“Senate” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two congressional panels are reviewing Facebook’s high-profile stock offering last week amid allegations that the bank handling the IPO may have provided only select clients with a negative assessment of the company. (more)

High school civics students and aficionados of “Schoolhouse Rock!” can be forgiven if they are bewildered by what took place in the U.S. Senate last week. It was Barack “We Can’t Wait” Obama’s new process of turning a bill into a law — not by duly passing it in both houses of Congress, but by issuing bureaucratic dictates and counting on Senate Democrats to block any effort to stop them. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to renew the government’s main domestic violence program. (more)

A Democratic lawmaker may have violated prohibitions against soliciting campaign contributions on government property while appearing on MSNBC on Monday night. (more)

For anyone interested in understanding why one of the world’s great institutions of democratic government — the United States Senate — has become so dysfunctional and paralyzed by partisanship, Ira Shapiro’s recently published book “The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis” (Public Affairs, New York 2012) should be mandatory reading — not only by pundits and political science classes, but by every member of today’s Senate. (more)

The tea party may never trust Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials, but tea party group FreedomWorks is hoping that if Romney does make it to the White House, his political leanings may not matter because all he’ll have to do is sign the agenda that the conservative House and Senate send to his desk. (more)

Last week the Senate passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, legislation aimed at curbing concerns, first explored by “60 Minutes,” that lawmakers were using their privileged positions to enrich themselves with inside information about public companies. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. (more)

It was just a regular Tuesday in the Kentucky state legislature — and then a penguin pooped on the state Senate chamber’s floor. (more)

When President Barack Obama strides into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to deliver his fourth State of the Union address, it will mark exactly 1,000 days since the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate has passed a budget. (more)

Around kitchen and boardroom tables across the state, Michigan families and businesses are figuring out their budgets for the year, deciding where to cut, where to grow and what should stay the same. Unlike these responsible Americans, Debbie Stabenow and Senate Democrats have decided to fly blind. In fact, today marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats passed a budget. (more)

Mark Kirk, the freshman Republican senator from Illinois who won the special election for President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat in 2010, suffered a stroke on Monday morning and was admitted to a hospital in Chicago to undergo surgery, The Daily Caller has confirmed. Kirk’s Washington, D.C. office also confirmed to TheDC that the surgery was successful. (more)

Tuesday, the day that President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union address, also marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last proposed a budget plan. (more)

In response to President Barack Obama’s recess appointments, made while the Senate was in a pro forma session, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson of Connecticut told The Daily Caller that he would “prefer everything happen in regular order.” The president, though, was justified in his actions, he said, since Republicans have been blocking his appointees. (more)

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addressed Saturday night one of the most nagging concerns about his presidential candidacy: his 2006 Senate re-election loss. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months while requiring President Barack Obama to accept Republican demands for a swift decision on the fate of an oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over the future of a new financial watchdog office escalated Thursday with Senate Republicans blocking confirmation of the man President Barack Obama named to head the office and Obama countering by holding out the possibility of appointing the nominee when Congress is on recess. (more)

Attorney General Eric Holder flip-flopped his Operation Fast and Furious testimony during a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. During a May 3 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Holder told Congressional investigators at least twice that he had only learned of the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program a “few weeks” beforehand. But testifying Tuesday, Holder’s timeline changed. (more)

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry was for the Congressional Review Act before he was against it. The senator called upon his colleagues Friday to resist the very same congressional measure he advocated use of in 2003 against the Federal Communications Commission. (more)

The Daily Caller asked Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama a series of questions about President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP presidential candidates. (more)