The long-shot proposal by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) and outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin III (I-West Virginia) would impose 18-year term limits on new justices.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, here at the Capitol in September, is set to succeed Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow as the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago in August.
Democrats currently control 51 seats of the 100-member Senate because the three independents in the body caucus with Democrats. Republicans control 49 seats.
As she runs the most truncated presidential campaign in modern American history, Vice President Kamala Harris has made lofty promises on issues that polls show voters care most about: the economy, abortion, gun policy and immigration.
The funding announced Thursday will go toward the construction of an estimated 1,000 miles of new transmission lines with 7,100 megawatts of added capacity across six states.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”
While our list looks only at vulnerable incumbents, there are several high-profile open seats whose outcomes will also shape the balance of power in the chamber.
Republican Kari Lake’s victory in Tuesday’s Arizona Senate primary sets up a widely expected must-watch matchup in the battle for control in the 119th Congress.
WASHINGTON — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat in a competitive race in November, cheers during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in the House chamber on Feb. 7, 2023.
The president insists he is staying in the race. Leading Democrats and Republicans are talking about what should happen after he ends his campaign anyway.
Senator Joe Manchin III, an independent from West Virginia who caucuses with Democrats, is the fifth senator aligned with the party to urge President Biden not to seek re-election.
President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on July 17 after testing positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms and returning from a campaign trip to Nevada.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks as House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (L) listen during an “Expanding the Majority” press conference at the Greenbrier Hotel.
No Labels takes another step toward forming a bipartisan presidential ticket in November's general election now that a Biden-Trump 2024 rematch is underway
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III, who would have been among the most vulnerable incumbents up in 2024, has decided to leave the Senate at the end of his current term. The announcement is a blow to Democrats’ uphill fight to hold onto control of the Senate, since Manchin, one of the most conservative […] The post Manchin will not seek reelection, plans to travel country appeared first on Roll Call.
A Biden administration rule governing the production of electric vehicle chargers made from domestic materials is in jeopardy after the Senate voted Wednesday to repeal it.
It took six decades and many attempts before Congress passed a statehood bill and admitted New Mexico to the union in 1912. That is cause for optimism, said Sen. Martin Heinrich, who right now is thinking about the future of Puerto Rico. The Caribbean island of a little more than 3 million people has been […] The post Senate Democrats make the case for Puerto Rico self-determination appeared first on Roll Call.
In the face of President Joe Biden’s slumping poll numbers, Democrats amassed big electoral wins around the country on Tuesday. From winning the marquee race for governor in Kentucky and a key ballot measure in Ohio to securing majorities in Virginia’s state legislature, Democrats prevailed, with access to abortion front and center. The lessons about […] The post Democrats see big wins in local elections, look to 2024 appeared first on Roll Call.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is already clashing with Democrats and his Republican counterpart in the Senate, putting the brakes on Ukraine war aid and offsetting Israel aid with spending cuts.
The Senate on Wednesday kicked off consideration of its long-stalled spending “minibus” to provide fiscal 2024 funding for transportation, housing, agriculture, military construction and veterans programs with amendment votes. By late afternoon the Senate adopted 27 amendments, including two touching on culture war issues that politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to support. Provisions now […] The post Senate adopts gun provision among amendments to spending bill appeared first on Roll Call.
