mike lee

Senators of both parties disgraced themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings.

Spring is just around the corner with its violent weather swings. Last week’s bomb cyclone clobbered more than a quarter of the nation’s population with violent storms and unusually heavy winds. But that nor’easter could never match the turbulent tempests coming out of the White House.

Moore isn't the first political candidate with a history of sexual misconduct but that doesn't get him a pass now.

Despite all of the paranoid screeds one hears daily, the Republican establishment, however defined, is weaker than at any time in memory, says Jonah Goldberg.

What's both funny and sad is that there is remarkably little intellectual or ideological substance to the current populist fever, says Jonah Goldberg.

WASHINGTON — Pushing off a vote on the horrible Senate health care bill (the Better Care Reconciliation Act) is a victory, but not cause for opponents of

he Senate Republican bill would take away billions of dollars from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, and spend that money on a big tax break for wealthy people.

After weeks of closed-door deliberations on their version of Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, Senate Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are peddling it to a reluctant flock.

Legislation unveiled by Senate Republican leaders to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law ran into swift internal opposition Thursday, once again throwing into doubt the GOP's ability to make good on a years long campaign promise to repeal the controversial program.

Healthcare advocates and Democratic lawmakers in Maryland called a GOP plan released Monday evening to replace the Affordable Care Act a threat to coverage for more than 400,000 residents, while top Republicans including Gov. Larry Hogan argued changes to the law were necessary to preserve access to health insurance.

The teams of President Trump's temporary appointees laying the groundwork for taking over and remaking federal agencies refer to themselves as "beach

Congress gave final approval Tuesday to the most sweeping rollback of government surveillance powers in the post-Sept. 11-era, clearing the way for a new program that bans the National Security Agency from collecting and storing Americans' telephone dialing records.

Congress must amend the U.S. Patriot Act to protect Americans' privacy rights

Help for suicidal veterans, insurance against terrorist attacks and 2015 tax policy the last casualties of a dysfunctional Congress

WASHINGTON -- Child care workers would undergo more stringent background checks and states would be required to spend more to improve the quality of day care under legislation crafted by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski that cleared a key vote Thursday and is poised for final approval on Monday.

President Barack Obama's action to expand clemency is welcome but insufficient; Congress needs to step in.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein didn't mind when the intelligence community was violating the privacy of ordinary people.

Congress Wednesday night approved a bipartisan deal to reopen the government and extend the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling into early next year, a measure that will send tens of thousands of federal employees in Maryland back to work.

Time is running out for Republicans to come to their senses and stop their irrational march toward a government shutdown

There is no chance Republicans will prevail in attempt to repeal or de-fund the health care law, yet they persist in a politically risky strategy.

Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski called on President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan.