There is little Christmas cheer on Capitol Hill this week, as Republicans and Democrats prepare for another showdown, this time involving a $1.1 trillion Omnibus spending bill loaded to the brim with pork that would keep the government funded until the next fiscal year. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Democratic leader said Tuesday he will press ahead on a U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty, President Barack Obama’s top foreign policy priority, despite strong opposition from some Republican lawmakers. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates of a bill that would overturn the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy say their fight for repeal this year is far from over despite a failing Senate vote this week and only days left in the lame-duck session. (more)
Hours before the Senate was to vote on a repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a proponent of repeal but also a politician, made Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid an offer: Hold off on the vote, and you’ll have my support. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon study that argues that gay troops could serve openly without hurting the military’s ability to fight is expected to re-ignite debate this month on Capitol Hill over repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. (more)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said an Islamic center shouldn’t be built near the site of the 9/11 attacks. (more)
Here’s the narrative being peddled by Republicans as they weather an assault by Senate and House Democrats over their refusal to sign on to an unfunded extension of unemployment benefits: (more)
Top Democratic congressional leaders are at odds over whether to use unspent stimulus funds for emergency spending currently under debate in Congress. (more)
CHICAGO — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office says he has been subpoenaed to testify at ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s upcoming corruption trial. (more)
April 29 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans abandoned their efforts to block debate over legislation overhauling U.S. financial rules, vowing instead to fight for changes to the bill on issues ranging from consumer protection to derivatives. (more)
Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning called Harry Reid an “idiot” during a lunch meeting with other Republican senators this week — the latest sign that the Senate majority leader is getting under the skin of his GOP counterparts. (more)
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a group seeking to allow students with concealed gun permits to carry their weapons on campus. (more)
The Senate Thursday adjourned until April 12 without extending unemployment insurance benefits — which expire for some jobless Americans at the end of the month — after Democrats rejected Republican Sen. Tom Coburn’s demand that they pay for the aid by redirecting federal funding or cutting spending. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval. (more)
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on an interstate highway. (more)
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday – the wife with a broken back and neck – after their minivan was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, authorities said. (more)
Whether or not a public option is part of President Obama’s highly anticipated health care reform proposal to be unveiled Monday, Republicans will still call it a government takeover of the health care system. (more)
Real health care reform is threatening to emerge from the ashes of the Massachusetts special election that exploded the effort in January. A growing movement in the Senate to urge Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to reinsert the public option into a health care reform package that would move through the chamber under majority-only rules depends on just how many votes backers can muster. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A double standard? Republicans seeking Sen. Harry Reid’s resignation as majority leader over racial remarks he made about Barack Obama say yes — that Reid should be held to the same standard as former GOP Sen. Trent Lott, whose own racial gaffes cost him the Senate leadership in 2002. (more)
The first signs of abandonment from within Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s own party emerged Sunday, as some Democrats said his racially charged comments about President Obama have placed his already perilous reelection prospects on the precipice. (more)
