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Editor’s note: The following column originally appeared in The Hill newspaper and TheHill.com. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made news recently by announcing he might run for president in 2016. He later explained that his potential candidacy is less about “personal ambition” than about “concern for where the party is going.” …

Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has not put any major bills on the floor since the upper chamber returned from Thanksgiving recess, causing blowback from some Republicans. Instead, the majority leader prioritized President Biden’s judicial nominees during their first week back, and “we are nowhere closer to a deal …

Children should go to school to develop skills like math, reading, and writing that will help them succeed, and build healthy relationships with their peers and teachers. Unfortunately, statistics indicate that the widespread use of mobile devices in K-12 schools could make it harder for students to focus on those …

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Roger Marshall, R-M.D., will lead a resolution on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon calling for a vote of “no confidence” of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Republican lawmakers have been critical of Mayorkas’s handling of the southern border, as illegal immigrant crossings reached a …

Republican public safety advocate Gianno Caldwell is mulling a bid for the open Illinois Senate seat in 2026 amid growing conversations about crime in America’s cities. Earlier this month, Caldwell was the keynote speaker at the Illinois Republican Party’s Republican Day event at the state fair, where he touted his …

This is cobbled together from speaking to multiple sources on both sides of the Capitol. The House is now aiming to vote Thursday on the “clean” interimspending bill which would fund the government through November 27. But Republicans must first get the bill through the House. Several seniorHouse Republican sources …

It’s often hard to separate the noise from the signal in politics. The noise is that congressional Democrats are fighting President Donald Trump and Republicans over a prospective government shutdown and healthcare spending. The signal is scratchy. But if you turn the squelch knob, you may detect the signal. We …

Senate Republicans’ bid to pass a short-term government funding extension was foiled by Senate Democrats as the deadline to fund the government fast approaches. While the proposal easily glided through the House with little drama, it hit a brick wall in the Senate and failed 44-48. Only one lawmaker, Sen. …

The Senate remains deadlocked on a path to end the shutdown as it nears its second week, and Republicans’ meager support across the aisle to reopen the government may be crumbling. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., needs at least eight Senate Democratic caucus members to join Republicans to reopen …

Senate Republicans confirmed a staggering tranche of President Donald Trump’s nominees on Tuesday as the government shutdown continues. Lawmakers voted along party lines to confirm the batch of 107 of Trump’s nominees, a move that whittled down the remaining pending nominees on the Senate’s calendar to double digits. It also …