Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned of a Senate “nightmare” if Democrats do away with the filibuster. “The Senate exists to require deliberation and cooperation. James Madison said the Senate’s job was to provide a complicated check … against improper acts of legislation,” McConnell said on the floor Tuesday. “We ensure that laws earn…
McConnell Warns of ‘Scorched-Earth, Post-Nuclear Senate’ If Filibuster Removed
John Roberts Doesn’t Want to Preside Over Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial: Schumer
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is abdicating his usual role of overseeing presidential impeachment trials, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said late Monday. “The Constitution says the chief justice presides for a sitting president. So it was up to John Roberts whether he wanted to preside with a president who is no longer sitting,…
McConnell to Break Stalemate Over Senate Control After Filibuster Assurances
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday announced that he is ready to move forward on a power-sharing agreement with Senate Democrats after securing assurances that they will not vote to remove the legislative filibuster. “Today, two Democratic Senators confirmed that they will not end the legislative filibuster. They agree with President Biden’s and…
NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Jan. 25)
The Biden administration issues new policies on travel; growing doubt about whether Democrats can get enough votes to convict Trump in the Senate; and a border patrol agent tells NTD he’s seen an increase in migration at the border.
Senate Democrats File Complaint Against Hawley, Cruz Following Capitol Violence
Senate Democrats have filed an ethics complaint against Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) following the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Seven Democrats, in a letter, urged the Senate Ethics Committee to “investigate their conduct to fully understand their role” and added that “the actions of which we know demand…
Sen. Chuck Schumer Becomes New Senate Majority Leader
After Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), giving Democrats the majority in the Senate, it means that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is now the majority leader of the Senate. “As majority leader, President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris will have a partner who is ready, willing…
Warnock, Ossoff Set to Be Sworn Into Senate Wednesday Afternoon
Democrats are set to regain Senate control on Wednesday afternoon after Georgia Senate runoff winners Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are sworn into office. Their campaigns announced Tuesday that the swearing-in ceremonies for Warnock and Ossoff—who defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the state’s Jan. 5 twin Senate runoff elections—will be held at the U.S. Capitol at…
McConnell: 2020 Election Left Neither Party With ‘Mandate for Sweeping Ideological Change’
The 2020 election left neither Republicans nor Democrats with a “mandate” from Americans to seek partisan bills, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday, attempting to rebut a narrative promoted by leading Democrats. Speaking as the Senate returned from a break, McConnell said the election “did not hand any side a mandate for sweeping…
Senate Panels to Consider First Batch of Biden’s Cabinet Picks
Five Senate panels will hear from President-elect Joe Biden nominees, one day before Biden is slated to be sworn into office. Biden and his team have urged the Senate to quickly confirm his nominees, especially picks for key Cabinet posts, as the administration looks to accomplish much in its first 100 days. The Senate was…
Kamala Harris Resigns From Senate Seat Before Inauguration
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris submitted her resignation from her seat in the Senate on Monday ahead of Jan. 20’s Inauguration Day. “As I resign from the Senate, I am preparing to take an oath that would have me preside over it,” Harris wrote in her resignation letter. “As senator-turned-Vice-President Walter Mondale once pointed out, the vice…
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