. Everything is fine.

After President Donald Trump threatened members of Congress over the weekend that he would “simply terminate” the North American Free Trade Agreement if Congress interferes with his ongoing trade negotiations with Canada and Mexico, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady avoided taking a firm…

Arizona governor Doug Ducey: 'It's not the time for newcomers.'

Especially those who live in districts full of civilian federal employees.

Google users get one step ahead of Congress in renaming a building for the late senator.

The president threatened to leave Canada behind in renegotiating NAFTA. But lawmakers doubt he’s allowed to do that.

The president observed a "double standard" in the treatment of Hillary Clinton and the former NSA contractor, who was sentenced to 63 months on Thursday for leaking top-secret information.

The president observed a "double standard" in the treatment of Hillary Clinton and the former NSA contractor, who was sentenced to 63 months on Thursday for leaking top-secret information.

Congressional Republicans react to President Trump's suggestion that cooperating with prosecutors "almost ought to be illegal."

The Wisconsin Republican and tariff skeptic will meet with the White House trade adviser on Tuesday, while congressional efforts to reclaim trade authority continue to stall.

Arizona Republican Jeff Flake returned to the Senate from his three-week trip to Zimbabwe and Botswana on Monday night. The retiring senator had gone to Zimbabwe to serve as an official observer in the country’s presidential election held in late July, but he raised eyebrows back in D.C. when…

Three senators skipped Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, including Ted Cruz.

Action is in response to the president's many proclamations that the press is the 'enemy of the people.'

Congressional Republicans have no opinion whatsoever about Trump's White House nondisclosure agreements.

Jim Jordan’s bid to succeed Paul Ryan.

During a briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment on questions surrounding the unprecedented use of non-disclosure agreements for senior White House staff, which some employees were asked to sign at President Donald Trump’s behest in order to…

President Donald Trump and his allies have recently touted the existence of nondisclosure agreements with White House employees as a response to estranged former employee Omarosa Manigault Newman’s attacks on Trump.

George Conway said Friday morning that former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s claims that President Donald Trump used racist phrases when discussing Conway, who is half Filipino, are “ridiculous” and not credible.

The Colorado Republican introduced a tough bill in April that's picked up steam since the Helsinki summit.

With a slim lead and votes still being counted, Republicans appear to have skirted outright disaster in a too-close-to-call special election held Tuesday to replace a retired House member in Ohio’s 12th congressional district, which has been consistently red for more than three decades.

The latest, paying down the national debt, met mixed reception from congressional Republicans (when it wasn't muted altogether).

On Monday, Republican senators learned that their Arizona colleague Jeff Flake would be absent for much of the month of August, missing two full weeks of votes and potentially causing problems for the judicial confirmations schedule. Frustration with the decision grew among Senate offices and…

President Donald Trump—after first urging Republican lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and then later arguing that there was, in fact, no point in pursuing such a bill until after November’s midterm elections—is now threatening to shut down the government if Congress does not fund…

Kentucky senator had expressed reservations about the judge's record on surveillance and data collection.

A number of Republican lawmakers met with White House economic and trade advisers Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro on Thursday morning, primarily to ask one question: What is their long-term trade plan?

Analyzing the trade "deal" Trump made with the European Union.

The Justice Department has charged 12 Russian officials with hacking the DNC. Matt Tait helped shine a light on their meddling in 2016.

House Republicans will have the opportunity to press White House economic and trade advisers Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro on the administration’s handling of tariffs and trade wars during a closed-door meeting on Thursday.

Ohio Republican Jim Jordan on Monday stood behind a GOP memo alleging surveillance abuse in the case of Carter Page even after the release of the FISA applications contradicted some of the memo’s claims.

The government seeks to learn from the events of 2016.

Senator says 'there is real value in having a broad bipartisan statement' even if the measure has no force of law.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman worries about damage to relations with allies.

Majority whip Steve Scalise: 'I think everyone ought to be on record about where they stand on that issue.'

House Speaker Paul Ryan discussed his upcoming retirement and future political prospects during an appearance at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning.

Republicans passed a symbolic measure to call out Trump's tariffs. Some say they wouldn't support it if it actually counted.

Just before a largely symbolic Senate vote aiming to curtail President Donald Trump’s trade powers on Wednesday, North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis told THE WEEKLY STANDARD he would support the measure—but only because it is non-binding.

Even as Republican leaders in the Senate have become more open to a measure that would roll back some of President Donald Trump’s unilateral trade powers, GOP leadership in the House is sounding increasingly skeptical of the idea.

Jeff Flake’s personal trade war, waged with hopes of imposing congressional oversight over President Donald Trump’s unilateral national security tariffs, could move closer to a resolution this week.

The Maine senator is one of two pro-choice Republicans whom Democrats hope to sway.

It was 8:30 p.m., and hundreds of people were yelling incoherently back and forth at each other in front of the Supreme Court. Most were there to oppose President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh. (You can read more about Kavanaugh…

Seth Grossman made multiple racist social media posts and called diversity 'a bunch of crap.'

The United States and China moved full steam ahead with a trade war on Friday, leaving a number of American industries about to be caught in the crossfire.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he doesn’t know whether the Senate will take up a bill this week to rein in President Donald Trump’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on national security grounds.

The motorcycle manufacturer has drawn the president's ire for announcing plans to build cycles in the EU.

The retiring Arizona senator wants to force a vote limiting Trump's trade authority, and he's using his leverage over judicial nominations.

The vote on a compromise package will take place Friday, to give representatives time to read it.

It has slim chances of becoming law, and they have no backup. But it’s a plan.

The Koch Network is launching a television and radio advertising campaign to push back against President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The president says he will "make changes" to legislation after he is briefed on the bill.

Congress could in theory have a greater say on tariffs. Don’t hold your breath.

As senators prepare to pass legislation to expand the authorities of an interagency panel that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, the Senate on Thursday will consider an amendment that would also subject the panel, headed by the Treasury Department and known as the Committee…

Speaker Ryan: 'We must continue to apply maximum economic pressure.'

Are Canada’s dairy tariffs a national security threat to the United States?

House Republicans have until next Tuesday to solve an intractable, decades-old problem.

A number of rank-and-file House Republicans on Wednesday night expressed support for a bill that would limit the president's ability to impose far-reaching tariffs on national security grounds without congressional approval, despite President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts alongside Republican…

"It's an abuse of that authority."

“Politically, it would be a disaster."

Trading partners in Mexico and Europe express disappointment, promise tariffs in response.

As spellers cross the stage on Wednesday after correctly spelling multi-voweled tongue-twisters during the preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a smiling kid among the neat rows of seats can be seen giving fist-bumps to other students. His name is Adom Appiah, and he’s up next.…

The policy directive calls on the Transportation and Commerce departments to make reforms that would encourage commercial space innovation.

Or minority leader.

Republicans are increasingly fed up with Trump’s protectionist trade agenda.

Top Republicans consider amping up the pressure on Paul Ryan to step down as Speaker of the House before midterm elections.

What you should know about discharge petitions and the 'Queen of the Hill' rule.

The White House released a proposal to "rescind" past funds on Tuesday, but speculation about such an idea had met with skepticism from some Senate Republicans.

The White House released a proposal to "rescind" past funds on Tuesday, but speculation about such an idea had met with skepticism from some Senate Republicans.

The White House is expected to release a plan on Tuesday for Congress to cut spending that has already been approved, using a decades-old law giving the president certain budget authority.

A yearly Government Accountability Office report on NASA’s major projects outlined on Tuesday several challenges that the space agency faces, including cost growth and launch schedule delays. But the report also addressed a more complex topic: NASA’s aging workforce.

The retiring speaker addressed the Midwest Conservative Summit.

Constitutional concerns were at the center of some conservatives' opposition.

Some of them don't even know who the rapper is.

If you had hopes of launching a nuclear weapon into orbit, we have bad news.

Progressive lawmakers—several of whom are eyeing 2020 presidential bids—are increasingly embracing sweeping guaranteed jobs proposals. But many of their Democratic colleagues remain hesitant to offer a full-throated endorsement of the concept.

Ending NASA's longest stretch without a permanent leader since it was first created

Jeff Flake switched his vote from 'no' to 'yea,' and John Thune says the Arizona senator was 'negotiating another matter'

The intent is to refocus Congress and the White House on a long-term solution for DACA.

The CBO has said the cuts will cost $1.9 trillion over a decade, before some provisions hit a sunset clause.

The doomed measure is a nod toward fiscal responsibility.

The Wisconsin Republican took over as leader in 2015, replacing John Boehner.

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday morning that recent efforts on the part of the White House and Republican lawmakers to retroactively cut already-authorized spending would undermine future bipartisan negotiations.

Bloomberg reports that the resignation came at the request of new National Security Adviser John Bolton

The wisdom of tax reform rests on two simple principles: Lower rates, and broaden the base.

Speculations swirled Monday that Trump would respond to the Assad regime’s chemical attack on a Damascus suburb.

The Commerce Department announced Monday night that the administration would reinstate the question of citizenship for the 2020 census, a contentious move President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has urged since the early days of his presidency.

After threatening to veto a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill before a midnight government shutdown deadline Friday morning, President Donald Trump ultimately signed the measure, citing national security concerns.

Lawmakers in the House, racing a government shutdown deadline, voted 256-167 to pass a $1.3-trillion omnibus spending bill on Thursday afternoon, less than 20 hours after its 2,232 pages of legislative text were first released.

After President Donald Trump congratulated Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his re-election during a phone call Tuesday, some Republican senators questioned the wisdom of commending an autocrat whose election they see as fraudulent. Others brushed it off as a diplomatic nicety.

An omnibus funding bill is facing delays in Congress ahead of a Friday government shutdown deadline, with lawmakers scrambling to answer a number of open questions in the $1.3 trillion package related to border security, infrastructure projects, and gun violence prevention measures.

As Congress faces another deadline to pass a spending bill or risk the third government shutdown in three months, lawmakers see an opportunity to advance gun violence prevention measures that have previously stalled in Congress.

Republicans in Congress appeared open to President Donald Trump’s proposal to use the death penalty to crack down on drug dealers on Thursday night before the expected release of the president’s long-awaited opioid plan.

Republicans may have just lost a district that went for President Donald Trump by 20 points in 2016 and has been reliably red for nearly two decades, but GOP lawmakers on Wednesday downplayed the blow.

Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson apparently became the first American Cabinet secretary to be fired over Twitter on Tuesday, when President Donald Trump announced the former ExxonMobil CEO’s impending departure at 8:44 a.m. Tillerson later said during a press conference that he received a…

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake introduced legislation Monday to nullify President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, calling on his colleagues to rally behind the bill.

President Donald Trump’s chief economist was grilled by lawmakers on the administration’s trade policy on Wednesday amid rising concern on Capitol Hill about the potential negative impacts of new steel and aluminum tariffs which have been put forward by the White House.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD had the chance to talk to South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford about President Donald Trump’s proposed steel and aluminum tariffs, which would tax imports at 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively. Sanford, who has represented the state’s 1st District since 2013, ardently…

Republicans in Congress are desperately trying to talk President Donald Trump down from his proposed tariffs, lest they have to consider a legislative check on the White House instead—a move that some lawmakers say isn’t feasible.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will impose hefty tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

If a congressional campaign won’t tell you the candidate’s schedule two weeks out from a tight special election, it’s a safe bet to go to an American Legion post (it doesn’t matter which one, any post will do) and simply wait. This is how I found myself at a Friday night fish fry at American Legion…

Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, first learned of the sudden announcement of far-reaching tariffs by President Donald Trump on Thursday during an informal hallway conversation with reporters.

During a televised bipartisan meeting to discuss gun control proposals with members of Congress on Wednesday, President Donald Trump split with conventional Republican wisdom and suggested that guns be confiscated from individuals who could pose safety threats before due process is carried out…

CALLERY, Pa.

Students and teachers who survived a deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last week expressed opposition to arming teachers as a response to the threat of mass shootings during a CNN town hall with lawmakers Wednesday night.

Arizona senator Jeff Flake plans to introduce a proposal offering temporary protection for “Dreamers” in exchange for funding for the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall when the Senate returns next week.

In the wake of a high school shooting that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida last week, lawmakers are considering a bill to bolster current laws that have failed to prevent people with criminal backgrounds from buying firearms.

After dedicating three days of floor time and casting a grand total of four votes on different proposals to address the precarious future of 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the country as children, the United States Senate is taking a week off. And when lawmakers return from…

On January 9, President Donald Trump sat down with a group of about two dozen members of Congress and told them in front of the nation that he would sign “whatever” bill they could come up with to protect nearly 700,000 Dreamers from deportation. Although Trump listed his priorities—securing funds…

The freewheeling, open process that was expected to define this week’s high stakes immigration debate in the Senate is off to a slow start. On Tuesday morning, the chamber did what it does best—that is, not much.

Lawmakers in the Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday night to move forward with a contentious immigration debate this week. Let the race to 60 votes begin.

Senator Rand Paul was not happy. A 652-page budget and appropriations deal, worked out by congressional leadership, was unveiled at midnight Wednesday, a mere 24 hours before the shutdown deadline.

When Matt Gaetz came to Washington last year, he could easily have been mistaken for the typical freshman member of Congress. The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call ran a short profile of him under the headline “The Least Interesting (Fresh) Man in the House.”

Lawmakers in the Senate are expected to pass a bipartisan two-year budget deal ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadline when it comes to a vote Thursday evening, leaving the ball in the House’s court.

Senate leaders announced Wednesday afternoon that they reached a massive two-year budget deal after weeks of negotiations in hopes of averting a government shutdown when funding runs out Thursday at midnight.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to form a select committee to investigate the U.S. Olympic Committee’s role in enabling decades of sexual misconduct involving USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who was sentenced in January to 40-175 years in prison for sexually abusing dozens…

A bill intended to clarify and alter a set of long-delayed Obamacare menu labeling rules passed the House Tuesday, as restaurant owners continue to prepare for a May 7 compliance deadline.

With just three days remaining until a government shutdown deadline, House Republicans on Monday night moved forward on a stopgap funding measure that is likely to breeze through the chamber on a party-line vote but will face slim odds in the Senate.

“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” Bill Murray asks in Groundhog Day. “That about sums it up for me,” a drinking buddy answers.

Republican members of Congress travelling to an annual retreat at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia on Wednesday morning were involved in a train wreck with a garbage truck, a House Republican aide told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

Eleven months ago—before Donald Trump had to accept any of the disappointments of lawmaking—the new president stood before a joint session of Congress and called for, among other things, the passage of a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan.

A bill to restrict abortion will come to the Senate floor for a procedural vote Monday night.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Hundreds of wealthy donors and several Republican officials involved with the powerful Koch network gathered at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort just outside of Palm Springs, California, on Saturday for an annual fundraising conference.

Lawmakers working toward a bipartisan agreement to pass additional border security measures and guarantee protections for nearly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children are preparing for the White House to get involved in the debate, after the…

Congress has just two weeks to come to a consensus on how to codify protections for the Dreamers—roughly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children—before government funding runs out February 8, or risk another shutdown scenario.

It’s not surprising that members of Congress would have a habit of repeating a short list of talking points, given how often they face the media and how important it is for them to stay on message. But that tendency was more apparent than usual last week during a feud over a stopgap spending…

A short-term funding bill to end a three-day government shutdown passed the House Monday evening after getting a thumbs-up from the Senate earlier in the day.

Lawmakers in the Senate reached an agreement to end the government shutdown Monday afternoon, but congressional Democrats who voted down a spending bill that would have kept the government open on Friday because it did not include a replacement for the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood…

On the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the U.S. government shut down.

Lawmakers in the House overwhelmingly voted down a motion to adjourn Friday morning, with just 12 hours to go until a government shutdown.

Lawmakers in the House voted to advance a short-term spending bill Thursday night, a critical next step in keeping the government up and running before funds run out at midnight on Friday.

Update, 9:54 p.m. ET: The Senate voted overwhelmingly 97-2 to proceed on the House CR late Thursday night. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objected to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s attempt to force a cloture vote Thursday night, pushing the final vote closer to the government shutdown deadline…

President Donald Trump split with Republicans in Congress on a key aspect of the party’s short-term government funding measure Thursday morning.

On Wednesday afternoon, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy offered his theory as to why aliens have not yet made contact with human civilization.

Republicans are scrambling to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government up and running, just 72 hours before a shutdown deadline.

Amid floundering bipartisan negotiations over a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) replacement plan and a key spending caps deal, Republican leaders are trying to shore up enough votes to pass another stopgap funding bill before a government shutdown deadline on Friday.

Trade experts, lawmakers, and investors panicked across the board Wednesday night after Reuters reported Canadian officials were increasingly convinced President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Lawmakers who met with President Donald Trump to continue bipartisan negotiations for a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) replacement Tuesday afternoon expressed some optimism for striking a deal before the March deadline, yet key disagreements remain.

Republican lawmakers are gearing up to debate an uncomfortable question they won’t be able to put off much longer: Resurrect earmarks, or leave the controversial practice dead and buried?

On Wednesday night, before Washington was completely consumed by Michael Wolff’s West Wing tell-all, Politico published a piece feeding into a different frenzy: the notion that Congress was concerned President Trump might be mentally unfit for office.

*Correction, 1/3/17: The piece originally stated that "President Trump will meet with Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Schumer on Wednesday to start on the list with a discussion of the government funding bill." Officials from the White House, not President Trump, will be meeting…

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is planning a Senate bid to replace retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch in 2018, according to three individuals close to the situation.

Republican senator Orrin Hatch of Utah announced he would not seek re-election to an eighth term in 2018 in a video Tuesday afternoon.