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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seized on the latest revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, as they called on Rupert Murdoch to curb hosts from spreading election conspiracy theories. According to a Dominion filing…

Hours after the January 6th Committee showed behind-the-scenes footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders calling and even begging federal officials and others for resources to stop the attack on the Capitol, CNN showed extended clips throughout much of Anderson Cooper’s…

UPDATE: The Senate on Sunday passed a $700 billion package to address climate change, curb the rising cost of prescription drugs and extend Affordable Care Act benefits. Senate Democrats broke out in applause after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the 50-50 vote and broke the tie for passage. The Inflation…

UPDATED: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that they have reached a deal on a massive bill that includes climate and energy initiatives as well as a 15% corporate minimum tax. The agreement surprised reporters, as Manchin several weeks ago indicated that he…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts. The letter came following the deadly shooting rampage in Buffalo, NY, over the weekend, in which…

Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host whose 2016 sexual harassment lawsuit led to the downfall of network chief Roger Ailes, joined with senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday to celebrate the passage of legislation that prohibits employers from using forced arbitration clauses to shield such cases from public…

UPDATE, 7:26 PM PT: Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation stalled again in the Senate, as they fell short in securing a filibuster rules change that would have allowed them to clear the bills with a simple majority. The failure of the legislation was expected, after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen…

UPDATE, 11:35 AM PT: After meeting with Democrats on Capitol Hill to discuss a strategy to pass voting rights legislation, Joe Biden said, “I hope we can get this done — the honest to God answer is, I don’t know whether we can get this done.” “Like every major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first…

The House on Tuesday passed an extension of the debt ceiling, averting the threat of a default until at least Dec. 3. The vote was 219-206, a party line vote for the $480 billion increase. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden, who plans to sign it. The Senate passed an extension last week, after a standoff…

UPDATED, 5:07 PM: The Senate voted along party lines to raise the debt ceiling through Dec. 3. Their vote, 50-48, temporarily averts the threat that the U.S. could default on its debt, as Democratic and Republican leaders had a standoff over who bears responsibility for raising the borrowing limit. After insisting…

The Senate on Tuesday blocked a massive election-reform bill as Democrats fell short of the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster threat. The Senate voted 50-50 on a motion to proceed with debate over the bill. The result was split evenly between the parties, but fe;; 10 votes short of the 60 needed to move the…

UPDATED, with more details and polls: Senate Republicans on Friday blocked an effort to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, despite pleas from the family of a police officer who died after the riot. The Senate voted 54-35 to move forward on debate on the bill, short of the 60 needed to…