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A week that began with a warning to Senate offices about attempted phishing schemes is coming to a close with Sen. Lindsey Graham revealing someone targeted him with a hack pretending to be Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Graham publicly revealed the attempted hack Thursday at the Hill & Valley Forum, making him arguably the mo...
Senate GOP campaign chief Steve Daines downplayed any expectation of a large Senate majority, echoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s assessment to POLITICO that the objective is simply to gain control of the upper chamber.
“Fifty one,” the Montana Republican said Thursday morning when asked about his goal. “Because t...
Senate Minority Whip John Thune told POLITICO on Thursday he believes Congress will likely need to pass a short-term extension to the FAA reauthorization bill ahead of next week's deadline.
"We're heading to later in the week, next week, we're going to be up against the deadline. And it seems unlikely that we're going to have ...
Senate Democratic and Republican leadership are gauging their members' opinions on a House-passed antisemitism bill by running a "hotline" on the legislation, per a Senate leadership aide.
Typically, leadership will hotline a bill to see if it can clear the Senate floor quickly, without a roll call vote. Any one senator can sl...
The Senate faces turbulence Thursday on a bill that would reauthorize the FAA.
It cleared the first procedural hurdle Wednesday, but Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said more than 20 amendments — some germane and others not — have been filed.
The Republican whip doubted the Senate can land the plane this week and anticipated more a...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday he is concerned about the way the Biden administration is compiling a report into whether Israel is eligible for U.S. weapons.
Background: Under President Joe Biden’s National Security Memorandum-20, which Van Hollen (D-Md.) championed, the administration must submit a report to Congress by...
An eruption of campus protests against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has again put Chuck Schumer — the highest-ranking elected Jewish leader in U.S. history — in an unenviable spot.
The demonstrations first picked up steam at Columbia University, in the metropolitan heart of Schumer’s home state, but they’ve since spread...
The House offered its first concrete response to a wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests nationwide that have often included antisemitic language.
The legislation, led by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), and passed on a bipartisan 320-91 vote, would update the definition of antisemitism used in enforc...
House and Senate Democrats are determined to ensure their priorities don’t get short shrift in a likely bumpy upcoming government funding cycle, with Congress hurtling toward a presidential election this fall.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Wednesday that Democrats will insist on a boost for ...
The Michigan Senate race is becoming more of a headache than Republicans had hoped.
Big names in the GOP from former President Donald Trump to Senate campaign chief Steve Daines have united behind Mike Rogers as their preferred pick in the state’s open Senate race. They hoped to clear the primary to save resources and focus on...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she will officially trigger the clock to hold a referendum on Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership next week — an effort that now seems doomed.
Greene and her allies will bring up the motion to vacate resolution as privileged, which would then force a House vote on Johnson remaining spea...
All eyes are on the House on Wednesday as the chamber seeks to send a rebuke to pro-Palestinian protests sweeping universities around the country.
Lawmakers will vote on the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act in the late afternoon, which would codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemit...
‘Destroying property is not a peaceful protest, it’s against the law,’ Biden said weeks after an anti-Israel encampment sprang up at Columbia University.
‘When President Biden brags about the economy thriving, Americans can see by their checkbooks it’s simply not true,’ an Americans for Prosperity leader said.
An open letter from Princeton student groups calls for the university to revoke disciplinary charges against all students who engaged in ‘peaceful protest.’
Americans are disinterested in electric vehicles and opposed to the EPA’s latest plan to further regulate tailpipe emissions, a new 85 Fund poll found.
Secretary Blinken was right to bring up the Uyghurs in his visit to China last week. But Congress and the administration must follow up his words with action.
