Ben Sasse

Two Republicans decry the nationalization of politics and offer up potentially complementary solutions.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

Nebraska’s junior senator finds hope all around—but not on TV, not on a screen, and not in Washington.

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

Analyzing the senator's ethics reform package.

The Nebraska senator tweeted about it on Saturday.

Amid the Kavanaugh hearing chaos, the Nebraska senator offers a much-needed civics lesson.

Hosted by Jim Swift.

Old center-right policies get caught in the web of opposition to something new.

“Hybrid warfare is already here and America is not ready," says Nebraska senator.

Gaming out Congress's role in continuing the investigation—if it comes to that.

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

The president zigs and zags on tariffs and TPP.

The Trump administration’s decision to expel dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States earned bipartisan approval this week, with some of the president’s toughest congressional critics praising the move while calling for further action.

Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse on Wednesday slammed the White House’s refusal to condemn the fraudulence of Russia’s election, describing the dodge as a break “with basic American moral tradition.”

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…

Very few Congressional Republicans wanted Roy Moore to win. They knew, for one thing, that Democrats were prepared to link them to him for at least the next two years. Rather than make it clear that Moore had no place in the GOP, however, many referred blithely to “the will of the people” and the…

A stark divide has emerged between the White House and Senate Republicans on Roy Moore’s ongoing candidacy for the Alabama Senate. President Donald Trump has not formally endorsed Moore, who’s been accused of sexual assault and pursuing inappropriate relationships with teenage girls while in his…

The federal adoption tax credit is a tiny sliver of federal spending—the $300 million spent annually equals less than 0.01 percent of the federal budget. But the House GOP's proposal to scrap this little tax credit as part of their overhaul of the tax code is already receiving a lot of pushback.

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans mixed it up the first several months of 2017, concocting a doozy of four parts discord and one part accomplishment. Candidate Trump made antagonism with the GOP establishment a selling point of his campaign. While that approach earned votes at…

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse joined WEEKLY STANDARD editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes at the Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs to discuss his new book: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance.

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The Republican chairmen of foreign relations panels in the House and Senate on Thursday advised the Trump administration to work with Congress on its Syria strategy going forward, after the administration launched a military strike on a Syrian airfield.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch has been defending the integrity of his branch of government and not attacking the president during his private meetings on Capitol Hill, Nebraska senator Ben Sasse said during a speech on Thursday afternoon.

Today, on the day of the annual March for Life, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse has reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. LifeNews reports:

Congressional Republicans criticized announcements from the White House and Pentagon in support of a controversial amendment to expand the draft to include young women Friday, even though the amendment had already been removed from annual legislation setting defense policy.

On Friday, four Republican senators introduced a bill that would prevent the Obama administration from paying certain insurers in what they say amounts to a "bailout" of Obamacare.

Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has come under fire for this tweet:

Monday morning, House speaker Paul Ryan did something that was unthinkable in the context of an ordinary presidential campaign, but inevitable in this one: He told GOP members of the House that he was no longer going to defend Trump in the wake of the leaked tape of Donald Trump lewdly discussing…

The defense spending authorization bill that the Senate passed in June came with a controversial "Draft America's Daughters" amendment attached. And now, while the House and Senate negotiate what form of the yearly military spending legislation to send to the president, a coalition of seventeen…

Many Obamacare supporters have been taking solace in their belief that Aetna's recent decision to pull out of all but four government-run exchanges was a result not of Obamacare's slow-motion death spiral but of Aetna's playing politics with the Department of Justice, which has blocked the…

On Tuesday, Republican senators Mike Lee of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska spoke about their newly introduced ALLOW Act, which would stop the Washington, D.C. government from enacting excessive and arbitrary requirements for people to get jobs. They hope that states will follow their lead.

Breitbart reported Thursday that Nebraska senator Ben Sasse crossed the aisle to join Democrats in their filibuster this week for gun control laws. As media outlets go, Breitbart is solidly in the tank for Donald Trump, and Sasse has been the leading Republican critic of Trump in the Senate, so it…

Nebraskans are discussing a third-party run by their senator, Ben Sasse, after a Sunday Washington Post/ABC News poll revealed an unprecedented amount of dislike for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

In a Facebook post in February, Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, who has long been vocal about his opposition to Donald Trump as the GOP nominee for president, said "If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, my expectation is that I will look for some third candidate — a conservative option, a…

Late Wednesday evening, longtime critic of Donald Trump, Senator Ben Sasse, tweeted a series of thoughts on 2016. He published them on Facebook as "An Open Letter to Majority America."

In the magazine today, I have a profile of Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, who in a very short span, has become a prominent spokesman for constitutional values and unlikely leader of the anti-Trump movement. As I noted in my profile, until a few months ago, very few people had any idea that Ben Sasse…

Who is Ben Sasse? A lot of people seem to be asking that question these days. The junior senator from Nebraska has been in office just over a year, and even people on Capitol Hill still don’t know who he is. It's well after 9 p.m. on Super Tuesday, and Sasse is watching the election returns in his…

‎Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, who has expressed concerns about Donald Trump's commitment to conservatism and the Constitution, campaigned for Ted Cruz in neighboring Iowa on Tuesday and followed that up by campaigning on Wednesday for Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina. In between campaign stops, Sasse…

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a rookie who ranks 99th in seniority, gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor in November. Normally, senators use such speeches to discuss why this or that legislation is needed. Sasse, a former college president and a historian by training (Yale Ph.D.) who has…

Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, took to the Senate floor to give the first of a series of addresses on the separation of powers. The senator talked Thursday about the need for Republicans to hold themselves to the Constitution the same way they demand Democrats do. He asked what…

Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, went to the Senate floor yesterday evening to explain that the U.S. is engaged in a war with radical Islam. "We are at war," Sasse said. "Washington ignores what it cannot escape."

Ben Sasse, a Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, went to San Bernardino last night to deliver a rebuttal to President Obama's speech to the nation on terrorism.

After Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) delivered his maiden speech on the Senate floor last week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a text of his address to every Republican senator. This was unusual. McConnell rarely does anything quite like this.

Senator Ben Sasse spoke on the Senate floor for the first time yesterday. 

A tradition in the Senate required a newly elected member to wait a year or more before addressing his colleagues on the Senate floor.  But that practice has been absent from the Senate for decades—until today.

Senator Ben Sasse went to the Iranian embassy to blast President Obama's "terrible deal" with Iran:

Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, released the following statement blasting the nuclear deal reached this morning with Iran:

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska has a stark warning: TSA is not doing its job. He talked about some of the problems on Fox News:

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska reports on the four central questions he's been getting from constituents on Iran:

Senator Ben Sasse has introduced a law to eliminate the amnesty tax bonuses, according to a press release from his office.

Ben Sasse of Nebraska, who rode his opposition to Obamacare to a seat in the Senate, has introduced legislation that should help Republicans avoid turning a potential victory at the Supreme Court into a defeat for the cause of repeal.  Sasse’s bill, introduced yesterday evening, is designed to keep…

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska coherently explains the President Obama's negotiations with Iran, and says that his administration "isn’t negotiating" but getting its "lunch money taken in an alley."

President Barack Obama has promoted his recent executive action on immigration by arguing that he’s only deferring action – holding off on enforcement of the current immigration laws until an immigration reform he approves of passes Congress. But that's not really true; in fact there’s a way for…

Ben Sasse is projected to be the next Senator from Nebraska. This does not come as a surprise, as he appears to have won handily. However, THE WEEKLY STANDARD published the first major political profile of Sasse last summer, when he was a virtual unknown in the state.

Republican voters are down on the sluggish GOP officials they elected, and the officeholders whine about the unreasonable people who voted for them. Republican backbenchers complain about their lame leaders, and GOP leaders grumble about their unruly followers. Right-wing pundits despair of…

Lexington, Neb.

Ben Sasse has just won a decisive victory in the Nebraska Republican Senate primary. As of this writing, the race has been called by the Associated Press and Sasse holds a 27 point lead over his nearest competitor, with 79 percent of precincts reporting. Having clinched the primary win, early…

The New York Times is up with a story today, "Tea Party Activists See Own Groups Among Washington Adversaries," about the supposed tension between national Tea Party groups and local Tea Party activists. The lede of the piece involves an anecdote -- and I use that term loosely, as it seems to bear…

In advance of tomorrow’s Nebraska Republican Senate primary — one of the most hotly contested in the nation — Ben Sasse’s final two television ads note his opposition to Obamacare. The first begins, “Conservatives are rallying in Nebraska against Obamacare and for Ben Sasse,” and it features Sarah…

Nebraska Senate candidate Shane Osborn seems to have made a habit of, one might say, overreaching during this campaign.

Yesterday, I reported on how a super PAC -- Freedom Pioneers Action Network, started by Mitch McConnell's former campaign manager Justin Brasell -- was flooding Nebraska with outside money to take down Tea Party endorsed Senate candidate Ben Sasse. The primary is just a week away and the Sasse…

With the Nebraska Republican Senate primary a week from tomorrow, outside money is flowing into the state to take down the race's frontrunner, Midland University president Ben Sasse. And the provenance of the money attacking Sasse is especially curious--a super PAC with strong ties to senate…

Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary has long looked to be shaping up as a battle between Midland University president Ben Sasse and former state treasurer Shane Osborn.  Throughout the campaign, Sasse has emphasized his determination to repeal Obamacare and fight the “Obamacare worldview,” while…

Texas senator Ted Cruz has endorsed Ben Sasse in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Nebraska. From the Sasse campaign announcement:

An excerpt from Bill Kristol's weekly newsletter:

Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse has been declared "Obamacare's Nebraska Nemesis,"  and in a new ad Sasse explains why he's personally invested in repealing the law. In 2007, his wife Melissa had an aneurysm followed by an arduous recovery, which left his family with $160,000 in medical bills.…

In a surprising move, the influential Tea Party group FreedomWorks has withdrawn its endorsement of former Nebraska state treasurer Shane Osborn and is now endorsing former Bush administration official and Midland College president Ben Sasse in the GOP Senate primary. According to a statement from…

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is mad as hell, and it’s not going to take it anymore. This is the third election cycle in a row where incumbent Republicans and the NRSC’s hand-picked candidates have faced stiff primary challenges funded by Tea Party groups. No less than Senate…

The Omaha World-Herald has two big stories up today that might impact the hotly contested Nebraska Republican Senate primary between former Bush administration official and Midland College president Ben Sasse and former state treasurer Shane Osborn. 

In the latest issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, which went online early this morning, I have an article about the Nebraska Senate race. In a nutshell, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is trying to give a boost to one of the candidates due to some disagreements with outside conservative…

Mike Lee, perhaps the United States Senate’s leading voice for a conservative reform agenda, has now endorsed Ben Sasse in Nebraska’s Senate race.  Lee declared, “Nebraskans need Ben Sasse to represent their values, reformers in the Senate need his conservative vote, our country needs his voice.” …

Tom Coburn, the retiring Republican senator from Oklahoma and an influential conservative, endorsed Ben Sasse in the GOP Senate primary in Nebraska. Roll Call has the story:

There hasn't been a lot of polling in the Nebraska Republican Senate primary so far, though the four way contest to succeed retiring senator Mike Johanns has been heating up. Today, ConservativeIntel released its poll of Nebraska showing that Shane Osborn and Ben Sasse are in a dead heat:

There hasn't been a lot of polling in the Nebraska's Republican senate primary so far, though the four way contest to succeed retiring senator Mike Johanns has been heating up. Today, ConservativeIntel released its poll of Nebraska showing that Shane Osborn and Ben Sasse are in a dead heat:

There are a lot of Republican politicians who ostensibly favor the repeal of Obamacare.  But there are a lot fewer who give the impression of having the ability and determination to lead the way in bringing about that nation-defining result.

Ben Sasse is doing what few Republicans have been able to accomplish: He's uniting the GOP establishment with anti-establishment conservatives in his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Nebraska. 

The Club for Growth PAC has endorsed Ben Sasse in his bid to be the next U.S. senator from Nebraska.

While Republicans in the nation’s capital try to decide whether or not they’re committed to beating back Obamacare, a Republican Senate candidate from Nebraska is making his opposition to Obamacare the clear centerpiece of his campaign.  During a speech earlier this week that officially launched…

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