PHOENIX — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is moving past the threats that came after she announced she would vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he has no idea how a key vote will go on Friday morning for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Impulsively acting on incomplete information is a political artform.
The Maine senator is one of two pro-choice Republicans whom Democrats hope to sway.
For what seems like the hundredth time since President Trump took office, Sen. Susan Collins is in a bind. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement has provided Trump with the opportunity to appoint another conservative to the Supreme Court—provided he can manage to get one through a closely-divided…
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.
Senator Susan Collins is currently championing a bill that will hike the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) levied by airports on ticket prices. Supposedly the move would fund improvements to their infrastructure.
Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, has always had about her the air of the schoolmarm. It didn’t surprise us that she was the person who at last discovered the secret to dealing with United States senators: treat them like kindergartners. During the government shutdown last weekend,…
Senate Republicans announced Wednesday afternoon that they would not attach measures providing additional funding to Obamacare in a year-end spending bill to keep the government open.
As Republicans prepare to celebrate their tax reform victory, a potential disaster lurks right around the corner.
Voting on the final Republican tax bill begins Tuesday, and a pledge Monday afternoon from Maine senator Susan Collins that she would support it all but sealed the deal—she’s the 50th vote in the Senate, and Vice President Mike Pence, if needed, can provide vote number 51.
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Monday afternoon that she will vote for the final version of the Republican tax bill, likely guaranteeing that it will pass the upper chamber this week.
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…
President Trump was understandably thrilled by the House’s passage of its tax-cut bill Thursday. On Twitter he called the vote a “a big step toward fulfilling our promise to deliver historic TAX CUTS for the American people by the end of the year.” Trump did not celebrate in the Rose Garden with…
In examining the GOP tax plan in this space, we noted that the provision eliminating the estate tax looked a lot like a bargaining chip “to be negotiated away to placate deficit hawks.”
Protesters in pristine pulmonary health didn’t stop chanting until chairman Orrin Hatch asked “Where’s the damn police?” and the damn police showed up. Sen. Lindsey Graham traveled miles off script and actually had saliva on his lips as he vowed to thrust “a stake in the heart of single-payer…
The Graham-Cassidy bill to block-grant Obamacare's spending and provide waivers from Obamacare's regulations to the states seemed to be on death's door Friday afternoon.
The (really good) website FiveThirtyEight is tracking how often members of Congress vote with the positions favored by President Trump. A “Trump Score” of 100 percent indicates that a senator or representative has matched the White House’s stance on every bill to have been weighed up or down. The…
The latest version of the Senate GOP's bill to partially repeal and replace Obamacare died Monday night when GOP senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas announced their opposition to legislation. The bill could lose only two GOP votes and still pass, and Lee and Moran brought the grand…
Leave sausage out of this. The ever-evolving Republican health care bills demonstrate how rancid legislative livermush gets made: a pudding of policy innards blended and baked with haste because the ingredients were up against their expiration date, or in this case the August recess. The concoction…
After Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, most of America moved on to Russia, North Korea, the tax plan, and Rodrigo Duterte. But a small universe of Republican legal thinkers moved on, instead, to war-gaming the next Supreme Court vacancy.
Two GOP senators said Wednesday they would vote no on the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be secretary of education, potentially dragging the vice president into a tie-break scenario to push through one of President Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet selections.
Acknowledging the unrest of voters dissatisfied with the nation's economy and politics, Maine Republican senator Susan Collins announced Monday night that she won't vote for presidential nominee Donald Trump, citing the candidate's personal behavior as her primary reason for withholding her support.