Attorney General Eric Holder refused to tell members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who he’s going to hold accountable for several aspects of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, nor did he disclose how he is going to hold people accountable. (more)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley lambasted Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter detailing how Holder’s team has failed to provide congressional investigators with critical details surrounding the connections between Operation Fast and Furious and a second federal agent’s murder. (more)
The Senate passed an amendment Tuesday to block any federal funding to programs similar to Operation Fast and Furious — the controversial program that allowed guns to be walked across the U.S.–Mexican border and into the hands of violent drug cartels. (more)
In a long-anticipated hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Google Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt insisted that the search engine company “gets it” — that is, they get that their company is facing enormous scrutiny for its business practices. (more)
Republican Sen. John Cornyn on Thursday called Paul Ryan a star in the Republican Party and said the Wisconsin congressman would be a “great” GOP candidate for president. (more)
Amid talk that President Obama should circumvent Congress by issuing an executive order to raise the debt limit, two Republican lawmakers are taking steps to ensure that doesn’t happen. (more)
Republicans would accept a “mini” deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said. (more)
Republicans on Capitol Hill are planning to stick it to President Obama for not following a law that requires the president to produce a proposal that addresses Medicare’s financial instability. (more)
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of President Obama’s nominee for the federal district judgeship in Rhode Island, John J. “Jack” McConnell Jr. The 11-7 vote fell along party lines, with all Republicans voting against McConnell except Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. (more)
As part of what appeared to be a desperate cry for help with their addiction to spending other people’s money, a group of Senate Republicans requested Wednesday that Congress assist them in kicking the habit by passing a strict balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (more)
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Republicans gathering in South Florida to improve the party’s outreach to Hispanic voters will tackle trade, education — and the elephant in the room, immigration — at a conference organized by the new Hispanic Action Network. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles. (more)
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)
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, fighting to salvage his reputation and possibly another term, is arguing that he saved the GOP from a schism by reaching out to the Tea Party over the last two years. (more)
Coming off a cycle where Republicans picked up seven seats in the Senate, Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) was re-elected unanimously on Tuesday to chair the National Republican Senatorial Committee through 2012. (more)
ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports: (more)
National Republican Senatorial Committee chair John Cornyn has consistently insisted that regaining control of the upper chamber would be a two-cycle process. With the party committees already busy firing rockets at prospective opposition candidates, the second half of his timeline is underway. (more)
Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell publicly complained in the final weeks of the campaign that the National Republican Senatorial Committee was not doing enough to help her campaign, which polls all the way to Election Day suggested would fail. (more)
Senator John Cornyn said Senate Republicans next year would extend their hand across the aisle … and try to pull Democrats and Independent Joe Lieberman over to their side. (more)
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez said Sunday that Democrats are open to temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, which are set to expire at the end of this year. (more)
