Tag: Senate Republicans

JD Vance’s Convoluted Pitch For Why Republicans Should Just Stop Legislating Until Trump’s President Again

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By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2024 6:00 p.m.

Lankford Gets The MAGA Treatment For Defying Trump And Legislating

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By Nicole Lafond | January 29, 2024 6:21 p.m.

Republicans Threaten To Filibuster Subpoena Enforcement And Quash SCOTUS Oversight

By Kate Riga | November 2, 2023 4:12 p.m.

Senate Republicans Uphold Ron Johnson’s Spending Bill Blockade

By Kate Riga | September 20, 2023 3:45 p.m.

Republican Senators Complain About ‘Raucous’ House Colleagues Threatening Shutdown

By Emine Yücel | September 6, 2023 6:17 p.m.

WH Slams Senate GOP For Blocking Feinstein’s Request To Be Temporarily Replaced

By Emine Yücel | April 19, 2023 11:44 a.m.

Schumer Will Push Vote To Temporarily Replace Feinstein On Judiciary Panel This Week

By Emine Yücel | April 17, 2023 4:32 p.m.

McCarthy Makes Impossible Promises As He Scrambles To Shore Up Conservative Votes

By Emine Yücel | December 21, 2022 12:11 p.m.

McConnell Easily Fends Off Scott Challenge To His GOP Leader Election

By Emine Yücel | November 16, 2022 11:44 a.m.

Where Things Stand: Watching The Christian Right’s Power Play Out In Real Time

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By Nicole Lafond | September 8, 2022 6:40 p.m.

I made the point yesterday that the language Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is using to clean up his past marriage equality remarks — earlier this summer he said he had no reason to “oppose” codifying same-sex marriage into federal law — is an obvious cave to the Christian right. In frantic messaging in recent days, Johnson has flip-flopped on his previous position as he struggles with the impossible task of casting himself as a reasonable guy to Wisconsin voters and a reliable ally to Christian conservatives.