Attorney General Alberto Gonzales struggled Thursday to convince skeptical senators he did nothing improper in firing eight federal prosecutors, losing ground as a second senator from his own party joined the calls for his resignation.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton rate presidential hopeful Barack Obama on the "blackness scale" in this video clip from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.
A state senator used foul language in a talk to high school students in his district, but defended himself by saying he was just repeating what some students wrote about him on a Web site. Sen. Scott Brown was discussing his stance on gay marriage during an assembly at King Philip Regional High School on Thursday when he decided...
Senators Hagel and McCain, both Republicans and both Vietnam War veterans, are introducing competing non-binding resolutions on the Senate Floor. Hagle's resolution says the "Surge" is a bad idea. McCain's says it's a great idea. It's not clear that either resolution will surmount the 60 votes needed to shut off a filibuster. But what
Earlier this week, I chaired a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee to remind my colleagues in the Senate that, through the power of the purse, we have the constitutional power to end a war. At the hearing, a wide range of constitutional scholars agreed that Congress can use its power to end a military engagement.
The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured Dan Sutton, a Democrat from Flandreau, who admitted sharing a bed with a former legislative page last winter. In separate testimony, Sutton and the former page, now 19, had told the panel they slept in the same bed in a Fort Pierre motel for two nights early last February.
Washington, D.C. January 31, 2007 -- U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today introduced the Iraq Redeployment Act of 2007. Legislation Would Use Congress's Power of the Purse to Redeploy Most U.S. Troops Out of Iraq in Six Months
At the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today, Senator Russ Feingold's opening statements admonished the Congress: "In the United States of America, the people are sovereign, not the President. It is Congress' responsibility to challenge an administration that persists in a war that is misguided and that the country opposes."
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"Since the President is adamant about pursuing his failed policies in Iraq, Congress has the duty to stand up and use its power to stop him. If Congress doesn't stop this war, it's not because it doesn't have the power. It's because it doesn't have the will," said Senator Russ Feingold.
Sen. Joe Biden officially joined the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday, arguing that his years in public life had prepared him to navigate "an incredibly challenging time for our country."
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales'remarks that "there were assurances sought that he [Canadian detainee, Maher Arar], would not be tortured from Syria," infuriated Senator Patrick Leahy. Leahy objected, "Assurances? From the country that President Bush recently described as the "crossroads for terrorism"?
Senator Obama's multiracial background could help mend the great fissure in American society. Or could it?
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Republicans ask for vote on line item veto. Dems hollered; they just want to kill the ethics bill. Sen. Byrd objected to line item veto as an assault on the most important protection the people have on a president, who wants to run roughshod over the liberties described in the Constituion," the 90 year-old declared in a fiery floor speech.
AS the leader of the Republican party in the US Senate and a possible presidential candidate, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee has a reputation for sober rectitude. The same cannot be said of his son Jonathan, a Vanderbilt University student who recently appeared on the internet wearing six cans of beer strapped to his belt.
George Allen is profiting off a drug that many of his evangelical supporters consider a form of abortion.
Sen. Mel Martinez was almost giddy Tuesday over the report that Cuban President Fidel Castro has ceded power temporarily while he undergoes surgery





