Three Republicans in particular weren't afraid to cross the aisle last year: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. All three voted with Biden more than half of the time, with most of that agreement happening on nomination votes. Colli...
How Republicans Will Have 230 Seats in New CongressAssesses the seats gained by the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 5, 2001. Reasons the Republican Party gained...
While many Republicans in Congress rushed to defend Trump following his guilty verdict, Fitzpatrick has avoided the issue altogether. His office ignored multiple requests for comment this week. “We now have a convicted felon, who is leader of the Republican Party, a...
Believing the law to be unconstitutional, Johnson went ahead and fired his Secretary of War, an ally of the Radical Republicans in Congress. Johnson’s political enemies responded by drafting and passing 11 articles of impeachment in the House. ...
Claire McCaskill: They want something done. It’s getting to be a huge problem just to sheer numbers. And so it’s being met with mixed feelings in some ways. But when you’ve got Republicans in Congress that repeatedly refuse to work on the issue just because they want it as an iss...
With just weeks until the legislature needs to turn in a new congressional redistricting map to the Ohio Supreme Court, Senate Republicans are heading to sunny Florida. Today and Friday, the Ohio Senate Campaign Committee is hosting events for well-h...
We do not track endorsements for RNC members in Republican primaries because Republicans do not have “superdelegates.” Endorsers’ point values cannot be increased by qualifying for multiple categories; instead, endorsers are associated with the highest-ranking category they fit into on the list ...
when he went to the uaw strikes. and there are so many opportunities like that where he did unique things. the bar is very low for democrats, there is no bar for the republicans, it's already in hell, but the bar is very, very low for the democrats, and he did clear it on ...
Recently, it has also become clear that political polarization is decreasing the electorate's responsiveness to external shocks to the system. We see this in two mainstream variables. In the University of Michigan's Index of Consumer Sentiment, for example, Democrats and especially Republicans havebe...
While the president and other executive agencies took action, Republicans were left spluttering over Obama's power grabs. It is easy to criticize the president for overreach, but that would fail to account for the more fundamental problem: Congress has not been the dominent branch for decades. ...